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I hereby open myself up to cries of treason for starting this thread without asking either Tom or Josh. Apologies made to whoever pleases. (No, I will not quote the next line.) Rules are here if yr not already familiar. And since I already mentioned it, here's the opener:

Public Enemy: "Welcome to the Terrordome"

― M Matos, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and in the interest of getting this into New Answers, I shall rejoinder...
"WTTT" is hooked by the sound of an air-raid siren, as is...

Human Resource, "Dominator"

― M Matos, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[*on a point of order this is actually OC iv: as you were*]

― i am an archivist i am an antichrist, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[[aiyiyi. didn't see a III even when googled. grrr.]]]

― M Matos, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, apologies to me because I have starting rights to OC IV. Since I haven't availed myself of the opportunity to do so, however, my apologies right back to you, and feel free to carry on. You are aware that you do have to award some sort of prize at the end, yesss?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By the way, those who would care to HONOUR THE FIRE will be pleased to note that "Dominator" is also the title of a song by Killing Joke.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wow, just as I was about to restart w/new title. thanks, admin-person!

― M Matos, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the intro of killing joke's "eighties" is exactly copied in nirvana's "come as you are"

― willem, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the lyric of "Come as You Are" mentions bleach, the title of Nirvana's previous album. similarly, on Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello writes a song with the title of his previous album:

"Almost Blue"

― M Matos, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(by the way, the prize will be a mix-CD thingy of some kind)

― M Matos, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"You Take My Breath Away" sang Berlin, which surely left that band's oxygen-free blood almost blue.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Connect 4? Where? I don't see...
Here - diagonally.
Pretty sneaky, sis.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"You Take My Breath Away" also sang Freddie Mercury. Venus is the next planet out from Mercury. Which leads to "Venus" covered by Bananarama.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Soft Boys covered the Tin Pan Alley novelty song "I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)."

― Douglas, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Soft Boys sounds rather like The Soft Machine (I believe this was intentional). Kevin Ayers from The Soft Machine has worked with Ollie Halsall, who on the Miniatures album did a song called 'Bum Love'. Pop Idol star Will Young probably likes this kind of lovin', and has recently released a song called 'Evergreen'.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Evergreen was an album from Echo and the Bunnymen. Echo was the band's drum machine, as was 808 in 808 State, therefore: Bjork.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it was my understanding that you have to connect with a "record" and not just an artist. i don't know why i think this is important. (maybe someone has put out a record called "bjork" - this would be great, actually)

― Tracer hand, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The way we've been playing it has been a lot looser than that, Tracer. But still, if you require an album named Björk, look no further than this!

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't Look Any Further" was a hit for both M People and, in its original version, Siedah Garrett and Dennis Edwards, who was in the Temptations, who did "Just My Imagination"

― M Matos, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, I'm such a little bitch today.

"Just My Imagination" was covered by them Stones boys, and it's one of my favorite songs, it's a damn love letter to their favorite sweet-hearted R&B, which is how they started playing music in the first place, doing nothing but covers, amongst them "You're Crackin Up" which if I'm not mistaken was done previously by a Mr. Bo Diddley.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and "Cracking Up" is the second song on Nick Lowe's second album, Labour of Lust

― M Matos, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I need a filthy outlet for my Teenage Lust!"-MC5

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Golden Filth was a live album by the Fugs, and featured the undergound hit "Slum Goddess."

― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Goddess on a Hiway" by Mercury Rev featured the killer line "Explode like two bugs on glass," which puts me in mind of "Breaking Glass" by David Bowie from the Low album and its line "Don't look on your carpet" that in turn makes me think of "The Noise of Carpet" by Stereolab from Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That record came on glittery yellow vinyl so it was impossible to figure out where to put the needle down if you didn't want to listen to the whole side from start to finish. So you'd go "CHUNK- sawoooonnnngggg-thok" ... peer about ... "zzt-BLANGYBLANGY-tang-tang- THIP ..." Totally aggravating.

"Don't Disturb This Groove" by The System.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"groove is in the heart" by dee-lite is one of the first (of now many) songs i heard on the radio which i couldn't decide if it was really good or really annoyed/disturbed me.

― jess, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bootsy Collins was in the video for "Groove is in the heart". Bootsy wears funny glasses. So did Elton John.

