Paul Riddle <(Address removed)> said:
John Savage on Mystery of Love – by Fingers Inc.
Still my fave ever house track.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/mar/02/savage-fingers-inc-mystery-love
It's not Mikeydoollee's favourite:
"This is a really crap record, and to say that it has anything to do with the birth of house music is okay, I guess, but doesn't say much for a really terrible era of music. The synth line is out of time and the reverbed hand claps are not particularly unusual or ground breaking for the time. Few stores stocked 12 inches in the US at the time, so saying it reached the top ten is like saying Pop Idol stars have top ten hits – in actual fact 12" record sales were so low as to be meaningless. The vocal is terrible and could only be described as soulful by someone on acid, which is to say someone in a state of mental illness. In many ways house music was responsible for condemning a couple of generations of gay men to bad drugs and the resulting unsafe sex, and codifying that as a lifestyle. House music could be reimagined properly and a history developed, but it will have to take into consideration more than this lame pile of drum-machines in the on position."
Aww, bless ;o)
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