Like most things with Big Black, the title Songs About Fucking is something of a sick joke. The fast-moving nature of club music means that today, Raw Like Sushi sounds both incredibly of its time and also strangely modern in its omnivorous outlook, while the razor-sharp observational songwriting on “Manchild”-one of the best songs ever to capture that sinking feeling that life isn’t turning out how you imagined it-ensures its immortality. Particularly irksome for Madonna, probably, was the fact that “Buffalo Stance” effectively beat her at her own game, using the modish club sounds of hip-hop and house to forge pop music that was brazenly cool, instantly memorable, and utterly authoritative.Ĭherry’s debut album, Raw Like Sushi, which followed in 1989, took a similar approach, plucking from the ’80s club pantheon of new jack swing, freestyle, and go-go to create an audacious global pop fusion that made Cherry’s competitors look like tar-ridden dinosaurs. –Louis Pattisonįor a few months in 1988, as Neneh Cherry ’s debut single “Buffalo Stance” climbed the global charts, it looked like Madonna might have a serious competitor to her pop throne. One highlight is the penultimate “Spying Glass,” which Andy would later reprise on Massive Attack’s 1994 LP Protection, drawing out its themes of paranoia and surveillance. The record can be sonically adventurous-on “Stop the Fuss,” a blanket of echo pushes the bass and drums to the point on disintegration-but you’re gripped tight throughout by Andy’s voice: sweet, sinuous, reflecting on greed, division and the Rasta life. Under the guidance of founder Lloyd “Bullwackie” Barnes, Wackies had become a home for skulking heavyweight dub of the first order. But Dance Hall Style has a special alchemy.
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Recorded at Wackies, a damp basement studio in the Bronx, it was just six songs long, and some of those had already lived a full life Andy himself had recorded “Lonely Woman” with producer Derrick Harriott a decade earlier, while “Cuss Cuss” was a cover of a track released by rocksteady stalwart Lloyd Robinson back in 1968. On paper, at least, there’s no reason it should stand out as a classic.
They also made fun of his album title on a different track, which Hammer interpreted as them making a crude remark about his mother, which in turn led to Hammer putting a bounty on their heads.Horace Andy had been a prolific recording artist for some 15 years, cutting discs for Studio One and the dub pioneer Bunny Lee, before he made Dance Hall Style. The ending section "The Gas Face" includes some shots at MC Hammer, with the video featuring a giant hammer wearing sunglasses getting thrown at the floor by the group."Sons of 3rd Bass", the first actual song on their debut album is a diss trck against fellow white hip hop group, the Beastie Boys.Take That!: Given their short carreer that consists only of two albums and one EP, they were involved in quite a lot of beef."Ace in the Hole": KMD, Kurious, Radio DJ Bobbito Garcia, Sam Sever, Prince Paul and Chubb Rock."The Cactus": Sam Sever and Russell Simmons.
"The Gas Face": De La Soul, Prince Paul, DJ Subroc and KMD and Get Yours Posse.Shout-Out: They love to do this at the end of some songs:.This is because the song was recorded before they changed their name to 3rd Bass. Singer Name Drop: Nothing uncommon in hip hop, but a special mention goes to "Wordz of Wisdom", where the lyrics state the group name as "3 The Hard Way".Large-Ham Announcer: Their Def Jam labelmate Don Newkirk plays that role on "The Gas Face".
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