Fan of MC Pipokinha; currently thinking about how the Chad Mitchell Trio foreshadow both punk rock and adult contemporary music. The people united will never be defeated.
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Daveigh Chase "The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA" (2008). The best version of this song, emotional yank upon emotional yank (tho not the *definitive* version, since TV context (which I never saw) is trying to get out from under something, I think).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIT...
*"Big Pimpin'" – but not "Reaper" – uses Abdel Halim Hafez's "Khosara Khosara," but "Pimpin"-producer Timbaland gives a lift/bounce to the bass that "Khosara Khosara" doesn’t have.
"The photoplay, despite its stage ancestry, is out of the same glamour factory as Miss Crawford's 'Forsaking All Others.' If it is less furiously arch than that modern classic of sledgehammer whimsey, it is also somewhat less successful as entertainment."
Andre Sennwald, No More Ladies NYT 6/22/1935
"And no one needs be told how Honest John Francis Dugan – Mr. Lowe – turns the table on the wicked vampire, saves his son and then goes off in the night (it really is broad daylight, but the idea is there) without telling his son what sort of man his father really is"
Frank S. Nugent NYT Black Sheep
#PWC26
Taking inspiration from a gutty defensive performance by Loony Johnson & Elida Almeida against a strong Spanish squad in last month's Pop World Cup (see repost below), Cape Verde plays Spain to a draw in today's FIFA World Cup Group H match.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMey...
Had a dream where the hot new musical term among young people was "wooxieted" (or "wooxiated" - pronounced wook-see-ay-ted, wasn't sure of the spelling, would have to check the Internet, which I did upon waking).
"No results found for wooxiated"
"No results found for wooxieted"
#CountryRockSunday
Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1990)
Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" used quasi-country as a path to mainstream semi-respectability. Here, Warrant go from finger-picking gorgeousness to full-throttle hair-screech, sad melisma at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6f...
Reposting as a nudge to Tom. I worked hard on these
GBs
Asayel - Asliyah
Deena Abdelwahed - Hyaluron
Issairo - Lora Wak Mi
BabyDaiz - Allonsy
Alma Ekmečić - Seks bomba
Astéréotypie - Cheese bad girl
Seera - Shams
Ecstasy Of St. Theresa - Local Distortion
Pocket Palma - Van Kontrole
Yalla - Uchkuduk
Myaap "Reaper" (2026). Racked my brain trying to think what this bass reminds me of. Finally clicked: Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'." His is faster, and 4 notes to her 3,* but this has the same lift to it, same bounce – and as a rap and a track can live up to the comparison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q46H...
