Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "Q" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM

in my head, i hear this sentence uttered very crisply at a cocktail party in a libary by some guy in a smoking jacket drinking from a brandy snifter.

>Is there another Quad City DJs album than Get On Up and Dance? The hit from that one, "Come On and Ride It (The Train)," is a fine if underrated bit of Southern Bass... <

nope, that album. And the hit is underrated DESPITE placing first in pazz and jop the year it came out! (Has there ever been a more underrated Pazz & Jop winner in any category? Ponder that one...)

http://villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/04/search_return.php?poll_year=1996&type=S&keyword=quad+city

Right now I'm trying to remember if Quad City DJs were directly related to Hi-Town DJs (who made an even better album, as I recall).

this could explain my inability to solve the stacey q mystery. maybe i was wrong and there was in fact no mystery! (i haven't heard "we connect" in a long time!)

Have to give credit to producer/arranger/writer Mike Chapman, who was Suzi's equivalent to Gary Glitter's Mike Leander.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:r8fe4j172waw

I need to check the copyrights to see how many great tracks on that came out after her second album. (I'm not denying that her debut is her best album, or that her later ones weren't nearly as consistent, but I suspect most if not all her '70s albums have rocking tracks on them. "Tear Me Apart," for instance, is as good and rocking as anything on the debut -- what album was that on initially? Tanya Tucker does a kick-ass version, too, crazily enough. Weirdest track on the debut -- the one I always pick over "Can the Can" and "48 Crash" when I'm deejaying -- is the rythmic extravaganza "Primitive Love," a crazed bubbletribalmetal link between dub and acid house!)

... and sooooooooo much more besides!

The majority of that collection is from the first two, plus Your Mama Won't Like Me, an album with a good title and not much
more. I sold it. "Tear Me Apart" was a good song, not better than something like "Daytona Demon." It was good enough to get me to cough up for Tanya Tucker's album of the same time. Although, actually the cover photo with her in red leather was a bigger selling point as good potential polishing material. Musically, that particular record never did much for me outside the Quatro tune and it was richly pushed and extolled at the time.

"Rock Hard" was cool, but this *Times Square* song had better words:

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Robin Johnson & Trina Alavarado: Your Daughter Is One lyrics

[Nicky]:
Miss Rosie Washington,
I'm sticking pins into your brain.
I'm manslaughtering you with voodoo.
Can you hear the jones?
Can you feel the pain yet, faggot social worker?

And Mr. Pearl.
I hate you with every rotten tooth in my head.
Black-eyes to YOU, Fucking Nazi.

[Both]:
(1st Chorus)
Stick Pins, into you,
Sleez Sister Voodoo.

[Pamela]:
Yes, father dear.
You wanna make Times Square as cold as your icy eye?
Why do you wanna punish people who aren't like you?
Y'know that at home I've heard you use the following words:
"Spic," "nigger," "faggot," and "psycho."
Well, I want you to know that your daughter IS one.

[Both]:
(2nd Chorus)
Spic. Nigger. Faggot. Bum.
Your Daughter Is One.

[Nicky]:
Dr. Zymansky, you cold-fart holy man.
You don't know anything about what makes me tick.
All you know about is sucking up to important people.
Right, fat buns?

Oh, and Dr. Huber,
How can I forget about you, ya con artist.
Who d'you think you're fooling with that shit-eating smile of yours?
You're bedside manner makes me whoof my cookies.
(pretending to regurgitate)
Gimme a barf-bag(laughs).

[Both]:
(2nd Chorus).

[Nicky]:
Assholes, you're time has come.
'Cuz' I'm a time-bomb, and I'm gonna explode all over you people.

[Both]:
(2nd Chorus).

[Nicky]:
The Sleez Sisters dedicate this to Brian Jones,
and all the other dinosaurs who got kicked out of the band.

Much to your chagrine, another series like this will inevitably follow. So snarl and bite and play the dog, grrrrrowwwl, ruff-ruff!

Stacey Q will forever be seared into my memory for her guest appearance in (I think) a talent show on The Facts of Life.

Almost as good as Salt & Pepa coming to Blossom's garage sale.

http://www.7digital.com/shops/assets/sleeveart/075678297021_350.JPEG

How long does it take you to put together a tune like "The Train"?

A couple of hours, at least. But the dance, the hook -- all things develop over a longer period in the clubs. And whatever the crowd wants, that's what I try to translate when I'm in the studio.

Which version of "The Loco-Motion" did you like the best -- Little Eva, Grand Funk Railroad or Kylie Minogue?

Grand Funk, for sure, because that's the one I heard the most. And we were toying with some mixture of that song with ours, but it didn't come out right. And I've learned that you can kill a record that way.

Did you think there was an oversaturation on "Whoot, There It Is"?

Yeah, but there were eight versions of that going around. The idea came from the streets, and even though the 95 South one might have been recorded first, it was Tag Team who released it earlier. I sold 3-and-a-half million of mine, though. And now I'll be sitting at home watching a football game and hearing it played in the stadium -- that's a big thrill. We even were invited to perform it at the top of the fifth inning in the fifth game of the '93 World Series between the Phillies and Toronto, and that was the best crowd that I've ever performed for.

You had that "Whoot" vs. "Whoomp!" battle on Arsenio, but what do you think were the reasons his show got canned after that season?

Personally, I think it was political. I mean, his ratings were still good. But the Quad City DJs got asked on The Tonight Show and we couldn't make it because of a previous engagement -- I'm still kicking myself over that one. But I've been on Oprah, Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Regis & Kathie Lee...

Do you think that Frank and Kathie Lee will live happily ever after?

Don't ask me anything about that. I jump in, do my thing and leave.

What is the next trick up your tattooed sleeve, sir?

I will be performing one more year, then it's into the studio full-time. But before then, I'll be working with the B-52's and maybe even a track on the next TLC album. And even if all the other R&B records out there come out sounding the same, I've gotta keep on my toes.

Read any good books lately?

On the tour bus, I read nothing but entertainment law books. The exact same things that my attorneys studied from in school.

But the more you read their books, the less money they will make.

Exactly. At least mine were nice enough to contact the publisher, because you can only get them if you're a student or in private practice. It's not the easiest stuff to figure out. But I know that reading them will make me a better businessman, even if I had to pay, like, $2,000 for four books.

And you thought the bottom of the trough was "Meet the Flintstones"...

My Q CD shelf in total:

Quannum Spectrum
Queen Latifah
Queens Of The Stone Age
Quintron And Miss Pussycat

I do the same thing with Anticon, Kool Keith, MF Doom, Wu-Tang and Madlib.

(under A, K, M, W and M, obv)

(I do file my vinyl Mellencamp LPs in the C's, though; I admit that. But my Stooges albums and Iggy Pop ones aren't even close together.)

*blink* *blink*

Read Nobel laureate Arno Penzias's book on information and ideas collation. Alphabetizing is interesting but has almost nothing to do with how the brain works most efficiently when collecting and storing information.

Sorry, xhuxk, had to say that. I've "stored" and "collated" things by writing things on the edges of scraps of paper, envelopes and sorting CDs by whatever whim seemed best to the gray matter. Fifteen years ago I interviewed Penzias and he told me he did things the same way, which he felt was basically how the human brain usually works when it's at its best and why it can't be duplicated by computers or list-making, and it made the basis for his book. I've never seen anything that proved him wrong.

But I still thing these threads are great (!!!) because, like the human brain, they are actually totally random, although seemingly put together on a thin tissue of rules-making.

revive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s