This radio show has been many people's favourite of the year....It's one I did for Black History Month back in February….And of course being an obtuse twat, I had to make things harder for myself…..So I decided to loosely base the show around the book “This Is Uncool……The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk & Disco” written by a mixed race UK author named Garry Mullholland..... that traces his love of the ‘single’ format from 1977 to 1999…..So…..with a mixture of his picks….and some of mine….I stitched together a show…one song per year…. that though not necessarily the best track of that particular year…represented something happening within black music at that time….Of course I could go back and redo it all again and it still wouldn’t please me…or you….but that be where the cards fell at the time I recorded the show…I’ll leave you to re-write history!

Rose Royce Car Wash 45 MCA

Funkadelic One Nation 45 Warner Bros

Chic Good Times 45 Atlantic

J Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz Shoot The Punp 45 Zoo York

Gil Scott B-Movie 12” Arista

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five White Lines 45 Sugarhill

Malcolm X No Sell Out 12” Tommy Boy

Tenor Saw Ring The Alarm 45 Techniques

Schooly D Put Your Filas On 12” Rhythm King

Rhythm Is Rhythm Nude Photo 12” Transmat

EPMD Strictly Business 12” Sleeping Bag

Public Enemy Fight The Power (Powersax) 12” Motown

Soul II Soul Keep On Movin 12” 10

NOW Aftermath 12” Warp

Young MC I Come Of Southern Comfort Mix 12” 4th&Bdwy

Shut Up & Dance Raving I’m Raving 12” Shut Up & Dance

Credit To The Nation Call It What You Want 12” One Little Indian

Goldie Inner City Life 12” FFrr

Method Man Release You Delf Prodigy Remix 12” Def Jam

Norma Jean Bell I’m The Baddest Bitch 12” F-Communications

Roni Size/Reprazent Brown Paper Bag 12” Talkin Loud

Cornershop Brimful Of Asha Norman Cook Remix 12” Wiiija

The Aztec Mystic Knights Of The Jaguar 12” 430 West

Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb (Poem) mp3 Not On Label