Tuesday 3 June 2008

A PS to the last post

Also I like this, it's very silly:

Doesn't Calvin Harris look rough? Like he borrowed his hair and the face-fluff from someone. But I like the idea of hip-hop commissioning their bass-lines from electro popsters rather than sampling them from seventies disco. There's nothing wrong with sampling seventies disco, it's just that it's good to have lots of possibilities.

And let's not forget the Pet Shop Boys: I think maybe What does this mean? What are you doing in San Francisco? is a Lauren Bacall sample. The whole thing's also very silly. I'm pretty sure this is a fan video; the hair is anachronistic for the date, as it's mostly from the Nightlife album while Electricity is off of Bilingual. In charter terms we would call this spurious but based on genuine later material.

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