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Tho if the Screen International chart is being used (which seems to be true here)...to remember its the Official North American and UK-Ireland Chart...and not the US and UK chart...not wanting to be pedantic...but then again not wanting to give the impression that Canada is a reatively unimportant part of the United States.... :lol: (hello everyone in Burlington and Toronto!!!)

Did anyone else see Somers Town? i thought it was good and found in no way were any refs to Eurostar really really obtrusive

yeah agree like totally...and actually i think i enjoyed this more then the dark knight...tho everytime Johann Krauss spoke couldn't help thinking.... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Briang.jpg "Vorsprung durch Technik" (...tho i wonder if Bros were famous enough in the States to get a flashback reference in Family Guy??? tho i suppose they will go with Kurt Valaquen instead :lol: :lol: )

Think ScottyEm's view is much nearer the point - esp after reading/watching histories of the genre...tho Rob, you want to align it more with the post-punk thing because the post-punk thing has more credibilty and more coolness...and if you've lived though the late 1970 and 1980s i guess that you will only equate disco with ultra-commercial c**p and think that things like Steve Dahl's Disco Demolition Derby Night (July 12, 1979, Comiskey Park Chicago at the baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers) can only be a good thing....when there is so much more and so many innovators lost under all the mass-market stuff that was probs got a guest slot on the black & white minstral show (some how i guess 'All You Need Is Love' won't have a disco episode coming up...) from The History of Chicago House Music http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/his...icago_house.htm "House music takes its name from an old Chicago night club called The Warehouse, where the resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles, mixed old disco classics, new Eurobeat pop and synthesised beats into a frantic high- energy amalgamation of recycled soul. Frankie is more than a DJ, he's an architect of sound, who has taken the art of mixing to new heights. Regulars at the Warehouse remember it as the most atmospheric place in Chicago, the pioneering nerve-center of a thriving dance music scene where old Philly classics by Harold Melvin, Billy Paul and The O'Jays were mixed with upfront disco hits like Martin Circus' "Disco Circus" and imported European pop music by synthesiser groups like Kraftwerk and Telex" "According to Frankie Knuckles, house is not a break with the black music of the past, but an extreme re-invention of the dance music of yesterday. He sees House music with a very clear tradition, a kind of two-way love affair with the city of New York and the sound of disco. If he were to list his favorite records, they would be a reader's guide to disco, including Colonel Abrams "Trapped", Sharon Redd's "Can You Handle It", Fat Lerry's "Act Like You Know", Positive Force "You Got The Funk" Jimmy Bo Horn "Spank", D-Train "You're The One". But most of all he relishes the sound where the church and the dancefloor are thrown together with a willful disregard for religious propriety. Religion weaves its way through the house sound in ways that would confound the disbelievers. Most Chicago DJ's admit a debt to the underground 1970's underground club scene in New York and particulary the original disco-mixer Walter Gibbons, a white DJ who popularised the basic techniques of disco-mixing, then graduated to Salsoul Records where he turned otherwise unremarkable dance records into monumental sculptures of sound. It was Gibbons who paved the way for the disc-jockey's historical shift from the twin-decks to the production studio. " ZqZgAl7NowI Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around (to be found on one of those Crimson Records 'Absolute Disco' compilations but i think its the one with the black cover not the glitterball one with Nu Shooez and Ten City on it) bBBtPaMDHSY Frankie Knuckles - Tears ML3w4HIMHpY Joe Smooth/Anthony Thomas - Promised Land yeah all these would probs just been seen as being disco records now as black dance music = disco to many (with chessy disco being seen as pure pop) with commercial dance being seen as more white genre that wouldnt get an award at the mobos and i guess being like so different from what you get in Ibiza.... ZDWcE9LfsdI or in frickin' Blackburn :lol: :lol: :lol: _arNPhIFCp4 :up Scooter sing the Sisters Of Mercy (moo! moo! :cheer: :cheer: ) think he might have a point there....maybe music decades dont run like 1960 - 1969, maybe they are better to be looked at like 67 - 77 or 87 - 97 maybe music vibes are out of sync with the western callender (btw is 'grebo for eg' a charity record where PWEI end up singing Duffy :lol: )

