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tho i guess as Sire, Elektra and Asylum Records also would have been once 'indie' or 'major indie' labels before being taken over by Warners (or maybe seven arts-warner or time-warner)...maybe they are not always such a bad thing!!! ...and i guess if woolworth's problems doesnt harm their/bbc JV too much hopefully 100 Hits of Indie will come out with loads of 679 and factory stuff... well i suppose warner still has its Transgressive deal in place though maybe Warners should bring back Geoff Travis' Blanco y Negro or Alan McGee's Elevation Records imprint for you:lol: btw the thing with 679...It said Cut Off Your Hands has been dropped as well - and i dont think their album has been issued over here yet...

I've just watched that again..i enjoyed it more watching it on DVD this time detached from all the hype..but it would still be better without batman in it and just have a film like heat or collatoral but with the joker character in it (btw the kitsch one from the 1960s i like again - and the tv show might come out on dvd thanks to the watchmen courtcase)

Its probs another film altogether thats $h!te that they can flog to cinema chains..so they've stuck the mean girls tag on it for dvd release...

B)--> QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 19 2008, 09:09 AM) 2347352[/snapback]The Smiths made some great pop records though. "Panic" is definitely 'pop' though it's not one of my favourites. Is that because the undertones ended up as a $h!tty white-funk group who were quite useless and kinda loss their credibilty? but yeah The Smiths are totally pop group (tho obv you would say that they are a jangly indie-pop group) - they were on totp2 last night and had 'pop' tunes!!! tho obv because they are worshiped like god knows what and some of their lyrics are a bit downbeat they just get put in 'alternative-rock'....on the other hand Madness (who mostly seen as a ska band by people who dont want to confront the fact they are a popular group) could be seen as music hall/pub rock as their non-jamaican dept to not only the Dublin Castle, but also to Kilburn and the High-Roads dude Ian Dury is there...and Drip Fed Fred is really just the same idea as Blur's Parklife... Morrissey- piccadilly palare (aka No Sex No Drugs but some Rock & Roll i guess) pQR8hpK8l3U Madness featuring Ian Dury - Drip Fed Fred qoVM6Y0WHD0 bKCoBt43HWE

Actaully psych-Status Quo (when they are on sounds of the 60s) are actually alright and much better than later stuff)...btw is there a mash-up of Down Down (Deeper and Down) and the View's 5Rebbeccas - would work very well and be eaisier mash-up than using The View with Apollo 440's Stop The Rock over the top!!! IM25965LbTw The View - 5Rebbeccas yeah kinda agree with this - its all pop music as its popular music and most of the times specific genres and with the rock/pop divide between art/commerce you really only falling into the hands of overly pedantic types and the pretensions of certain music jouno w*n**rs and the belief that certain forms of music is high art and therefore more valid in the cultural sphere than others. 6fN-IurtmpQ Is it Coldplay? Is it Mew...no it's a-ha...and with a Max Martin co-writing credit as well (and you though martin was just gonna stink up the place with his sub-standard pop-rock $h!t) btw Apparatjik - Ferreting (the a-ha/coldplay/mew dudes collab) is lovely!!!

p**** UPDATE!!! Mariah Carey funds Peados!!! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/GYN.jpg In that case if you have downloaded this Mariah track then you are directly funding peadophilla!!! this record features a sample from Just an Illusion" by the band Imagination - which was co-writen by Steve Jolley..who was jailed for abusing a 12 year old boy...involved in producing Spandau Ballet, Alison Moyet and Banananananarama as well...so Ace Of Base and your cover of Cruel Summer...thats a Jolley cover as well...so not were you the reggae Abba, had a member with an unusually large face and has a member with alleged neo-Nazi links...but you have funded kiddie fiddling as well!!! (tho I'm sure most of producer haterid on here is directed at a certain Pete Waterman, I wonder if it because Waterman is a known face/persoanllity that bile is always directed at him...c'mon I'm sure if Quiz & Larossi turned up voxpoppping their thoughts about working with the Saturday you would hate them just as much!!!)

IJkG2Ws1sgE maybe one year Miss otis regrets - Just one of those things by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl will get some airplay instead?!?!? ...i prefer this!!!!

