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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.

Donk Donk Donk!! Not that far removed from 'Double Life' in reality is it? I've been checking the BPM's out of the Northern plays of our youth out and they are up in the 150's - fucking fast. We have all become our (grand) fathers.

Spent a fair deal of my time wi' you Sauchiehall Street/Dundee/Falkirk/Cowboy Club/Nighter/Dayer crowds - always an event for us Soulenachs. Speak up The Scots. Scotland always had a fine line between Trailer trash and High fashion - we tended to wander through your Trailer trash population on our Mel Gibsn coaches and be confronted by hundreds of 'Scot Wans' in perma sta-prest clothing with faux Scouse (expensive) hair-cutted Jocks. Bringing about the question: "Was Soul music in the late 70's/early 80's in Scotland only open to lads who worked off-shore?" Don't bite lads - I loved my Scots excursions. Tell us (a)more!

I remember Southport Weekender getting a full Police raid and Thom having one of his 7"s boxes confiscated - it was taken to Warrington nick, where it stayed for nearly two years - imagine! Thom came down our shop (we were 200 yards from Warrington Nick) the morning he was to be re-united with his box and it was quite an event. Immasculated by the plod - feckers.

"From your Cowboy Boots to your Three Piece Suit!" Name it?

I don't think Thom would knock me for saying that it wasn't particularly his discovery but I still give you props for posting this genius of a track. It was released to the UK on Expansion, to a scene that was under attack from varying angles The progressive Soulie of the James King era was having to get his/her head around the burgeoning crossover Modern/House sound, (sequenced beats etc), the ever present Jazz-Funk scene, alongside the tried and tested yester-year tracks that we all knew and loved and still shook a bone to.. Without rattling on, as I do, James King - 'Memory' was possibly the last of it's kind, adyed in the wool heart tugging dancer - and I feel exactly the same as you do about it. It simply is an ass-kicking full on dancefloor protaganist of a record, a sit down if you dare track. But - I think you should re-think your ways when it comes to bringing to the boards attention that you feel a great deal about this tune. Don't fall for the old 'why doesn't it get played anymore' chestnut. The way that our/your scene is run is almost a Chemistry. Too complex to explain in one line. So as right as you are, you are as wrong as you are correct. Next time don't lay blame at anyones (the scene, the DJ's) doorstep for not playing JK, it is one of a million after all - just say 'How Fucking Good Is James Kings' - 'Memory'. And we'll understand.

To cut a long story short: To have a pop at a group of people 'who don't dance' makes you sound like an uncaring Soul-less tw*t - who dances. To dance or not to dance? That is not the question. The answer that has obviously eluded you, is the question. 42!

49p from Woolies when it was a Rotherham dancefloor killer. Good shout. "I'm gonna take my time, I'm gonna do it right, I'm gonna love you every day and ni-ight (The Very Last Drop). Beautiful!

Spyder Turner - 'I Can't Make It Anymore'....the last line, on the fade, is the only time that the title is sung in full. Or am I dreaming it?

It stuck with me for years what her next move was!?