That’s the one!
I think the getting lyrics wrong extended into Smash Hits – I recall a Prince lyric transcribed as “Can you my darling, can you fix your lips”…

Well the song is the Tamperer’s Jackson’s sampling smash Feel It, but I don’t know the connection.

I would have started with issues of Disco 45 in the 70s, but I grew up reading Record Mirror from about 1978, which I loved because it had the charts, and also for James Hamilton’s Disco pages and Sunie’s sin […]

Yes, it was really good for a while, selling about 50,000 copies a week. Unfortunately at that time this was considered a failure, so a very smart man called Mark Frith took over the editorship, boosted the […]

Unfortunately Trevor H only produced the 4 singles, the “band” producing and writing the other 2/3 of the album, so if you have a best of… covering those it’s probably all you need – but they are treme […]

I remember walking in to HMV in Grafton Street back in the day and hearing “Please Forgive Me” – I thought it was tremendous, like a (then) modern day “Everybody’s Talkin’”.

Can’t stand his deconstructio […]

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Aaliyah.

Sting.

Dunno – he wrote 9 Oasis tracks with a solo writing credit, including two A-sides, a further 9 Beady Eye tracks over the two albums, including 3 A-sides, and 8 tracks on his first solo album including 2 A-sides.

A dismal two (85 & 6), but then I don’t read a lot of fiction.

I’ve seen 15 of them as films/TV series/stage plays – does that count?

Ta – not familiar with most of those.

Thanks – I have the Yo La Tengo (saw them live in Belfast around this time too) and The Knife (plus the two Fever Ray albums), but only have Baduizm, so I’ll give New Amerykah a go. Untrue would be in my top 5 o […]

Thanks Paul – I’ll check those out. I have King Geedorah’s “Take Me To Your Leader” (MF Doom’s alias) which I liked.
Also want to hear the Chromatics (85) – I liked them in Twin Peaks and meant to follow up on them.

I have seen 92 of the films (I’m including Capernaum which I bought last week but haven’t got around to watching yet), and own 79 of the albums. I’ve even noted the numbers of those not yet consumed (Film: 96 / […]

There’s a lot of good records in this genre, but the Roy Davis Jr. track above is the only one i’d give classic status to. This is not far off though:

Shanks & Bigfoot – Sweet Like Chocolate

Gambaccini’s only a year older than Hep!

Haven’t got through the whole album yet, but have played this to death today…

Ah, @Kid-Dynamite, a fair point – I feel like I should hand over a badge of some sort for missing that! In my defence, I bought a copy from the dodgers just under three years ago with exactly the same sleeve, but […]

I really liked Goodbar when I saw it on VHS in the 80s – features Richard Gere and Tom Berenger (who I just saw in a Cheers re-run this morning) in early roles, and a very haunting ending.

Not sure what […]