Rave On
Happy Mondays - Madchester Rave On EP [FAC 242 1989 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Likely the single which made and then broke Factory Records within a few short years. If Anthony H. Wilson still walked this mortal coil he would possibly keep reminding us that Shaun Ryder was the new voice of a generation ....the new John Lydon ....a new youth icon. He may have been right, after all Ryder's lyrics were inspired - what Wilson didn't realise until too late, that despite all his hype and praxis, putting Ryder and chums into a studio with Martin Hannett would eventually lead to the musicians and their producer smoking and snorting away his record label's bottom line. I grew up with Factory Records, in Manchester I remember when the Hacienda was an empty cavernous wasteland, a great place to see bands (I've seen quite a few there) but a crap nightclub. It was possibly also a crap place to see bands but I didn't care back then. The whole Madchester scene made Factory a mint a...