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Dont think you can say that XTC are under-rated seeing as they were the reference point for most angular indie bands about 3 years ago along with wire (btw got the nonsuch album a few weeks ago and agreed with my dad that it was much bollocks)...maybe you could say post-pink flag wire is under-rated as i guess everyone would obsess about New Order... HHAnOQyXhGI Wire GNo9xzvG5Xw and i guess where New Order spin offs are conserned i guess Electronic would always be the seen as the best...forgeting that Monaco what do you you want from me was a great pop single...while i guess dubstar will always crop up in the affections of people much more than anything by the other two... XKnb19SRjes MONACO - WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME OPZD5wJpZmk The Other Two - Tasty Fish FlcGxCrgO5g The Other Two - Selfish ...or Marion :lol: :lol: c_FlNwQlBmU Moby Grape - Omaha Maybe not under-rated but i guess more unlikely to get a cover feature when there's the doors, Greatful Dead, Love to feature first... on comparison would you say Robyn Hitchcock is more under-rated or not seeing as he would be such an obv cult artist to mention...? nKHT5Kszrm8

well i suppose you could count Carter the uns...sorry i mean Carbon/Silicon :lol: CUwVT_zX3hM and Rick Astley will probs turn up back on random European compilation with yet another remix of 'Sleeping' alongside Safri Duo, Novaspace and Gigi D'Agostino...could be the new Nick Kamen (ie I Promised Myself 2004) R1IK5Sg9HLA Rick Astley - Sleeping 2007 I think this Rick Astley single was co-written by Chris Braide....who is also the singer in lead singer in a band called The Producers..who also feature Trevor Horn, Steve Lipson and Lol Créme and are are signed to Stiff Records....which i think was where i came in :lol: :lol: deA8zRcgWMc Nick Kamen - I Promised Myself 2004 4doH1NTtWt8 A-Teens - I Promised Myself (which sounds much more like Erasure than ABBA bizarrely!!!)

Man..why just bump this thread without talking about/having a moan at Warner Music new Hang The Dj: The Very Best Of The Smiths compilation thats coming out this month.... http://fireglo.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/th...d-in-september/ Warner Brothers is releasing ANOTHER Smiths complimation, presumably for the Christmas market. Once again this is against Morrissey’s wishes. This album is different from previous compilations as there are two versions. The 1CD release contains: ‘Hand In Glove’, ‘This Charming Man’, ‘What Difference Does It Make?’, ‘Still Ill’, ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’, ‘William, It Was Really Nothing’, ‘How Soon Is Now’, ‘I Want the One I Can’t Have’, ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’, ‘Barbarism Begins At Home’, ‘That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore’, ‘The Headmaster Ritual’, ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’, ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’, ‘Panic’, ‘Ask’, ‘You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby’, ‘Shoplifters Of The World Unite’, ‘Sheila Take A Bow’, ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’, ‘I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish’, ‘Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.’ The 2CD versions features more songs plus songs performed at Smiths live concerts. This is the hook to get dedicated fans to buy it. The tracks are: ‘Jeane’, ‘Handsome Devil’ (Live at Manchester Hacienda), ‘This Charming Man’ (New York Vocal), ‘Wonderful Woman’, ‘Back To The Old House’, ‘These Things Take Time’, ‘Girl Afraid’, ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’, ‘Stretch Out And Wait’, ‘Oscillate Wildly’ (Instrumental), ‘Meat Is Murder’ (Live at Oxford Apollo 18/3/85), ‘Asleep’, ‘Money Changes Everything’, ‘The Queen Is Dead’, ‘Vicar In A Tutu’, ‘Cemetery Gates’, ‘Half A Person’, ‘Sweet And Tender Hooligan’, ‘I Keep Mine Hidden’, ‘Pretty Girls Make Graves’, ‘Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before’, ‘What’s The World?’ (Recorded Live in 1985), ‘London’ (Live at National Ballroom, Kilburn) This is all well and good but as important as the music is the Album Artwork. I wonder who chooses it and do Morrissey or Marr have any input in it? (I wouldn’t really imagine so.) All Smiths album artwork back when when they were formed, were either stills from movies or pictures of Morrissey’s icons. It’s not a genuine Smiths release without approved artwork from the band.

then again it could be worse...dont think Nick Grimshaw is on it 24 hours a day yet :lol: (like on bbc switch, e4, 4music etc etc)

well i wouldnt class it as traditional bollywood film either (tho it might work better as one :lol: ) but these days the bollywood film industry are branching out funding quite a lot of other things (think the happening was part funded by bollywood as well) - i dont know what the funding is for that film is (got a few weeks of screen international to catch up on :lol: ) but i think its done by the same people as provoked...so might qualify as i think that was backed by bollywood money and put out by a hindi film specialist...and talking about Aishwarya Rai...i've read that she's got a part in the pink panther 2...which might have to be noted on part of the love guru/get smart thread...