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Elton John did drugs but got straight. The founders of straightedge are in FUGAZI.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

another prominent (former) straightedge is Moby, who made an unpopular rock album titled Animal Rights

― M Matos, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even less popular was the beneift single "Don't Kill the Animals" by Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dunno about killing animals, but FUGAZI were ^in on the killtaker^

― a-33, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(let the record show that this time I was uninvolved with taking the thread that way)

If you were in on the killtaker, you might have tried killing a Taker, a band that is based in Boston. Boston is a band featuring Tom Scholz.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boston, Lancashire's football team has a chant that goes along the lines of "Number 1, is Boston town, number 2 is Boston town..." etc and reaches "we all live in a Boston Wonderland"- this is obviously sung to the tune of 'Yellow Submarine'. Submarines are used in Marine Research, a band formed by members of Heavenly. Apparently, "Heaven is a place on Earth". Another place on Earth is the United States Of America, who recorded a fantastic track called 'Coming Down'. You would likely have a come down if you were to take 'Heroin' a song by the Velvet Underground. The underground is also called the Subway, hence the Subway Sect. I've never been sure who came first, the Subway Sect or the Tubeway Army (so very similar are their names). The Tubeway Army released 'Are Friends Electric' which was magnificently bootlegged into 'We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends' by Girls On Top. The Sugababes are releasing a version of this as their new single. Previous singles by the Sugababes include 'Overload'. I think this is what I have gone into.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Overload is also the name of a track by the Wax Trax industrial rock band Sister Machine Gun.

― bnw, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Disco machine gun is a track by the Lo-Fidelity allstars who are on Skint records.

Kevin Rowlands was declared bankrupt in the early 90's, he recorded an album called Don't stand me down in 1985 which featured Vincent Crane of Atomic Rooster.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Though it may not have been Atomic, there was a rooster on the cover of Don Solaris, an album by... 808 STATE.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"State of Mind" was a crap ballad on then-ascendant junglist Goldie's Timeless.

― M Matos, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Goldie Hawn was a featured player on NBC's Laugh-In, which had a segment with crappy puns and one-liners set to bogus psychedelic rock.

― nickn, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Bogus psychedelic rock" would have been, in the parlance of the day, a "bummer". Happy Mondays were once Bummed, even though they were on Factory records once upon an age, same label as New Order. New Order's lead singer was Barney, who once guested on an album by...808 STATE.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a chalice on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed," begins James Joyce's classic novel _Ulysses_, which chronicles the perambulations of Mr. Leopold Bloom on June 16, 1904. Joyce's next novel was _Finnegans Wake_, whose male protagonist is known by the initials H.C.E., which stand variously for Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Haveth Childers Everywhere, and "Here Comes Everybody," the title of a song by Game Theory.

― Douglas, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In point of fact, Buck Mulligan wasn't carrying a chalice but a bowl of lather. (You're following the Catholic mass parallels a little too closely.) Läther was an album by Frank Zappa which featured "The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit." Ah, if only our friend from Illinois followed the advice of Mary Wells: "Never EVER steal ANYTHING WEEEETTTTT..." The mind shudders when one recalls that Barbara Streisand actually released a concept album called Wet. The very idea!

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Similarly, Andrew W.K. just released a concept album titled I Get Wet. The very idea!

― M Matos, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

P.J. Harvey's Dry.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Schneider TM's Moist.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

on this thread douglas tells us he once tried to rewrite the normal's "warm leatherette" as "moist towelette." "warm leatherette" was recently covered by chicks on speed.

― jess, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chicks on Speed are one thing to contemplate, but Gaye Bikers on Acid are yet another...and how about those Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mopeds = Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

― bnw, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"We Are Family" by Sister Sledge was on a 12-inch with "He's the Greatest Dancer," which despite all the Halston, Gucci and Fiorucci references could well have been about James Brown, who in 1967 released "There Was a Time."

― M Matos, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Time After Time" was a song by Cindy Lauper (although R.E.M have their own version) which is apparently torn apart (not in a got way) by Unkle Kracker on the soundtrack to the new Nickolodeon movie Clockstoppers which sounds kind of like Gobstoppers which brings to mind Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompa song "Oompa Loompa Doompety Doo."

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Captain Beefheart, at his heaviest, looked kinda like an Oompa Loompa, and sang tunes with similarly bizarre titles, like "Hobo Chang Ba".

