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That's right on the money, Allen. Not to mention the fact that DJs spinning records became the norm rather than living, breathing musicians playing music for dancing. Hmmm. "...a reaction against the mechanistic and formularistic tendencies of Disco"? Strikes me as more of the same. Slightly different formulas and mechanisms but definitely not a "reaction against." Perhaps I didn't put it right. Seems to me there was a lot more freedom for singers like Anita Baker and Whitney Houston to sing, fairly expressively within the context of what they were trying to achieve, than there ever was for singers like Donna Summer. And that went right down to minor figures like Miki Howard. MG

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Thanks for posting those ads. I see the context of Public Enemy's "One million bottlebags". MG

Worth 4 bucks!!!!!! Bleedin' 'ell! I'll definitely give you overrated. BUT - I just got Jimmy Witherspoon's "Baby, baby, baby" and Axelrod produced half of that album (Ozzie Cadena the rest) and it's beautiful. I don't like either of those albums. I think Jug sounds very strained on "Brasswind". And I really don't like the bkvocs on "Cosmos". But I'll give them both another listen. MG

Oh, right. And I suppose that's why it's so deprecated in the coikles in which DM moves? (I did think the "Thriller"-style ad was good though.) MG

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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/03/u-turn-for-u2.html That is a pain in the neck. Remind me, Claude; is this procedure one that requires only a majority in the Council or unanimity? I can't see the East Europeans getting with this. MG

My favourite Ammons/Stitt is "Soul summit". This is/was on a Prestige twofer (issued as two volumes). Not all Ammons/Stitt; that was vol 1 - some Ammons/McDuff; some Ammons/Etta Jones; a couple Ammons/big band; one just McDuff. But "Soul summit" vol 1 was, I think, the best album they made together. MG

Wossis? Nevrerdervit! MG Check it out here, MG. Will do; thanks Noj. MG

Tracks are 01 Wamato 04:25 02 Deni Wana 03:57 03 Reine Nyepou 06:20 04 Ndaren 04:19 05 Be Ni Son 04:35 06 Djama 05:12 07 Kania 04:56 08 Zawi 03:30 09 Alhamdoulilah 05:05 10 Meilleurs Voeux 05:17 11 Demembalou 04:38 12 Meres D'Afrique 03:52 I haven't heard this. It was released last week. This was a GREAT band. I have "Au coeur de Paris" and it is really very fine indeed. I'll be getting this pretty soon, I guess. MG The album turned up on Monday. Brilliant! Will post more tomorrow. MG

Thank you, young sir. 40 oz is, I think, two pints. Malt liquor is something like whiskey. Good gawd! I think I drank a pint of gin at a party once, when I was a teenager. MG

i got in a fight with a young woman...a short dumpy mama (not white) in the bad sense at a party last weekend when she asked me what i was drinking and i said "a 40" and she said "a 40 of what?" and i said "olde english" and she said "yeah, white people like to drink that" and i was like "no they don't" and she was like "yes they do" and i was like "well i disagree and i am not white, anyway" and she said "you're not? what are you?" and i said "jewish" and she said "then you're white" and then i said "i disagree with everything you are saying" and she said "i'm going to blog about this" and i was about to flip out but my friend who's birthday it was asked me to keep calm so i did, though i did seethe silently for the rest of the night. white people do not like 40s and the only reason i bought olde english was that it was the only brand of malt liquor the nearest bodega offered. but any party (mostly white, generally) i go to, a 40 will get stupid comments like "oh i haven't seen that since college" like it is crazy i would prefer the sweeter and MUCH more economical 40 or two of malt liquor to some sort of cheesy and bitter six pack of "lager" or "ale" when purchasing by booze of choice for the night. Er - two questions. What's a "40"? What's "Olde English"? - not marmalade, I suspect. Nor the language pre-Shakespeare, I guess. MG

Good - I'd forgotten about this while my PC has been down. Must catch up tomorrow. MG

Just proves to all the unbelievers that the French do have a sense of humour (once). MG

Bev, if you clock that this is going to happen this year as well, do let me know. I might drag myself there. It's May or something, isn't it? MG

Now it's hailing - hardest hail shower I've ever seen - if it were rain, you'd call it a deluge! MG

Snowing. MG

Well, that's not entirely true. It depends on your point of view. BDP's intentions are good, there's no doubt about that, but one of the points about Rap is that it must ALSO be criticised for the ideas it puts over as well as the music/delivery. The record is pretty much a rehash of Martin Bernal's ideas he put out in "Black Athena", much of which is the sort of conspiracy theory that we have a thread for ridiculing. MG

Yes, a searchable CD-ROM is fine for finding things that JDO can't. And it's a lot less than $200 MG

My heart bleeds!!! VAT here, and in most of Europe, is 17.5% - though there are some important exceptions and exemptions. Energy is 5%; insurance is, I seem to remember, 10%. And books, food not bought in restaurants, kids clothes and land/buildings are exempt (though there are other taxes on land/building purchases). MG

I assume this is the book by Michel Ruppli & Michael Cuscuna. I have the 1988 edition. I know there is a more recent edition and suppose that that's what you're looking at. The trouble with the books is that they get out of date. Oh, and they're expensive (But I seem to remember paying about £90 for my edition back in 1990 or thereabouts, so the price doesn't seem to have gone up much, despite serous inflation since then.) The good thing about the books is that you can find all the recordings on which, say, Leon Spencer, played. I can't see any way of searching JazzDiscoOrg for that type of info. Another good thing about the books is that there's a conversion table giving equivalent issues on foreign labels - particularly useful for Japanese releases BUT quickly out of date since the Japs seem to issue new versions of stuff every third week. MG

Also throughout Francophone Africa - where the K7 is still the main medium on which music is released. MG

You're too balanced by half MG

MG PS You should do a BFT and put that in.

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