OK, the regurgitation of post-punk has been ongoing for some years now, chronologically speaking it's surely time young hip bands revived new pop, isn't it?

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And lo, Pitchfork sing the praises of new pop:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/new-pop/index.shtml

pitchfork's new pop top 40:
1. All My Heart - ABC
2. Party Fears Two - the Associates
3. The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
4. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
5. Don't You Want Me? - the Human League
6. Ghost Town - the Specials
7. Blue Monday - New Order
8. Beat Box - the Art of Noise
9. Ghosts - Japan
10. Blue Boy - Orange Juice
11. Cars - Gary Numan
12. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
13. Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants
14. Fascist Groove Thing - Heaven 17
15. C30 C60 C90 Go! - Bow Wow Wow
16. Poison Arrow - ABC
17. Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
18. Our House - Madness
19. Buffalo Gals - Malcom McClaren
20. Rio - Duran Duran
21. Dr. Mabuse - Propaganda
22. Happy Birthday - Altered Images
23. Wood Beez - Scritti Politti
24. Club Country - the Associates
25. Love Action - the Human League
26. Relax - FGTH
27. It's Kinda Funny - Josef K.
28. Confusion - New Order
29. Moments In Love - Art of Noise
30. Fade To Grey - Visage
31. Reward - Teardrop Explodes
32. A Promise - Echo and the Bunnymen
33. Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
34. Burning Car - John Foxx
35. Wham! Rap - Wham!
36. I Will Follow - U2
37. Promised You A Miracle - Simple Minds
38. Time - Culture Club
39. Enola Gay - OMD
40. Give Me Back My Heart - Dollar

I'm not too sure they all count as new pop as I understand the term. But whatever.

― Slavoj Zizek's slutty younger sister, Monday, 12 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

wow, mindblowing. they just keep on digging. no way would these be familiar to anyone who'd been to a provincial nightclub in the last two decades, no sir.

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

It was also set against the other music making pop interesting at the time, at least by the music press: rave, rap, and r&b

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

New Radicals!

― Duderz, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, I've got 31 of these as vinyl singles.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

'freak like me' was more than three years ago

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

wow, mindblowing. they just keep on digging. no way would these be familiar to anyone who'd been to a provincial nightclub in the last two decades, no sir.

Well, from an anglocentric perspective you've got a point. Pitchfork is American, though, and I don't suppose Josef K, Teardrop Explodes etc. have really been flogged to death in nightclubs up and down the country there.

― Slavoj Sisek's slutty younger sister, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

the article is odd. it says none of the bands are united by much -- iow, 'here are some bands from the early 80s'.

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, that's horrid. It's like those articles that appear in the broadsheet newspapers where they pick, say, four acts that have appeared in the charts recently, and draw some invisible lines between them, and, hello, we have a "movement".

Are Josef K really indictive of a move away from "wanting to sell a few 7 inches" and making the move into big bucks?

It was also the era when the term "rockist" entered into the public lexicon.

lol

When the album stiffed, however, the public increasingly felt insulted by the pomo antics of Horn and Morley's ZTT label. Howard Jones seemed like a safer bet.

Yes, that stiffed album that got to #1. Howard Jones' album released a month later than "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" got to, ummm, #15. If you. If you actually know jackshit about British musical culture, please stick to talking about American kthx.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

TS: "New Pop" vs "New Leeds"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

dom you still write for stylus, right?

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

(sorry, cheap shot.)

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Man, I know what it's like to be called out on the internet:

http://www.thetrousers.co.uk/issues/one/editorial.htm

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Of course, there are always exceptions, particularly in the US where mags like Venus, ROCKRGRL & a number of others are setting things to rights.

god bless you.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Go in peace.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though, that list reads like a "Worst provincial nightclub ever" playlist. 2.1/10

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

dom, you have to write a totally uninformed piece on dc punk to get even.

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

If that's the WORST list, the best one must be so good nobody ever leaves it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Supposing you don't know jackshit etc...?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

how is that not the point, dom?

