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wrongtom
@TheWrongtom
“DJ, producer and professor of musical information” - Tom Robinson (BBC 6music). Contact: wrongtom@gmail.com
Jul 17, 2023 • 41 tweets • 16 min read
Not my absolute worst but a couple of years ago I was offered a gig in a bar in Mayfair. Originally described as being a bit like Spiritland. Reader, it wasn't. Strap in, this will be a bumpy ride... The promoter then described "the vibe" as "70s french chic, with British flair. We want the music to be sophisticated, cool but fun and upbeat". Worrying, but I was sent a playlist example which was actually decent featuring Idris Muhammad, Grace Jones, Donna Summer etc 👍🏼
Mar 3, 2023 • 75 tweets • 35 min read
Ok children…

De La day is finally upon us, and as if I’d let this moment pass without doing a thread, so strap in as we dissect The Magic Number I'm pretty sure you won't need to refresh your memory but here's The Magic Number

I also don't need to tell you it was the opening song to one of the most groundbreaking hiphop LPs of the 80s which is now finally available again
open.spotify.com/album/34LxHI9x…
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Feb 22, 2023 • 63 tweets • 31 min read
Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of my all time favourite albums, and probably one of the most important of my teenage years, So Tough by @bobpetesarah. And though noone entertained my arguably stupid idea to do dub versions, I still love it dearly, so here's a thread... Image (What do you mean you've never heard it? Rectify this immediately! open.spotify.com/album/0jthc9ez…) Image
Feb 2, 2023 • 31 tweets • 16 min read
OK, by popular demand (and by popular I mean @Birmingham_81 asked me to do it) here's a thread about Too Much Too Young by @thespecials... Most people should be familiar with this old knees-up of a tune. Released in January 1980 off the back of the snowballing success of the previous 6 months. Here's the version which everyone knows and loves
Jun 14, 2021 • 38 tweets • 18 min read
Ok, Ghost Town thread. Get comfy...

40 years ago on June 12th, this spectral beauty was released into the wild. A lot has been said/written about it since, often full of myth and hyperbole, but it's hard to argue that it's the greatest UK number 1 The roots of this song can be found on the road in 1980 when the band were touring their More Specials LP. Shops were shuttered. Violence errupted at a few gigs. Terry Hall and Dammers were arrested at one for inciting a riot when they were attempting to stop the fighting!
Mar 22, 2021 • 28 tweets • 15 min read
Ok, seeing as no one asked, let's check out the evolution of doo-wop standard I Only Have Eyes For You.

It began in 1934 as a lush orchestral number written by jazzers Eddy Duchin & Jane Froman for a classic Busby Berkley dance scene in Dames It was a hit that same year when NYC band leader Ben Selvin recruited Howard Philips for a faithful big band rendition
Mar 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Off the back of U Roy I've been digging out a lot of toasters today, and Big Youth really was the king of bizarre streams of consciousness. Jim Squeachy is a particularly strange song Image Not sure if this was the 1st vocal version of Winston Riley's Stalag rhythm but surely the first significant one (he versioned it twice). Here's the original horns cut
Feb 17, 2021 • 24 tweets • 13 min read
Currently trapped with a baby on my lap, so who wants to join me in a look at what makes up Loaded by Primal Scream? You? Well, ok then...

It's no big myth that Loaded was originally intended as a remix. In 1989 Weatherall reviewed their eponymous 2nd LP. The band read it and offered him £500 to remix the album track I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have
Feb 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Dipping my toe into the world of @letterboxd lists because I'm missing house parties. Here's a few of my favourites in film... letterboxd.com/wrongtom/list/… Here's some clips...

Kid n Play vs Sydney and Sharane in House Party
Feb 11, 2021 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
30 years today since Unfinished Sympathy came out, and it's only really just occurred to me that the greatest dance single of all time has a pun for it's title. Anyway, who fancies joining me to look at what makes up this track..? Of course you do Image The topline was a song written by Shara Nelson before the Blue Lines recording sessions. They developed it with her for the LP. Massive Attack met her in the 80s through Adrian Sherwood who'd recorded various tracks with Shara, like this one Image
Nov 30, 2020 • 30 tweets • 13 min read
Ok, I think it might be time to start this #PrinceTwitterThread

If you haven't been following, @deejayumb & @EdgarKruize invite various Prince fantatics to take a close look at one of his tracks. So here I am to kick off disc 4 of the super deluxe edition of Sign O The Times Image Disc 4 is where we get into the the thick those bonus tracks and demos from the Sign O The Times (and related) sessions, but track one is in fact a previously unreleased demo of I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man, recorded in 1979. Here's #SOTTDELUXE open.spotify.com/album/2Uv3zad9…
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Oct 9, 2019 • 10 tweets • 9 min read
Enjoying @laurent_fintoni's musical highlights of the past decade but as someone who kinda made their name with a remix LP in 2010, I feel like I need to give the art of the remix LP a bit of a nod here, so here's a few which influenced me way before the 00s... @laurent_fintoni 1982. League Unlimited Orchestra - Love & Dancing. Synth-pop classics, twisted, decomposed and dubbed by Martin Rushent and gang whilst the Human League were off being pop stars