From abenn Sent Sun, Sep 20th 1998, 15:10
From abenn Sent Sun, Sep 20th 1998, 15:10
Contrary to Brock's opinion, I've thought that it was interesting to read everyone's lists, made me remember & go replay some ol records that I hadn't heard in yonks, ... but the thought of doing a list myself, just frizz-frazzles my brain too much, sooo soooooo much music out there that has touched me deep ... so I'll only mention the one. I've noticed that I think that I've come to the group from a totally different groove from many others, twas black music that first flipped my switch and the one that did it, turned on the light of dance music for me, making me realise that there was whole aeons of music out there that was waaaay, waaaay more exciting than piano lessons and playin 2nd cornet in a little Yorkshire brass band, was Chic's "Good Times". Me and my best friend at school, when we were meant to be doing a 5 mile cross country run in our P.E. lessons, had this scam going, when nstead of puffin & pantin along with all the other girls, past Easby Abbey and down by the river under the castle, (sod that for a laugh!), used to hang back behind the others so no one saw us, then race up the hill thru the woods to her house, which was this Frank LLoyd Wrightie type affair, with huge expanses of wooden floors, our own perfect dancefloor ... and there, we'd scour thru her older sister Wendy's old records, get glammed up in her clothes too, we HAD to look right, then we'd be off, dancin our little hearts out ... but when we happened upon Chic's "Good Times", that was the ONE, no mistakin, ohhhh we just went MENTAL, worked out the wickedest dance routines going for that one, plus a roller-skating one too! (her mum never did suss what had caused all the skidmarks on the floor!) We were always havin to make up these excuses for being late back to double latin, all pink faced and still in rapture, and it was SUCH a fuckin pain havin to get stuck into Virgil and Pliny when we were still buzzin thru the rafters, just itchin to go out searchin for more sublime sounds that'd get us up there, to that place, that that one wholly righteous record had taken us to. Aless ps: am totally in love with this record out on Tom Middleton's label, Heard records, Circulation's "Chapter 1", sublime bit of disco cut-up, house, which then, when I recognised the sample that they had used in the record, led me onto searching thru my ol singles to find the little gem in question 'Once I've been there, I can always go back again' by Norman Connors, ohhhh my god, how can I have not played it for soooo long, think I"m gonna wear out the grooves in the vinyl, tis sooooo gorgeous, just melts yer heart to a puddle! Perchance, does anyone have a discog. for Heard Records?