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

"I know they were aiming for huge pop hits, but their obscure singles are really their best work."

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

I look over the list again and the only song I'd remove if I were told to DJ that would be Ufrickin'2, but I would.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

and in 20 years it's all "Worst provincial nightclub ever"

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

our children: "god, not 'no diggity' AGAIN!"

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Is your argument that "new pop" reflects the time when smalltown Britain was finally able to get a leg up over on "the big cities" then? Ie, Essex become the centre of Britain for a few years, reflection of Thatcherism, ideology overcoming pragmatism? And thus the seeds of destruction were sown by the 1987 recession?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

And if so, the Simply Red track should have been "Money's Too Tight To Mention"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Hal, Magic Numbers etc

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

In twenty years' time the Pixies become classic rock without ever getting much airplay over here at all! Now that's success!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Hal are the utter bullshit sandwich stew. I would kill them if I could. I would hang them up by their nose hairs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

my argument is that "new pop" was a time when a bunch of weirdos and chancers made the pop charts interesting for a while, sometimes on both sides of the atlantic, i.e. same as every loosely tethered "movement" ever.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

So it's basically a "Top 50 singles 1980-1985" disguised under a seperate name?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

"my argument is that "new pop" was a time when a bunch of weirdos and chancers made the pop charts interesting for a while"

this wd work if the late 70s or late 80s were not interesting, chartwise, which, um, isn't the case!

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

er, Jess, this bit on the top of Page 2: "When Yes split, Morley chose to go into production full-time. "

might need to be altered ;)

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

yeah because clearly run-dmc, prince, minor threat, wayne smith, rockers revenge, tenor saw, chaka khan, et al would all fit here.

xpost: umm...enrique, i think yr reading comp needs some work. one doesn't negate the other.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

i mean, i know it's young! vibrant! british! thinkers! rushing to defend the motherland from interlopers but uh jeezus guys

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Jess, I think Enrique's trying to say: Morley != Horn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

The number one is correct. It should be number one in every chart ever.

I daren't read the article.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

'Scuse, not Enrique -- Carson. xpost confusion!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i got that ned.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

my g/f asked for 'everything counts' at a provincila niterie, and they played 'just can't get enough'.

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of most of these songs, so Slajov's point is well taken. I also don't know or care from number 1's, representativeness(having never heard the term 'new pop' until today) or, indeed the article in general. Typical pitchfork reader iow, except I don't read Pitchfork. Are the songs any good or what?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Uh yes. Nearly all of them are utterly fantastically great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Basically, the article is the equivalent of Britishes writing about baseball.

"It's like rounders, except it's played by Cubans rather than schoolgirls"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

you guys are so dismissive of americans i'm surprised you ever developed anything of a musical culture past skiffle and old folk music

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was a good piece. I only think I know a quarter of those songs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Basically, the article is the equivalent of Britishes writing about baseball.

No, basically, the article is a few hundred words targeting American kids who didn't live through that period in that country, and consequently don't know much about the music, and are probably much better conversant with the post-punk stuff that came before, due to the post-punk revival. As such, I really can't see what's wrong with the article. You guys are getting a bit anal.

― Slavoj Zizek's slutty younger sister, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

a few hundred?! this thing nearly killed me!

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the article didn't really tell me anything that I didn't know, but then I've just finished Rip It Up And Start Again, and I'm something of a Morley obsessive (plus I'm British). For anybody who doesn't know much about the era (which I guess is quite a bit of PF's audience), it's a good introduction to some of the highlights of that era. Can't quite see the problem with it at all...

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

re: josef k - alan horne and postcard certainly wanted hits, they just never had any.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Very good article i think, although I would say that if you've just finished reading 'Rip It Up...' some of the arguments and even the descriptions sound somewhat familiar. Nowt wrong with that tho, as they all seem pretty much spot on to me.

