Grandmaster Flash talked about how one of the things that he did was take the part of the song that had everybody put up their hands and cheer and play that part of the track over and over again. If you listen to a 3 minutes-fifty song and the best part is the four seconds that makes up the break, he figured, why not play the break over and over again?
Thus do the ghosts of Disco still haunt us all.
Average White Band came out with a lovely song called “Person to Person”. Give it a listen (but, after you’re done, go back and listen to 2:04-2:08 again).
Nice little song, right? A little bit funky, a little bit romantic… but those 5 seconds? Responsible for this and this (neither song is particularly worksafe due to language issues (slurs and/or cursing), or I would have imbedded them… the former is Puff Daddy, the latter EPMD… if you only listen to one, listen to the second).
So… what are you listening to?
You mean Grandmaster Flash. Funkmaster is Flex, the radio DJ.
You are absolutely right. I will fix that now.
And now I’m irritated because when I think of “Grandmaster Flash”, I think “one of the pioneers” and when I think of “Funkmaster Flex”, I think “driving shoes”.
White lines, baby.
I am *loving* The Piano Guys this week.
Who are the piano guys?
Ugh, I’m mobile right now so I can’t give you any links. It’s a couple of guys who got “famous” recently thanks to YouTube and are awesome on the cello and piano. Check them out! There is a little info on wiki too, I think.
Thanks!
I knew that Simon and Garfunkel’s first album was all acoustic “folk songs”, but I’d never listened to them until Mad Men used Bleeker Street as closing music. Here’s a cover even more beautiful than the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSRhUPt3mlQ