on the other hand there's this AsdhKdOXAi4 and this.... Hqo8Hg-MMwE maybe manufactured pop can be a good thing.... and as far as SAW go.... F7F9VcMpdUA Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody...is a good thing - much better than.... 4p93WFRqokg Safri Duo the Danish bongo massive featuring God of Yacht Rock Micheal Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom (omg think i need a pint now :lol: )

well it counts as one of the best records ever made.... 3d8cHq7td5Q

wow you got a copy of Nite Flights....thought that hadnt been re-issued or is it an original... btw do my 100 hits album count here :lol:

well if not post-punk, i guess punk will have been important to you - if youre 50 now...and if punk hit like more than 30 years ago - that must mean that you were about 18 - 20 when punk hit and that must be an important factor if disco is not your thing and too 'synthetic' for you....esp if punk was such a big musical explosion that the retro-hype says it was...it must have effected you and kinda moulded your thoughts esp when it comes to subjects such as 'manufactured' pop...tho i bet in 1967 you were probs loving things that were utter rubbish tho you couldve been part of the counter culture, could have spent your time listen to the Lovin' Spoonful but i guess you were just part of the audience for junior choice on the light programme!!! :lol: tony hadley in the early 80's were claiming 'we play funk' ok, the funk and jazz funk of the late 70's early 80's played a big part in the uk pop scene with many pop singles becoming 'danceable'. well now that you've brought up the subject of the 1980s pop and jazz-funk...well i think the competition is over...dont think you could get any worse...yeah think you have to give it to the 1980s the worst decade ever...mostly seems to be a cespit of over-produced nonsense and vomit inducing c**p...its the slight difference between the doobie brother's what a fool believes (which i am actually listing to now!!) and Micheal McDonald's Sweet Freedom (which was on the radio earlier and with seems to be made solely by the Yacht Rock-God of bellowing soft-rock-soul and a random bloke with a very cheap keyboard trying to stand in for 25 different musos)..production so bad that it was actually improved so much by the Danish Europop-bongo massive (Safri Duo). 6eE16Cdb_EU Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman fCbogJVKyo8 Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's dead Think there should be a few more votes for the 1980s here - cant have it trailing or equal to the 1970s esp when you had some thing so brilliant as the Curtis Mayfield :cheer: tracks above being made...much better than any 80s soul (tho jam & lewis were alright) or any blue-eyed soul pop band (tho i suppose the blow monkeys are probs one of the better examples than soem other random one that might have ended up on the miami vice soundtrack - but you get the idea...) uWm5qjtc2RA Blow Monkeys - This Is Your Life '89 Jxk3wEb_R7s Blow Monkeys - This Is Your Life '88 jnUFtDHwSPU Ordinary Boys - I Luv U (well it easily be by the blow monkeys :lol: ) Ms9krdKF14w Teena Marie - I Need Your Lovin' oaDZgWsn6DQ Curiosity Killed The Cat - I Need Your Lovin' ...now caN u spot the difference between them and below...or is it just the same idea :lol: hGjC0wbUXzk Jamiroquai - Canned Heat lJj2v37T9xA Jamiroquai - Little L every decade has its brilliant artists and great tunes even pre-1950s!!! (esp in jazz - tho it might have been called jas or jasz at the time :lol: - blues and country)...put when it comes to the bottom of the pop musical pile think the mainstream pop of the 1980s has to be much worse than the mainstream pop of 1970s (was listening to 100 hits 70s and there is a lot of cheese - but it can be tolerated) or the 1990s (at least i suppose you know what you are getting with Westlife and Boyzone :lol:)....a lot of 80s pop seems to have been made with a mentality of "oh look a new bit of technology - lets push a button and make a new noise!!!" (tho obv gonna leave that post-punk new pop thing as that actually be more equal to an indie thing like britpop)...three votes for the 1980s and 15 for the 2000s (i'm guessing the 1950s got a lot as it was such a long time a go its as releavant as Hoagy Carmichael now...)..surely there is something wrong there? as far pop goes some of the best pop records ever have been produced in the 2000s - dont think you can just get away with covering any old disco or motown tune now (x factor and westlife excepted here) which seemed to be the cop-out for the 90s mainstream pop artists....any decade that has Girls Aloud's Biology being released cant be the worst...esp when compared to dire synthpop and wannabe soul boys in expensive suits.... and will somebody please tell the human league that they are not Morris Day and the Time...(now where has that slide-slow gone :lol:) M1N4X3VMUHI Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Goodbye Bad Times ISD2Ow2e4EA I Feel Love - Donna Summer k8TBmeK9Abg but yeah as grebo69 said it does matter if you are talking about chart fodder or about any music that's being made...as i guess now its easier to listen to almost anything that has been recorded from like 1900 onwards (is 100 hits jazz on its way??) but on the other hand i guess radio has evolved from like the era of the 60s pirates to a point where the music doesnt really matter its just secondary to the personality of the celebrity and so thats why they can get away with playing chasing cars every day at the same...but thats because i guess its become so competetive that everything has become holomogized into one mass....and thats why every body is saying the 2000s are so bad...

