This song really is a classic. A song I still play to this day (well that’s not saying much, I listen to all the old stuff I post-you cant beat the oldies.) Every time I hear this song, I picture taking Donna Jo to the Sadie Hawkins Day Dance, that’s the night I first let her wear my letterman’s jacket. I remember being woozy from the punch when we were at Make-out Point, this song was playing when Donna let me go to third in the back of my dad’s Chevy.
Clearly that never happen…must be a past life.
My little sister used to crack me up when I played this song, she used to do the Lean Wit It Rock Wit It dance in super slow motion…and the funny thing is, the go together.
These guys in the video are cracking me up, those leisure suits and lapelles of so 70s. And the lead singer is really earning his paycheck.
Before Lauren Hill, Save Ferris, Muse and Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You, there was the songster, Frankie Valli. I’ll admit I got put on by listening to the Jersey Boys Soundtrack, then I had to go back and find the original. Doesn’t Frankie kind of look like Mike Brady in this freeze frame.
I looked high and low for a video for Mona Lisa with no success. Apparently Slick Rick the Ruler was too busy ordering around his minions and managing his bling game. Youtube has the song with a still image of dude’s face, which I would have put up, but none of them have the hilarious intro at the beginning. In my opinion, that sets the tone.
I might be mixing up my music themes a bit, this is definitely a NYC song, but it’s a hardcore THROWBACK. This vid has 90s written all over it: the Cross Colors and South Pole gear; Mary was still wearing hear “coke shades,” Meth just got his eye fixed, but still rocking nappy corn rows… This takes me back to bus passes, music on The Box, and New York Undercover with their music guest at the end of every show. This kind of look like a New York Undercover cut-away.
The first thing I noticed in this video was the 80s/90s revival of the zoot suit and them damn shoulders, dude looks like live-action version of the dancing cat from the Paula Abdul video. And then he has the nerve to give his homie a ring kiss, he ain’t Slick Rick, The Ruler or nothing. Everytime I hear this song I think of The Partridge Family…hmmm, I wonder why. [haha]
THROWWWWWWBACK! Back farther than the Puffy (as he was called at the time) remix. This song is as 90s as Cross Colors and New York Undercover. Lisa Stansfield has some pipes on her. I remember always cracking up at the first verse, thinking, who still says quarrel in 1990 blah blah blah.
“Shanice is dope” “Nah man, she’s buuttttter…” Boy do I miss the 90s, and the crazy slang we used to use. “Syke ya mike” was my personal favorite and it’s back.
When I hear this song I can remember bopping my head during recess, with my juice cup and snack cakes. Or watching TGIF and seeing Shanice on Family Matters… They should have had her on there more. And of course, Eddie Winslow thought he could sing-bad look.
This is a classic 90s video, everything from the fake photoshoot scene, back-up dancers in Cross Colors gear to the rap verse and xylophone. Let’s not forget the saxophone.
70s singers like Minnie Ripperton and Rose Royce still get a lot play on the old school radio stations today, but people dont give Deniece Williams that same credit. I don’t know why the hell not, her voice is amazing and this song is hot. This song is one of those rainy day Saturday songs; it’s the afternoon, you’re cleaning the house, belting out ballots in your underwear, using the broom as a mic. la la la lala la.
I remember this song being one of the first songs I can remember and liked. It’s a classic Quincy Jones production down to the harmonizing and the sax.
I had to I’m loving all of the Early 90s-ness in this video, it takes me back to Pepsi Classic commercials and afterschool specials. It’s first grade all over again.
I’ve been hearing this Beatles song all of the place lately, on CNN’s American Morning, on commercials, in TV shows. What do they say, every time Lennon sings, a Jackson says “chi-ching.” This song and video remind me of a time in U.S. history when the counter-culture really had power to affect change. If Michael Moore was around back then to team up with Leary, Kinsey, Stanley and Milk the world would be a different place today.
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