B)--> QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 25 2008, 12:05 PM) 2357410[/snapback]Nope, still don't get it but thanks anyway :D well i guess if Katie and Jules were called the Ting Ting Club it might be more obv!!! :lol:

Just looking on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood page to see when the Power Of Love actually came out...and it says that the last lead singer of FGTH was Ryan Molloy who (in addition to once being Steve Strange now is Frankie Valli) on stage and was actually for a brief moment the lead singer in Ultra, and that both Alistair Griffin and James Fox were also members of that act...so there could have been the chance in history that Alistair Griffin could have ended up as the lead singer of FGTH...where no doubt they would have entered the charts this week with another competing version of cohen's Hallelujah...(which Griffin is known to do well) - think about that!!! Alternativily as the original lead singer of Ultra left and the rest of the band ended up recording and having a hit with Terry Venables....somewhere in space in a parell universe there might be another version of fgth...well just think of the horror!!! :lol: tho i guess seeing as FGTH had a few decent records for an 80s band it wouldnt have been that bad if Venables ended up as lead singer - and it couldn't be as bad as Holly Johnson's solo records which from evidence from youtube were fricking awful...(and proof that S/A/W should be celebrated with a national holiday of pop on Pete Watrerman's birthday!!!) - well apart from where has the love gone - which i suppose is alright in a bad 2wo third3 kinda way..which kinda makes you ask the question why don't FGTH just hire Lee Thomas of 2wo third3 now - as he would replace Holly Johnson so well - its almost the same act that both of them are doing - similar kinda moves everything - click the links and see?!?!? totally!!! tQ5MhR9rvdQ Frankie Goes To Hollywood big summer trance tuneage!!! SVZXa8jrmU8 Ultra - Say It Once QvmCVCUw2TY Ultra - Rescue Me HOLLY JOHNSON-WHERE HAS THE LOVE GONE?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjjRmoq7Mmg...feature=related 2wo Third3 - I want the world Hallelujah byalistair griffin:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood seems to be all about Vampires and scary folks with hoody claws...and is always played at christmas even tho it was a big summer trance record!!! tQ5MhR9rvdQ

I think the box set of the Move would be good to listen to...tho i guess could be criticized for inventing the electric light orchestra...which is not a good thing... unlike The Goons - "I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas" which is class!! ukvASdvva8I

pity Feeder didnt do the same thing...tho its sad to think maybe that was a steal. The never ending recod by the Look was mentioned in the mag quite recently and were in the random one-hit wonder section in (i think) mojo the other month...so i guess they will be on totp2 soon as the cola boy fact was just taken directly from that article about cola boy

I don't know if there are many Christmas Dance classics, except if you probs include the Waitresses Christmas Wrapping (which I haven't actually heard this year - is it due to "Ting Tings-and-all-tings-like-that-fatigue" :lol: ) as a Ze records Punk-Funk disco classic, which i guess it probs was in like 1981 or 82 or on a comp next to August Darnell...tho even tho you might know of some great 90s Christmas themed trance classixs...think the nearist thing at the moment has to be Mark.OH and Tears Don't lie (a.k.a essentially dance versh of Johnny Mathis - "When A Child Is Born) 1viE87OgG6M yXDVorMPHCw MARK OH - MANDY (dance versh of song as made famous by Westlife and Baryy Manillow)

well no, as that would be Hi-NRG disco-pure-pop...was actually thinking of the 7, 8 or 9 years before Kylie

I think I mentioned this in the late lamented Specialist music section (RIP?)..they wanted to but there was licencing difficulties, probs with Universal/Island, that meant that they (salvo/union sq) coundnt have it - think at that point in time Stiff records (Dave Robinson) were essentially running Island Records and i'm guessing the Slave To The Rhythm project was remixes of an original island master put out on ZTT (with the ZTT box set being the follow up to the Big Stiff boxset)?

The "Whispering" Bob Harris isn't dead - think he does like a folk-rock show on the radio sometime...however think another Bob Harris died, tho think it was an industry bloke and not the character from Lost In Translation... btw TOTP2 seems to be showing a lot of the stuff that you can see on the repeats on Dave...tho thought Barry Manilow was funny the other night and the backing band to Sabrina...otoh the Olympic Runners were disturbing...but even tho you have to have the big retro hits its better when more bizarre random stuff gets shown