You can always rely on tigerboy for a great, comprehensive read! Great tracks there. I've seen that footage of Darryl Pandy before, very charismatic, very camp! Also love Frankie Knuckles 'Tears' - a TRUE pioneer in the foundations of house music AND an openly gay man aswell (have never overly liked Joe Smooths 'Promised Land' unfortunately...). is that because of Paul Weller :lol: :lol: :cry: (are you geting bad thoughts of a new disco-dadrock genre) http://i29.tinypic.com/f23sqx.jpg tho obv being a black man who is a gay man and who is assocated with a genre thats part of club culture..now that says disco to me.... :lol: however dont think any genre can be said to be derived from another directly...as it would just be a sub-section of the original genre or just the same thing (whatever new technology came out)...tho with house and disco you cant say they are totally separate enterties its obv that there is that link esp. when looking at earlier examples of the genre when its obv it was more of a black music thing...and disco is a bit of a bast*rd genre anyway having its roots in stuff like soul, funk and latin music (whatever happening inner city places like NYC)...and house will have picked up influences from electro and other electronic acts and other sub-genres of disco - like cosmic/space disco etc etc Cerrone - Supernature (think goldfrapp, Róisín Murphy and Billie Ray Martin might have heard this record at least once) V112pTo--Js Billie Ray Martin - Talking With myself (Frankie Knuckles Mix) 5zSCfe6hYko S'Express/Billie Ray Martin/Eric Robinson - Hey Music Lover -fHO3lhY61o and i suppose you could be here all day trying to analyse the video of acid disco tune - hey music lover..esp it being a cover of a psychadelic soul record by sly & the family stone record as well... DkP5roFukKY Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music - Hey Music Lover

well i guess number 70 is considered a hit :lol:

pah! reading down the thread you realize that this not as cool a collaboration as this post says :lol: :lol: http://www.hayfestival.com/archive/img/eventimages/Corbett%20Ronnie013.jpg

101-01. Aswad - Don't Turn Around 102-00. Shaggy - Boombastic 103-00. Shabba Ranks - Mr. Loverman 104-00. Maxi Priest - Close To You 105-00. Chaka Demus & Pliers - Tease Me 106-00. Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper 107-00. Supercat - My Girl Josephine 108-00. Diana King - Shy Guy 109-00. Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy 110-00. China Black - Searching 111-00. Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock 112-00. Half Pint - Substitute Lover 113-00. Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm 114-00. Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston 115-00. Third World - Now That We Found Love 116-00. Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie 117-00. Desmond Dekker - You Can Get It If You Really Want 118-00. The Harry J. Allstars - Liquidator 119-00. John Holt - Help Me Make It Through The Night 120-00. The Upsetters - Return Of Django 121-00. Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine 122-00. Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People 201-00. UB40 - Kingston Town 202-00. Janet Kay - Silly Games 203-00. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Sun Is Shining 204-00. Dawn Penn - You don't Love Me (No, No, No) 205-00. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse 206-00. Dennis Brown - Money In My Pocket 207-00. Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves 208-00. Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good 209-01. Desmond Dekker - Israelites 210-00. Lord Tanamo - I'm In The Mood For Ska 211-00. Toots & The Maytals - 54-56 Was My Number 212-00. Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You 213-00. Dave & Ansil Collins - Double Barrell 214-00. Ken Boothe - everything I Own 215-00. Max Romeo - Wet Dream 216-00. Nicky Thomas - Love Of The Common People 217-00. Sly & Robbie - Boops (Here To Go) 218-00. Aswad - Shine 219-00. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me 220-00. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come 221-01. Big Mountain - Baby, I Love Your Way 222-00. CJ Lewis - Sweets For My Sweet 223-00. 10CC - Dreadlock Holiday 224-00. Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

yeah might give the thread some more meaning/discussion rather than being too random....

yeah its good and yeah i can hear a bit of Arcade Fire in there as well as echo & bunnymen....it reminds me of red light company also....tho maybe they are not interpol wannabes, maybe they, Interpol and The Editors have independently of each found copies of the greatest hits of the kitchens of distinction or the chameloens and thought - this is good i guess nobody will be doing this now???

