RE: Oi

Jim Kerr
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:08:54 -0500


Good grief - I have to say something about this. It just seems to me
that What's Going On exemplifies a lot of things that are right about
the kind of music and the kind of people who make the music we discuss
here. I can't think of too much better examples of music with soul and
consciousness than Inner City Blues; Holy Holy; What's Going On. I still
find it quite extraordinary - on a pretty basic level admittedly - that
such an overtly political album was put together by a man on a label
that a few years earlier was producing bubble gum music. I dunno - it
just seems to me that in a time when people who listen to this kind of
music get a bit too hung up about mixing records together, DJ remixes
and all that malarkey (ouch - know I'm gonna get flamed for this) that
What's Going On is a high water mark for music that is Talking Loud and
Saying Something.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: P.Mouser [SMTP:mouser@coventry.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 4:10 PM
> Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Oi
>
> Has anyone bought the Kid Loco albumn, I got the single; shes my lover
>
> and thought it was tops. Bought Marvin Gaye,; whats going on,
> overated I
> thought ,whats the albumn like with trouble man on, apparently meant
> to
> be better? Cheers
>
> "shes the cheese and I'm the macaroni"
> Paul Mouser