Please talk about: "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry

Thanks for posting the lyrics, I never could make out that "no style rookie" line.

http://img.textbookx.com/images/large/1X/157687091X.jpg

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/mgn/mgn_movies.html

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?

Geoff Barrow (Portishead) did a couple of tracks on Homebrew too.

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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...

then "7 seconds " was brilliant.
wasn't "trout "with michael (REM) stipe ?

It takes some courage to do a blank-verse rap like the "Smokin', no cokin'" section, then going all Tracy Ullman with the imitation cockney accents.

makes me yearn for a nostalgic look back into the early 90's.
cross colors.
fades.
an urban youth i didn't have.
and i STILL love this song...

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), May 19th, 2005 11:42 AM. (hstencil) (link)

Read: I am aware that her dad is a notable jazz musician and would like to show off this fact.

In the summer of '89 this, "Me, Myself & I," and all those wonderful Fine Young Cannibals seemed to herald a real Daisy Age. I don't hear the song enough to get tired of it. The synth squiggle-hook is marvelous, and so is the bit about the gigolo, and almost everything about the chorus. So, ok, I'll say classic.

The followup, "Kisses On the Wind," is not as memorable but for some reason is a better song, if that makes sense.

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

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

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

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.

Just the outro looped for 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1foECnRUuyM

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".

Slowing this down was a ruinous mistake.

Very superfluous. Totally not smokin’.

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

this would be a perfectly fine second b-side.

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.

oh man...

well, i'm listening to the original now. which probably wouldn't have happened today otherwise.

yeah i was excited about this until I heard it.

No slow version could be my lover.

the original is unimprovable but they could've at least tried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLb3AbgBTbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbrJDGgu64

I've always loved that bonkers Swamp Thing album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93bmuogf5s

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!

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

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.