― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
too bad her dad's dead.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I think it's a pose with arms-crossed and tanding aloof.
LOVE this song, it's one of my top ten favourites of the 80's.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Buffalo Stance LyricsArtist(Band):Neneh Cherry Review The Song (0) Print the Lyrics
Buffalo Stance Lyrics
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Who's that gigolo on the streetWith his hands in his pockets and his crocadile feetHanging off the curb, looking all disturbedAt the boys from home. They all came runningThey were making noise, manhandling toysThat's the girls on the block with the nasty curlsWearing padded bras sucking beers through strawsDropping down their drawers, where did you get yours?
Gigolo, Huh, sukka?Gigolo. Gigolo, Huh, sukka?
Chorus 1:
Who's looking good today?Who's looking good in every way?No style rookieYou better watch don't mess with me
Chorus 2:
No moneyman can win my loveIt's sweetness that I'm thinking of.We always hang in a Buffalo StanceWe do the dive every time we danceI'll give you love baby not romanceI'll make a move nothing left to chanceSo don't you get fresh with me
Get funky. Yeah Timmy.Tell it like it is. Check out this DJ.
So you say you wanted money but you know it's never funnyWhen your shoes worn through and there's a rumble in your tummyBut you had to have style get a gold tooth smilePut a girl on the corner so you can make a pileCommitted a crime and went insideIt was coming your way but you had to surviveWhen you lost your babe, you lost the raceNow you're looking at me to take her place.
Chorus 1
Smokin.' Not cokin.' Get funky sax.Looking good, hanging with the wild bunch.Looking good in a Buffalo Stance.Looking good when it comes to the crunchLooking good's a state of mindState of mind don't look behind youState of mind or you'll be deadState of mind may I remind youBomb the Bass...rock this place!What is he like? What's he like anway?Yo' man what do you expect the guy's a gigolo manYou know I mean?
Chorus 2 (twice)
Wind on my face, sound in my earsWater from my eyes, and you on my mindAs I sink, diving down deep...deeper into your soul.
Chorus 2 ...
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
*cocks an eye towards a looming Norwegian-derived storm*
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Couldn't I just send her to my pants instead?
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting the lyrics, I never could make out that "no style rookie" line.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
http://img.textbookx.com/images/large/1X/157687091X.jpg
http://www.showstudio.com/projects/mgn/mgn_movies.html
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
and the song is Classic, Klassic and any other way you wanna spell it, always makes me smile and ppl dance when I play it
and Alex in NYC is right in saying Neneh generally is brilliant
btw, has anyone actually come out hating the song yet?
― H (Heruy), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 20 May 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 20 May 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 20 May 2005 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Geoff Barrow (Portishead) did a couple of tracks on Homebrew too.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
And being Neneh has done stuff with The Slits, and Gangstarr was featured on Homebrew also, we really could do a six degrees of Neneh thing.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
This is sort of creepy, because I got both of these songs from the iTunes store at the same time a couple of months ago - I had both of them stuck in my head and hadn't head either in years.
― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I think of Buffalo Stance as a urban hippie-esque dance song based mostly around samples that tried to cross over to the Hip-Hop crowd, but came off as a more black version of Groove is in the Heart.
I also differentiate greatly between mid 80's and late 80's urban music thanks to the invention of Emu's sp1200.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Oran "Juice" Jones had the crazy gansterrific persona. I think my favorite part of The Rain might be ad libs at the end. "You're just a squirrel looking for nut!"
― Candicissima (candicissima), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
He produced (or co?) the first Sugababes record, no?
I was obsessed with Neneh during my teenage years. OBSESSED. I would gawk at the cd booklet for an hour while listening to the record...
― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
produced by Four Tet and 3D of Massive Attack
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
You can certainly hear 3D's input. Track would have fitted right in on Mezzanine.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
new album broken politics out october 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrXaPLX0PU
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
and you may find yourself listening to "Shot Gun Shack"
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Great news! Blank Project still one of my faves of the decade.
