NME Top Singles of 1986
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Anita Baker's ALBUM made their top ten for the same year. Above many of their typical faves.
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I stand corrected then. It's a fine record as well.
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Yeah, it's a blast.
I bought EVOL on the strength of it (and the NME review) and played that a lot that year. I think it's their finest album - there's more magic there than on Daydream Nation. Wonderful sounds.
I bought EVOL on the strength of it (and the NME review) and played that a lot that year. I think it's their finest album - there's more magic there than on Daydream Nation. Wonderful sounds.
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I don't play them anything like as much as I did at the time, but...that period (up through Goo, really) is pretty great.
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Ciccone Youth actually got played on the radio in the UK? Hmm.
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pcqgod wrote:Ciccone Youth actually got played on the radio in the UK? Hmm.
Only on things like Peel. Not on daytime commercial radio.
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Yeah, you have to remember that a lot of what's in these lists would have been nowhere near mainstream radio. John Peel's show was the only place to hear things from outside the top 40 charts, and there also wasn't that much of a correlation between his and the NME's taste. I've no idea if there was a more NME-friendly show, like Steve Lamacq or someone at the time. I was largely tuning in a year or two later, for the grindcore.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Those Swans singles look really out of place in that long-list, Sonic Youth are obviously from the same background, but amongst all the dream-pop and horrible 80s chart-soul/funk, the clunky misanthropic sludge stands out like a goth at a rave.
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Gwen ( I really love this track )
Run DMC.
Gwen ( I really love this track )
Run DMC.
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There are the makings of a good song there (I'd forgotten about the 'bits' he adds between verses - sweet) but as usual he sounds like a Billingsgate fish packer after someone's dropped a cargo of cod on his plates.
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Darkness_Fish wrote:Yeah, you have to remember that a lot of what's in these lists would have been nowhere near mainstream radio. John Peel's show was the only place to hear things from outside the top 40 charts, and there also wasn't that much of a correlation between his and the NME's taste. I've no idea if there was a more NME-friendly show, like Steve Lamacq or someone at the time. I was largely tuning in a year or two later, for the grindcore.
There wasn't really anything like that until 1990 or so. Mark Goodjer (sp) was Lamacq's predecessor in the 7pm indie slot on Radio 1, taking its cue from the Madchester explosion.
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Nice to be reminded just how much of a useless talentless cunt Bragg is.
Surely, a masterpiece? I don't care for all of his output but Levi Stubbs' Tears packs a huge emotional punch. Silly boy.
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Nice to have some dang backup on this finally. I don't love him, and get all the cunty accusations (though as I may have mentioned a few times he was perfectly lovely to me) but a great song is a great song.
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You know the worst thing about it? when he sings the title - that's the chorus, right? supposedly the memorable part, the part you take away with you?
try humming that now
try humming that now
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Somewhat light on artists featured on their own iconic C86 tape that top 10. Only Age Of Chance.
Makes me think that one of two camps had gained the upper hand in King’sReach Tower maybe.
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Makes me think that one of two camps had gained the upper hand in King’sReach Tower maybe.
I put the Bodines on at the Freshers’ Ball I organised (I loved Therese) supporting The JB’s!
It wasn’t quite as jarring a match as it looks on paper, The Bodines were a proto Madchester loose-limbed funk outfit - ahead of their time - within a year it was all the Roses this and the Monday’s that...
It could have been The Bodines!
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Darkness_Fish wrote:Yeah, you have to remember that a lot of what's in these lists would have been nowhere near mainstream radio. John Peel's show was the only place to hear things from outside the top 40 charts, and there also wasn't that much of a correlation between his and the NME's taste. I've no idea if there was a more NME-friendly show, like Steve Lamacq or someone at the time. I was largely tuning in a year or two later, for the grindcore.
There was. Janice Long's show immediately before in the evening dealt with the more tuneful side of alternative music, the stuff more likely to cross over.
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the masked man wrote:Darkness_Fish wrote:Yeah, you have to remember that a lot of what's in these lists would have been nowhere near mainstream radio. John Peel's show was the only place to hear things from outside the top 40 charts, and there also wasn't that much of a correlation between his and the NME's taste. I've no idea if there was a more NME-friendly show, like Steve Lamacq or someone at the time. I was largely tuning in a year or two later, for the grindcore.
There was. Janice Long's show immediately before in the evening dealt with the more tuneful side of alternative music, the stuff more likely to cross over.
Andy Kershaw too.
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Tonto Papadopoulos wrote:ORORORO wrote:You know the worst thing about it? when he sings the title - that's the chorus, right? supposedly the memorable part, the part you take away with you?
try humming that now
Easy. *sings in head*
"When he world falls apart, somethings stay in place.
Levi Stubbs' tears run down his face."
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It'll be full of twats playing the man not the ball.
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It’s a horrible, tuneless little thing with some rubbish sounding scratchy guitar and Braggs stupid fucking voice completing the horrorshow.
I genuinely find it puzzling how anybody can like it but I’m assuming the appeal is lyrical because it sure as hell ain’t the tune.
The man is charlatan and a fool.
I genuinely find it puzzling how anybody can like it but I’m assuming the appeal is lyrical because it sure as hell ain’t the tune.
The man is charlatan and a fool.
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and a cunt!
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