Jive Bunny: Classic Or Dud?

fast mixing is easy, the trick to dj'ing is knowing how long to leave a record playing and having the patience to do so.

it aint necessarily soooo...what about Playgroup Party Mix and Intro Inspection? granted they are a lot longer than the stuff you mentioned but still the same concept really

i've got a 13 minute 80s megamix on my hard drive that i love precisely because it reduces a lot of classic tracks to soundbites and does it very well...i might upload it in the very near future

yes, but, uh, that loops doesn't it.

it aint necessarily soooo...what about Playgroup Party Mix and Intro Inspection? granted they are a lot longer than the stuff you mentioned but still the same concept really

well, i can't stand either. really, they don't require much talent to do - just a lot of really anal patience. but, as you say, it comes down to whether you like megamixes or not. i don't.

is great! see akufen, todd edwards, osymyso, lots of house, lots of hip-hop. recontextualising is the present and the fyootcha. having said that, jive bunny were shit.

But, but...Tidy Trax is a great label!

"Doesn't take much talent to do" - I'm not sure music should be rated on difficulty of production. OTOH if I made it myself I'm sure I'd feel like this.

(Stirmonster I think your "Jive Bunny for post-punks" comment on the Playgroup mix is pretty accurate BTW which is why I started the thread.)

very true - most of my fave music is made by talentless no marks. it's more that i think people are sometimes overimpressed by the 'wow' factor of these mixes and i like demystifying them. folk should have a go themselves.

Stirmonster - I agree actually, that's what I like about the Playgroup mix, it's not a wow-factor at all, more joy that somebody with my record collection has been arsed to do it!

I don't give a fuck about swing and would certainly never listen to an entire Glenn Miller record. But these were FUN. I was about 12-13 (I think) when these came out and they were a laugh. All the kids on the bus doing trombone motions and suchlike. And great videos. So much better than much of what was out at the time (remember, 'Swing the mood' knocked Sonia off the top spot).

The Doop was better, mind you...

Remember Richard Marx...

1 Swing the mood Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers
2 Wouldn't change a thing Kylie Minogue
3 French kiss Lil Louis
4 Poison Alice Cooper
5 You'll never stop me from loving you Sonia
6 Don't wanna lose you Gloria Estefan
7 Toy soldiers Martika
8 Too much Bros
9 On our own Bobby Brown
10 You're history Shakespear's Sister
11 Losing my mind Liza Minneli
12 Ride on time Black Box
13 Blame it on the boogie Big Fun
14 Ain't nobody Rufus & Chaka Khan
15 Wind beneath my wings Bette Midler
16 London nights London Boys
17 Hey D.J. I can't dance to that music you're playing/Ska train Beatmaster feat. Betty Boo
18 Days Kirsty MacColl
19 Do the right thing Redhead Kingpin & the FBI
20 Back to life(However do you want me)

Hence Jive Bunny rools.

8 good-to-really-good songs in that top 20 - Lil Louis, Shakespear's Sister, Liza, Black Box, London Boys, Beatmasters, Redhead Kingpin, and Soul II Soul

Definitely worse than J Bunny: Sonia, Big Fun, Bette Arsing Midler, Kirsty MacColl much as I like her other stuff.

Wouldn't Change a Thing is my favourite Kylie track.

Jive Bunny is axiomatically dud.

If hip-hop is like Jive Bunny, then hip-hop too is axiomatically dud.

hey! "ain't nobody" is the best record of all time. i'm amazed that you don't even rate it as 'good'.

mark H i believe that line in 'Do The Right Thing' actually went 'i asked my man victor what he used to do for fun he said you learned to shoot a gun before the age of 21' - i have an alarmingly decent memory for the lyrics of this track for some reason, witness...

do the right thing
not talking about a black or white thing
cos that would cause conflict and make this hit legit
but you're definition of legit, and illegitimate is confusing now the redhead one was sent
to make things clearer, cos in about a year or two
what you're gonna do is look up in the mirror
and what you'll see is the image of hate
that you shed(/shared) upon your others your sisters and your brothers
crime and abortion, all kinds of mind distortion
this is very important with just a little caution
of what you can do, just a clue and its true bro
dont want a new sweater (??) just make your life better
an do the right thing!

only i'm sure that line about Victor is in that first verse somewhere too...

So Tom's been tackling the Jive Bunny singles on Popular now (here and here so far) and WTF at this cover image:

http://s1.e-monsite.com/2009/03/13/05/23265319jive-bunny-that-s-what-i-like-jpg.jpg

Was going to post last week's update, but I was embarrassed to look for Jive Bunny threads.

Hahah!

Actually this thread's pretty interesting for the initial debate between FT/Optimo aesthetics! Kinda.

yes - good to read again (and surprisingly not bad for my early days on ILM), thanks. i actually have no idea what the Playgroup Party Mix is now.

altho reviving this more for the racial-cariacture artwork basis is almost worthy of a hatcat...

Playgroup Party Mix was some kind of sub-2ManyDJs mix album wasn't it?

You would have thought that English people in 1989 who were into forties/fifties music wouldn't be horrible racists oh wait.

You would have thought that English people in 2010 who were into sixities/seventies music wouldn't be horrible racists oh wait.

recontextualising is the present and the fyootcha

Recontextualising may not have been so much the past in 2002 as it is now. Recontextualising is SOOOOOO 90s.

Actually, “Swing The Mood” does do one intriguing thing: it erases the distinction between the Glenn Miller bed of the track and the late-50s records it frames – 1941 and 1959 are both just “oldies” now, a cultural redshift taking place as the rock’n'roll era drops out of sight.

this is actually the most striking thing about the original track -- it's pointedly collapsing two eras of youth culture into one track. and the fact that they were both already vintage youth movements just made the novelty that much greater.

they played this at my 30 year old little cousin's wedding in new jersey this summer, I couldn't believe it. the kids didn't stop dancing & the parents & grandparents beelined, what's to say

One half of Jive Bunny actually linked to that piece on Twitter, despite the 3/10 rating.

One member of Jive Bunny crossed picket lines during the miners strike. Very few Jive Bunny albums were bought in Barnsley/ Doncaster/ Rotherham etc. I can't be sure on this, but someone once told me that Tidy Trax don't do as well as you'd expect in the Gatecrasher heartland for the very same reason.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:29 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark

playgroup partmix was that ridiculously loaded 80s mix, superfun and awesome, still a fave. http://www.trevor-jackson.com/content/extras/djmixes/mp3/TJPlaygroupPartymix.mp3

thanks, had never even heard of that. totally my speed for being both an archival time capsule overview & also total fun

Jive Bunny 'The Album' is the only album (contemporary or otherwise) that me and my grandmother have ever had in common from our collections