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This ended up being so vast it's in two parts - 20-11 and 10-1. Apologies for the delay - read them in a spirit of nostalgia for those long ago times of 2002.

The site has apparently had connection problems thanks to BT so sorry if you don't get anything.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

haha you dick.

(also, tom i finally got the email you sent me ages ago re. the azzerrad re-write...i had done it that weekend and thought i had sent it to you. if you never got it, let me know, and i'll remail it.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll have a look now Jess!

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah can you resend - chances are it got cleared out by accident, sorry.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, no prob.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

enjoyable stuff....the Conway reasoning is interesting - how many other bootlegs are there where you could confidently declare your hatred for (part) of the source material in its original context but when re-spliced with something so loveable as 'Block Party' you find it irresistable? hmmm, maybe a LOT, i'm not sure.

irony is i thought the Hives track was okay (but far too over-played for sure) and didnt like the Lopez track but that seems to have been reversed now (not now as in after reading Tom's verdicts....well, maybe ;)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I still can't get to FT! :( :( :(

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

that was the greatest list i've ever read.

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the only place I've heard "Lisa's Got Hives" was on The Best of Boom Selector Vol. 2 where it sounds like complete shit--all filtered and treble-heavy, like listening to it in a seashell. I've never understood its appeal, and I'm guessing that's why. Must find real copy....

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It is quite messy soundwise but not particularly treble-heavy. I thought it was a bit shit the first couple times I heard it, and then it grew. And grew and grew and grew and...

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

do you think her untimely passing had ANYTHING to do with increasing the allure of the track also? i think that would be perfectly reasonable to be honest

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it had everything to do with why i heard it in the first place - i was DJing that weekend and wanted to play some kind of tribute so I dl'ed "Waterfalls" and that. I think it's the best tribute to her too - I thought about reffing her death in the piece but decided to leave it implicit.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 February 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

boys of summer and the logical song - YES!! in some ways my two favourites from last year, esp. the former although i prefer the extended original version for the starburst synths.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The original mix was in there anyway actually, I just wrote about the remix cause I felt like it.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(starts crying) What? No "Fight Test"?

*sob*

― MisterSnrub (Evan), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Now of course I want to do a list of all the great songs I heard after I'd finalised the list. Not that one, obv.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

We don't agree on quite a bit, though we do on quite a bit too, and of course I'm less informed than you so I've not heard some of these, including your #1, but I have to say again what a joy it is reading your explanations of why you love these songs, whatever my relationship is to them.

One trivial disagreement: that the Logical Song is a Supertramp cover matters to me, in that I can admire them even more for making something so wonderful out of something I so disliked first time round - a bit like what you say about the Hives, really.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Except that the Hives are great.

A great article, Tom, though the linkage between pages is a bit screwy, and the link from page 0 to page 1 actually goes to page 0.

Obviously if you had come through on your threat of ranking Jenny From The Block above Work It, flying monkeys would already be attacking.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Salt-N-Pepa's Here!