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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(Cary Bates! MOMMYHEADS! Dear God, where was I when this happened!)

Sheena Easton sang about her "Sugar Walls". She also received co- writing credit on Prince's "La La La He He Hee", which Prince wrote on a DARE.

(Oh, if only I could make a connection to Mark Gruenwald.)

― Daver, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Dare" was a collosal album by the Human League, which contained the track "(Keep Feeling) Fascination." "Fascination" was apparently a "Street" for Robert Smith, who once appeared on South Park, kicking the balls of Eric Cartman, who has an OCD habit of singing all the words to "Come Sail Away" by Styx.

― J, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Randy Newman, "Sail Away" --> Al Green, "I'll Fly Away" --> Lemon Pipers, "Green Tambourine" --> Prince, "Tambourine" --> Veronica's instrument in the Archies --> Wilson Pickett, "Sugar Sugar" --> Wilson Phillips

― M Matos, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Philip Bailey's Chinese Wall --> Johnny Thunders "Chinese Rocks" --> Schoolhouse Rock! "I'm Just a Bill" --> Billy Burroughs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy "Words of Advice for Young People"

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

William S. Burroughs was a famous misogynist (in the old 'zine _Double Bill_, there's a comic where William Conrad hunts down and executes William Burroughs "for the crimes of misogyny and senility"). Also not too keen on women are KISS, who famously dumped vials of their own blood into the red ink for a Marvel Comics KISS one-shot. This may have inspired the estate of Mark Gruenwald, years later, to mix his ashes with the black ink for the paperback that reprinted his comics miniseries _Squadron Supreme_. The highlight of Tiger Trap's debut album is "Supreme Nothing."

How's that, Daver?

― Douglas, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Nothing" is fantastic song by the Fugs, who had the Holy Modal Rounders as guests on their first album. The Holy Modal Rounders cover the old gospel standard "Better Things" on their second record; they probably learned it from the Memphis Sanctified Singers, whose version of the tune was on the Anthology of American Folk Music put together by Harry Smith. Smith was a one-hit wonder in the seventies, and their hit was a slowed-down cover of the Bacharach/David hit "Baby It's You."

― J, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Justice plays right field for the Oakland Athletics. Ichiro Suzuki plays the same position for the Seattle Mariners. Ultramarine recorded Every Man and Woman is a Star, which featured Robert Wyatt, who was in the Soft Machine. Machine recorded "There But for the Grace of God Go I."

― M Matos, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I" is the last song on Dave Q's favorite weirdass coke album, the Kiss effort Music From the Elder.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music from the Elder has been described as "music for He-Man to fight Skeletor by," and there's no doubt that Rock music's biggest He-Man is the mighty Thor, Canada's first heavy metal artist. Thor was the god of thunder, although Gene Simmons thought he was the "God of Thunder." Gene Simmons was most recently an ass on Terri Gross' NPR interview program Fresh Air. "Fresh Aire" is a series of albums by new-age twerps Mannheim Steamroller, and "Steamroller" is an incredibly limp blues number performed by James Taylor. There were a couple of Taylors in Duran Duran, who were named after the villain in the movie "Barbarella," starring Jane Fonda. Jane's brother Peter played a biker in the film "Easy Rider," and "C.C. Rider" is the name of a R&B tune performed by, among others, LaVern Baker.

― J, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

C.C. Blooms is a notorious Edinburgh gay bar. Jimmy Somerville is gay, but unfortunately Glaswegian. Shirley Manson, however, is from Edinburgh and her old band "Goodbye Mr Mackenzie" could certainly be called "totally gay" in the perjorative sense favoured by Limp Bizkit fans. Limp Bizkit's DJ Lethal used to be in House of Pain, and in that capacity appeared in dismal early 90s Ed Lover and Dr Dre vehicle "Who's the man?". Said pile of cinematic excreta also featured scary sex dwarf Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys who recorded a particularly misogynistic but rather catchy tune called "Gangster of Love".

― jacob, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Geto Boys are also responsible for the meisterverk "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me." Skip Spence's mind apparently started playing tricks on him sometime during the recording of the second Moby Grape album, and he tried to attack his drummer with an axe. Daniel Johnston attacked Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, but not with an axe. Shelley Long was in the sitcom "Cheers" for a few seasons, and the theme from that show was actually a minor hit single in the U.S.

