What was the last GREAT Basement Jaxx single?

I sort of think of 'Where's Your Head At' as cartoonish kids TV scream rather than lairy thuggishness anyway. There's nothing particularly threatening or confrontational about it.

lex otm re: lairy football chant records - the worst

i've never been into kids' TV either. all that yelling and enforced jollity and foolishness made me smh even when i was a kid

like that thing where people get "gunged" on kids' TV shows. not acceptable behaviour

like that thing where people get "gunged" on kids' TV shows.

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it was good when Tiswas did it. It's felt forced ever since.

It's only good if it punctures someone's pomposity, but as long as I've known kids TV to do it the guest has either been some kid or an adult that's fully signed up for it.

fecking Nickolodeon awards or whatever are the WORST

Yeah, forced is the word. 'Where's Your Head At' isn't particularly forced but I'm sure there are some teeth-clenchingly forced imitations from a similar era that I've forgotten all about. Probably by Freeform Five or someone.

idk the worst kind of pomposity is the empty kind, best punctured with words. if it's just someone who takes themselves seriously or likes things just so, that should be RESPECTED

there is basically no need for gunge in this world

^^^ this is the precise moment when the gunge chute wd open in a proper show

Thuggishness in music can be good or bad just like dandyness can be. I don't understand this concept of "kids tv" we're talking about it here so I'm gonna just ignore this part of the conversation.

Unless it's like when people would get slimed on 'You Can't Do That On Television'.

looooool

xpost i think that's what he means

KMT

re: crazy cousinz, i swear the most underrated thing they ever did was their remix of booty luv's "say it"

What's up with Crazy Cousinz anyway? I haven't been following the funky house skeptics thread. Have they done anything I need to hear post-"Inflation"?

They just produced an Omarion track.

It was good I thought.

hang on what, they PRODUCED for omarion?! not just remixed?

it seems they did! well i'll be.

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it's called "forgot about love" fyi - listening now, it's...slow! and really quite nice.

Oh I heard this before (I think it must have been posted on rolling r&b). Still don't like it.

lol the first google autocomplete suggestion for omarion is "omarion gay"

Voting for Bingo Bango because I've always felt it's the under-rated high point of their career and sounds like the best intersection between their classic house influences and their UK "urban" dancefloor techniques. Plus, it was the high point of a Cream compilation I had when I was a teenager and it was really well-used in Sugar Rush.

'Where's Your Head At' isn't particularly forced but I'm sure there are some teeth-clenchingly forced imitations from a similar era that I've forgotten all about. Probably by Freeform Five or someone.

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Audio Bullys.

oh god what was that really really gross one!

i like the way you mooooove

vomit

'bingo bango' is kinda the worst single during their years of greatness

rly hate 'do your thing' but that's partly because it became a tv staple

i like the way you mooooove

that song is basically motivation to be a good christian, cause it's definitely the soundtrack to eternal damnation

"I like the way you move" isn't thuggish, it's faux-sleazy. There is a difference. And you can't blame basement jaxx for the bodyrockers when in between there was a whole canon of mersh electrohouse for the bodyrockers to draw on.

yeah can't really imagine anyone creating a "way you move" chant for the football terraces without immediately feeling stupid

The ancestors of "The Way You Move":

Felix Da Housecat, "Silver Screen, Shower Scene"
Planet Funk, "Who Said (Stuck In The UK)"
Armand Van Helden, "Hear My Name"
Deep Dish, "Flashdance"
Rogue Traders, "Voodoo Child"
Bad Cabbage, "You're Rude"

Re Crazy Cousinz, member Paleface smashed it with this recent funky tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNxH9b56Vek

Best bit is at 1:57 where the hyper cut-up vocal starts going "eep, eep, eep, ee-ee-ee-eepeepeepeep"

I'm kind of surprised you don't like "Gett Me Off", Lex!

Probably by Freeform Five or someone.

Freeform Five were great! But you might be thinking of Eeeeaaooww, with Bounty Killer?

can I just say "lol Audio Bullys"

"fly life is the only one that still gets played occasionally" meaning if you go to a party there's a pretty good chance if any basement jaxx gets dropped today the dj's probably going to drop fly life rather than anything they've done in recent years.

oh ok you crazy then

(if by "recent" you mean "post-Fly Life")

dunno about parties. feel like I don't hear much of any Basement Jaxx on the radio tbh but much as I love "Fly Life" it didn't get a lot of play first time round

absolutely, not to derail but fly life is a classic on it's own to the point that half of the time people don't even attribute it to being basement jaxx vs just recognizing the song.

haven't heard Glamma Kid in aeons either

I definitely feel like Rooty was a defining album for people in their 30s in the US entertainment industry; tracks from that seem to pop up constantly (most recent totally lolworthy example being "Romeo" and "Do Your Thing" appearing on the same episode of "Dancing With The Stars")

A completely personal impression here but there's also a kind-of retrospective innocence to it and a lot of other pop that was released in 2001 but pre-9/11.

haven't heard Glamma Kid in aeons either

he's on the amazing new lady chann single! http://soundcloud.com/gabrielheatwave/lady-chann-glamma-kid-sticky

Seeing Bassment Jaxx DJ/perform Remedy in New York in 2000 was the moment for me. I liked Rooty okay, hated "Where's Your Head At?," and tuned out after that.

Though TBH I was definitely caught up in the event of Rooty--I cooled on it slowly.

I like that "Dracula"! I just watched the disco scene in Fright Night set to it--I should really get to work!

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