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that is so characteristically and endearingly Mark, to have the full-lengths by 187 Lockdown, Marvelous Cain, and Altern 8 in his Best British 90s list! (Also Renegade Soundwave, an absolutely forgotten band but i wouldn't be surprised if an influence on Mark and friends's own group...

if i could give a double thank you for that i would i mean, i guess, if you're not invested in lyrics, like, AT ALL, then perhaps it'll just sound coffee-table but even on the level of pure delivery, the way he shapes sound out of his mouth, the doubling vocals with Topley-Bird...

he was Young Thug a couple of decades before Young Thug - image wise

the negative opinions of tricky and negative opinions of goldie make me want to vote for both

menace, jim skreech, sinister, knowledge, saint angel, i'm inclined to give it to Goldie but then Maxinquaye...

sophie's choice innit

she is great isn't she

funny you should do this poll because i was going to add on the Funk Is Cancelled thread that i've been listening to Sly & Family constantly the last couple of weeks so da funk is very much uncancelled in this household funkadelic / parliament are a lot more erratic quality wise - but the...

i noticed that john roberts book a while ago and made a mental note to get it - how weird they are just giving it away as a free download, five months before the official publication.

that's brilliant - hat's off

there's a surprising dearth of songs with thirdform and craner in the title

had to be the "original press"

mvuent is going to be challenging though

i went looking, just a minute ago - and what did I find, the perfect Valentine's!

Wire are actually one of my favorite bands of that era and share a chapter with Talking Heads in Rip It Up. i think you might be right about Mark Fisher, though, he may not have liked them for some reason - perhaps there was not a political dimension there for him. He was fairly predictable in...

people quite regularly seem to try to make those worlds overlap there's a line from Deep Purple recording with the London Philharmonic to Goldie doing an orchestral version of 'Mother' to that recent 'classical grime' ^^^^^^^^^^^^ a lot of casual classical music listeners use it as a form...