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42 Jumpin' (?) refers to the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. It is/was the answer to 'life, the Universe and everything'. Nothing as sinister as you thought I'm afraid 'Jumpin'.

Malc, the NASA quote: Boopa:

MALC!!! It's not fucking 'Come Dine With Me' mate. AWWWW!

What's Thom up to, anyone?

Mate! I do apologise, and I do. I thought 'Hermanthegerman' was Swedish the other night - don't ask. I tend to argue on a UK knob level, maybe I should take more notice of where you guys are from before I start. At heart I respect and love your passion for this/our music and never at any point want to be a twat. But a twat is a twat and I hope that you will un derstand that as much as I am a British twat you have been as much of a Tijuana one as I have. Much love. Your corresponding UK friend Bazza (I mean it mate, no problems with me and you in full view of the board x)

I'm just hi-lighting your heavy-breathed, finger fumbling mistakes here mate. Your stumbling fingers undermine your lack of cool - slow down. I think you're ace.

You've met the wife then? Malc, I hate to tell you this but....you know those dreams you have when their is an intense cold eyed balding gimped-up fecker staring at you from the end of your bed-stead. Well....it's actually me. I sleep in your airing cupboard.

Mate - I can't be arsed, your spade wasn't big enough and unfortunatley for you the ten minutes you took to compile your piss poor reply tells the board more than I need. Papa Ooh Mow Mow (And I'll bet you are older then me too - Tssk!)

I have secured Gordon Jackson's ashes off ov Ebay from a marginal retro shite cop shop site www.deadupstairsdownstairsbutlers.com so I have full MI5 coverance - Gavin has been assigned to my case - don't worry, no comebacks from the old SP mate.

I was just trying to cleave a weakness Malc hehe - I inherited my Sharonettes BM issue from our kid, so I believe I'm exempt. Still gets me hackles up when I hear it though, I'm hard me. I was 13 FFS!

Come on son, you're not looking good here. Not backing your listless pops up looks poor mate - and I am always the man to point behaviour like yours out. Most of us lie in the gutter but some of us are looking at the kerb.

Imagine going Billboard # 1 and getting hoofed out of Studio 54. f*** Right Off!! I have an interview with Nile that one of me mates did with him a few months back, Emma - she does the Clubbing page on the Bin Dippers Echo - if you'd like to hear it Malc?

Nice! Chuck Jackson and Bettye Lavette - Morecambe '82!

Actually, lets dissect your view here Dante. How am I being controversial? Someone has a pop at people that attend a night that don't dance and make that out to be a bit of a shitter. How? Because their whole post is based around 'Im ACE and they're SHIT!'. Argue that. You can't. And if you do buy a fucking big spade, you'll need it.

Dante, I never try to be controversial, I just give my view mate...honestly. I don't need to be an arse, I just get sick to death of message board bullshit. I have a full and happy life, I don't need to be here, I've been where you are now (Ouch) and just like to show people like yourself that there is light at the end of the tunnel. By the way I am a qualified counsellor if you need help, just click on: www.needtogetagrip.com I'm there for you.

I loved your succint and full answer Malc. You so knew you were right - I couldn't have squeezed a privet-leaf into the arse of your answer there mate> ha ha

In one!!

Maximes '82 Brain Rae's one before eight...mournful, poetic genius. It's down to your understanding of real soul as to wether you tick '1' Genius or '10' - Dreary Turd. Is this kind of post where I get my 'holier than thou' moniker? Answers on an Attivan.

I find that a very odd statement Bazza. If I was being an arse I could say that by your statement alone you don't really accept or understand quality music. I mean, could you go into a studio and come out with something anywhere near 'WITW'. Answer: Could you f***! Ramsey Lewis etc etc, after years of musical tuition write, produce and come out of a studio with an iconic production that still stands up today, and will for another 100 years....but it don't meet your standards. Trust me, neither I, Ramsey, or real music lovers give a shiny one about your gelded views.

I wouldn't say this is a negative thread as such, we all have tracks we don't quite get. But what I will say is, and I have just skimmed the thread, that the tracks that people generally have knocked may never heard those tracks that they supposedly hate in contex. 'Diamond Ring' is a killer. Just proving that this kind of thread is subjective.

Do you know the story behind 'Freak Out' malc?

....I'm entering the 'What's your favourite lentil' territory here but anyhow: I fell you'd have to go some way to beat The Montclairs - 'Hung Up On Your Love' 20 years ahead of it's time and still stands up.

I'm borne of a McDermott Celt/Scottish connection owd cocker. Me teacher at Junior school, Gerard McCormick (he's dead now but I still love and respect the man and his values)- a devout Catholic with thirteen kids and a love of football, that man instilled a love of Celtic Football Club in me (I was seven) to a degree that although I wouldn't dare say that I would feel comfortable wearing a Celtic scarf to a degree that I was worthy of doing so, I still feel that I ama second degree confirmed (by Gerard) Scot. Also, although I didn't understand a fucking word you wrote, I understand - all the off-shore lads I know were from Aberdeen and now have no mortgages and big stone cottages. Does that post smack of Anglo-jealousy?

Malc, you know you bought it on Black Magic - come clean. E.T. fact: It is on the radio in the background when Elliot walks into the back garden.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Mem%C3%AA?anv=DJ+Meme This guy is a blip in my English understanding of how a person; a person without our knobby UK priviliged spoon-fed background can show us how it should be done. This guy can produce a track that is able to take me back to my halcyon teenage Modern Soul days and nights. Meme is a Brazilian with no real understanding of our scene, as such, but his productions - particularly his bass-lines and piano work - twang every UK Soul Boys retro heart-strings. I wouldn't dream of teaching you lads to suck eggs but for those of you whom haven't heard Meme's reworking of 'Say You're Gonna Stay' and the like, seek him out. (Pressed on a 7" in '81 it'd be commanding a £1000 all day) His inherent understanding of all things UK Retro-Modern, without the background we were given, is extraordinary.