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By O-Dub
This is from a relatively new documentary about the late jazz composer/leader, The Edification of Weldon Irvine.
It’s Weldon performing, live, his “Here’s Where I Came In.” It’s probably my favorite composition of his, a song filled with both ineffable sadness and beauty and the clip above both captures the deep melancholy I always hear in the song (and always associate with Weldon) as well as the creative energy he had, literally, at his fingertips.
Here’s my favorite version of the song:
Weldon Irvine: Here’s Where I Came In
From Sinbad (RCA, 1976)
I love that [...]
Continue reading WELDON IRVINE PLAYING “HERE’S WHERE I CAME IN”
By O-Dub
Laverne and Shirley homage, ftw.
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When my students do their reports on binge drinking amongst college students, this could end up being Exhibit A (doh!)
Son of Bazerk and No Self Control- I SWEAR ON A STACK OF OLD HITS from HWIC Filmworks on Vimeo.
In all seriousness, this is one of the first songs/videos where the relative “oldness” of the artists isn’t a detriment but part of the flavor of it all. Sometimes, 40 isn’t the new 30; sometimes, it’s just the new “grown”.
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Continue reading THEY LIKE BEER b/w BAZERK IS BIZZACK
By O-Dub
I put this up on the Soul Sides Facebook page but I decided it deserved its own post. Watching the video, it’s pretty clear this is meant to be a parody of sorts (the Milli Vanilli coif should be your first red flag) but listening to the song, without paying attention to the images, this song sounds like it’d easily fit into a mix of post-jerkin’ tunes and I’ll go one further and say: I’m kind of feeling this (except maybe for the Flynt Flossy’s cameo). It reminds me a lot of the beat for Cali Swag District’s summer [...]
Continue reading SMANG SMANG!
By O-Dub
This is like the answer back to all those folksy singer/songwriters trying to be cute by covering Dre and Snoop songs.
A few updates.
One reason I’ve been slow to post here is because I had knock these out…
Sade review. Africa Boogaloo review. Song of the Day about “Cumbia Moderna De Soledad” from Black Man’s Cry.
Upcoming:
Another Song of the Day for that Little Ann song. A review of Freeway’s Stimulus Package Guest post for Super Sonido’s 45 series.
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Continue reading LIGHT BULB: THE HOOD MIX
By O-Dub
I hate to pick on something done for charity but can we just talk about how stunningly terrible this is? Four things off the top of my head (just so I don’t explode in criticism):
1) It’s been a quarter century since the OG “We are the World.” Are you telling me no one could find a way to write a new ensemble song? Are you f—-ing kidding me?
2) Bringing back video of the original artists – MJ for example – was tacky. And again, says something very poor about the current state of popular music.
3) [...]
Continue reading WE ARE THE WORLD, FAIL
By O-Dub
Some time in either the late ’90s or early ’00s, I was at a De La Soul show in the Bay Area. To be honest, for whatever reason, the energy was kind of flagging throughout the whole thing (I had seen some great De La shows in the past, this just didn’t happen to be among the more stellar ones).
Biz had been one of the opening DJs and during the De La’s set, they brought him out and he sang the chorus to “Just a Friend.”
Brought the house down. It was the most energized the crowd [...]
Continue reading OH SNAP!
By O-Dub
The 80s keep coming back!
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