I used to love those guys when I was little. I still like some of "their" songs but they were the cheesiest band ever. The shoulder pads, the blazers and spandex, and thigh high boots, the moves, the HORROR! And I would love to find a clip of their famous "girl you know it's girl you know its..." screwup. I've searched google and kazaa, to no avail.
― MelMel, Monday, 27 December 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Zorene, Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zorene, Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Leelee (Alicia_Sla...), November 25th, 2004.
i wish more artists these days had that lack of humility!
― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zorene, Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
That Milli Vanilli "scandal" was the most rockist bollocks ever... I never liked the band, but what difference does it make whether the two muppets who appeared in the video sung on the record or not? Surely the music is all that matters.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
that dog ain't gonna hunt DV
― J0hn D., Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
because the real rockism is in not just letting the dudes who sang the song appear on the cover & the stage, y'know
― J0hn D., Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
now that was a rather post-rockist way of put'in' it
― t**t, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
tortoise would've said it like that fer sure
― latebloomer, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The real singers looked like this
dude on the left actually kinda looks like jermaine "we don't have to take our clothes off" stewart ... if mr. stewart weren't a eunuch.
― Eisbaer, Monday, 10 December 2007 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/k3lrx1.gif
― crüt, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
I want to know what happened to Brad Howell
― crüt, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
ty for dn
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
DAMMIT I WANTED THAT
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
these motherfuckers mad that I'm icy!
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_ZcG_YQCI
interested persons might also wanna check the uploader's 244 other vids; his username is FRANKFARIANTHEHITMAN
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:08 (eleven years ago) link
kind of a goldmine tbh, here's a Farian-produced pre-solo Terence Trent D'arby act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGi_Afpj0f4&feature=share&list=UU3IWQ_M-AzO-vlYnpVQGqWQ
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jIEEyK7yj4&feature=share&list=UU3IWQ_M-AzO-vlYnpVQGqWQ
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
ok one last one, this is Rob & Fab actually singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtPrlItmpro&feature=share&list=UU3IWQ_M-AzO-vlYnpVQGqWQ
FRANKFARIANTHEHITMAN's playlist is really something else
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
try'n'b is an amazing name
― activated burgers (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
ok I lied, I know this is a lot of youtubes but this one's really important
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIxo4DBgTcE&feature=share&list=UU3IWQ_M-AzO-vlYnpVQGqWQ
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIxo4DBgTcE&feature=share&list=UU3IWQ_M-AzO-vlYnpVQGqWQ
That allegedly Fab or Rob vocal on the Empire Bizarre track sounds a lot like Farian himself. Here is the most famous Farian vocal for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7peS5jw1nIU
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
well that's not even the one I meant to post but it's crucial too
don't sleep on the Milli-style dance break in this one. or on anything else in this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPVKSZ1iFk
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
Have a lotta love for the Milli 'cause "Girl You Know It's True" was co-written by a really friendly gas station attendant in my home town. He worked at the Amoco on Forest Drive.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
For real!
MILLI Vanilli, the dreadlocked duo who lip-synced their way to stardom, is doing Carefree gum commercials that poke fun at their fraud.Kevin Liles is laughing, but not all the way to the bank.He's one of the five people who are credited with the hit song, "Girl You Know It's True," which propelled Milli Vanilli -- Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan -- to a Grammy Award and international fame. Meanwhile Liles and his band, the Numarks, lingered in anonymity."We started everything," said Liles. "Without 'Girl You Know It's True,' there wouldn't have been a Milli Vanilli or anything."Numarks is a local rap band that made the first recording of "Girl, You Know It's True." Some of the original members have left Numark, which now consists of Liles and Wayne Mallory, a disc jockey.Numarks lives on, though. Liles and Mallory are in the recording studio, finishing songs for a new album. The first single, already playing on the radio, is dedicated to the Baltimore street that is home to Odell's, the nightclub where band members got their start, Liles said. The song is called "North Avenue . . . Drop Down."As for the other members of the original Numarks, they're still involved in music. Bill Pettaway, who wrote the music and produced the song, works at the same job he's held for 10 years, at a gas station in Annapolis."The Milli Vanilli thing has not tarnished my life in any way," he said. "Kevin and everybody else involved, we made a hit song. I'm happy, I'm proud."He's currently working with a young Washington woman on a possible singing career.Ky Ademo of Columbia composes music regularly and is the father of twins. Rodney Holloman of Baltimore has embarked on a solo career. And the others, Darryl Mims and Sean Spencer, "they're still making music," Liles said.
