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Britain's best vocal group? For the clinically deaf, maybe.

some sterling, interesting choices already.... I like... look forward to the rest, SKOB

Mmm... think I'll go with the blue one... and thanks for the comments

'Cross fire' is one of my singles of the year, and Mr Flowers is an absolutely legendary frontman..... but... 'Flamingo' really is a crushing disappointment. The first few tracks are great but it just ends up a mushy mess of sameness.... and the extra four tracks on the deluxe version are just not even worth thinking about. Not even Stuart Price could have rescued such a humdrum collection of songs..... very very disappointing.

Tonight's episode was just further proof that Danny Miller is miles and away soap's finest actor right now.... the scenes where Clyde died were heartbreaking. Miller truly was robbed at those Soap Awards the other month.....

Been as the legendary Peter Savile has designed the (beautiful) new album cover by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, this week, it had to be them for me.... but...grey or blue..? http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/omdmodern.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/omdmodernb.jpg

LOL.... oh please.... to say this I can only assume you haven't actually heard those songs. Also, check out Amazulu - Ms Burke quite obviously has.....

Worst number one of the year - how a song that's ripped off from 2 of the worst songs ever reorded (Hooray Hooray It's A Holi-Holiday and Iko Iko) can get to number one is..... just embarrassing. :puke2: :(

Everything But The Girl - Apron Strings Morrissey - Now My Heart is Full Sinead O'Connor - Drink Before The War

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I can only imagine you've not heard the incredible mixes of Hurts' 'Better Than Love' by Berlin maestros Tiefschwarz or the cracking mix of 'Wonderful Life' by the legendary Arthur Baker, then. Plus the rather excellent Freemasons remix of the last single. Like Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, New Order et al.... Hurts are a retro electro pop band... and they'd definitely be classified in 'Specialist'.

After repeated listens it's obvious that every track on this album could easily be a single - even the schmaltzy Stay, which is the worst track here. Just been announced that Hurts will support the Scissor Sisters on their forthcoming UK tour.

sorry guys!!! late for me this week.... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/underworldbarking.jpg

King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King New Order - Technique Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Passenger (IMO, even better than Iggy's original...)

I agree - a very, very poor choice for single - should definitely be Illuminated.

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I take back my reservations about 'Devotion', the track with Kylie.... it's grown on me massively - and it's now one of my album highlights. But the track that stands head and shoulders above the rest for me is 'Illuminated' - have we had a more glorious, soaring piece if pop music this year? Incredible.... and it really has to be a single, especially after being used in the Sky ads. Lowpoint for me is 'Stay'..... definitely could have been left off, and 'Evelyn'.....

a 'big' dance record is a record that rocked the clubs - all of them, across the board - at the time. A big dance record has nothing at all to do with chart placings- in fact, quite the opposite - the dance genre used to be so snobby, as soon as a record did eventually chart, probably several years later, it was ignored by those very same dance clubs that'd championed it in the first place. I DJ'd throughout the 90s, and I was as guilty of this as all the other DJs. A big dance record defines a time in clublife, really, or defined a genre or spawned copycats - and none of the songs on that list came even close... the nearest was Daft Punk.... but they really weren't the first to make French disco music in the 90s - they just did it with a bigger video budget. And Basement Jaxx - they, too, have released some incredible music - but nothing that you'd care to recall as a decade-defining classic, really.... except perhaps Kish Kash, which came much later after the sugary carnival poppiness of Remedy etc. And as much as I adore Underworld, Born Slippy really was plunging the depths, regardless of it being from a cool soundtrack... especially after the sublime first album and the incredible singles that spawned - each of which made more of a mark in the dance genre than Slippy ever had. Slippy was for most fans the end of the band we loved - a crass attempt at chart stardom (that worked), for a band so usually vague and out-there, it was just.... horribly obvious. Tongue in cheek, yes, but it ended up being the anthem of the people it was meant to sneer at. Defining moments of the 90s dancewise? The obvious - Sasha, Digweed, early Danny Rampling, anything on Cheeky Records, anything on React records, Nick Warren / Way Out West, lots of the early am:pm releases (Alcatraz especially), the early Positiva stuff...... Age of Love, Jam and Spoon, Tony de Vit, Bedrock.... and lots of the German and Dutch imports from 92 - 97 (Commander Tom, Marmion). Loads of others, too..... I'll dig out my old record boxes.....

Obviously. Unless one of us is being wince-inducingly pedantic, maybe?

there's a colossal difference between a big 'chart' dance record and a seminal dance record, though. And that list doesn't include a single one of the latter.

Great week for releases - Bjork for me this week... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/bjorkcomet.jpg

brilliant work, really love this :heart:

you must be completely blind if you think ANY of those mentioned were anything more than top 20 fluff - hardly the songs that shaped a genre or a generation..... especially the vile Music Sounds Better With You and Red Alert... anyone with half an eardrum would know the finest Underworld singles were off their debut album...certainly not Born Slippy. As I said, a list compiled by journos without the faintest clue about actual dance music in the 90s.

It reads like a list from a bunch of sad journos who a ) have never left America and b ) have never set foot within a mile of a club. The complete absence of ANY big 'dance' record in the list... and the laughably low inclusion for 'Unfinished Sympathy' (below Nine Inch f***ing Nails no less - please) make this list... wellll.. teeth-clenchingly embarrassing.

The first album was really phenomenal, I really hope she manages another brilliant piece of work like Youth Novels....