[mp3] You've blown it... I know it...

Northside - "Take 5" (mp3)

At age 14 I hated and feared the loose, druggy (not like I would know! but that was what they said about it on MTV), half-dancy music coming out of Manchester. Most frightening were the Happy Mondays, which I feel better about now knowing that I've come to like a lot of Madchester music and the Happy Mondays still scare me.

That scene hasn't seen much in the way of revivals or aftereffects, though the Stone Roses' "Fool's Gold" figured prominently in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (I think it's at the end, the scene on the bridge). Northside's "Take 5" is thin even by Manchester standards, but 15 years is way too long to go without hearing this song. And are those bongos?

[From Chicken Rhythms.]