Tag: 1989
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RC 380: PSYCH SCHOOL – Play School Breaks, Psych & Funk
Get ready for a trip down memory lane with Radio Clash’s Psych School podcast, featuring funky tunes from children’s TV and records of the 60s and 70s. This deep dive into long-forgotten programs like Play School and Sesame Street is well worth a listen!
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RIP Steve Mackey of Pulp
Sad news for fans of Pulp as the band’s bassist Steve Mackey passed away at just 56. Mackey also produced MIA’s first few albums and worked with Jarvis Cocker on his solo album. Read on to learn more about his life and legacy. #Pulp #SteveMackey #musicnews
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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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Fight The Power 2020
Again very timely – Public Enemy revisit their classic with a new posse of Nas, Black Thought, Rapsody, Jahi, and YG, with Questlove and is that DJ Premiere as well?. A brilliant performance, and also sad because it shows how little has changed since 1989. “Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp”…
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The Tripping Forecast
Back to lighter and less serious times (although I suspect now that was just a freak pause), this mix from Rob Manuel as l_o_n_g_w_a_v_e is indeed a radiophonic trip. Very hauntological and nostalgic in the vein of The Focus Group and others recreating library music and ‘logotones’ and radio idents for the teens..Given that this…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…