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Need your fix of nineties niceness? Don’t avoid the crave, fulfill it with this month’s episode of From A to B 90’s Style. Pull up a chair (if you aren’t in one already) and enjoy the tasty commentary provided by fellow superstar journalist Bear Frazer and I on videos from TLC, Oasis, Skee-Lo and Semisonic. Mmmm, irreverent commentary. Adam: I'm going to start things off on the TLC tip.
If the enthusiastic hometown reception for the Cool Kids is any indication, hip-hop’s future is firmly rooted in its past. Harkening back to an era of two turntables and a microphone — and adding one more mic for good measure — the tag-team emcees rhymed playful raps for the everyman. There were no hype men [...]
Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards. "I Wish" Skee-Lo, 1995 Somewhere there's a sample of a tiny violin, and it plays for Skee-Lo.
The New York City five-piece
Bell
, lead by singer Olga Bell, was the first act to ever grace the stage of
D
's and my little
Neon Lights
concert endeavor. I use "grace" purposefully. Olga's soaring vocals and her band's sharp musicianship even managed to render
Skee-Lo's "I Wish"
a tender and moving ballad that fine December evening. Of course we knew (or more accurately D knew and I was...
Dear Miss Jenkins, Oh, man. Oh, shit damn. Oh, fuckin’ shit goddamn. Lord have mercy. Lord got chronic! I am stoned. You ever get so stoned that, like, you start remembering shit you had totally forgotten about? Now that I’m in prison, I do that shit ALL THE TIME. Just yesterday, Pookie made some insane kinda crack made [...]
Well, they were better than the Salt Lake game. That's about all you can say. What is going on in our nation's capital? I've said from the beginning that there would be an adjustment period with all of the new players this season. The most important one, Marcelo Gallardo, plays in a completely different style than his predecessor Christian Gomez. You can see Gallardo's talent, but you can also see...
Can You See the Sunset from the Southside? (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Can you believe it? 50 songs down and about 250 to go. To recap, Vol. 1 featured 10'000 Maniacs, Inspiral Carpets, Beck, Weezer, and Adina Howard. Vol. 2 featured Rage Against The Machine, Everything But The Girl, Los Del Rio, Haddaway, and Aerosmith. Vol. 3 featured Screaming Trees, White Zombie, MC Hammer, Skee Lo, and The Proclaimers. Vol. 4 featured Buffalo Tom, Paula Cole, Third Eye Blind, Shanice,...
Skee-Lo, nee Antoine Roundtree, created the essential radio-friendly anthem for all the shorties out there in the 90’s. His video and song “I Wish” documented some of the plights of shorter people out there. Skee-Lo released two albums, I Wish (1995) and I Can't Stop (2000). He released several singles, but I Wish was his most popular. He also recorded a cover of the Schoolhouse Rock! song “The Tale...
Fearless Records has announced the track listing for the seventh installment of their "Punk Goes" series. Punk Goes Crunk will be released on April 4 and will feature Set Your Goals, Hot Rod Circuit, New Found Glory and more covering the likes of Ol' Dirty Bastard, Dr. Dre, Notorious B.I.G. and others.
SUYT is a collaboration project between PhatBastard and ComaR from France. With Hey You! we have a nice new version of Skee-Lo’s (only) classic I Wish. One of the lines in that track is “Hey you, what's that sound” –...
Can You See the Sunset from the Southside? (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
T here were some complaints that the last installment of this series featured a bunch of crap and was like a "nightmare." I'll readily admit that many of the "hit" songs from the 1990's were pretty horrible then and are just as bad today. Take it with a grain of salt and laugh as you listen. Just think of it this way; can you do the Macarena dance? Do you know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby?" I do....
I was at work the other day bumping my iPod when "I Wish" by Skee Lo came on, followed by Chumbawamba's classic, "Tubthumping." It was in that moment that I had an epiphany. Number one, I have awful taste in music. Number two, popular music today is lame. For example, Kanye West.
Our ability to work has been hijacked by our new favorite Web site, Rap Represented in Mathematical Charts and Graphs . While “math” and “rap” may sound like the least-appealing cross-pollination ever, the charts are really comical, implementing MSPaint-style artistry to graphically illustrate many of hip-hop’s most swaggering statements by folks like Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Chamillionaire, Wu-Tang...
We’ve all chuckled as little kids and fat guys and maybe someone we know and maybe someone we used to respect have all taken their turn at Crankin Dat. Good on Souljaboy for foolin’ the MSM, bloggers and us white people for having this massive hit for several months and not telling us about it. You got us. We’re as lame as you expected. Look at us dance. But now there’s “ Report Card ” and it's sampling...
Despite being a ratings juggernaut, American Karaoke has failed to launch that many careers after the karaokers have to start singing there own music. In six seasons only Kelly Clarkson has been able to produce two hit albums, although two may be her shelf life as her third album has bombed and her concert downgraded due to lack of sales. But on the bright side for Kelly, this moves her one step closer...