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

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Morley has had some weird crushes in his past. Cabs didn't really go New Pop until The Crackdown, which was slightly too late to go New Pop (1983), although Gary Davies thought that album was the business.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Well, they did a bit, but almost anything would sound like pop "Voice of America" or "Three Mantras". Why not Psychic TV then as well?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

almost anything would sound like pop after "Voice of America" or "Three Mantras

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

The Fall went pop too!

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

if new pop ended in 1983, 'dr mabuse' and 'two tribes' have to go too.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

ZTT was the Blood On The Tracks of New Pop.

Force The Hand Of Chance was the illogical conclusion to New Pop and the litmus test as to why New Pop in the Morley sense could never really happen, i.e. by the autumn of '82 the carpetbaggers and locusts (Wham!, Tears For Fears etc.) were taking over and diluting as appropriate, while PTV were laughed at loudly in my JCR when they went on whatever the BBC2 youth show of the time was called.

I was recently asked to blog about 1981. I made a start but got bogged down even more quickly than I did with 1974, so I probably won't take it any further. The writing just doesn't seem to be coming these days... :-(

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

haha I didn't know this stuff was offically called "new" pop!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

that makes me feel young again, thanks ilm.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

are Disky sponsoring pitchfork?

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Postcard wasn't "New Pop" and neither were the Fire Engines, Dexys, Elvis Costello. Wire - definitely not!!!!!

I was going by the song, not the artist.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

But "Outdoor Miner" was 1978, how could it be New Pop?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

January 1979! Proto-new-pop!

Yeah OK, I was pushing it with that one.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

grimey simey otm.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

You can't really have New Pop before May 1980, since the single most important triggering factor in the genesis of New Pop was the death of Ian Curtis. Although arguments could be made for both Off The Wall and Off The Coast Of Me...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

"There Goes Grimin' Simon"

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

>>>>Although arguments could be made for both Off The Wall and Off The Coast Of Me... >>>>

I'm glad Off the Wall is mentioned here. As a Canadian reading the occasional Smash Hits and NME at the time--whenever I could afford to shell out the import bucks--my entire context for what I didn't even realize was called "new pop" until many years later, was mostly just what I read (and saw) in those two mags, and one defining moment in my own thinking about pop music was seeing a comic strip in Smash Hits (almost done in a deadpan Mad magazine style, if I recall correctly) about the story of the Human League. In the strip, a key moment is their disocvery of Off the Wall and ABBA--for some reason, seeing that really clicked for me. Thereafter, that album (and yeah, the Kid Creole stuff as well) has always been part of the "new pop" context I created for myself.

― s woods, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Ha! I remember that Human League comic! There was a frame w/a drawing representing the oakey/marsh-ware bustup, showing phil oakey chasing ian craig marsh down the street, throwing his stilleto heeled shoes at him! Classic!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

is it me or does 'the "sweetest"/sweetest girl' stick out a mile?

Nah, you're right, but the Associates leads quite the chase behind Green Gartside, and I'm not going to dismiss the majority of the other songs listed.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

ammonia soul!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

So where are WIN in this???? For everyone pulling 'I'm your critical father' crap on this thread, do you not get the whole Freaky Trigger thing... Personally, I'm all like been there done that got the postcard, which is why Simon's book left me cold...

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

I mean I guess if there's a cycle: Ft -> ILM -> articles on new pop in Pitchfork then our work here is done and I'm emigrating to New Zealand and becoming a free jazz fan.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Win were a bit late on the new pop scene I fear. You might as well put in Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

ha ha well I am pleasantly grumpy / curmudgeonly this morning. But aren't they even more pop through being late?

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

ps is this the thread for oink invites kthx bye dudez

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

TS: 'new' pop (this is rock) vs 'old' pop (this is also rock).

