Choon of the Day, redux

IdleRich

IdleRich

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Benny B said:
I think the 'tunes' in the Burial interview refers specifically to the London nuum - hardcore, jungle, garage.

It all sounds very contrived though - whoever it was that said recently on here those Burial interviews were made up by Kode 9 & co. were probably right. It's music by someone who was too young to be raving in the 90s and will have primarily come to it through the internet, was totally outside the grime scene, and dubstep will have been the only accessible thing going on at the time in London.

That's not even to knock Burial really, but I think it's true and even dubsteppers would have to admit it.
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There was something very odd going on that he happened to love MR James and all of K-Punk's other obsesions. Very odd.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Benny B said:
I'll always remember one of the femalecontestants on, I think, the very first series of Big Brother saying they didn't like any music at all. I mean, is that even possible?
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Does that mean there was no music she felt positive about, or she actively hated all organized sounds?
 
william_kent

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Rod Lee - Dance My Pain Away

"I've got problems"

"bill collectors on me"

"have to file bankruptcy"

"need some help from somebody"

"Gawd, the bills are stacking up"

"I'm desperate to make a buck"

"I played the lottery today"

this Baltimore break classic is more relevant than ever

#cost of living crisis

weighing in under just three minutes, this tune neatly encapsulates and proposes a hedonistic solution to the shitty timeline we're stuck in

i'm going to replace "dance" with "DRINK AND DRUGS" ( because maybe my clubbing days are in the past?, or maybe my head is firmly buried in the sand ), but let's just use 'dance' as a metaphor for hedonistic drink and drug fuelled escapism and I'm sure we're all locked into the same beat

oh, and it's a catchy ear worm, a "choon" by any measure, and the only reason I shelled out £2 for the Wire OST CD was because of this "choon" ( a slight lie, there was a squat party scene in The Wire where there were some killer breaks being played* and I was hoping that they might have been on the OST CD, but I remain disappointed )

* this may be a figment of my imagination, but I have a memory of red & blue flashing lights, snippets of what might have been killer breaks, and one of the fictional characters may have thought he was on "a promise"... it's been over a decade (!) since I watched The Wire, maybe it's time to re-evaluate?

edit: I might have been a bit glib, but this tune wraps up my own lived experience of threats posted through my letterbox, such as court summonses and the like, which through various combinations of MDMA, MDEA, amphetamine sulphate, THC, and LSD ** were forgotten for a few hours on the dancefloor as all my problems melted away because I became one with the music, etc.,

** actually, in common parlance it was preferably White Doves ( but failing that it'd be whatever other pill was on offer ) plus whatever other drugs were to hand..

edit: unfortunately, simply ignoring those threatening letters and throwing them into the pile of unopened mail won't "dance my pain away' as I may have discovered to my cost, still, I had some good nights out...
 
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william_kent said:
squat party scene in The Wire where there were some killer breaks being played* and I was hoping that they might have been on the OST CD, but I remain disappointed )

* this may be a figment of my imagination, but I have a memory of red & blue flashing lights, snippets of what might have been killer breaks, and one of the fictional characters may have thought he was on "a promise"... it's been over a decade (!) since I watched The Wire, maybe it's time to re-evaluate?
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Do you mean the dj technics one? My life extra?

 
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