dump - that skinny motherfucker with the high voice

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i say a big C. a few songs are a monochrome for their own sake, but more than a few are really inspired reworks.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Friday, 20 August 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Raspberry Beret. Can't remember any of the others though, haven't listened to it in ages.

― poopy pants, Friday, 20 August 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Must listen again.. I remember being disapppointed upon first listen & then I shelved it..

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Are y'all talking about that new Paris Hilton single?

Cool.

― I'm American, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer Dump's version of "Pop Life" to the original (more vulnerable, simpler arrangement) which is an impressive feat in and of itself. I like about half of the rest of the album, some of it is just lo-fi mush.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Prob got some indiekids to buy PRINCE records, so classic at least for that (I'm pretty sure the fact JM did this record helped me deal w/buying "1999" when I was 15 or so, so I can stand as proof maybe (sold my Yo La Tengo recs not long afterwards, of course. Awww)). Never heard this thing tho.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Prob got some indiekids to buy PRINCE records

if that's true, that's a sad commentary on indiekids.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

How so? If indie kids discover they may actually like Prince records through this record and broaden their horizons surely that's a good thing.

Or do you mean it's sad that they didn't already have Prince records?

Or sad that this record got them to buy Prince records, because this records SUCKS ASS? (note: I don't think this record sucks, necessarily)

Or something else entirely different?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

sad that it takes a half-realized (at best) novelty record by a b-list (at best) white indie rock act to get them to pay attention to one of the most towering black pop figures of the past couple decades.

to repeat, i don't necessarily think it's true that dump was a major entryway into prince for any real significant number of people. but if it is true, it means that it actually occurred to them to buy a james mcnew prince covers album before it occurred to them to buy even one prince album, which, yes, is a sad commentary on indiekids' tastes. especially since this would require them to go out of their way to get that james mcnew album. it's not like he was the lead review in magnet, or advertised in the window of other music, or anything like that.

and i actually like one of the songs on skinny motherfucker, though it's been a long time since i heard it and i forget which one.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, to be fair they may have been put off paying attention to Prince by his post-80's output...

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

good point there.

but the thing about finding him through dump is that it takes a significant amount of work to find a dump album in the first place. it's not quite like finding about a cool older artist because you heard britney cover him on the radio, or because you heard dashboard confessional talking about him on "trl," or because death cab encored with one of his songs at that show you saw last night. that i could totally understand. if you're smart/adventurous/whatever enough to find a dump album in the first place, you should've been able to find your way back to purple rain or parade.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

prince doesnt play indie rock though (unless you count dinner with delores) so i dont expect all that many indie kids to be into him. i mean, the other week i overheard two indie kids talking about stevie wonder, one regarded him in mocking tones as if he was embarassed to even be talking about him, the other one was convincing him that 'oh no, honestly, innervisions is a good record really'.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic - should have been strictly novelty, but he gives the songs entirely new identities. As mentioned before, "Pop Life" is perfection.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"the beautiful ones" is the one that does it for me.

― dan (dan), Friday, 20 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahhaahhaa yeah it takes SO MUCH WORK for an INDIEKID to hear about a YLT sideproject

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 21 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

never saw this in stores and only have something like three tracks.
Pop Life and Raspberry Beret are great.
i wannit i wannit.
please?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 August 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

i want to hear this too, looks like it's OOP

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

i've only got it on tape ... and er, yeah, it did make me pay more attention to Prince when I was a kid. SORRY, ILM.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

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dump - that skinny motherfucker with the high voice - C or D?