DocMcCoy
DocMcCoy
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"Go and laugh in your own country!"
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batmon said:I thought Billie Jean was the lead single. Not long after MJ died, I interviewed Bruce Swedien for the late, lamented Word magazine in the UK, and I'd asked him if there was ever a point during the sessions where they felt they wer…
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skel said:I tend to view everything through a lens flecked with power chords, tinged by four on the floor, suffused with a peeled star shower, shot through with white bread song structure. A childhood damaged by a diet of Freddie & Teh Dr…
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skel said:He was about 49 B/w how Doc gonna do me like that? ::ironic rockist smiley:: Never considered you as someone prone to obsequiousness in the face of canons, received wisdom & such, skel. I had in mind yer professiona…
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Eggplant Xanadoo said:DocMcCoy said:This was how I remember it back then; before Beat It, MJ was a soul/r&b/"disco" singer. Afterwards, he was "the biggest rock star in the world". I actually remember people starting to refer to him in those ter…
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In light of how the Catholic Church seems oddly content to exist in a perpetual state of PR chaos, lurching from one disaster to another like an ecumenical Miranda Hart, I'm trying to think what on earth could possibly be happening behind the scenes…
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This was how I remember it back then; before Beat It, MJ was a soul/r&b/"disco" singer. Afterwards, he was "the biggest rock star in the world". I actually remember people starting to refer to him in those terms, and thinking how strange it was.…
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This was effectively a bootleg, so perhaps the usual live album conventions don't really apply. This was actually the first Velvets album I ever heard, when I was about 12 or 13, and I found all the background chat fascinating. I didn't lear…
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rootlesscosmo said:I don't know how/why anyone is remotely surprised to hear that LJ doesn't like "the gays." I'm more surprised that he thinks anyone would give a shit.
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skel said: Serious, serious spring and summer evening feelgood 24 carat 100 pet cent grade A top of the shop chill bombs. Beautifully put, sir.
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RIP, Professor.
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HarveyCanal said:And around the same time, ecstacy was also HUGE in Houston before any of my friends in California had ever even heard of it. The Starck Club in Dallas was supposedly ground zero for ecstasy as a recreational drug in the mid-80…
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Thanks for this. I remember years ago when Face was on MTV Cribs, and he was living in a nice but not at all fancy apartment smack in the middle of the hood. Amongst his music collection was an absolute shit-ton of Floyd - box-sets, the lot. …
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One of the defining characteristics of get-off-my-lawn-rap is its exponents' preoccupation with the wardrobe choices of other rappers. Rappers used to shout out Jordache and Gloria Vanderbilt, now it's Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester - the names c…
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yuichi said:Controller_7 said:yuichi said:batmon said:I thought Rhianna took her Revlon level go to pop chick. Now THAT is a chick that's overexposed. And she doesn't really have talent either. Real question. She doesn't have talent? I'…
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I love that Chance tune - been on repeat all week. If I had anything to do with it, that's the kind of shit that'd be all over daytime radio. I ought to add that I don't have any issues with either Kendrick, Danny Brown or Chance's voices - I…
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Simon Le Bon seen here researching the role of Sir Hoxtonley Trustfund-Pisswhistle in the forthcoming Guy Ritchie-helmed Bullingdon Club biopic, "Cunts."
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ppadilha said:5 minutes later he got really pissed because he couldn't find any of the records he was looking for and kept stumbling onto shit he didn't know he owned. There's actually a point just after the big reveal where I thought he was a…
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Dante said:cai said:Dante said:The Love Movement, although I guess we're not there yet this is actually a pretty good contender, too. dudes are posting random mid-weight records that were ???obviously??? panned or ignored u…
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It's a pity I can't find that Grand Royal article about his death on line anywhere. "Murky circumstances", indeed.
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SP 1200 said:Listened to the first 3 quarters this morning. Sounds like it was made 20 years ago which isn't such a bad thing. Most of it probably was.
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batmon said:DocMcCoy said:batmon said:Do yall consider Rebel Without A Pause a Nation's song or a YO! Bum Rush The Show extension/b-side? That's a really good question. Funnily enough, I saw it as a stand-alone joint and still do, to an…
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batmon said:Do yall consider Rebel Without A Pause a Nation's song or a YO! Bum Rush The Show extension/b-side? That's a really good question. Funnily enough, I saw it as a stand-alone joint and still do, to an extent. Yo!... had alread…
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herbacios tweed said:I could see someone like Fuchs track one of the reissued artists and buy out their rights for the express purpose of suing Amoeba. Absolutely. If anyone brings the pain to Amoeba over this, it'll be a lone-wolf indie hustl…
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Okem said:DocMcCoy said:Disclosure: my mate plays/played guitar for Pendulum.Oops. No offence like. Are they actually a band or is it a session type thing? Nah, that's alright. It's not like you dissed my mum or anything. But to answer your qu…
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NerdAlert said:All in all, bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch. Most of you have probably downloaded music for free so you can't really say shit. Bootleg deez nuts. Yeah, because me or anyone else downloading music for free is exactly the same as wh…
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Disclosure: my mate plays/played guitar for Pendulum.
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LaserWolf said:No. Yes. This is bootlegging by any other name, and smart bootleggers don't draw attention to their activities. Amoeba has a worldwide name based almost entirely on the secondhand vinyl trade, and this misguided and, it appears,…
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Junior said:Have we had the conversation on here before about it being the most influential album of the past ten or so years? Can't remember anymore so, if not, then let me state fro the first time that I think it's the most influential album of th…
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Burns said:Oh,why does America get a different recipe of Heineken than what is offered/served in Holland? Never knew the answer to that. As I understand it, it's brewed according to the tastes of the market in each territory - there's a distin…
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rootlesscosmo said: The whole "the US has shitty beer" thing is not only wrong, it's actually backwards. Yeah, people need to get off that bullshit.