B)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 22 2008, 09:00 AM) 2353409[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I don't get it either! The Ting Tings are a popular musical group who even though they come from Salford are not a bunch of Smiths obsessives but seem to have taken most of their ideas from New York acts of the post-punk era with Jules probably growing up listening to Ze Records, Blondie and all those types and especially the Tom Tom Club, who are Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads so so i guess not underated at all... from http://www.thetingtings.com/global/the-band "It's nothing you'll see on Shameless, but - whisper it - Salford has an artsy underside that is shaping up to be a Northern variant on Warhol's early Factory. Based in a former disused Mill and shrouded by council High Rises, its first breakout stars have emerged. Welcome, if you will, The Ting Tings - the Sonny and Cher of Salford Precinct for the Noughties. The Ting Tings are Jules de Martino and Katie White. They met when she was just out of being a Wigan school-girl and bonded over a shared ambition to rock the foundations of pop music. Brought up on an exclusive musical diet of radio pop music ("any old c**p really") on a farm in the delightfully named Slag Lane ("try living with that in the school playground"), Katie is quite the most unusual front woman you might expect to crossover as the figurehead of Manchester's Bohemian margins. She speaks as she finds, admits to being fired up by "a massive chip on me shoulder" and hadn't heard of The Smiths until she moved into The Mill. She also possesses the unique ability to whip the stage up in a manner entirely befitting of a frenzied thrift shop messiah. You wouldn't know it now, but she started her musical life in a girl band, which was, as she freely admits, "the sort of thing you did in the mid 90s, wasn't it?" If she wasn't in The Ting Tings you could quite imagine Katie turning heads whilst fagging it outside Night and Day on Oldham Street or picketing to keep Afflecks Palace open. She's bluff Northern alternate-girl incarnate. Funny, brassy, not a boring bone in her body and with one ear always cocked to the chorus. Jules is the ying to Katie's yang. East London born and bred, with a surfeit of early art school experience, his Metropolitan charms are a direct counterbalance to Katie's brusque Northern manner. He can appear a little more pragmatic than his frontwoman but for the moment that you hear him pounding the drums as her musical foil. Ting Tings are very much a two-way operation. They share lyric and music writing duties. "If it feels right," he says, "then it goes in, whoever has come up with it." Jules admits that it was Katie who taught him to accept the pure thrill of pop music. "Even though we come from opposite ends of the musical spectrum, we have sort of reversed roles. I was always ‘the alternative one', now it's the other way round." The heart of The Ting Ting's plucky, arty, double-headed power-pop assault is back home at The Mill. Home to sculptors, painters, webbos and DIY musicians given free reign to do what they want with their private areas of creativity. Too urbane to be called a commune, the only time the occupants of this diverse and scintillating space came together was for ad hoc club nights that became word of mouth Mancunian sensations a year or so ago. "There weren't many places that you could go and get off your face to white noise back then," notes Katie. It was at the Mill that Katie's fuller rounded musical education began, courtesy of Jules. He introduced her to Talking Heads and Velvet Underground. She developed a minor, platonic girl crush on Heads bassist and Tom Tom Club front female Tina Weymouth. Her lack of Smiths knowledge was nipped in the bud when erstwhile guitar god Johnny Marr started renting space at The Mill, dropping in on occasions to here the manic pop thrill that was going on down the corridor. The Ting Tings aren't the most famous occupants of The Mill. Yet."

I suppose so - but i dont know about you getting bit fed up hearing Vampire Weekend over and over again...

you know we have a retro section don't you...no hold on! the retro section's music may be too modern compared to this :lol: :lol:

B)--> QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 16 2008, 09:13 AM) 2341599[/snapback]10. CHRIS HILL - "RENTA SANTA" and "BIONIC SANTA" http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/%C2%A5Artist%20GIF%20Images/Chris-Hill-Lacy-Lady-1976.jpg A special two-in-one for you today! I've decided to feature both of Chris' hits together, seeing as they both entered the chart in the first week of December (1975 and 1976), both reached No.10, and both spent 7 weeks on the chart. Chris Hill was a UK DJ who later handled A&R for Ensign Records. If Ensign Records is called that because its supposed to be N-Sign records, N for Nigel Grainge and Chrysalis is named that as its the record label was formed by Chris Wright and Terry Ellis, does that mean that Virgin.... :lol:

Showaddywaddy..they were on cbbc show The Slammer a few weeks back...well i suppose on hearing this some people would be pleased to see that kid's tv still caters for music fans :lol:

