Re: You should probably add this to your workout mix

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Oh, the Early Nineties hip-hop dancing perfection starting at 3:02. Squee!


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 8:48 AM
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3:08, actually.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 8:49 AM
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From just having half-heard it in the restaurant, I was really not expecting this level of early 90's dick-in-the-boxness.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 9:03 AM
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I still think it's a lot of fun, though. And would be great during a workout.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 9:09 AM
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got to be real:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfTyEK-N_Y


Posted by: lemmy caution | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 9:15 AM
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Wait, there was booty dancin, but there weren't no dick in a box. I wanted to see some guys dick in a box!


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 12:19 PM
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This thread is being neglected. I don't think enough people are listening to the song. I assume this is Ttam's fault, although the path is indirect.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 12:23 PM
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This thread is being neglected.

"Hey, I like this song from 1995" doesn't give one much to work with.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 12:32 PM
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People could discuss Shazam. Or breakfast tacos. Or how they downloaded and worked out to this song and just have to gush over how energetic they felt.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 12:42 PM
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Or how I'm reading 'Bossypants' while proctoring an exam, and it has made me snort unceremoniously with laughter more than once. This book is so great.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 12:43 PM
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WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT SHAGGY'S HIT SONG "BOOMBASTIC"? IT IS BECAUSE NO ONE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH.


Posted by: OPINIONATED GRANDMA | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 12:44 PM
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OK, I've got one. Recent remixes include 70s/80s pop pretty often.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it (damned amnesiac kids, they think they've invented everything themselves), or something else? For instance, when Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love got written, they were covering a 20-year old song popular in local clubs. Now the electronic bloops from that cover are themselves a shorthand for music from a certain era. The interest in ~20-year old sources, does it come from human generation time (fixed) or from recording technology/distribution cycles (accelerating)?

Here are two I've liked in the last couple of weeks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7EoalpcqRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3DQT_LG0I


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:00 PM
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This thread is being neglected

I'm currently surrounded by native Spanish speakers and reluctant to find out what scorn will be heaped upon me if I click to watch a video whose freeze frame features a rump and the word TIBURON.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:02 PM
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WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT SHAGGY'S HIT SONG "BOOMBASTIC"?

Apropos of the sex threads recently, Sarah Jones had a response.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:08 PM
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My one-year old loves AC/DC's "Thunderstruck". He dances to it in the exact awkward "I don't know what I'm doing" way that generations of male AC/DC fans have always done.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:21 PM
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13: I'm pretty sure you're being wise.

Can you hook some English speakers up to your computer?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:22 PM
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I was at a city-wide garage sale on Sunday, and there was a necklace I should have bought. I've been pining over it all week. I just located the vendor and she's going to hang onto it for me! I'm so pleased. It's yellow cut stones. Go me.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:28 PM
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That is to say, still proctoring this final exam.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:29 PM
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17: Congrats, heebie!

10, 18: I take it that you decided to stop reading the book, because you couldn't stop from laughing out loud. Reading Unfogged presents no such danger.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 1:33 PM
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I don't think that song would work for my workout mix. I could dance to it (or preferably to the Cheryl Lynn song), but I need something more aggressive and/or dark for workouts. Reggaeton does the trick (yay for not understanding the words), or hip hop, some dance/electronic.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 2:05 PM
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I need something more aggressive and/or dark for workouts

Dark and aggressive!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 2:09 PM
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I tried biking while listening to music this morning for the first time, and found out that I can't keep a beat pedaling (really, I can't do it at all, but I can't even get close pedaling). If my cadence is too low and I try to speed it up, I inevitably overshoot and get out of sync again, and it's an awkward, conscious process -- not at all like running where you can just fall into the rhythm.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 2:09 PM
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Biking with earbuds in? Or a boombox strapped to the handlebars? Actually, don't answer that. I'm too pleased by that second mental image to have my hopes dashed.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 2:27 PM
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She's talking about running with the band alongside.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 05- 6-11 3:07 PM
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