Well maybe "This is a Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisco Hit" (yeah got that right :lol: ) m0Wox8jaW_A but Norman Wisdom's Big In Albania has got that britpop sound that i think could be big in Denmark now!!!! tho i guess when it come to comedians releasing records Tracy Ullman would prob come to your minds first... http://www.lisastansfield.info/gfx_pub/news/ztt_100.gif 9kcUhclgf4s slow it down, speed it up, etc etc 4K1xnVFxfw0 Breakaway, They Don't Know and My Guy... w_7fEWj4nCU and on the subject of ZTT-associated stuff...i guess everyone would probs say that Pete Waterman bad and evil - Trevor Horn good and brilliant and if thats so... i think at this point everyone should drink a glass of mimosa to toast David van Day in all his glory.... :lol: D84pgwVA8jw DOLLAR - Give Me Back My Heart LIVE with TREVOR HORN _eu12WX1K5M DOLLAR - Hand Held In Black & White and Dollar might actually be worse than some of the SAW stuff...tho it does give a good excuse to play this: J-fY1KjjeOc Orbital - Style

DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dawn Of The Dead 7/10 Electro-pop doesn't get much catchier than this, with just a hint of '80s Breakfast Club swagger. Oh, and those glockenspiels aren't bad either (review from teletext) 5AJoRggrExQ This is brilliant and should be a long running hit....yeah the review is right Electro-pop doesn't get much catchier than this...tho maybe to make it a top ten hit...it needs Molly Ringwald to turn up dancing in the video...maybe DIOYY need to get a guest slot on The Secret Life of the American Teenager first and then world domination will be theres....??

The Fall are a great Indie band (in fact, shouldn't this thread actually be discussed there....?), btw maybe it shouldnt be the indie area that has this thread (tho it would be nice to have it back in specialist as since all the singer-songwriter threads were moved to thread - there's f*** all there :lol:) maybe it should go to retro as i'm sure everyone would be more apreciative of the fall there than this area.... http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TNNTR7MRL._SL500_AA240_.jpg with reference to scenester wankfest Vice Magazine and page 182 of The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll - well if it not on that page its the feature about all the cult bands that everyone goes on about but no-one listens to them as they are really gay (not pet shop boys gay obv)...and along with people like Pere Ubu.. the general opinion is that they suck big time...but not as bad as Talking Heads (tho on the other hand Duran Duran were given a glowing report so obv the article muct have been writen by Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Me-Me-Me-Duffy from the Dandy-Dandy Warhols.... :lol: )

well yeah on one hand thats a good point...but on the other...by westlife having 14 number one...it means that U2 are not the most successful Irish band...which can only take a few notches of the god-like appreciation of bono-fans :lol:

with reference to my above comment of 10:46 AM Aug 17 2008, another Electro-pop act and a review from teletext last week: "DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dawn Of The Dead 7/10 Electro-pop doesn't get much catchier than this, with just a hint of '80s Breakfast Club swagger. Oh, and those glockenspiels aren't bad either" Yeah too true - and if we must always referrence the mid-1980s for our music definitions surely when it came to indie in the mid 1980s it wasnt as sinple as 'all acts with guitars' are indie and all 'electronic acts with synths' are pop...especially when the most popular acts from the 1980s labeled synthpop/electropop (well pet shops boys, erasure and soft cell) may have knicked most of their ideas from a certain Giorgio Moroder produced glam rock duo and their late 1970s disco album (tho obv in the 1980s i think it was illegal to mention the word disco)....now these recent Plan B magazine cover stars released Lil' Beethoven...even tho electronic and synth based - is a million miles away from pop (whether electronic or pop/rock) with Sparks being seen as being in an avant-guard area of their own that maybe all pop and popular indie could end up in one chart bound area....true Ladyhawke is aesthetically indie but Sparks could be seen as being even more so.... http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/sparks300.jpg 5w1ZmX_Ix6Y 87UgNaJGyLc etUIJwhaE1Q pjQC57fsGkY Pvatys8vP3s sorry tip if you wanted me to mention Kraftwerk at this point.. :lol:

