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Homages, perhaps, to the drum-machine sound of the late 1970s, the fast and furious grooves on this rap label compilation speed by at around 120 to 140 beats per minute, and they're all top-end and trebly (they might want to call the next one SO SO DEF TREBLE ALL-STARS). This is pure party music, and the formula is simple enough: either crank the ol' beatbox to the funkiest beat you can find and start rapping over it, or, better, find a popular groove like Keith Sweat's "Make It Last Forever" and start rapping over that. Nothing groundbreaking, but absoluely butt-shaking.

The Reverend, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link

I'm assuming this review was either written before The New Radicals got popular with "You Get What You Give" or that the writer didn't know who Gregg Alexander was:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/intoxifornication-mw0000074513

MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link

Still my favorite after all these years:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/telephone-mw0000187960

Austin, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 05:42 (eleven years ago) link

hahaha wow

The Reverend, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 06:47 (eleven years ago) link

It makes no sense to discuss 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane, the first album by Russian dance-pop duo Tatu, without focusing on the gimmick, since that gimmick is the band. And the gimmick, of course, is that the girls are teenage lesbians who sing songs with suggestive titles like "Not Gonna Get Us," "Show Me Love," and "All the Things She Said," while covering that perennial anthem of tortured unrequited love and lust, the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?". It's heavy Europop, often helmed by Trevor Horn, and sung by two cute girls. (two stars)

Suggestive titles? Nudge nudge, wink wink "Not Gonna Get Us", say no more, etc

Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 08:46 (eleven years ago) link

Allmisogyny

graduate of the Suzanne Moore School of Apologies (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link

I always thought this Black Devil Disco Club review was quite bad.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/28-after-mw0000573787

Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 11:18 (eleven years ago) link

four years pass...

lydia lunch, queen of siam

AllMusic Review by John Dougan
Her laconic slur of a voice has never sounded sexier, and her off-key rendition of "Spooky" is so lazily erotic that it nearly sucks the life out of you. A putrid classic of style and substance.

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link


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