― J, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No matter who actually wins, Douglas will always be aces in my book.

You will note that ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman (he of the magenta suit and the 70s AOR fixation) invokes the name of Gary "U.S." Bonds whenever he talks about Barry "F.U." Bonds (on pace for 324 home runs this year, BTW). Barry Bonds ==> San Fran Giants ==> They Might Be Giants (if they had better players ==> annoying theme song for "hit sitcom" (shitcom?) Malcolm in the Middle ==> "The Middle", by Carson Daly's favorite band, Jimmy Eat World, whose new album (which is pretty damn good, if you like that sorta thing) USED to be called _Bleed American_. The Making of Americans record label released the first album by the Scissor Girls (IN-STI-TOO-SHUN-ALL-EYEZ!). And Barbara Manning's first (and best) album has her keeping scissors, lately.

― Daver, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Barbara Manning's Lately I Keep Scissors was issued on CD by Heyday Records. Heyday is the name of the 2CD retrospective by the Embarrassment, who were from Kansas. So is Dorothy Gale, who met the Tinman in Oz. Oz, on HBO, is set in prison. So is "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" by Public Enemy, who also recorded "Welcome to the Terrordome."

― M Matos, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dome is one of many immediately post-original-version-of-Wire projects; Dome also mutated briefly into Duet Emmo, a collaboration with Mute's Daniel Miller, good friend of the alas now deceased Fad Gadget, who wrote a song called "Fireside Favourite."

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Forgotten Favorite" was a boffo song from the first recorded incarnation of Velocity Girl (blah blah PRIMAL SCREAM blah blah). Mr. John Lennon composed the _Plastic Ono Band_ record while undergoing therapy at Arthur Janov's Primal Institute. Lou Reed (another recipient of therapy, albeit unwillingly) used to play at Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable happenings with his little beat quartet, the Velvet Underground. While not underground, there are many black velvet paintings of Elvis (w/ his little boy smile, in that slow Southern style) floating about. And, of course, while Elvis was a hero to most, he never meant shit to Chuck D (but, according to the latest issue of Mojo, Chuck wasn't blasting the King, but the King's iconic image; no word on the John Wayne diss).

― Daver, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Diss-diss-diss-dissthenic peh-peh-peh-penetration!" goes one of the best songs by Huggy Bear. Bear Family has released many ultra-complete boxed sets, including one by Fats Domino that inspired the newly re- compiled 4-disc set _Walking to New Orleans_. Domino was an early-'90s rapper whose refrain "it's the diggety-who, the diggety-what, the diggety Domino" predated Das EFX's wildly superior use of the term "diggety" in their "They Want EFX."

― Douglas, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

X is an LA punk band and an Australian punk band *and* a Japanese glam metal band! But "Metro Mr. X" was by Soft Cell, not Cell, who stunk, but did once cover "Auf Wiedersehn" by Cheap Trick, once produced by Steve Albini, who covered "He's a Whore," as well as "The Model" by Kraftwerk, who once used flutes, rather like Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, who is loved by Rob Morgan of the Squirrels, who are intertwined with the Young Fresh Fellows, who were labelmates of Thin White Rope, who had a song called "Down in the Desert" that was covered by the Poster Children, whose own song "He's My Star" was about David Hasselhoff.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Hasselhoff favours those leather jackets with the tassels on them, rather reminiscent of Tiffany who also liked to wear them. Tiffany thought they were alone now, or more accurately the subject of the song turned to her and said "I think we're alone now". The Troggs thought they loved you (wild thing) but KRS One just thought too much and hence released "My Philosophy". My Philosophy was the first track off "By all means necessary" which also featured "Stop the violence", the bassline to which is oddly similar to the one used on Wee Papa Girl Rappers' "Wee Rule". "Wee" is a jazz standard, penned by a one-time pianist for Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie called Frank Paparelli.

― jacob, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"He's Frank" was a single by The Monochrome Set, released on the Rough Trade label in 1978. Rough Trade was started by Geoff Travis, who shares his first name with one of England's World Cup winners in 1966 and his last with a press-hyped band of disputed merit. Also sharing his first name with one of England's World Cup winners in 1966 and his last with a press-hyped band of disputed merit is Bobby Orlando, who has frequently shortened his last name to "O". Repeatedly connecting this to the "X" upthread yields large parts of "Spasm Smash XXXOXOX OX And Ass", a 1993 album by Trumans Water. The "S" in Harry S Truman's name was not an abbreviation for anything, it was just an S; "Es(s)" is the German name for E flat, in which key is Beethoven's 3rd symphony, "Eroica".

