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I get obsessed about weird Xmas songs every year....there's some great ones I've not heard before on this thread... Here is my own round-up of recent discoveries from a coupla years ago (some of which are pretty mainstream) -...

Well I'm not even gonna attempt to pick one from each year, but here's my epic top 100 of the decade for you all to laugh at: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=40058763

I've not been on here for a while & missed contributing to all this...My pal Simon has just put on the rock line-up in Blackpool, so hope everyone who was likely to go to that knew about it! (I missed it in the end cos I was ill - doh!). I agree with the bits about those 7"s being very good &...

Ah yeah...VC...nearly went into my top 100 of the decade... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=40058763

That Jazz Dance book got an amusing pasting in the Wire this month. I'm not a big fan of that sort of music, but I too like genre books & can imagine its a pretty interesting read in its own way. Most of the ones I would mention are in here, I think. Altered State, Energy Flash, Last Night A...

I was gonna say Dezerter & Kult too. My aunt is Polish, so we've had for years a fairly dire sorta beat album from the sixties/maybe early seventies. From having a Polish flatmate a few years back, I would say their best style is hip hop - I would actually rate them as having the best hip hop...

I love a high percentage of acid stuff (I agree with Mr DMX that its almost hard to get wrong, its such a great sound), but I think my favourite may well be this one, which I noted a track on the FACT list was off the original 12" of....Mike Dunn's "Face the Nation": I only got to hear a...

I can totally identify with the 'driving test' comment....I've got on Discogs properly this year at last to buy & sell some stuff & I've rarely met more annoying people than the so-called 'Voters'. If I do ever become accepted as a Voter (I've so far contributed more than 50 completely new...

I think that Keenan book is gonna focus a little more on the looser, improv-heavy side of the UK experimental scene, from what I've heard...so Skullflower in their extended jam mode more than Skullflower in their angular noise rock mode & Ramleh more in their noise rock mode than their power...

My friend Simon is involved in Smell & Quim and did this literary pastiche of the power electronics scene a few years back: http://bangoutoforder.blogspot.com/2005/06/one.html ...start on this one & then go back to the root to find the other episodes... Quite funny, I thought at the time. The...

I LOVE that Gerogeri 7" (although I THINK I heard it wasn't them?! Its on Stomach Ache, the legendary spoof label). Theres tons of Whitehouse pastiches & lame wannabes. Dominator are kinda risible, but then they also employ some of those outrageously tough-going high-end whistly sounds that make...

Cheers for the tip-offs on Dominic/Dominick/Dominique...had only dimly heard the name before & knew nothing about him...pretty good, I reckon...here is his early I'm-not-gay anthem (of a slightly less boggle-eyed variety than the majority of distasteful 90s/00s ones), as referenced by Mr Eden &...

Good call on "Caught By the Fuzz"...they never came close to that again... Not sure if all these are epic as such, but all are really great songs under 2 minutes from my MP3 collection... Black Randy "Sperm Bank Baby" Ceramic Hobs "Raven" & "Psychiatric Underground" Chopin "Minute Waltz" (the...

I know this doesn't fit, genre-wise, but I've been thinking again recently about Petula Clark's "Downtown", which I love because its on the surface about how great it is to go out but is also fairly blatantly about being a bit sad & depressed & making up for it by escaping it for a meagre night...

Looks like that clash was at the Stratfore Rex. Yeah, no disrespect at all to Killamanjaro (who I usually pick a tape by when I go & buy a soundsystem tape) or any of the many others...

I noticed mention of a Lady Rodigan online too - dunno if thats connected?! Yeah, he definitely loves the Dawn Penn - I know he's compiled that onto one of those Rewind Selectas too. I guess the man's gonna have his signatures. I only play records at parties once every few years really, but I...

Chicken Shack "I'd Rather Go Blind" is a classic, but not boogiefied... Fleetwood Mac "I Need Your Love So Bad" is on a similar & similarly great vibe: I saw the Groundhogs a few years ago...still got it...

Ooo, missed that "Message Is Love" - nice... Loved "Decoy" when it came out.

Yeah, thats great. Theres loads of 'ultimate rush' moments in the whole clash. My own fave is the Bounty Killer Sleng Teng on this one: , but I think the sorta apologetic way he dispatches Jaro with a tune from his enormous back catalogue by one of their own DJs (Supercat) is particularly ace...

I'm totally seconding Phuturistix & especially Ear Dis "Hey Girl", which was the first thing that stuck out for me when I started listening to a few Funky sets a year & a half or so back...I felt well sulky that I'd completely missed that when it first came out...I've got a couple of their...