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UncoolTwo50 XV: Then I Felt Just Like A Fiend
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23. MYLENE FARMER – “Libertine” (1985)

Events overtook me – they overtook everyone – and two weeks ago, when I posted this song to Bluesky, seems a very long time indeed. I’ll try to reconstruct this ancient era.

W[…]

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Omargeddon #47: Doom Patrol
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If I really wanted to – and I don’t – I could fall down a rabbit hole reading various essays and blog posts about the death of the album. But for the sake of simplicity (and laziness), let’s say the first knell sounded shortly after t[…]

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UncoolTwo50 IV: Through The Speaker Boxes, Loud’s My Diagnosis
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Re-rewind! Pausing midway through the main blurbs to go back and fill in another 10 of the nearly-made-its…

70. ORLANDO – “Just For A Second” (1996)

We’re now into the section of tracks which had a real, honest-to-goodne[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XIV: You’re All Fakes Run To Your Mansions
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27. THE WATERBOYS – “Church Not Made With Hands” (1984)

This feels, to me anyway, like my most idiosyncratic choice – a 1984 single that’s very very much in their “The Big Music” phase, which is neither an ethos or a so[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XIII: We Are Far Too Young And Clever
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31. ERIC B AND RAKIM – “Paid In Full” (1987)

It’s been heartening to see a lot of people picking this, though opinion has been fairly evenly split as to whether the original album cut or the Coldcut “7 Minutes Of Madness” rem[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XII: Run Around And Groove Like A Baggy
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35. HAPPY MONDAYS – “Kinky Afro” (1990)

At the suggestion of Bluesky’s own Jel I have been allotting each song in my UncoolTwo50 list a BAGGY RATING, indicating how they align with the most important (to me) micro-scene of my tee[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XI: That’s The Way It Goes, I Guess
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39. THE KLF – “Last Train To Trancentral” (1991)

I think the mystique of the KLF had probably gone about as far as it could – once you have a full length book treating the group as essentially a magical working you’re runni[…]

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UncoolTwo50 X: If Your Speaker’s Weak Then Please Turn It Off
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42. SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – “Cities In Dust” (1986)

One of the best singles artists of the early 80s – “Fireworks”, “Melt”, “Slowdive”, “Swimming Horses”, “Spellbound”. Like a lot of great sing[…]

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UncoolTwo50 IX: Crown The First Girl That I Meet
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45. PRINCE – “Alphabet St” (1988)

In the pop polls, Prince was nominated well over 30 times, something no other artist came near. He won one poll – LP closers, with “Purple Rain” – and came second in Soundtracks ([…]

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Omargeddon #46: Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo
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Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo shares many similarities with A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume I in that both are atmospheric, mostly instrumental filmic albums. However, unlike the latter, Se Dice isn’t technically a soundtrack; the liner notes a[…]

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