When you enter my House, it becomes Our House

Oh Deptford Salvation Army shop, with your three CD House Classics box for 2 pounds you are really spoiling us... This goes to show a few things, including that Hip House was a really, really bad idea, and also that everything else I have written about Chicago House is entirely correct. Viz Sterling Void's 'It's All Right', amongst other things. There seems to be something specifically American about the combustive combination of hedonism and techno-romantic-utopianism in Chicago House, and am puzzling out why this is so, and why such a music couldn't have sprung up anywhere else. (No slur on Rave, but its permeation into British popcult made for something so much more blokey, did it not?) Not entirely sure if this is something to do with 'the pursuit of happiness' being enshrined in the Constitution...but I'm working on it.
The pic above incidentally is the Designers Republic's excellent cover to Warp's Influences, which introduced me to the joys of er, jacking my body. Also first in an occasional series of 'brutalist buildings on record covers'- I think that's Leeds University, am currently trying to find it on Flickr's remarkable Brutalism Pool...