Bacon Fat

Before I get more cusses for not posting, here are 3 that I think are well good.

Went and bought some new hip hop recently and it was well boring. In amongst the selection, however, was a compilation thrust upon me by bloke in shop. On said compilation were these three:

Bacon Fat - Andre Williams
(number 9 on the billboard R&B charts in 1957 no less)

Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins
(He recorded a whole album devoted to chickens - Poultry in Motion)

Guns of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague (i.e. re-version of Clash)

compil by optimo and espacio, described as 'scottish ex-techno dj and a grungey slackey irishman'. enjoyed it lots.

Thy Kingdom Come

First up, a Trick Daddy classic. Slip-N-Slide, Miami, Touche Lucas and the wonderful Cee-Lo, pre-Gnarls Barkley. One for the sun.

Trick Daddy and Cee-Lo - Dro in the Wind

Eugene Mcdaniels gives pure gold samples. Give em back.

Eugene McDaniels - Jagger The Dagger

Or rework it.
Not at his humblest, it's ya boy

Jay Z - Kingdom Come

Yours, loving the smut Nuts, Lukey Champagne

The decline of smut

One of the more lamentable aspects of the Bobo dread takeover of Jamaican music - along with bunning fire pon batty bwoy's head, if you please - is the concomitant decline of the smutty reggae tune. There was a slackness arms race in lyrics in the 1990s which crowded out innuendo and insinuation, and not necessarily for the better. For the genre threw up some mighty tunes, in its day, some of which you're about to enjoy.

Max Romeo was the king of this sort of thing. You probably already know his "Wet Dream," banned by the BBC for its lewd content - though Max expressed disbelief, explaining that the lyrics were an innocent reference to a leaky roof.

But even better in my book is "Hole Under Crutches" - a version of "Hole in my Bucket" for a liberated age.

The same tune was reversioned in the dancehall era by Nigger Kojak and Liza, as "Ram It" - a Joe Gibbs/Errol Thompson production, this.

Around the same time, Yellowman was creating the slackness genre. But some of his lyrical wordsmithery was clever and subtle enough to qualify as smut in my book, and this is my post. So here's the wonderful "Breezes."

The spiritual home of innuendo has always been Trinidadian calypso rather than Jamaican reggae, so finally here's a beauty from Lord Creator - a calypsonian who later moved to Jamaica and made his name as a ska vocalist. It's about his Big Bamboo (I've got a much better and less cheesy version of this but only on vinyl, sadly).

Tom

Wet Edges...

I'm reminded of the scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off with the history teacher.

"The Battle of the Somme took place in... anyone? anyone?"

Enough snideness. For any remaining listeners, a Photek tune.

Inspired from a kung fu film or possibly the TV series based on one of the great classical Chinese novels of the same name about a group of 12th century river bandits.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Love Action...

Aloha,

Love, love, and love again (or not as the case may be):

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

LFO - Love Is The Message

and

I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Bobby Gentry

For ages I thought the lyric on the last one was "What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia, after you do, he'll never bone ya". Cockney rhyming slang, I guess...

Laters,

Thistle

Alot of ins, alot of outs

Keeping on the film theme, some tracks from a recent classic.

Kenny Rogers - Just Dropped In

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Looking Out My Back Door

Bob Dylan - The Man in Me

Here another one from Kenny with some good advice.

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

I always confuse him with Paddy Kenny.

rabbit rabbit

music that is keeping me from my bed

Labi Siffree , I Got The
fun and games. bringing together chas n dave, who are the session musicians on this, with dre and eminem.

The Rebirth, This Journey In
cosmic class

rest up
S

Monday miscellany

It's all got a bit quiet round these parts. I might have to start cracking my Flashing Whip if you lot don't start looking a bit livelier.

A pretty random round-up tonight. From the George Clinton-produced album Freaky Styley comes Red Hot Chili Peppers's Hollywood. And hold your cynical tongues - this comes from the pre-Blood Sugar Sex Magik era when the Chili Peppers still knew how to throw together a delicious groove. Love the horn production on this one.

Back in the 1970s George Clinton invented P-funk - here's a good example: Parliament - Star Child, from the Mothership Connection album.

Thistle wanted Aphex Twin - En Trange to Exit - the closest RDJ gets to happy hardcore.

Lord Finesse (?) duelling with KRS-One - don't know anything about this straight-up oldskool hip hop tune - please enlighten me - but I like it. Lord Finesse and KRS One - No Gimmicks.

Some disco house thing I grabbed from elsewhere - some might find it overproduced but I reckon the various parts fit together perfectly.
Faze Action - In the Trees

And finally, a beautiful number from the great Baaba Maal.
Baaba Maal - Miyaabele.

Tom

Fruity Flix...

Aloha,

Sunday evening is always good for going to the cinema, so a triple bill of great seventies film music...








"I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am a hell of a stud!"







John Barry - Science Fiction - from Midnight Cowboy.

Lalo Schifrin - Shifting Gears - from Bullitt.









Melvin Van Peebles - C'mon Feet - from Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The other films are well known, but well worth tracking down this weird film credited with kickstarting the Blaxploitation genre. Cover version spotters, Quasimoto did a great re-version of this track.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

bleep bleep boom

alright then.... how do chaps? glad to be joining the fray.

thought i'd open my account with some pure pirate radio reminiscence.

shut up and dance records produced some of the best hardcore jungle at the beginning of the 90s and whilst the sound faded fast, the ragga twins (Flinty Badman and Deman Rockers) def still cut the mustard as far as i'm concerned.

Shine Eye feat Junior Reid

Wipe the Needle