SHISTY - "I Luv U"

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Maybe you're supposed to listen to it drunk? (I liked it well enough on my one listen, haven't been compelled to relisten.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

I think I meant re: UK hip hop that whether it's great or not or whether its chart or undie, it's still never going to have the same *impact* that dancehall (or potentially garage rap) will - it's still hip hop. It's doing better to assert itself as a force these days, but only in much the same way that any regional variant of hip hop might.

The value of a semantic separation from hip hop is the chance to form or retain separate core musical values - see for example Miami Bass, which couldn't really have developed the way it did if it had come under the umbrella of hip hop. Of course, its development filtered back into hip hop via dirty south/bounce, but would that shift have seemed as exciting as it had if there wasn't that level of distance and separation beforehand?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 July 2003 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

i hereby renounce my anglophilia

this coming from a man that thinks, and i quote, that we're "a funny little island"!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link

and if you think having a thing for cathy dennis is nuts, well, you're gonna love this one. for a while i lived in a town called norwich. it's a bit like the english version of poughkeepsie (not that i've ever been there but it sounds like a dud place to live). this is where cathy dennis is from. my friend was also a big fan. it was his 21st birthday and there was a huge display of cathy dennis stuff in the local hmv including a life-size cardboard cutout of her. i went to the shop, explained the situation and they lat me take cardboard cathy home. i gave her to rob on the day of his birthday. he proceeded to fold her into a sitting position and drove around town with her in the front seat of his car for about a month...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

and then, he ditched her, like all the others...Cardboard Cathy hit the bottle pretty bad but now works in the Lowestoft branch of Aldi.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:40 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Shisty's still good.

― jadrenos (jadrenos), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

SHYSTIE
http://www.rwdmag.com/gallery/images/120x120/shys1197rwd.jpg

did anyone buy the 12 of i luv u?

"A whole album is in the pipeline. The b-side to ‘I Love You’ was produced by the Streets and I’m working with him again, as well as going on tour supporting him, I’m really looking forward to that."

― sean., Friday, 3 October 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

hey, wow!

(also: maybe this has been mentioned before, but i was reading an interview w dizzee somewhere and he said he almost titled the album "dizzee new heights" - maybe just an obvious pun but maybe an explicit streets reference?)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

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