tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post5052113165444464731..comments2024-01-17T21:12:13.934+00:00Comments on Sweeping The Nation: Noughties By Nature #95: Girls On Top – We Don’t Give A Damn About Our FriendsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-66983492561461724982009-11-29T12:50:11.800+00:002009-11-29T12:50:11.800+00:00i should have pointed out that i actually really l...i should have pointed out that i actually really like the Nelly/Grange Hill and Eminem/Mrs Mills tracks, i just think that a lot of the stuff that appeared after it had properly gone overground - maybe Kylie performing in collaboration with Soulwax at the Brits or something -was either depserately trying to be wacky (regardless of whether it sounds good or not) or just being a bit uninspired. Anyone can fit a rap track over another piece of music because they're usually in the same time signature and not in any sort of key (i know, modern music eh?) so to not take advantage and experiment a bit after a while made it seem a bit tired. A shame there weren't more people about like 65daysofstatic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK_EHjYrdZothommonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-74581469641550327552009-11-26T00:01:49.544+00:002009-11-26T00:01:49.544+00:00Yeah, but that Nelly over Grange Hill tune was on...Yeah, but that Nelly over Grange Hill tune was one of the earliest tracks, on the Freelance Hellraiser collection that was knocking around, long before the Boom Selection CDs. It was always deeply silly, but that was part of the fun.<br />I'd definitely have this track in my top 100, this and Overload were the tracks that finally made me realise that modern pop didn't necessarily mean crap.Chris Ricenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-79115123289511779032009-11-24T23:57:08.323+00:002009-11-24T23:57:08.323+00:00I agree, Thommo - I remember hearing Evolution Con...I agree, Thommo - I remember hearing Evolution Control Committee on the John Peel show in the nineties and thinking it was a clever gimmick, but not much more would happen with it. Wrong as all hell, obviously!<br /><br />ECC finished highly in his 1998 Festive Fifty too - I think it's safe to say that it planted a seed in a lot of people's minds.23 Daveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341570374606412042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-59229631987745352722009-11-24T13:57:06.446+00:002009-11-24T13:57:06.446+00:00This is something i would have chosen actually. i ...This is something i would have chosen actually. i am, i'm afraid, already nostalgic about the 'bootleg' scene at around this time as, although it still goes on, a lot of them at this sort of time just seemed to be better. i guess now that technology means that even i could go and stick whatever song i wanted over the other, it's meant a lot of the spontaneity, surprise and creativity - rather than just novelty - has worn off. i think Soulwax said sometime in 2002 that the tracks do have to work together, be in the same key, that sort of thing, and if it's shoehorned together it will sound like it.<br /><br />But yeah, i think my favourites are this (although i do kind of prefer the Sugababes version...Anita has a great voice but i think it's a song mutant that benefits from huge production) and his I Want To Dance With Numbers as well. Strokes Of Genie-ous by Freelance Hellraiser and Destiny's Kennedies by...i think it was Kurtis Rush?...were great too. i think by the time it got to being Eminem over Mrs Mills and Nelly over the Grange Hill theme tune it was getting a bit silly (!)<br /><br />ps. i think Evolution Control Committee's Whipped Cream Mixes from years earlier were probably the foundatin of this particular 'genre'...discuss.thommohttp://www.beeandchick.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com