Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been....?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the battlegrounds in the Hip Hop Wars was NME's "C86" cassette, a tape compiled by some of the paper's writers, later described as "the most indie thing to have ever existed". While many of the bands were later embarassed by it and while it suffers from the usual post-facto "OMG it wasn't a scene" backlash (sure, it wasn't a scene in the sense of bands working and collaborating together, but it captures a mood quite well), its legend lives on.

Here's a poll about it:


[Poll #829524]


SHAMBLE ON.

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thanks to the judge

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

This is all fascinating (and sad): I knew very little of this, except what I have gleaned from the enormous brain of freakytigger over the years. I was only just getting into music in 1986 and lots of everything was tremendously exciting. I had no knowledge at that point of the existence of the music press. These two facts may be directly related...