I gave Garden of Love a spin or two this summer.
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
I don’t think I’ve ever listened let alone owned a Rick James album which is why I didn’t bring him up in the first place.
Only know him because of Dave Chapelle and the Super Freak sample on U Cant Touch This. I wasn’t even born when he rose to fame.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
the mary jane girls, on the other hand, are essential listening.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
Rick James has at least two all-time classic songs
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Street Songs is a fucking great record.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
I don't know anyone who thinks Rick James is funny; I do know a bunch of people who think Dave Chappelle imitating Rick James is funny, because it was.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
Indeed. As much as I love Street Songs, I think Rick James became a joke, and not in the funny sense.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
just saying, aside from super freak and chapelle show he's mostly forgotten. and if chapelle show had never happened he would be almost entirely gone aside from fm super freak airplay. he has a LOT of albums that nobody listens to. other than nerds. like you guys. joking! not really. a little!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
Well, there's a sample of him shouting "GIMME SOME GANJA!" all over a Kendrick Lamar track that came out this year.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
Not comparing it to Rick James or anything - well, maybe a bit - but Boy George handcuffing someone, keeping them prisoner and beating them with a metal chain doesn't get mentioned too often these days.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
In an apparently accidental allusion to Culture Club's 1982 No 1 hit Heather Norton, for the prosecution, asked the jury during the trial: "Did he really have to hurt him?"
― new noise, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
Very true, and he was only on TV last night singing a rendition of 'Purple Rain' during a show to promote a children's charity.
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― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
just saying, aside from super freak and chapelle show he's mostly forgotten by white people
^^^ more accurate in my experience
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
Haha yeah
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
also mary jane girls and 'party all the time'
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
also "Mary Jane" the song
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
xp: I love the part in that video when he steps out from behind the console to mime playing the bass for a few bars and then stops playing before the song's over to hug Eddie Murphy.
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
he was definitely huge. and a crossover hit. for about three or four years. and no doubt people loved those records but aside from super freak he's kinda gone in the wider world. is all i'm saying. people will always love lots of old stuff that they loved (and old r&b/soul fans are totally loyal to their faves of yesteryear) but it doesn't always linger or stick around in pop culture other than THE BIG HIT. lots of people sold millions of records. he's not marvin gaye. to bring up another troubling icon mentioned on this thread.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
did he write party all the time?
― akm, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Motown totally sold him to rock fans too. There were huge ads in every rock magazine for months on end for that first run of records. And it worked.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
y
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
^ xp there
more "garden-variety prick" than actual abuser but even what little is public about the falling out between trent reznor and tori amos makes me very uncomfortable listening to NIN's stuff
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
also I still listen to Kate Bush even though she supports Theresa May
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Bet she doesn't now.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
didnt rick james have like a dozen albums? insanely dismissive reading of his career itt. you guys dont know 'cold blooded' or 'give it to me baby'?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
plus yeah his mary jane girls stuff was fire too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhf0NeyRfE
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
don't go full ilm on me here, guys. *what, i'm the only one who listens to The Flag every morning before work?* i'm not talking about you guys. and yes like i said earlier mary jane girls are essential.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
although i'm suspicious. i don't even think that YOU guys listen to rick james that much. you are too busy listening to your bootleg CDs of prince doing rick james covers.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
the broader culture will come back around to you & I, ghetto life and give it to me baby sooner or later.
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
There's a recent commercial that uses "Give It To Me Baby" but I can't remember it now.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
I've seen/heard that, too, and I can't remember what the commercial is for. Good work, ad people!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
ok I did it artists who plausibly appear to be good people
don't have anything to contribute tho. feel like I only know the bad stories.
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
I do slightly worry that anyone mentioned in that thread will shortly turn out to have rubbed unmentionable parts of his or her body on an underage puppy or something. Maybe that's superstitious but I am nervous about jinxing someone.
(Still, Janet Weiss is way cool.)
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
Street songs is a classic album, shite reputation aside
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Just read about this. I don't think I heard of it before.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
He got sentenced to 15 months in prison for it
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
Carlsen told the jury he only escaped after wrenching the fixture free, but was beaten with a chain by the singer as he fled into the street in Shoreditch, east London. In an apparently accidental allusion to Culture Club's 1982 No 1 hit Heather Norton, for the prosecution, asked the jury during the trial: "Did he really have to hurt him?"
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:31 (six years ago) link
Only on ILM could Rick James be dismissed by a bunch of dudes who listen to Ariel Pink and the fucking Swans
― JB, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
in my experience ILM is the only place where does fuckers get called out :D
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:11 (six years ago) link
ILM plausibly appears to be good people.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
Which is why Nick S got Embrace to write that anthem about ILM...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
seems comparable
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
does = those
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
Astonishing the disparity between Rick James's popularity in the US and the Uk. He never had a single Top 40 hit over here, even Superfreak did nothing in the days when funk/soul/(early 80s) Disco was still massive. Years later I remember being blown away by just how much of U Can't Touch This was based on Superfreak.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
He regularly filled 12,000-18,000 capacity arenas in the states in the early '80s.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
As long as there are wedding DJs, there will be "Superfreak."
So it is written, and so it will be.
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
Do Quietus readers know that John Doran is a Gary Glitter apologist?
― JB, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
ilx posters who turned out to be 51'd almost immediately
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Rick James' albums after 1983 are depressing, as in "I can't believe the drugs were so terrible as to turn his common sense and imagination into hot mush."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link