― OleM, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Eroica' was the inspiration for Anthony Burgess' 'Napoleon Symphony'. AB also wrote 'Clockwork Orange', which gave the world Heaven 17, but for the link I'm going to say 'ACO' was directed by the same guy who did 'Full Metal Jacket', which features the incredibly great "Surfin' Bird"

― dave q, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Surfin' Bird" was covered by the Cramps. Cramped was how I felt when I attended the Phoenix festival in the summer of 1996, where the Sex Pistols, the Fall and Terrorvision played. To this day, I don't get why Terrorvision was a U.K. hit, but "Hit" was a single by the Sugarcubes that I *do* get, since it's catchy as hell. "Hell" was another catchy single, which was a minor hit in the United States for the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if a squirrel gets his nutz caught inna zipper, that fucka will scream - geri haliwell advises us to scream if we want to go faster - faster pussycat had a blerk called taime downe in them - my nutz r so big i have to tie them down - would'nt have that problem if i had the small nuts ov a squirrel

― a-33, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And of course the Squirrels have covered everyone from Frank Zappa and Archie Bell to Gilbert O'Sullivan.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gilbert O'Sullivan was "(Alone Again) Naturally," the Rutles suggested "Let's Be Natural," and therefore Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm."

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the Farm got on, got on, got on, got on the "Groovy Train." Jimmie Rodgers was "the Singing Brakeman." Sabrina Johnston recorded the ultra-great (and hard to find--anyone have pointers?) 1991 house track "I Wanna Sing." Also from 1991 was P.M. Dawn's Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience.

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Other hip-hop albums released in 1991 include Public Enemy's "Apocolypse 91 . . . The Enemy Strikes Black," the self-titled debut from Cypress Hill, and the summa cumma magnifqua "The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quest guested Busta Rhymes who worked with Janet Jackson who had a hit on the "Nutty Professor 2" soundtrack.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Low" was a highlight of R.E.M.'s Out of Time, also from 1991. Time is the new 2CD comp of Richard Hell rarities. From Hell is considered by lots of folks to be comics writer Alan Moore's greatest work. The Andrea True Connection wanted "More, More, More." "Connection" is one of Keith Richards's (and my) favorite Rolling Stones songs. Greil Marcus's and Simon Reynolds's favorite Rolling Stones song is "Gimme Shelter," also the title of a documentary by the Maysles Brothers. Willie Hutch's "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" is the title track from the Chemical Brothers' 1998 DJ- mix CD. Another 1998 DJ-mix CD, and one of my five favorite '90s albums, is Fatboy Slim's On the Floor at the Boutique, which features the greatest record of all time: the Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache."

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The original Nutty Professor soundtrack featured Slick Rick who had a track named Indian Girl (possibly about an Apache) on his first LP, "The Great Adventures Of".

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slick Rick was also a member of Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, and Mentos is the Freshmaker. The fact that this thread has been going on this long is kind of mental, and the Starlight Mints had a cool indiepop album last year. The Starland Vocal Band had a TV show for a brief period, but is more famous for its hit single "Afternoon Delight." Dee-Lite's second album wasn't much of a hit, but it did contain a track called "Vote Baby Vote" which is kind of funny.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slick Rick rapped on "La Di Da Di" by Doug E Fresh.

― Poops Mcgee, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Davy DMX's "One for the Treble (Fresh)" was on the second volume of Kurtis Blow Presents the History of Rap comp series on Rhino. On the first volume was the greatest record of all time: the Incredible Bongo Band, "Apache."

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Apache, jump on it" sayeth the Sugar Hill Gang. The Sugar Hill Gang also sayeth "you don't stop" on Rapper's Delight, which contains the immortal line "the chicken tastes like wood."

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ed Wood made Plan 9 From Outer Space, which featured the legendary Criswell, whose predictions for the future were released as a CD by DEC, who also put out Judy Garland Speaks. Judy Garland's daughter is Liza Minnelli, whose Results CD was produced by the Pet Shop Boys. The Pet Shop Boys' best album is Very.

