There is a Richard X remix of "Goodies", featuring M.I.A.

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
It's on the single, which I haven't bought yet. Anyone heard it? It makes me very excited.

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

What, THE Goodies???

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

THE Goodies.

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.streetsonline.co.uk/product_images/10/84/60/10846000.jpg

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

'IT SOUNDS LIKE PARLIAMENT ON A BAD DAY'
- the making of 'The Funky Gibbon'


Bill Oddie:
You won't believe the musical pretensions that went on in my head. I listened to a lot of jazz and a lot of funk, and that period of the '70s for me was fantastic - it was really the era when fusion started. The people I liked were Sly Stone and early Parliament, and I listened to what was happening in jazz at the time, when Miles Davis was coming up with some very interesting hybrid music. With 'Funky Gibbon', I started off - it's almost unbelievable considering how stupid the song is - trying to get the feel of a Miles Davis track, I can't remember which, probably just after Bitches Brew and that sort of era: some really choppy Miles Davis-type rhythm, again with a Sly Stone influence.
We had marvellous musicians on those sessions, but they couldn't get it. They knew what I was sort of trying to do, but I probably listened to that sort of thing more than they did, and it was driving us nuts, so we sent the drummer and the bass-player and the guitarist home. And I had a keyboard player called Dave Macrae, who'd played with Matching Mole and Robert Wyatt and people like that - governor player - and he started playing some clavinet, very Stevie Wonder-type feel to it, and I said, 'That's fine; could you do a synth-bass on it?'
And then I literally started whacking the top of the grand piano. So the actual rhythm-track of 'The Funky Gibbon' has only got me and Dave on it - he plays clavinet and synth-bass and we miked up the top of the piano. Then we got the horn section of Gonzales playing a Memphis Horns-type thing. It was lovely for me to be able to use musicians I liked and try to reproduce sounds which I also listened to. And then put the stupid song over the top of it. The idea that all that effort went into 'The Funky Gibbon'!
It sounds like Parliament on a bad day, or something like that [laughs], that kind of thing. I think subconsciously people feel it - this was always my theory about it, I thought: I want the music to sound good or authentic, whatever style it happens to be in.

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm barking up the wrong tree here aren't I?

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mind you, Bill Oddie makes Funky Gibbon sound AWESOME.

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

now I'm thinking of Bill Oddie covering Ciara, agh!

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

little known fact : bill oddie = prince's biggest fan.
he was at the lyceum gig in 1981, has been evangelical about him in numerous pieces of press since.

piscesboy, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Lex i think you can hear a clip of it on the Black Melody website. someone posted a link to the clip on another thread yesterday (maybe the MIA one as she features on it) - it's pretty good.

Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.juno.co.uk/covers/166697-03-front.htm

JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So... does anyone have a link to this?

Steev (Steev), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

annoyingly it seems to be on the uk CD single but not the 12"... bastards!

Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

You can buy it from iTunes (and listen to 30 seconds).

JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, you're better off with Black Melody then, aren't you?

I'll say it again: dancehall is not RX's strong suit. It's not bad though, but Petey Pablo >> MIA.

Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

as much as i like ciara, mia, and richard x, the remix sucks.

adam west (adamwest), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hey so I found this. My attempt to link to it may or may not work, but I'll give it a shot.

Ciara f/ MIA - "Goodies (Remix)"

I like it. Not mind-blowing but worth a listen.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 22 January 2005 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

this is hot btw and still the best thing Ciara has done to date

fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:59 (fifteen years ago)


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.