I was under the idea that DMC liked the riff but wasn't too crazy about the lyrics. Not sure... but either way, a great collaboration.
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You're probably right @Aaron I remember reading Jam Master Jay was the only one really into it totally from the DMC camp.
Here's something from an article I read about it a while ago that I thought was interesting:
DMC
"Rick gives us this yellow notebook pad. He tells us, “Go down to D’s basement, put the needle on the record.” We go down to my basement and put on the record and then you hear “Backstroke lover always hidin’ ’neath the covers” and immediately me and Joe get on the phone and say: Hell no, this ain’t going to happen. This is hillbilly gibberish, country-bumpkin bulls---.”
Run
"I’m running around, acting like I don’t care because I don’t know what I’m doing and why I’m singing this hillbilly stuff. “Backstroke lover always hidin’ ’neath the covers.” What are we talking about? That’s not poetry from Hollis."
DMC
"You know how you make a kid sit down and eat his vegetables? “Oh, hell no, you sit down and eat those greens.” And it takes the kid an hour to eat one green at a time? That’s what me and Run were doing."
Bill Adler - Historian, publicist
"Jay yelled at Run and D and said, “You’re going to look like chumps if you don’t come in and recut it.” Jay got it on a musical level. He’s a DJ. A music lover. So Jay clowns Run and D back into the studio and they do a better job of cutting the vocals and, hallelujah, it’s a great thing."
Here's something from an article I read about it a while ago that I thought was interesting:
DMC
"Rick gives us this yellow notebook pad. He tells us, “Go down to D’s basement, put the needle on the record.” We go down to my basement and put on the record and then you hear “Backstroke lover always hidin’ ’neath the covers” and immediately me and Joe get on the phone and say: Hell no, this ain’t going to happen. This is hillbilly gibberish, country-bumpkin bulls---.”
Run
"I’m running around, acting like I don’t care because I don’t know what I’m doing and why I’m singing this hillbilly stuff. “Backstroke lover always hidin’ ’neath the covers.” What are we talking about? That’s not poetry from Hollis."
DMC
"You know how you make a kid sit down and eat his vegetables? “Oh, hell no, you sit down and eat those greens.” And it takes the kid an hour to eat one green at a time? That’s what me and Run were doing."
Bill Adler - Historian, publicist
"Jay yelled at Run and D and said, “You’re going to look like chumps if you don’t come in and recut it.” Jay got it on a musical level. He’s a DJ. A music lover. So Jay clowns Run and D back into the studio and they do a better job of cutting the vocals and, hallelujah, it’s a great thing."
#179 Beastie Boys "Shake Your Rump"
I'm like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat... Gotta admit I was late to the game on Paul's Boutique. In fact, I remember liking the next album Check Your Head in '92 and still not liking Paul's. But by '94 Paul's had clicked and I saw it for the groundbreaking masterpiece it is.
I'm like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat... Gotta admit I was late to the game on Paul's Boutique. In fact, I remember liking the next album Check Your Head in '92 and still not liking Paul's. But by '94 Paul's had clicked and I saw it for the groundbreaking masterpiece it is.
#177 Eminem "Insane"
Remember when I said "My Name Is" made my jaw hit the floor? First time I heard this one, my entire head exploded.
Remember when I said "My Name Is" made my jaw hit the floor? First time I heard this one, my entire head exploded.
#176 Gin Blossoms "Hey Jealousy"
Everything rock and roll should be.
Everything rock and roll should be.
"Found Out About You" is another good one from them. Both good songs.
#175 Nine Inch Nails "Down In It"
Anyone remember Personics? A jukebox-looking kiosk machine in record stores in the early 90s - only lasted a few years (if that) - where you could make a customized mixtape. One night back in 1990, a DJ at a dance club was slipping some cool-sounding alternative music so I went and talked to him. When I asked him for recommendations, he suggested Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails. A few months later my roommate was at the Personics machine picking songs he liked for his mixtape and had extra space to fill, so I said "try some Nine Inch Nails, a DJ recommended it to me". We heard the 20 second clip and he agreed. Pretty Hate Machine changed my music world forever.
Anyone remember Personics? A jukebox-looking kiosk machine in record stores in the early 90s - only lasted a few years (if that) - where you could make a customized mixtape. One night back in 1990, a DJ at a dance club was slipping some cool-sounding alternative music so I went and talked to him. When I asked him for recommendations, he suggested Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails. A few months later my roommate was at the Personics machine picking songs he liked for his mixtape and had extra space to fill, so I said "try some Nine Inch Nails, a DJ recommended it to me". We heard the 20 second clip and he agreed. Pretty Hate Machine changed my music world forever.
Not familiar with the Personics thing. But I’ve said it before, and will say it again, Pretty Hate Machine was a life changing album. The first few seconds hit me musically the way the first few seconds of Star Wars did when I saw it for the first time in the theater as a kid. I knew that what was going to happen next, was going to be bigger than anything that came before it.
#174 Falco "Rock Me Amadeus"
For no other reason than its sheer and utter coolness.
For no other reason than its sheer and utter coolness.
I like every track except the last one on New Miserable Experience, especially "Hey Jealousy", "Alison Road" and "Mrs Rita".
#173 Bryan Adams "This Time"
Another 'everything rock and roll should be'. The quintessential rock song.
Another 'everything rock and roll should be'. The quintessential rock song.
#172 Jesus And Mary Chain "Head On"
Sometimes apathy and rock and roll come together really well. Like here.
Sometimes apathy and rock and roll come together really well. Like here.
I also like their song "Reverence", but it's very different from "Head On" (aside from both talking about being ok with dying).
#171 One Day As A Lion "One Day As A Lion"
Another rare appearance of a song from the 2000s (2008). Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine joined up with the drummer of Mars Volta. This project didn't have a lot of success, but I thought it was absolutely incredible.
Another rare appearance of a song from the 2000s (2008). Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine joined up with the drummer of Mars Volta. This project didn't have a lot of success, but I thought it was absolutely incredible.
