Heard "Good Groove" on the Capital Gold retrochart rundown - these days much better than boring old Dale and his POTP diet of Phil Collins and Rod Stewart - the other day and it sounds quite endearingly naive with its M4 callouts and mechanical vocal rhythms though obviously of its time.
I also remember Reynolds being quite sniffily complimentary about the album in his MM review - something along the lines of "this'll do until the new Public Enemy album's out." It wasn't exactly Nation Of Millions but it wasn't too bad either for what it was.
Whatever became of him?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:21 (seventeen years ago)
A friend told me that when they were kids, they'd go into his record shop and go "Derek B? YOU'RE WACK!!" and dash out quickly, knochdown gigner style.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:27 (seventeen years ago)
I always felt the flak he attracted was out-of-proportion to the quality of the music. I still like Bad Young Brother.
― glue_factory, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)
BAD YOUNG BROTHER
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-3/Images/DerekBailey1.gif
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:41 (seventeen years ago)
At the time there was a big part of me which wanted Derek B to be Derek Bailey but then the latter did go on to do a drum 'n bass album.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)
I always hoped he'd be
http://www.mr-and-mrs.tv/images/derek-b.jpg
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:07 (seventeen years ago)
I like Bad Young Brother too... thanks to my musical cult friends I finally have a copy of it too.
His rapping is not very fast, making it easy to understand what he is saying.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:23 (seventeen years ago)
I also like Bad Young Brother! I've got it on House Hits '88.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 April 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)
RIP???
― Venga, Monday, 16 November 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago)
oh man...
― DavidM, Monday, 16 November 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago)
heart attack at only 44, damnit
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
RIP
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago)
BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe paid tribute on Twitter, saying Boland's 1988 debut Bullet From A Gun "was a massive album for me"
in New Zealand?
― The Execution Of Garu G (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, it was a big hit when it came out there in 2003.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago)