Contrary to Brock's opinion, I've thought that it was interesting to read
everyone's lists, made me remember & go replay some ol records that I
hadn't heard in yonks, ... but the thought of doing a list myself, just
frizz-frazzles my brain too much, sooo soooooo much music out there that
has touched me deep ... so I'll only mention the one.
I've noticed that I think that I've come to the group from a totally
different groove from many others, twas black music that first flipped my
switch and the one that did it, turned on the light of dance music for me,
making me realise that there was whole aeons of music out there that was
waaaay, waaaay more exciting than piano lessons and playin 2nd cornet in a
little Yorkshire brass band, was Chic's "Good Times".
Me and my best friend at school, when we were meant to be doing a 5 mile
cross country run in our P.E. lessons, had this scam going, when nstead of
puffin & pantin along with all the other girls, past Easby Abbey and down
by the river under the castle, (sod that for a laugh!), used to hang back
behind the others so no one saw us, then race up the hill thru the woods to
her house, which was this Frank LLoyd Wrightie type affair, with huge
expanses of wooden floors, our own perfect dancefloor ... and there, we'd
scour thru her older sister Wendy's old records, get glammed up in her
clothes too, we HAD to look right, then we'd be off, dancin our little
hearts out ... but when we happened upon Chic's "Good Times", that was the
ONE, no mistakin, ohhhh we just went MENTAL, worked out the wickedest dance
routines going for that one, plus a roller-skating one too! (her mum never
did suss what had caused all the skidmarks on the floor!)
We were always havin to make up these excuses for being late back to double
latin, all pink faced and still in rapture, and it was SUCH a fuckin pain
havin to get stuck into Virgil and Pliny when we were still buzzin thru the
rafters, just itchin to go out searchin for more sublime sounds that'd get
us up there, to that place, that that one wholly righteous record had taken
us to.
Aless
ps: am totally in love with this record out on Tom Middleton's label, Heard
records, Circulation's "Chapter 1", sublime bit of disco cut-up, house,
which then, when I recognised the sample that they had used in the record,
led me onto searching thru my ol singles to find the little gem in question
'Once I've been there, I can always go back again' by Norman Connors, ohhhh
my god, how can I have not played it for soooo long, think I"m gonna wear
out the grooves in the vinyl, tis sooooo gorgeous, just melts yer heart to
a puddle!
Perchance, does anyone have a discog. for Heard Records?