Please talk about: "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry

Sorry that made little sense. Neneh & The Thing surpassed all expectations last night. Definitely one of the best live things I've been to in a while. Rare for me to go to a gig and just not want it to end..

sad I missed this ;_;

Neneh had such a huge stage presence. Literally stalking the stage. Dressed in customised Adidas. Everything sounded so tight, I half expected The Thing to dominate but she had such control. The noise! The encore was just brilliant.

oh man! Wish I could have seen that. Sadly, not even coming to my continent. Glad it was amazing.

so is Buffalo Stance where the title of that Style Rookie blog came from?

They were at Pfork, I think? (I didn't go) I've seen The Thing a couple of times and those players in other ensembles a bunch of times -- all of them were really interesting and I won't go so far as to say 100% ALWAYS SPELLBINDING but there's always a lot going on and a lot to pay attention to.

Basically, if I've enjoyed practically every show I've ever seen those guys perform (Nilsson-Love, Gustafsson, Haker-Flaten have all been in a lot of other bands) Add Neneh Cherry stalking the stage, and I think the wider audience potential skyrockets.

(For reference - afaik they all came through Chicago a lot b/c of the Vandermark connection, Haker-Flaten lived/lives here too.)

aah.

p4k wasn't listed on her Facebook page, but that doesn't really mean anything.

Maybe they weren't there -- maybe I'm misremembering that

Either way -- those people used to (and still do) play around Chicago a lot, but there seems to be a next generation brewing since the last time I was really paying attention. My point was that The Thing are totally awesome.

the cherry thing is amazing, really delivers on pretty much every level.

i finally caught up w/the cherry thing last week, found it underwhelming but will play it more. on a car trip this weekend we played homebrew, first time since the 90s and it held up v well. our 16 y.o. son was intrigued by the stylistic blend asking "what do you call this?" dunno. trip-hop pop?

man I actually forget exactly how much I love "Buffalo Stance" unless I play it

I love this song a lot.

for ages now the font on the front of the cherry thing was reminding me of something, and then it clicked today

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/7e01a08b8476fa6841214972f1c89668/21082.jpg

How did I not know until today that this song originated from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcNxCyErog
which was a remix of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKJH_cbFm_0

I was reading the OED entry for "like" and at the bottom I was very tickled to see an attested use of "like" attributed to "N. Cherry et al, Buffalo Stance". Led me down the same path as MarkoP here, tracing the etymology of the song. Keep going! You have Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Gals" still to find!

Oh Buffalo Gals and its connection to that song is pretty well known. But my lack of familiarity with lower tier SAW singles, meant that I never knew about that.

which was a remix of this:

lol I tried to get that super corrected

Her new album is really really enjoyable. REALLY!
Wouldn't have expected or asked for or wanted an album like this from her, but...it's just about the best thing released this year wtf. :)

u+k (from a sometime (?) ilxor) - http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/06/20/neneh-cherry-malcolm-mclaren-elvis-costello-cras/

Her new album is really really enjoyable

It's not "her" new album, it's an album by The Thing with her as guest vocalist.

http://www.instantjazz.com/uploads/cds/cherrything.jpg

it's credited to both neneh and the thing equally

yeah I realize that, it just sounds like a Thing album with vocals to me

probably depends on whether you're more a fan of one vs. the other. sounds like a neneh cherry album with jazz backing to me.

It's not "her" new album, it's an album by The Thing with her as guest vocalist.

the aggressiveness of your ownership claim on their behalf (over "her") is weird tho

sounds like a neneh cherry album with jazz backing to me.

same, though i'm sure this is because i've been a neneh cherry fan for my entire life, pretty much, and had never heard of the thing before this year. but even so i can't see how you can't hear her personality stamped all over it.

THEIR new album then, anagram.

Either way, it's hot. :)

i am generally in favor of out music finding a way in. the thing is not really all that far out there, but i imagine that people think they are (or don't even want to give them a chance), and now that they've heard the thing as n cherry's backup band they might be more likely to consider listening to other stuff they've done.
good for the thing!

i've said this elsewhere but i'm really looking fwd to properly getting into jazz when i'm too old to go clubbing. and i LOVE what the thing do on this album, i love how their music and neneh's vocals mirror each other w/r/t the wildness/control tension.

i suspect la lechera intended to write "our" but i like the idea of "out" as an abbrev of "outré"

i always want to think that she's saying "harmolodics" at the beginning of buffalo stance.

no, i totally meant out music -- music that is not in! it's out there. :)

No, I'm sure she meant "out" as in "way out"

xxp!

i like that usage too!

http://dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/The_In_Sound_From_Way_Out.jpg

"Kisses on the Wind" is SO FUCKING GOOD!!!

I have never heard this before!!

I said on fb that the super bring piano reminds me of something you'd hear in a really euphoric 15 second outro, except it's all over the whole song.

I have never heard this before!!

― ICANN Tina Turner (Stevie D(eux))

can't really get my head around this!

The only other track better than "Kisses on the Wind" is "Heart" ("Buffalo Stance" is a world apart).

xp it was never that big over here! She's kinda regarded as a one-hit wonder for "Buffalo Stance". I only heard "Kisses" it when I took the time to listen to Raw Like Sushi on Spotify last night.

"Kisses" went top ten in America, but it's true I never hear it.

fcuking jamie oliver seems to have adopted this as his theme tune now, a delete from playlist moment if there ever was one...

fucking jamie oliver. What is he LIKE

The "Kisses on the Wind" single is worth getting if you like it. It has an extended version of the tune, a nice Latin house remix of it by David Morales, plus a semi-acoustic non-album B side.

Damn. Raw Like Sushi is magnificent. I don't think I've heard it for about 20 years but it sounds great this afternoon. I don't think its acknowledged as a "great album" (wtf is that/rockist etc?) but why not? All kinds of beautiful Madonna/psb/Public Enemy awesome all over it. Cherry is so charismatic and I love her. Very very much. Gonna check out Homebrew now - never heard it.

HEART. HEART. YOU CAN'T BREAK MY HEART.

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/neneh-cherry-afrika-baby-bam

new track produced by four tet, neneh in beat poet mode. Not sure what I think of it yet :-\

INTO THIS! https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry

this is really great stuff - seems to carry on where neneh left off with the cherry thing

four tet coming into his own as producer for other people, huh