Standing in the sun at the window of Glens on the Byres Road watching Daniel Bedingfield noiselessly perform neutron ballad. Turned to the perfectly static hoverfly to my right: "That's what killed UK Garage. Affection for mainstream appraisal is a boom'n'bust cycle my son. They want broad public approval until they realise how naff you end up looking. Same thing with happened with Essex Soul and Level 42."
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This from VICE UK's review of Dizzee Rascal's "Showtime": "While we don't want to take ALL the credit for Dizzee's rise to the Radio 2 A-list, we'll just remind you we were the first ones apart from RWD to write about him." Splutters. Also yawn. The whole VICE fast'n'loose critique thing has become extremely grating. They need to sort themselves out with some hardcore trainspotter-ish musicological action.
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Rummaging through my brother-in-law's discarded vinyl in a Glasgow attic and found amongst
the boxes these tasty looking pieces:
_Brooklyn Beats Compilation.
(Featuring "Hot New Trax" by Beltram, Bones, Ralphie Dee, How and Little, Mundo Muzique and Wild)
_Front 242: Headhunters EP.
(Cello-tasm.)
_Earth People: Reach Up To Mars.
(Not as good as I thought it might be.)
_Pearls Before Swine: Balaklava.
(At last! Stand out track "I saw the World"- Sheer Loveliness. Very like Joe Byrd's USA this.)
_KLF: What Time is Love LP.
(With all the diff. versions of WTIL.)
I resisted my inclination to half-inch them. Even the Front 242 which there were 2 copies of.
Posted by Woebot at August 22, 2004 08:39 AM