― richardk (Richard K), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― richardk (Richard K), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I think this nails it - the timeline is right, the progression of the scene is right, the idea of the hip band being able to play it is right...this is exactly what it should be. Not sure about Freek-A-Leek, mind you. How about "Wait"? Love to hear that over a Kurtis Blow beat...
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
"Ok guys, play some double-time in 7/8 with every fourth bar in 4/4, watch me for the changes."
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
He's playing to a bunch of square middle-class high-school kids so anything too alien e.g. hip-hop is just gonna get him kicked off the stage and beaten up by the football team. My Sharona works in that it feeds off (or in the context of this discussion, anticipates) punk and disco, and condenses them into a safe pop song for cheerleaders everywhere. Also, it's simple and repetitive so would have been easy to pick up by the band.
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Or Squarepusher's "My Red Hot Car"
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
For hip-hop - "play the drum intro to Bowie's "Five Years."
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 26 March 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Col Tom Blue (Col Tom Blue), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― bah, Friday, 7 April 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
it would blow everybody's mind to the moon
― lf (lfam), Saturday, 8 April 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
"And you, the bass player. Take a lap."
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike McG, Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― PB, Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Reviving this thread is the inevitable intersection of the Chuck Berry poll and the revival of the "1984-1994 time travel" poll.
All great threads!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/oi5gmw.jpg
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
nobody would time travel to 1978.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway though the 1978 options that wouldn't really break for another three years: kraftwerk, speed metal and grandmaster flash
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Kings of Leon are from the US?
― David R., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Question answered!
― Carlos 2, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I love this: "Not many of the rock answers on here would sound unprecedented in '76, if you had any knowledge of Krautrock, the VU, contemporary Classical, avant-garde etc. So the real answer pretty much has to be Hip Hop."
I love it because it's like, yeah, totally, prom bands in '76 would totally be into krautrock, contemporary classical and the VU.
I mean, fuck, Chuck Berry wasn't even unprecedented in '55—there's jump blues, Rocket 88, etc.
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
"Kick Out The Jams"
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm. I realise we are speaking 1978 here, not 1968.
Well, make that "Don't You Want Me" instead then.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
The Run-DMC version of "Walk This Way." A familiar song in 1978 given a twist that absolutely nobody would expect, yet might actually work in a school dance setting.
Either that or the intro from Gang of Four's "Love Like Anthrax."
― mike a, Thursday, 7 August 2008 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
UPTOWN TOP RANKING
― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
pass the dutchie
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Has to be hip-hop, still. This question will be a lot harder in 2010.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
had "Ace of Spades" been released?
― milo z, Thursday, 7 August 2008 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Mark OTM with this really. Has a drastically different general genre like hip hop and other electronically based genres come along since 1980? I can't really think of one...
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 7 August 2008 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Chuck Berry was about to become one of the biggest musical acts in the world - much bigger than any hip-hop artists until the late-80s (or any electronic-a/ally/etc. artists to this day).
If you stretch the time out, "Walk This Way" might work. (Also mirrors the movie in use of familiar elements in a new setting)
― milo z, Thursday, 7 August 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
MATTHEW WILDER BREAK MY STRIDE
― andrew m., Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
oops wrong thread
...or is it?
― electricsound, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link