Kevin Liles is laughing, but not all the way to the bank.
He's one of the five people who are credited with the hit song, "Girl You Know It's True," which propelled Milli Vanilli -- Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan -- to a Grammy Award and international fame. Meanwhile Liles and his band, the Numarks, lingered in anonymity.
"We started everything," said Liles. "Without 'Girl You Know It's True,' there wouldn't have been a Milli Vanilli or anything."
Numarks is a local rap band that made the first recording of "Girl, You Know It's True." Some of the original members have left Numark, which now consists of Liles and Wayne Mallory, a disc jockey.
Numarks lives on, though. Liles and Mallory are in the recording studio, finishing songs for a new album. The first single, already playing on the radio, is dedicated to the Baltimore street that is home to Odell's, the nightclub where band members got their start, Liles said. The song is called "North Avenue . . . Drop Down."
As for the other members of the original Numarks, they're still involved in music. Bill Pettaway, who wrote the music and produced the song, works at the same job he's held for 10 years, at a gas station in Annapolis.
"The Milli Vanilli thing has not tarnished my life in any way," he said. "Kevin and everybody else involved, we made a hit song. I'm happy, I'm proud."
He's currently working with a young Washington woman on a possible singing career.
Ky Ademo of Columbia composes music regularly and is the father of twins. Rodney Holloman of Baltimore has embarked on a solo career. And the others, Darryl Mims and Sean Spencer, "they're still making music," Liles said.
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
that's incredible, Numarks are legendary in Baltimore but somehow I knew nothing about the "Girl You Know It's True" origins w/ them. Kevin Liles obv went on to be a big deal and VP at Def Jam and later Warner Bros.
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_53Szv3PGg
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Bill Pettaway is also a production associate of Timbaland's and the discoverer of Toni Braxton. But I met him at the gas station.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
That's so fresh. I've definitely spent some time talking to dudes at gas stations. None of them wrote Girl U Know It's True though.
Did you grow up in Hillsmere, by any chance?
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Nope. Out General's Highway, near Rudy's.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
guys
did you watch the get down beethoven video
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yes. And as a former Annapolitan and present-day resident of the Vienna 'burbs, I shake my head disapprovingly on behalf of Pettaway and Falco. (But my faithless toe is tapping.)
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
“Girl You Know It’s True” is a legit fucking jam
― thewufs, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
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― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
i always preferred "blame it on the rain"
remember this scandal happening as a kid and then thinking, "ya but the c+c music factory lady in the video isn't the singer either, i don't get the big deal???"
neanderthal, i've rewatched that clip so many times and i just can't even imagine what was going through their heads. the one dude starts doing the running man to the skipping beat! it's amazing.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
Mixed feelings today, but a piece I wrote 30+ years ago for Throat Culture mathematically proving--proving--that Milli Vanilli were better than Bob Dylan.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/milli.html
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
3) Bob Dylan Albums That Are Not As Good As Girl You Know It's True:The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Self Portrait (1970), Pat Garret & Billy theKid (1973), Dylan (1973), Planet Waves (1974), Hard Rain (1976), Street-Legal (1978),Bob Dylan at Budokan (1979), Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980), Shot of Love(1981), Real Live (1984), Empire Burlesque (1985), Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Down inthe Groove (1987), Dylan & the Dead (1988), Oh Mercy (1989), Under the Red Sky (1990),Good As I Been to You (1992)
The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Self Portrait (1970), Pat Garret & Billy theKid (1973), Dylan (1973), Planet Waves (1974), Hard Rain (1976), Street-Legal (1978),Bob Dylan at Budokan (1979), Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980), Shot of Love(1981), Real Live (1984), Empire Burlesque (1985), Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Down inthe Groove (1987), Dylan & the Dead (1988), Oh Mercy (1989), Under the Red Sky (1990),Good As I Been to You (1992)
it got funnier the more i read the list.
delightful piece, ty for sharing!
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link