“Informer” is... not great, but before he torpedoed his career, MC Shan dropped a couple of bangers. “I Pioneered This” is fantastic.
Probably old news, but “Oh, Carolina” was on the Sliver movie soundtrack (as was UB40 for that matter) and it’s great. Everyone from Shaggy, to Heaven17, to Massive Attack are on there.
Another really interesting post Bernard - thank you for a look into history and linking across genres
A little off topic but Cops the TV show had a really interesting genesis, essentially it dug Fox out of a hole it wouldn't have lived through :( and ultimately went on to have far-reaching impact socially and politically. It came out of the Writers' Guild strike in 88, Popbitch wrote a four part piece around some of the depressing nuanced outcomes of the strike, which is summed up in this thread but their four parter is a great read (links in last post)
Great research again, so much you can use for a quiz! Love the in depth stuff. Another fun fact: Radiohead hate Creep. It’s weird considering how much we all love it! Ps come back to Twitter!
“Informer” is... not great, but before he torpedoed his career, MC Shan dropped a couple of bangers. “I Pioneered This” is fantastic.
Probably old news, but “Oh, Carolina” was on the Sliver movie soundtrack (as was UB40 for that matter) and it’s great. Everyone from Shaggy, to Heaven17, to Massive Attack are on there.
Another really interesting post Bernard - thank you for a look into history and linking across genres
A little off topic but Cops the TV show had a really interesting genesis, essentially it dug Fox out of a hole it wouldn't have lived through :( and ultimately went on to have far-reaching impact socially and politically. It came out of the Writers' Guild strike in 88, Popbitch wrote a four part piece around some of the depressing nuanced outcomes of the strike, which is summed up in this thread but their four parter is a great read (links in last post)
https://twitter.com/popbitch/status/1060918029285056514
Dan Taberski looked at Cops' societal and cultural impact in the podcast series Headlong: Running from Cops which is also great
"Snow does… I don’t understand what was going on with Snow, but ‘Informer’ was also a big hit."
He was cute. Pure and simple.
Great research again, so much you can use for a quiz! Love the in depth stuff. Another fun fact: Radiohead hate Creep. It’s weird considering how much we all love it! Ps come back to Twitter!