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Tricky

Tricky “Maxinquaye”

Following on from Websta’s & Benny’s posts about albums that made an impact, I would like to proudly induct Tricky’s debut, “Maxinquaye”, into the Stink-Finger hall of fame.
Tricky threw his darkly warped yet disturbingly sexy collection of songs into the world in 1995, one year after I had escaped high school and moved on to [...]

A formative mix

A formative mix

While Websta’s update took us all back to the halcyon days of the late 80s my influential LP is somewhat less memory taxing, emerging in 2002. Not only that, it isn’t even an album, nope, it turns out an influential record for me is infact just another mix cd.
I’m not sure what you were [...]

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys

Heres a new feature from us here at the Finger. We will try to review some of the most important lps, 12’s, ep’s and cassettes of our `Yoof’. Things that were formative in our taste in music, clothing and even haircuts.
I’ll kick it off with this lil beauty from days as a store boy at [...]