ZTT Box Set - the follow up to the Stiff Records box set... Disc 1 - And Suddenly There Came A Bang Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Annihilation) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love Art Of Noise - Battle Art Of Noise - Beat Box Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (Edited) Propaganda - Duel Propaganda - Thought Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse Act - (Theme From) Laughter Act - Snobbery & Decay Act - White Rabbit Anne Pigalle - Why Does It Have To Be This Way? 808 State - Pacific MC Tunes vs. 808 State - Tunes Splits The Atom (Rap) MC Tunes vs. 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites (7" Version) 808 State - Cübik (Original Mix) David Jordan - Move On (Clean Radio Edit) Disc 2 - Past Forward ZTT And Dance David Jordan - The Sun Goes Down David's Daughters - Is This Love Novecento - Day And Night (Morales Radio Edit) Seal - Killer (William Orbit Remix Edit) Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Don't Stop… Planet Rock (House Mix II By LFO) Time Unlimited - Men Of Wadodem 808 State feat. Björk - Ooops Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation General Max - Time Keeper Sun Electric - Red Summer (The Orb Koskiewicz Mix) Nasty Rox Inc. - Nobby's One Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome (An Alternative To Reality) Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Beaten) Andrew Poppy - Kink Konk Adagio Disc 3 - From A Wasteland To An Artificial Paradise Shane Macgowan - My Way Shane Macgowan & Sinead O'Connor - Haunted Kirsty Maccoll - Soho Square The Frames - Say It To Me Now The Frames - Pavement Tune Lee Griffiths - No-One Lomax - Waiting In Vain Das Psych-Oh! Rangers - Homage To The Blessed 808 State feat. James Dean Bradfield - Lopez (Re-Guessed And Remixed By Brian Eno) Tara - Save Me From Myself (Apollo 440 Kingdom Come Ambient Mix) Heights Of Abraham - What's The Number Art Of Noise - Out Of This World (Version 138) Seal - Crazy (Extended Version) Seal - Future Love Paradise Seal - Kiss From A Rose (plus three hidden tracks!) DVD - The Television is Watching You Propaganda - Dr Mabuse (Version 1) Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (Version 1) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Video Destructo Version) Anne Pigalle - Hé Stranger Das Psych-Oh! Rangers - Homage to the Blessed/The Essential Art Of Communication Andrew Poppy - The Amusement Act - Snobbery & Decay Nasty Rox Inc. - Escape From New York MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom Shades Of Rhythm - Exorcist 808 State - Plan 9 Adamski's Thing - One Of The People Shane MacGowan - That Woman's Got Me Drinking The Frames - Revelate Dove - Don't Dream Leilani - Flying Elvis David's Daughters - Dreaming Of Loving You Raging Speedhorn - The Gush

so obv not a member of the Ting Tings then :lol:

ZTT Box Set - the follow up to the Stiff Records box set... Disc 1 - And Suddenly There Came A Bang Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Annihilation) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love Art Of Noise - Battle Art Of Noise - Beat Box Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (Edited) Propaganda - Duel Propaganda - Thought Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse Act - (Theme From) Laughter Act - Snobbery & Decay Act - White Rabbit Anne Pigalle - Why Does It Have To Be This Way? 808 State - Pacific MC Tunes vs. 808 State - Tunes Splits The Atom (Rap) MC Tunes vs. 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites (7" Version) 808 State - Cübik (Original Mix) David Jordan - Move On (Clean Radio Edit) Disc 2 - Past Forward ZTT And Dance David Jordan - The Sun Goes Down David's Daughters - Is This Love Novecento - Day And Night (Morales Radio Edit) Seal - Killer (William Orbit Remix Edit) Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Don't Stop… Planet Rock (House Mix II By LFO) Time Unlimited - Men Of Wadodem 808 State feat. Björk - Ooops Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation General Max - Time Keeper Sun Electric - Red Summer (The Orb Koskiewicz Mix) Nasty Rox Inc. - Nobby's One Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome (An Alternative To Reality) Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Beaten) Andrew Poppy - Kink Konk Adagio Disc 3 - From A Wasteland To An Artificial Paradise Shane Macgowan - My Way Shane Macgowan & Sinead O'Connor - Haunted Kirsty Maccoll - Soho Square The Frames - Say It To Me Now The Frames - Pavement Tune Lee Griffiths - No-One Lomax - Waiting In Vain Das Psych-Oh! Rangers - Homage To The Blessed 808 State feat. James Dean Bradfield - Lopez (Re-Guessed And Remixed By Brian Eno) Tara - Save Me From Myself (Apollo 440 Kingdom Come Ambient Mix) Heights Of Abraham - What's The Number Art Of Noise - Out Of This World (Version 138) Seal - Crazy (Extended Version) Seal - Future Love Paradise Seal - Kiss From A Rose (plus three hidden tracks!) DVD - The Television is Watching You Propaganda - Dr Mabuse (Version 1) Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (Version 1) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Video Destructo Version) Anne Pigalle - Hé Stranger Das Psych-Oh! Rangers - Homage to the Blessed/The Essential Art Of Communication Andrew Poppy - The Amusement Act - Snobbery & Decay Nasty Rox Inc. - Escape From New York MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom Shades Of Rhythm - Exorcist 808 State - Plan 9 Adamski's Thing - One Of The People Shane MacGowan - That Woman's Got Me Drinking The Frames - Revelate Dove - Don't Dream Leilani - Flying Elvis David's Daughters - Dreaming Of Loving You Raging Speedhorn - The Gush

Rock Me Amadeus is alright I guess..but the Bolland Project tribute to Falco (so its a tribute to a dead austrian based upon his own song which is a tribute to a dead austrian) done by what seems like a bad europop TLC is best left on the extras part of the dvd...The Sound of Musik is much better...and esp since at some parts of the video its looks like Charlie Brooker singing...