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Very" is how puzzled I am at this thread, as I simply can't figure out what the winning answer is. "Don't Answer Me" is a soft-rock single by the Alan Parsons Project, who were famously mocked in Austin Powers. Kid Congo Powers is a guitarist who has played with, amongst others, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The Boatman's Call is a wonderful album by the aforementioned Cave, and "Don't Pay the Ferryman" is a rather terrible eighties hit by Chris DeBurgh.
― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stop it

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(the ital I mean)

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unto the ferryman, you musn't just demand "Take Me To the Other Side" from Spacemen 3. And don't buy it when he says "I'll Take You There" oft covered by UB 40 and the Staple Singers.

― bnw, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Staple Singers’ name reminds me of the Swingle Singers, who once sang with Stereolab, who did that godawful thing with Nurse with Wound, who paid homage to Joe Meek in “Rock & Roll Station,” a title that sounds like Bowie’s Station to Station, an album with a cover of “Wild is the Wind,” which Nina Simone also covered, and she did Randy Newman’s “Baltimore,” too, a song about a city whose dwellings inspired the title of Pere Ubu’s Dub Housing, which backwards is gnisouH buD, and there was band called A Band Called Bud, who (I believe) later became the Grifters after Anheuser- Busch threatened to sue them, a company that’s situated in St. Louis, MO, a city where Nelly and St. Lunatics come from, the latter group sounding more than a bit like Ludacris, who had this song called “Area Codes”, which covers a subject that De La Soul tackled on some song on Buhloone Mind State whose name I can’t remember.

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The song is called "Area."

Area Code 615's "Stone Fox Chase" is on The Perfect Beats Vol. 4 alongside Candido's "Jingo," which was originally released on Salsoul. That label also released Dos, by Cachao. Dose is the second album by Latin Playboys.

― M Matos, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hefner, duh.

― dave q, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't ever want to think about Hefner's area and all the places it's been. I'd rather think about his stylin' bathrobes. Or smoking jackets, whatever.

Bryan Ferry wore smoking jackets. Tina Turner wore khakis. Fee Waybill wore lots of clothes but The Tubes still sucked and nothing can be done about it. They were white punks on dope and the Knack were white dopes on punk and the Ramones' "The KKK Took My Baby Away" was punk on white dopes and the Spin Doctors were white dopes on dope and Bob Dylan was Blonde on Blonde and Green on Red were probably never on The Red Green Show but Dave Thomas certainly was. No, not the Pere Ubu guy. The SCTV guy. Eugene Levy was also on SCTV and played some guy named Gus Gustofferson which sounds a lot like Kris Kristofferson who starred in a drivellous movie that inspired a video by Toni Braxton not Tony Braxton who mark s tells me likes disco though maybe not dsico who did a Pavement vs. Destiny's Child bootleg.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destiny's Child recently covered the Bee Gees song "Emotions," and "So Emotional" was Whitney Houston, who is the niece of Bachrach / David diva Dionne Warwick. War is a funky group of musicians, who performed inter alia "The Cisco Kid." Frisco was the home of many psychedelic groups in the mid-sixties, including the Jefferson Airplane, who later morphed into the Jefferson Starship and released the all-time AOR classic "Jane." "Jane Says" was a song by the overrated-by-me-at-the-time band Jane's Addiction, whose founder Perry Farrell started out in a group called Psi Com. Therefore, Genesis P-Orridge.

― J, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Peas porridge in the pot nine days old" ===> "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" (from Nine Days) ===> "Just a Girl" ===> No Doubt producer Matthew Wilder ===> "Break My Stride" (and interesting hair...)

― Daver, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK, this is getting yawnsome. I hereby declare DOUGLAS the winnah for his ace literary (hi + low) refs and all around good knowledge. Congrats, my comrade, you are officially allowed to start the Vth thread. And thanks to all who have participated.

― M Matos, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wait, what was the condition? Do we care? :-)

― J, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's a late whistle there, ref!!

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As much as Doug is godlike, I was actually really groovin' on Daddino's last few posts. Brill!

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was wolk's short program that is said to have been decisive.

― french judge, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Merci, Matos. (And I tip my hat to Daddino, and note that I laughed out loud at the XXXOXOX bit.)

The next one won't be starting for at least a couple of weeks-- breathing time!

― Douglas, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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