Ain't it the Truth: Robert Lloyd of Nightingales' Favourite Music

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

11. Skinny Boys‘Jockbox’

In the late 80s the Nightingales stopped working largely because I got too involved with my own label, Vindaloo Records, and I got too involved with Fuzzbox and the rest of the Nightingales got fed up with it and the band just fell apart rather than broke up. But anyway, I was living on my own at the time and there was a guy who was releasing these records called Street Sounds Electro. It was called electro then – not hip hop. But there was this really strange album called Weightless by The Skinny Boys which was quite avant-garde. This track is on it. It wasn’t music you could dance to. You couldn’t dance on your head to it. It wasn’t for break dancing. This one took it to the extreme.

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