Can U identify? Lyric: 'time keeps slipping'

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Yo! does anyone know what this track is? and, indeed, whom it is by? the sole lyric seems to be 'time keeps slipping into the future'. it's a modern funk thing i think, with a great dirty ascending synth riff every few bars.

thanx!

― chris griffin (glinka), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Are we not talking about Steve Miller Band? Something that samples it I guess?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

"Fly Like an Eagle" by Steve Miller Band?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

yes, that's a godawful steve miller band song

― Michael Burble, Monday, 11 July 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

"Fly Like an Eagle" by Steve Miller Band?

He says

the sole lyric seems to be 'time keeps slipping into the future'

Sounds like some sampled thing. Not sure what is meant by modern funk though.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Steve Miller had a knack for writing almost-good yet crappy songs.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

That's "Delorean Crunk" by Doc Brown (TiTor remix).

― Dare (Dare), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Steve Miller had a knack for writing almost-good yet crappy songs.

OTM.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Like when "The Joker" comes on, I almost always like it for a few seconds and then it starts sounding really retarded to me.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

the disco-ness of "macho city" has been pointed out and canonized, so i need not rep it here.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there an EPMD song that samples Fly Like an Eagle? first album maybe?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Like when I start to sing Big Old Jet Airliner, and about 6 bars into it, I realize that I'm drowing in shit.

But the idea of singing it seemed so enticing at the time.

Same for Jungle Love.

Same for Fly Like an Eagle.

Same for...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there an EPMD song that samples Fly Like an Eagle? first album maybe?

Yeah, although it, uh, slips my mind at the moment.

Wasn't a Biz Markie song the first to do it?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Same for...

"abracadabra"?

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like you might have heard the Seal cover of "Fly Like An Eagle." Were you, by any chance, listening to the SPACE JAM soundtrack?

(I still feel like the joke must be on me for posting to this thread -- identify me "if I leave here something something free as a bird something something" k thx)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, he was good for some harmless pseudo-blues pseudo-electro ditties almost as tuneful as the real thing. I don't see the point in hating him, unless you want to blame classic-rock radio for swamping him in millions of royalties year round.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Hey Pappa you were thinking of Nobody Beats the Biz and I was thinking of Your a Customer

So sayeth The-Breaks: (damn this song has been sampled ALOT!)

Fly Like an Eagle: (Capitol 1976)
* "Fly Like an Eagle"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Check the Rhyme"
Biz Markie - "Nobody Beats the Biz"
Bobby Jimmy - "N.Y./L.A. Rappers"
Chubb Rock - "Regiments of Steel"
Def Jef - "Black to the Future"
Downtown Science - "Out there but in There"
EPMD - "You're a Customer"
EPMD - "Total Kaos"
EPMD - "Get off the Bandwagon" (Remix)
EPMD - "Hit Squad Heist"
Everlast - "Ends"
Heavy D - "Who's the Man?"
I.G. Off & Hazadous - "Hip Hop 'Til I Die"
Jungle Brothers - "J. Beez Comin' Through" (Vocals)
Kenny Dope - "The Magnificent"
Kid 'N Play - "Slippin'"
KRS-One ft Puff Daddy - "Step into a World (Rapture's Delight)" (Remix)
Kwame - "? Like It"
Luniz - "I Got 5 on It"
Nas - "The Foulness"
Nightmares on Wax - "Back to Time" (Vocals)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - "In the Flesh"
Powerule - "Gots to Get This"
RBL Posse - "G's by the 1,2,3's"
Saukrates - "Father Time" (Remix)
Seal - "Fly Like an Eagle" (Remake)
Special Ed - "The Mission" (Remix)
Steady B - "Ego Trippin'"
Vanilla Ice - "?"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Deltron 3030 has a song called 'time keeps sleeping' which has Damon Albarn on the chorus.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YYXL/

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

"Spread Like an Eagle"

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

uh huh huh

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

i hope we can get 100% confirmation of the identity of the track chris griffin asks about. i think i know the one he means, but not who it's by, and it's been bugging me too for years! the track i'm thinking of is indeed a "Fly Like An Eagle" sample, repeated over and over, but is otherwise all instrumental

i'm pretty sure i heard it on the john peel show originally - early 1990s IIRC

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

That's "Delorean Crunk" by Doc Brown (TiTor remix).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Hey Pappa you were thinking of Nobody Beats the Biz and I was thinking of Your a Customer

Thanks M@TT!

I'm betting $5.75 that it's Nightmares on Wax "Back to Time", judging by the description of it and the fact that it may've been heard on Peel's show.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Steve Miller had a knack for writing almost-good yet crappy songs.
-- Hurting
so so sooooo OTM. And "Fly Like an Eagle" painfully brings me back to being trapped on Sunday's in Sears and Radioshack as my father browsed VERY SLOWLY for some tool/component. I mean did they play anything else during the 80's? I hope I never have to hear this fucking remix. CLOSE THREAD!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

"great dirty ascending synth riff every few bars" - but that just sounds like the old version. although i would say it was more slick than dirty - like being brushed with some teflon fibers while staring at that fiberoptic glow ball in Radioshack -- leaves you painfully below the euphoria threshold yet still launched out into bad outspace filled with blackness and the occasionally pink diagramn. and now something masochistic in me wants to here the remixes. pls. CLOSE THREAD!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I've just found a CD single by "Habit- Fly Like An Eagle" it has those lyrics with a techno beat to it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.wilson38/Images/stock/5012980124879.jpg

― JohnSmith1984 (jsmith), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

haha, M@TT and I having the same conversation a year+ later

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

groundhog's day for people that used to watch yo mtv raps when they were kids!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm doing the Ed Lover Dance to show solidarity)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

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