Happy Thanksgiving Sandy Denny

[0bleak]

oh, i've got it - do you mean like a version of This Old Man?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Kicking myself

 

[0bleak]

oh, ok

 

[Benny Bunter]

Hardcore Heaven was probably one of the first hardcore tunes I heard as a kid, should have known

 

[Benny Bunter]

32 years ago fucking hell

 

[0bleak]

if you remember it, you weren't there, right?

 

[Benny Bunter]

I was 11 years old, heard it on the radio or my sister's tapes

 

[0bleak]

i'm just playing on that old phrase about those deep in subcultures in the 60s and 90s
"if you remember it, you weren't there"

 

[Benny Bunter]

Yeah, I know

I was there but I wasn't there, if you know what I mean. In 91, 92 hardcore was sort of a kiddies craze all over the country. Jungle was almost totally unknown to me living outside London, but you couldn't avoid hardcore, wherever you were.

 

[blissblogger]

@thirdform What's that famous old hardcore tune that @blissblogger mentioned in energy flash or somewhere that samples a proper rural frolicking-lambs UK folk song?

Recently did a whole post tracing its provenance

through rushes and through briars

I always heard the sampled lyric in "Sub Dub" as " through rushes and through briars " - thinking the word "rush" with its ravey connotati...

energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com

 

[thirdform]

Kicking myself

yeah well serves you right for spending most of the 2010s exalting tech and jackin house.