well yeah it could sound like that as well...tho it seems to be obv that nobody would have commented on this thread (does nobody from MW read BJ?!?!?) if i hadnt had put 'how the last bloc party single SHOULD have sounded' as part of the thread title..

yeah its sad - and another band that couldnt even get a 1 wk place in the 75 with the continuing success of nickelback....i've like their records tho i did not get round to getting the album (yet) - tho i guess if it does turn up cheap in the borders sale it will be the kinda of over-looked thing that will get re-issued by Ace, Edsel or Cherry Red in about 10 years time.

yeah its not a very well thought out thread...should have been something more to it...as you've could list like loads of random people....Morcheeba - the've never had a #1, neither have Catherine Wheel, nor Tindersticks or That Petrol Emotion, not dEUS, not Diesel Park West or either The Frazer Chorus, The Alarm - no #1's there, and none for Del Amitri either, Thunder - oh how unlucky - not a number #1 there either, the cult - zilch, roni size - still waiting and adeva - not a hope in chance, the Black Crowes - cant see any listed and super furry animals - none - made them furious and the levellers - nowt for these either - no number ones between between them etc etc etc

you found it boring? how could you find it boring? which parts?

Yeah totally and this was picked up in some reviews - think Anthony Quinn in the Indie was one - saying that he should be in the film more with some of Tomo's lines being funnier if they came out of his mouth and with the twee Franco love affaire reduced (tho obv this couldnt be exclude like totally or Eurostar would have to be replaced with like Midland Mainline :lol: :lol: ) Well didnt get to see that one - must have been quite limited as most screens near me seemed to be filled up with sing-a-longa mamma mia....might have more potiential if they had extended it to 3.5 hours and added some europop styled hindi sung bollywood songs....(was watching Kal Ho Naa Ho at home this week...which like a few bollywood films seemed to try and shuv about 62 different genres in to about 4 hours and had its fair share of melodrama among its rom-com and its cheesy europop styled hindi sung bollywood songs....so long with ad breaks that my mum kept coming into the room and saying is this still the same film :lol: - and i wonder how long a bollywood remake of Somers Town would be? 6 hours>!>!) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/KalHoNaaHo1.jpg

I liked 'Ils/Them' a lot - tho wasnt gonna bother with this unless anybody else wanted to see it (in the guardian even babylon ad got a better review than this!!!)

Well maybe they wanted Jean Reno but he was held up with making the Pink Panther 2 :lol: ...and btw isnt it not now 50 cent isnt it 'Curtis Jackson' in scary wanted to be taken seriously as actor vibe....

yeah its enjoyable...and actually i quite liked it...coming out of the cinema thinking that was quite good after the final comic scene...but there was an uneasy mix between the action and the spoof...i think the people behind the film should have decided whether it should have been more a comedy film or more an action film..as at the moment it falls somewhere between the two...and as a spoof doesnt work as well in that respect as something like (the remake of) Dragnet or the Naked Gun which even tho they are on tv like every other week, can be watched over and over again if nothing else on... think with Get Smart - if it was listed as being on BBC Three with the Naked Gun on E4, Men In Black on fiver and something like Die Hard or Bond on ITV2 (plus you were mentally funked to watch some new foreign language film on film 4) and just wanted to chill out and watch sometihing easy that you've watched before..think Get Smart wouldn't be your first choice...tho if it was on DVD in a double pack with the Bruce and Lloyd film - think it be worth getting. The Bruce and Lloyd film being DTV might be to the same standard as American Pie 93407 ...tho it cant be as bad - in a film to DTV ratio as the Anchorman Wake Up cut & paste 'film'...and tbh would have been better if there was more Bruce and Lloyd in the main film.

Zm3w1QSuKxw This is Delphic (with the song Counterpoint)...a band that Music Week seem to mention nearly every other week in their update slot - keeping track on who has been signed and who has a deal with who....and so i'm thinking they're gonna be high up the ones to watch top ten by the end of the year....and listeing to this how the last bloc party single SHOULD have sounded

Alphabeat – Boyfriend 24 Biffy Clyro - Mountains 10 Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gone 9 Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me 11 Miley Cyrus – See You Again 25 Mystery Jets – Half In Love With Elizabeth 66 Paul Weller - All I Wanna Do / Push It Along 45 Will I Am – One More Chance 40 (Downloads) Colbie Caillat - Bubbly 39 Duffy - Stepping Stone 33 J Majik & Wickaman - Crazy World 21 Keane – Spiralling 15 Metallica - The Day That Never Comes 10 Rihanna – Disturbia 2 Bonus #1: Will Madcon - Beggin still be in the Top 5? y Bonus #2: Will The Automatic - Steve McQueen still be in the Top 20? n Bonus #3: Will Flo-Rida ft T-Pain - Low still be in the Top 40? n