During The Goldrush
Never let it be said that I won’t take one visit to one club and grossly inflate it until it becomes a ‘state of the nation’ piece about a kind of music I don’t even like anymore![…]

Chemical Brothers – Push The Button
The big UK dance acts of the ’90s are fading. Underworld’s last album was their weakest yet. Massive Attack’s last two (including Danny The Dog) are pretty poor. The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim […]

Council Estate Of Mind – Skinnyman
A bit late, in that it came out last year, but I’ve only just got it, and really want to give it a bit of a push. I think it’s the best straight hip hop album produced in the UK last year (that is,[…]

From George Melly, Revolt Into Style
(1962)
“Band followed band from 9.30 PM until 7.30 AM the next morning. The audience were dressed almost without exception in ‘rave gear’. As the essence of ‘rave gear’ is a stylised […]

Remarkable discovery: we’re DJing my work company party in a couple of weeks and being paid for the privilege. Should be a good night, expecially as I have just discovered that one of our new Group Client Directors (i.e. bigwigs) used
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THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
94. Al Green – “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?”
Martin Skidmore, who nominated this song, has written exhaustively and excellently on it for us here. I don’t have anything to add except a heartfelt cry o[…]

Music in Sams Pubs, RIP
It was the best of times…
Pop into The Blue Posts, Newman Street for a quick one then go for a wander round the record shops. Return to the Blue Posts just in time to find “Yoo Doo Right” by Can beginning, an[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
95. Gladys Knight – “License To Kill”
Vic Fluro says:
There are stalker songs and there are stalker songs, but when Licence to Kill sweeps into its heavy, pounding intro – like the incidental music for som[…]

MODAID 20!
It was a bad idea in 1985, it is a bad idea now.
Sorry, churlishness there. Obviously a wonderful initiaitve and all (though I guess in 1985 they might have done a better deed by raising a little bit of money for Stevie Marriott). I do wo[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
96. Belle And Sebastian – “Sleep The Clock Around”
Dave Boyle says:
I wasn’t one of the participants in drawing up this list, so if you don’t like this song’s presence in it, i) don’t bla[…]