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

oh and ha ha omgwtf dom re: Wears the trousers, the unhilarious thing about which is that almost all the contributors are... trouser wearers.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Don't worry. Only another half an hour to wait before your dealer turns up.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm embarrassed about including "Outdoor Miner" now.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

another nudge up for WIN. both albums were totally in line with the list/article.

didn't Freaky Trigger get 10/10 in NME ?

was Urgh ever actually released on cd ? my tape copy disappeared/died ages ago and had loads of lovely extra tracks than the vinyl.

i loved em.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Win were New Pop after the fact. If you include them you'd also have to include the Pet Shop Boys.

(nb: "You've Got The Power" was the biggest selling single in Scotland in 1986 due to its use in a cod-Escher McEwan's Lager advert)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

oh the irony, seeing as my cousin used to see Dave H around the bars in scotland totally wasted in 86 when he lived in edinburgh - guess the adverts helped pay the bar tab.

still, classic of-the-time pop music.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Freaky Trigger got a review from Stuart Maconie, he gave it 0 and 10 (sort of).

This was before the NME's crackdown on high marks.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

xpost: Anyway, if you want Dave H included then "Candyskin" will do nicely.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

The JDs played Northern Soul, not disco- that's why they paid up for using someone else's bassline on Unknown Pleasures.

Whoa! Tell me more!! What song was it???

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

our children: "god, not 'no diggity' AGAIN!"
-- strng hlkngtn (hm...), September 13th, 2005 3:33 AM. (link) (userip)

In twenty years' time the Pixies become classic rock without ever getting much airplay over here at all! Now that's success!

-Ned

---were these jokes? Strictly? This has all halfhappened already

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I should check them songbysong IN DEPTH maybe but Mike's list looks way better than Jess's (it has Simple Minds on it, for a kickoff) (also "Poison Arrow" eats "All of My Heart" alive)

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Now then, now then: Jess has Simple Minds at #37 and "Poison Arrow" at #16. I merely removed duplicates from the same artist, and made a few substitutions of my own.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh fine I'll start by learning to read

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

was Urgh ever actually released on cd ?

Do you mean Uh! Tears baby? If so it was released on cd, which now goes for £150+ on an ebay site near you.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I still like yr list better tho, for pretty much the same reasons, not that I blame Jess for maybe trying a bit of proactivity visavis any prospective revival crosspost.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Pash, I could have sworn that frame showed Phil chucking milk bottles, and ICM protecting himself with a bin lid. Ah yes, I remember it well.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I'm guessing this is the cartoon you speak of

http://www.humanleague.dk/content/downloads/cartoon/cartoon2.jpg

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

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― GRIMEY SIMEY, Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:33 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ miss this dude

― ACTION BABY (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS THREAD FOREVER!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

Where is the thread discussing Pitchfork's "Now That's What I Call New Pop" feature on the British New Pop movement of the early 1980s? The thread title was something like, "Now that Gang of Four and PIL have gone through a revival, isn't it about time Pitchfork started talking about New Pop?"

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, July 6, 2008 3:05 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark

still looking for that "New Pop" thread :(

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:59 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

HOLY SHIT, SEVEN MONTHS!! I'VE BEEN LOOKING SEVEN MONTHS!!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

I typed in "new pop" (with quotes) in the search function box just now and found this thread on the second page.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

"I Will Follow" and "Ghost Town" both stick out like sore thumbs and really don't belong on this list, i'm ho. I'd've replaced them with "New Song" by Howard Jones and "Sorry for Laughing" by... was it Josef K or Orange Juice?

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

Huh. I didn't know that searching for "new pop" with quotes yields different results than searching for new pop without quotes. I guess I should start using quotes when I search for a thread from now on!

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

It took half a dozen years, but there's some stuff that has a definite new-pop feel. Off the top of my head:

Ice Choir – Afar (Underwater Peoples)
Heavenly Beat – Talent (Captured Tracks)

― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 January 2013 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

just been sent a link to a soundcloud stream.

as it played all i could think was how similar to WIN it sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qcYLCyTH4&feature=youtu.be

― mark e, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

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