It's an interview LP. Reasonably official, given it's on Blast First.
Motortown was the soundtrack to a summer's driving throughout the south-west. Ideal for six AM starts so as to get down to Appledore before the tourists woke up.
(Am I going to have to start a burn-request list? :) )
I was enjoying browsing through those until I came to splodgenessabounds. There goes my ability to remember any other tune whatsofuckingever for the next month. Argh! Irony is no excuse. :-)
I'll have you know that record cost me 50p from the s/h box, and we didn't do irony in those days. I bought the punk-rock wars. And I listen to techno.
I think it's probably called 'growing up some'. In that whenever Hazel Dean was popular, I hated every Hi-NRG second. These days, I'd likely jump right in like I was at G.A.Y. and wonder if they'd play some Icon of Coil after so people could spot the influence.
A surprising amount of overlap with my record collection. Well, apart from the fact that I don't have any goff/punk stuff, and you don't have much in the way of jazz funk/soul/rare groove etc. Oh, and I don't own any Gina G. But apart from that...
If are going to own a single digit number of drum & bass records, I have to say that Photek's "Hidden Camera" EP is a good one to have. "Hidden Camera (Static Mix)" - Nice. Looks like you kept buying On-U/Tackhead stuff way after I gave up on them... and I thought I was the obsessive there.
I guess Squarepusher sort of counts. I do find his stuff a bit too far on the muso noodling side of things sometimes though - which coming from yours truly is really saying something. Warp stuff is generally to be recommended though... you should check out Prefuse73's "One Word Extinguisher" if you haven't already.
I'm surprised to discover you're the only person (thus far) to point out the shonky proto-webness of the entire endeavour.
I should probably also have a 'homepage' with a section marked 'rants 'n' raves' with either a mosaic-grey or ugly-patterned background. And some bogus web-awards.
If there's a positive to this, it's that I spent a cheerful hour listening to old New Order records.
So, hifi spods - Project Debut II. Cheap and nasty or just cheap? Or go direct for the SL1212 on the off-chance that it'll cope slightly better with the dusty vinyl that makes the (frankly horrible and embarrassing) Sherwood leap and hop as if it were afflicted with St. Vitus dance? (No-one will see that. Bloody LJ UI. )
If it doesn't already exist, I was thinking of whipping out my mad elite web scripty skills and creating a site which has a hierarchical organisation of stuff (books by author, gigs or records or tracks by artist, yadda yadda) and allows reviews. So far so netgoth.org.uk, but I was hoping to add a kind of trust element to it, so you can weight people's ratings out of ten or whatever depending on your opinion of their musical taste. Another project for when I get massively bored, I suspect.
I've never considered reviewing my own pile - it's far too self-important and detracts from the business of listening to the things properly and liking them lots. Neither would I particularly care for some bastard coming up and going 'Tackhead at the Kilburn National? Shit gig, that was. Fucking awful jigaboo racket. Far too funky.' because then I'd have to hunt them down and hurt them and it would just be too much like hard work.
But were one going to do the thought experiment, I'd guess the 'reviews' would best be in some syndicatable weblog format and be trackback-enabled, so your 'pile' could auto-syndicate and auto-generate 'review' lists. Thus each 'object' in the 'pile' becomes the 'head' of a trackbacked comment-tree. When MT finally manages threaded comments, anyway.
(That sounds like it wouldn't be too much like hard work...)
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Date: 2003-07-29 01:07 pm (UTC)Big Black: Talk about fucking - wassat?
The Very Things - Motortown. - fab. Got this on a recorded Peel show tape somewhere.
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Date: 2003-07-29 01:12 pm (UTC)Motortown was the soundtrack to a summer's driving throughout the south-west. Ideal for six AM starts so as to get down to Appledore before the tourists woke up.
(Am I going to have to start a burn-request list? :) )
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Date: 2003-07-29 01:22 pm (UTC)Now *there's* an idea. :D
I think it might be time we all sorted ourselves out with soulseek. I have it but it's gone wonky.
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Date: 2003-07-29 01:27 pm (UTC)Soulseek. Yes. I probably have to get a new one and tunnel it through the firewall and hide the dodgy gay disco MP3s and...
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Date: 2003-07-29 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 01:31 pm (UTC)[Other than that, you have some awesome records].
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Date: 2003-07-29 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 02:06 pm (UTC)"And now kids, here's a novelty record from 'the time that irony forgot'"
I've redone the sealant round my bath and that song is still stuck in my head. Maybe if I stuck a hammer action drill in my ear.
I bought the punk-rock wars.
Second hand for 50p?
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Date: 2003-07-29 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 02:45 pm (UTC)If are going to own a single digit number of drum & bass records, I have to say that Photek's "Hidden Camera" EP is a good one to have. "Hidden Camera (Static Mix)" - Nice. Looks like you kept buying On-U/Tackhead stuff way after I gave up on them... and I thought I was the obsessive there.
..Mark..
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Date: 2003-07-29 03:07 pm (UTC)Does Squarepusher count as D&B? His first album is still just... Wow. I can see a lot more from Warp and related labels turning up in the future.
'Strange things' is truly bad. It was an ebay by someone else. Honest.
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Date: 2003-07-29 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-30 02:27 am (UTC)1996 and all that
Date: 2003-07-30 03:01 am (UTC)I should probably also have a 'homepage' with a section marked 'rants 'n' raves' with either a mosaic-grey or ugly-patterned background. And some bogus web-awards.
If there's a positive to this, it's that I spent a cheerful hour listening to old New Order records.
So, hifi spods - Project Debut II. Cheap and nasty or just cheap? Or go direct for the SL1212 on the off-chance that it'll cope slightly better with the dusty vinyl that makes the (frankly horrible and embarrassing) Sherwood leap and hop as if it were afflicted with St. Vitus dance? (No-one will see that. Bloody LJ UI. )
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Date: 2003-07-30 03:04 am (UTC)Bloody LJ UI
Come back NNTP, all is forgiven?
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Date: 2003-07-30 03:41 am (UTC)But were one going to do the thought experiment, I'd guess the 'reviews' would best be in some syndicatable weblog format and be trackback-enabled, so your 'pile' could auto-syndicate and auto-generate 'review' lists. Thus each 'object' in the 'pile' becomes the 'head' of a trackbacked comment-tree. When MT finally manages threaded comments, anyway.
(That sounds like it wouldn't be too much like hard work...)
NNTP? No. Cix/Bix/CoSy.
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Date: 2003-07-30 09:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-07-30 11:23 am (UTC)This is me caring.
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Date: 2003-07-30 11:25 am (UTC)