why is everyone so sold on M.I.A?

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personally i like "galang" (outside of it just being great) because it sits outside (and inside) (and side to side) of both grime and dancehall. dave is just on his hardcore scene hobbyhorse again. and face it, without the fat truckers revelation we'd never be calling this electroclash.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

if you cant see galang's connection to dancehall you are deaf.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha I wonder did people fuck with the Pop Group back in the day for using ideas from dub and funk? "Well they're okay, but they aren't Mandrill or Keith Hudson or anything. I prefer the real thing."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

if you cant see galang's connection to dancehall you are deaf.
I don't think anyone has said they don't see a connection.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i heard a stream, but someone should gmail me an mp3.

― Roland Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

"Also I don't see the connection to dancehall at all. - djdee"

Um I think you said it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

i kinda hoped this thread was abt teh germs.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i got an mp3 of it already.

i don't understand how someone could say this song doesn't have roots in dancehall.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"Also I don't see the connection to dancehall at all. - djdee"

Um I think you said it.

overstatement i apologize. But I also said "it seems just as connected as electroclash" and I was more responding to what Stelfox had said about people claiming it to be dancehall.

Alex in SF keeping me on my toes.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

djdee I graduated a few years ago, I can't recommend it enough! I'm a part-time Chinese emperor now.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 26 September 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

you're great!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks! Have a fiefdom.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Jess, I think track 15 should be "My Neck, My Back" or Ghost Town DJ's "My Boo".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Now a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Radical.

― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 June 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link

lol! 10 for a penny are these faux angry-young-firebrands.

― calzino, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link

she's no cold war steve

― mark s, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link

did he do a collage of the queen in the bath with phil mitchell and got a million lolz? See anyone can do that shit!

― calzino, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link

he is the MIA of albert square

― mark s, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link

i just wished she had the same courage of convictions Paul Weller displayed when he angrily launched into an unequivocally anti-imperialist tirade + told Lilibet where to stick her title.

― calzino, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link

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