Don't download this song (RIAA disclaimer)

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posted by Thomas @ 14:52 0 comments

Lauryn Hill

Before Lauryn Hill made an appearance on Dave Chappelle's Block Party it seemed most people had forgotten all about her. But then she showed up on stage with Wyclef and that other guy (just kidding...Pras right? His name is Pras or something) and absolutely destroyed Killing Me Softly, misremembered lyrics aside. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill remains one of my favourite albums of all time, and is easily one of if not the best debut album EVAH - even considering that it remains really her only album.




How can you not love a video where a giant hand scratches the island of Manhattan?



And this is just ridiculous. Does anyone performing today even approach her?



Lauryn left and we got...Cassie. Keisha Chante. Fergie.

Come back Lauryn.

Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)

Lauryn Hill - Every Ghetto, Every City

Lauryn Hill - Everything is Everything

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posted by Thomas @ 12:54 1 comments

Wayback Wednesday - Exam Edition

With my first exam in the first of four courses I know nothing about looming tomorrow, I thought I'd take a break from reading other people's CANs (thank you, generous law-folk) to post some music from the NOT SO DISTANT PAST that is near and dear to my heart.

The year is 1992. I won't post a picture of what I looked like, but let's just say it involved tight rolling my jeans.



ANYWAY - at the time I was playing this guessing game with a friend over what would be the next big hit single and I guessed this acappella version of Shai's "If I Ever Fall In Love Again," a song so ridiculously over the top in its sentiment (if man hooks up with woman again, woman will be a friend of his first), it makes Celine Dion look subtle.

Yet I love the song like an illegitimate child. Wait - like an illegitimate child who becomes an NBA star. Yeah. Like that.

Shai - If I Ever Fall In Love Again

Three years earlier the Fine Young Cannibals released this song. To this day I can't listen to it without remembering a certain grade eight Hallowe'en party where everyone thought I was Charlie Chaplin (I was the guy from A Clockwork Orange).

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

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posted by Thomas @ 15:28 1 comments

Dance! Dance! Dance!

The best song played at the Hallowe'en party was far and away Sweet Caroline, which revealed its brilliance to me during the Natalie Portman lovefest that is Beautiful Girls. Hearing it surrounded by non-stop RnB and hiphop, musical styles of which I am not unfond, made me long for a club where they played something other than American Top-40 and Nelly Furtado.

I'll probably have to move to New York for that, so in the meantime here's a playlist of songs I'd like to hear in a club at some point before I'm too old to be in a club (so basically by tomorrow). Quite apart from all being kick ass songs, they're great Jesus-what-is-that-girl-doing-on-the-dancefloor tunes.


Gimme an Irregular Rhythm Playlist


1. Rinocerose - Cubicle

I came across this song in April, but a posting about the equally great video reminded me how much I like it. There needs to be a club in Vancouver where ladies will wear leather jackets and lose their minds to this.



2. Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
Clearly this needs to be in the VAG, onyl the VAG when most of Vancouver isn't there. Oh, and it's been transported to Glasgow.



3. The Vines - Get Free

It's hard not to listen to this and wonder why we need a Nirvana cover band, but lead singer retardedness aside this song fulfills all the requirements of a good dancefloor rock song: good riff, good beat, and a chorus like verse that you can yell.



4. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights

One of my favourite songs OF ALL TIME and made even better by making white suits seem so damn cool.



5. The Strokes - Last Nite

I tried to like this band but I don't. Much like The Vines and the Hives, I like its biggest song and then lose interest. But if you had this in the fivespot no way someone walks Romantic Rights. Mad dangerous.



6. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So

White shoes. Skinny ties. Guy with 'stache. Ladies go nuts. Don't tell me this wouldn't blow a club up.



7. Hot Chip - Over and Over

I've posted this before but this definitely rounds out the evening. What you need is five girls who all know the song and who've come up with their own hand dance for it. Yeah, I said NEED.

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posted by Thomas @ 14:22 4 comments

This is a rock concert...not splish splash

There was a time in the 80's when the men looked like women and the women looked like Debbie Gibson. Those days are thankfully, or depending on your tastes unfortunately, over, but the music lives on...at least on this blog.

Poison - Unskinny Bop

Why are these dudes wearing so much make-up? I'll tell you why - because they have balls the size of bocce balls, that's why. These guys are so hetero they can look like slightly toasted hookers and still pull every chick in the crowd.

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me

Apparently this song is about ___________. Oh man, is it ever.

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Lollapalooza. That might be spelled wrong. Guitarist from Hole, can't be bothered to Google name, launches into this guitar riff. Made me forget about the guy trying to crush my larynx.

Run D.M.C. & Aerosmith - Walk This Way

One of the best songs ever? Yes.

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posted by Thomas @ 22:59 0 comments

This is the song that never ends

When Hey Ya! blew up huge, you just knew radio was going to kill it. And kill it radio did, deader than Freddie Prinze Jr...he's not dead? Are you sure?

Then some British boys came along and did nothing very good themselves, but somehow managed to breathe life back into the song. Of course, the original is amazing despite the overkill, so it was probably not much of a task. This one goes out to Voska Dour who has been NEEDLING ME ENDLESSLY ABOUT POSTING IT.

Razorlight - Hey Ya!

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posted by Thomas @ 23:52 3 comments