Actually i think its a brilliant record but could do better by being sung by Roddy Woomble, Michael Stipe or Stephen Hero (Patrick Fitzgerald)

PWL - now doesnt that stand for Pete Waterman Ltd? And wasn't the very same Pete Waterman that featured as the in-house producer on BBC Four's (often repeated) story of Stiff Records - If It Ain't Stiff...which was part of like a 3 hour love-in the other night to this maverick indie label (or is it just pub rock :lol: ) whose Dave Robinson ended up merging it with Island Records...Island...which could be seen as one of the very first indie record labels back in the late 50s/early 60s...tho obv (outside Reggae obsessives i guess who are please that it can now be mixed with Trojan) Island wouldnt have as much credibilty in indie circles and be just seen as a big nasty major record label chuning out the next Keane download because it was pre-Punk...whereas Trevor Horn/ZTT's Stiff label will still have loads of credibilty....of which a bubblegum disco-house like PWL won't have... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Stiff_Records.jpg gv40nwdTfag Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know FK1uloFT6og Madness - My Girl probs even more than someone like Echo and oh we all feel so sad about feeder's under-promotion - boo woo - because they are on an indie and not on a major..but as everyone should know by now is just Chrysalis Records in disguise...well since the main brand joined Virgin, Charisma and Mute at EMI....and i guess Mute still gets appreciated - still gets the indie cred as that label was post-punk enterty and unlike Virgin and Charisma not to do with the old grey whistle test and prog-rock (tho when that Progressive rock is mentioned in connection with muse - thats alright..as everyone like a bit of credible prog like muse dont they?)...its all bollocks really...people being a bit too precious over their alternative culture...still trying to align themselves with a certain credibilty that i guess goes back to punk or post-punk..a certian idealism that would make them seem special by not being part of a mainstreem popular culture (even tho everyone else is doing it and yeah like it so is - so obv. is part of a popular mainstreem culture) and when it comes to label there will be an overlap of bands & staff from majors to indies, indies will get bought out by majors, or licence stuff to majors and Cherry Red will still re-issue La Toya Jackson, Sheena Easton and Nena http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherrypop/artists.php

Well even they've still got Dido, it seems that Sony will not inflict any more boringly moaning Annie Lennox albums on the public...hooray...however the bad news...there's still the best of album to come but the good news...its on hold until next year!!!! Christmas is gonna be a good one after all :lol: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/The_Annie_Lennox_Collection.jpg The Annie Lennox Collection will be released on March 16, 2009. It will be the first official "Best Of" compilation Annie Lennox. Finishing out her contract with Sony BMG, Lennox was set to release a "Best Of" collection, The Annie Lennox Collection on September 15, 2008.[8] Included are songs from four of her solo albums, one from the Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack, and two new songs. A DVD is to be released along with the CD in one of the album's editions. The album is currently on hold until Spring of 2009, while Lennox recovers from spinal surgery to release an impinged nerve Track list "Little Bird" "Walking on Broken Glass" "Why" "No More I Love You's" "Precious" "Love Song for a Vampire" "A Thousand Beautiful Things" "Sing" "Pavement Cracks" "A Whiter Shade of Pale" "Cold" "Dark Road" "Pattern of My Life" "Shining Light" "Many Rivers To Cross" CD + DVD There will also be a CD + DVD edition of the album released on the same day. The tracklist for the DVD will be: "Little Bird" "Walking On Broken Glass" "Why" "No More I Love You's" "Precious" "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" "A Thousand Beautiful Things" (Collage Video) "Sing" "Pavement Cracks" (Collage Video) "Love Song For A Vampire" "Cold" "Dark Road" "Something So Right" "Waiting In Vain" wiki

