Very intresting reading and what really comes to the fore is that nobody so far has managed to name a record that everybody agrees is complete tripe lol, You cant put the words northern soul and rubbish music in the same sentence as it was a drug fuled dance scene, it was different from anything else it was travelling, dancing, friendship etc so i dont think i ever seen it as a musical wonder in its own right, however nowadays the dance side has mellowed (were all older) i think most listen now rather than just look for a beat to dance to, ..... i think you could take 500 tunes and disect them musically and then 99% of folk would agree that they are rubbish ,however music & northern go together for so many different reasons, we involve memory,s emotions etc which have no bearing on the soulful quality of a record. I,d like to add that most places you go dont have the same numbers etc as the old days or the same ethos, you used to go to a nite and expect to hear loads of new records and embrace them good or bad and that was probably created by the numbers dancing while fueled with drugs, now your on your own and have years of wisdom and taste so its much easier to decide if something is good or bad immedietly where as years ago with a 1000 people in a hall and 700 of them dancing it sorta got u caught up in it, whether or not it was good or bad. Just for the record i hear stuff now that i think is absolute crap that back in the day loved to bits (only because i danced to it ) i suppose looking back it was never a great record but it ticked most of the boxes for a dance beat.......... ive wracked my brains to find an awful record that may just manage to go across the board on the everyone agrees list and all i can come up with is Wakefield sun, Trypt on love ????