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.

Comments

there has never been any justification for --

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

--- adrian thrills

he was universally loathed (not as a person -- he is perfectly affable -- but as a writer and tastemaker)

Re: there has never been any justification for --

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

He has found his natural home as the Daily Mail rock critic!