i guess Dido is alright if she just turns up as a one-off guest vocalist on a faithless album (tho stan & roswell also acceptable) but i guess a full album would be a good cure for insomnia (that is... the inability able to sleep at night rather than the rather brilliant dance classic below :lol:)....tho could be worse i guess could be the Annie Lennox collection.... JOy5LOsV6Vs

and the Cure can't get pass #78 :lol:

and do the singles with the stickers inside count now?? they deserve to be stuck all over town (tho tbh i've just stuck them on my wall at home)

After finally listen to the new single all the way thru on the tmf chart show...or maybe should i re-phrase that to enjuring the what seemed like 92 hours of the new single on the tmf chart show - maybe the problem is neither an attitude thats either bad or black - just one of an artist who's up his own arse!!!!

only #78 - couldn't the fanbase do better than that?? or did they have to download chasing cars just one more time??

Well then, why not go and tell Laurence Bell to his face that he's been running a major label for the past couple of decades? That remortgaging his house to keep it going while trying to make ends meet by licencing unpopular American rock bands was just the kind of thing that the owner of EMI has to do... Independent labels are just that and they've been called that for a long time. Anyone disagreeing is being highly disrespectful to Domino who are one of the music business' true recent successes. Hard slog and an ear for music and not business has seen them rise to be able to claim number ones. I doubt Dizzee would have managed to get to number one without some backing anyway...did he set up the pressing, distribution, promotion etc. all by himself? Did he f***... Yeah it was about own artist labels...tho Domino, even tho yeah a independent are going towards being more of minor-major than a weekend hobby... :lol: tho probably will end up being taken over by the Beggars group at some point :lol: http://www.zipdj.com/upload/label/200703211611571190916417_chrysalis.jpg and look here's a Chrysalis Records logo and a feeder album that hardly nobody bought... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Silent_Cry.jpg me thinks they might have to sell out to EMI (again :lol: )

well if its more like American Dad and less like Family Guy's throw a zillion 80s references at a wall and hope something sticks - might be good might be better....tho on the other hand might follow the FG template like totally (but with jazz-funk jokes about Roy Ayers...rather than star wars)

then again you could just watch Mean Girls again (which film4 are very handily showing at 9pm on friday...for about the 27th time this month...tho to give them credit they are showing Sherrybaby the night before - which saved me a £5 instead of getting the dvd last week...yeah already!!!)

tho when its a picture of Trey Anastasio it can get a bit disturbing :lol: - thats an 18 if not a 52 if i ever saw it :lol: - "Alex of Tiger...Warning people of the horrors of Phish since 2006" :lol: :lol:

tho i'm affraid that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, will launch Dance Movie after Disaster Movie, Date Movie and Meet the Spartans...tho maybe just looping Kevin Bacon dancing from Footloose for 2 hours would make a better movie :lol:

Yeah actually it was and actually had some moments i laughed at (usually at the expense of Mel Gibson)....tho maybe every part with Rob Schneider in should have been cut out :lol:

But man i was going for that Vermont jamband vibe :lol: - tho with Ben & Jerry's being owned by Unilever who i think are based in the Netherlands maybe i should be 'spcheaking insh the dutcsh accshent' (mmn wonder if they've though of making a hemp flavored ice-cream with added Levi Roots Reggae Reggae sauce for the dutch market :lol: might go well with a scoop of Cherry Garcia in the coffee houses of Amsterdam.... http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2006/02/20/349318/Trey2006.jpg On the other hand Phish food - Its a bit like Bill Gates the musical ice-cream - no wonder some people do the drugs :lol: tho i dont know if Ben & Jerrys have done a Jam (band) flavored ice-cream yet - tho probs won't work in the USA where its called Jelly innit

Its alright but you think that maybe you could find something by Neil Young doing this better