― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
(sleigh bells)
Baby if you've got to go away
Don't think I could take the pain
This is the best "not actually a christmas song, but we'll add sleigh bells" song ever
-- Jaunty Alan (AlanTrewarth...), November 18th, 2004 1:55 PM. (later)
this is the truest thing Alang has ever said
― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Hiphop had been a feature of the UK charts from Grandmaster Flash onwards (OK, there was a bit of a break in the mid 80s). There were *mad* scenes in '88 when Public Enemy and Run DMC toured. And as for the music press, hiphop albums had a lot of critical stock from 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' winning the NME 87 poll onwards. UK Hip Hop was never that big, so there wasn't the feeling that homegrown music scenes can create, but I guess for large parts of the USA, the consumers of the music are far culturally removed from the creators too.
Actually yeah - the original 'In the 90s, dance music was to the UK what hiphop was to the US' statement was more about creators than consumers, I think.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Alba, Rapper's Delight was a huge hit well before Grandmaster Flash.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
I mentioned the various club comps because I believe they were the biggest cash cows (and chart successes) of the UK club scene, but if I'm way off in that assumption then someone please clarify.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know enough about USA charts to comment on MindInRewind's comparison. Certainly there was a lot of dance in the charts here, though obv. daytime radio tended towards the poppier stuff.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link