Coldcut's "The Payback Mix". (A label-approved "megamix".)
Best memory of this track: I was dancing at a filthy warehouse party back in 1995 (raves, they called them), and the DJ switched from a jungle set into downtempo with this track. You'd have thought Jesus himself had taken over the turntables.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
7,999,999,984 "Jimmy's Rap" from Dreamgirls. This was already a JB homage in 1981, when the musical was on Broadway, but having Eddie Murphy play the James Early role in the movie does not hurt the comparison on little bit.
― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
This is actually a Stax and/or Isaac Hayes imitation/plagiarization/influence/sample/ripoff/etc. Which I guess would make it a secondhand cousin.
― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (Eisbär), Thursday, 28 December 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Thursday, 28 December 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
quoth the man to me personally, circa 2001: "I know I'm not actually James Brown, I just admire the man. I respect him."
― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― thebingo (thebingo), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Uh, firstly, HUGE slap in the face to Kraftwerk, and secondly, the sample of both James Brown and Kraftwerk are secondhand. That whole Fergie song is simply Afro-Rican's Give it All You Got:
http://www.discogs.com/release/80132
Which is one of the all time greatest Miami Bass songs ever. That Fergie track even sample MD Rock's cuts...
Prince - Sexy MF
― PappaWheelie IV (PappaWheelie), Monday, 1 January 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link