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Out today! Get thee to a record store.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
album rules. way more actively pretty than blank project which i'm into
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
I've got something longer going up soon but I gotta say it disappointed me compared to Blank Project, which now sounds like it didn't just presage this cultural moment but is OF this moment.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
I agree with Alfred here. Blank seems more urgent to me and just generally better. I like the new one, just not as much.
― akm, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
I was half-listening to it the other day while reading and the sudden air horn cracked me up
― coetzee.cx (wins), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
"Natural Skin Deep"? That's one of the good ones. I blasted it this morning.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
I like this a lot. Agree about the urgency, it feels altogether more worked over / less spontaneous than Blank Project, but in a way that the instruments (vibraphone!) require. The albums feel like opposites in many ways, or maybe complementary. I feel like something interesting would happen if you played them simultaneously.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
It's quieter than Blank Project (and Brad is right about it being "actively pretty") - I was expecting from the pre-release leak tracks an artier version of Homebrew whereas it's more like an artier version of Man: perhaps that album if more of the Tricky collaborations and less of the MOR-gestures had made it on there. It's very dense and layered and involving.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
Not enough chatter about this LP. OK, literally everyone good has put out something in the last 2 weeks. Even so.
― Jeff W, Monday, 29 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
"Slow Release" is, accidentally or not, a good summation of the whole.
― Jeff W, Monday, 29 October 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
i love “black monday” and “faster than the truth”
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
A few live tracks from her, at Le Guess Who festival in Holland:
- https://soundcloud.com/leguesswho/sets/neneh-cherry-live-at-le-guess-who-2018
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 13 January 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link
nice, someone posted an aud recording of her in LA a couple months back to dime, i've had it in my "to listen" queue
― Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
Hope they record together:
Energized by Neneh Cherry's great set -- with guests Denardo Coleman and @angeltheoracle -- at @BlankForms' benefit. We want more more more pic.twitter.com/CeFS4vxXcv— David Grubbs (@blackfaurest) November 19, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
I'm still trying to get my hands on the stems for this so I can do an hour long Prins Thomas-style extended remix of this song.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 19 November 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
Just the outro looped for 15 minutes
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 19 November 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1foECnRUuyM
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 3 March 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
on first listen: completely superfluous but my goodwill toward robyn means it's at least not offensive? no idea why she thought slowing it down was a good idea. somehow this is the first time I realized the line was "no style rookie".
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 March 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
Slowing this down was a ruinous mistake.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 3 March 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
Very superfluous. Totally not smokin’.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 March 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
The only way slowing it down makes sense would be if it was slowed waaaaaaaaay down, like 4 times as slow and turning it into a drone poem
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 3 March 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
this would be a perfectly fine second b-side.
― bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic), Thursday, 3 March 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
it's ok but no thanks. i've been caning the original lately. that guitar figure in the coda is one of my favorite things about it.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
oh man...
well, i'm listening to the original now. which probably wouldn't have happened today otherwise.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 5 March 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
yeah i was excited about this until I heard it.
― akm, Saturday, 5 March 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
No slow version could be my lover.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 March 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
the original is unimprovable but they could've at least tried
― ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 5 March 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLb3AbgBTbs
― xzanfar, Saturday, 5 March 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbrJDGgu64
― xzanfar, Saturday, 5 March 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
I've always loved that bonkers Swamp Thing album
― Josefa, Saturday, 5 March 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93bmuogf5s
― xzanfar, Saturday, 5 March 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
This song would seem impossible to re-interpret, but then I would have said the same thing about "Accordion"
Cherry Thing was ten years ago!
― bendy, Monday, 7 March 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
The Versions, 10 covers, collaborative project of female artists, out June 10, according to Republic Records Media:Tracklisting:Buffalo Stance (Robyn feat. Mapei)Manchild (feat. Sia)Woman (feat. ANOHNI)Buddy X (feat. Greentea Peng)Kootchi (feat. Jamila Woods)Sassy (feat. TYSON)Heart (feat. Sudan Archives)Kisses On The Wind (feat. Seinabo Sey)Manchild (feat. Kelsey Lu)Buddy X (Honey Dijon Remix)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1egmJkP0s
― dow, Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
Was excited about the prospect of a new Neneh Cherry album, but I doubt I need this. The Robyn cover, as noted upthread, was meh.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link