Month: April 2021
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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RIP Shock G aka Humpty Hump
Sad to hear about the death of Gregory Jacobs aka Shock G, aka Humpty Hump: fake-nosed rapper extraordinaire who wanted you to Doowutchyalike and grab em in the biscuits in Digital Underground’s world-wide 90’s hit. And indeed the Humpty Dance, named after his character. All a precursor of Dre’s gangsta rap, those beats and old funk…
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KLF White Room – Director’s Cut & new Blacksmoke
It’s another month, another 23rd and of course another KLF re-release, this time the 1990 version of The White Room, bridging the 1989 original version with Kylie Said To Jason and the 1991 actual release. I actually prefer the 1989 version to the Stadium House Greatest Hits-a-thon that was what was actually released. I remember…