I was looking for an album to start my musical journey with, so I started going through my collection. The main criteria: short length. As I currently type this post, I'm cooking, eating, and waiting to go to work in about 45 minutes. Which means I really have about 30 minutes to listen to this album since I have to drive to work and get ready. Anyhow, the answer to my problem came in the form "Light of the Worlds" by Kool & the Gang.
Honestly, I only got this album because DJ Jazzy Jeff sampled "Summer Madness" on his and the Fresh Prince's song "Summertime." To be even more honest, most of my collection began as a means of finding songs that would be great to sample for my boy King Dom the Dominator. But I haven't really kept up with the whole process. This is probably the reason that I started this little project: as a means to find good music.
Anyhow, songs that stand out from this album as I listened: "Whiting H & G," "You Don't Have to Change," and "Higher Plane." All these songs are funky on this album, but for some reason I like these a lot. "You Don't Have to Change," in particular, was vaguely familiar, like I had listened to it elsewhere. Don't you just hate it when you have a jingle or lyric in your head and you can't remember where it came from? Well, that happens to me a lot. I'm horrible with lyrics and remembering songs. But this time, I prevailed! It was sampled by Pete Rock in a song called "We Roll" off an album consisting of purely instrumentals.
Holy shit. I just got to the most famous part of "Summer Madness." You know the part. The part where the synthesizer starts off low, then gets higher pitched and even more higher pitched! It was on the commercials by Nike "The Lebrons," when pimpalicious Lebron dives into the pool. I can't lie; as much as I hate on Lebron, his commercials have always been hilarious.
Anyhow, that will be all for the first post. I should really get back in touch with my funk roots.
Peace, bruthas and sistas!
Correction: I actually did fail...to an extent. "We Roll" did not sample "You Don't Have to Change." I did, however, get pretty close, since it did sample "Summer Madness," which is on the same album So BAM!
lets hit the record store!
ReplyDeletelet's do it. but first, we must jam.
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