the past was nice but i wouldn't want to live there

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am workin this mornin on a loll4rds 2.0 upgrade proposal and it fell into my mind that i needed to listen to a MIXTAPE that is 25 years old! made for me at college by m4tt bl4ck of c0ldcvt as he then was not yet -- so here IT IS

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the text Qs are quite long (100 characters i hope) so be expansive if u like

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(obv in a sense i have "known" these songs for longer than some of you have been alive BUT i haven't played this tape for a v.v.v.long time so my "have u ever heard of" = "do you remember anything much about", bein quite strict re eg p.hardcastle who i know more about but not this song AT ALL)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

as i recall there were a whole string of 'roxanne' records - i remember hearing them from school days when i used to cheat my classmates at 'penny poker' - ah the glories of being a smart 10 y.o. surrounded by unambitious 9 and 8 year olds (okay maybe i was 13 and they were 11, who can remember now)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have never heard any of this music!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

alex yes of course you can have a copy!

A huge ever growing brain that rules from the centre of the orgaworld

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This "RATE MY MIXTAPE" is a great feature btw.

"dubdobdee needs to convert said tape to mp3s and SHARE!"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i wd love to but am entirely not able to currently -- maybe stevem can help

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

IIRC Chuck Brown was part of the 'Go-Go' scene/sound that got heavy hyped by the NME's early 80s dance music faction (along w/ ppl like Bobby Womack, Maze+Frankie Beverley etc.) This music was semi-huge, at the time - Maze could always sell out Hammy Odeon, for instance - but seems to be rarely remembered now.

Ashford and Simpson had been around for yonks, of course, even before Solid - Valerie Simpson cut some great solo albs for Motown, and she sings backing vocals on various Steely Dan recs

[spittake.livejournal.com]

"Solid' is the only one I am certain that I know.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Solid was a top playground insult around my part of the world. Delivered in a sarcastic tone to jumped-up miscreants, 'Solid as a rock...' would diffuse any potentially threatening situation with the wire-cutters of SHAME.

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

"seems to be rarely remembered now" – you're clearly not listening to Heart FM at the weekends – or in deep SE territory: Louffa/SOS Band/Fatback/Gwen Guthrie/Alex O'Neal/Frankie Beverley & Maze will always be the sound of South London (& probably the suburban north London and the Essex borders, but I didn't grow up around there).

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

i just downloaded 'roxanne' the other day, as well as trying to find as many roxanne songs as possible (disappointingly few showed up immediately - #$%#$% police).

also, in a record store i tried to convince a friend who wanted rap by women to get roxanne shante's greatest hits, on the authority of frank kogan. it didn't work.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

shoutout to agincourtgirl: no, not an nme tape, just a mixtape m4tt oif the j4zz ins3cts made me -- i think a lot of it IS worth hearing, esp.side one (i actually think "solid" isd one of the more ordinary things here)