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I never 'got' XTC until I went to work in Swindon. I never 'got' the Beach Boys until I drove down the A303 to Cornwall. Tricky, MassiveAttack and Portishead make much more sense if you know Bristol.

Bowie, Siouxsie and Bromley?
Happy Mondays from innner Manchester but Joy Division from posh-but-still crumbling Pennine-edge Macclesfield?

What's your favourite music/place tie-in?

(Inspired by the 'car stereo' moment thread, itself inspired by my walkman thread - returning the compliment)

― jon, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

train journey through Essex from Liverpool Street to Southend in the mid 90s = suddenly i AM Karl Hyde...but i already got Underworld anyway so that was OK

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Eels never make more sense to me than when I can see no natural light, all the doors and windows are locked, and there's nobody else around.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Growing up in Birmingham - world centre of self deprecation - the cheerful cack-handedness of box frenzy era PWEI always made perfect sense.

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't there a whole website about this?

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

wow. where?

― jon, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

a little off topic, but I read "Anna Karennina" in the winter under an awning when it was snowing in the woods in Massachusetts.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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