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so, who's heard "being nobody" by richard and liberty x (ahemhem)? considering that the rufus and chaka khan song is probably my favourite ever i'm surprised that i absolutely love it. anyways, talk about it and also about the mainstreaming of bootleg culture (in light, also, of richard x's "first legal bootleg album" coming soon). where do you see this going?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

note: i'm aware that booty culture is pretty mainstream already (kylie v blue monday, sugababes, other, more obscure, examples (sampling, self-referentialism)) i'm just interested in where it could go.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

um...ok, how about: pavlov pop - c/d?

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 15 February 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

A week ago I saw The Coup, and one song turned out to be the closest I've come to witnessing a live performance of a bootleg: their backing band played "So Fresh, So Clean" while Boots rapped the lyrics to "Ghetto Manifesto".

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 15 February 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

here it is, stevem!

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i love this song. in the context of the charts the whole bootleg thing seems kind of irrelevant... to me it feels like the bastard pop method has been absorbed rather than 'cashed in' - it's maybe too late to be cashing in on a bootleg craze anyway, even the kylie/blue monday thing came out ages ago. i didn't know 'being boiled' before 'being scrubbed' came out and i'm not sure how much anybody will notice what's 'going on' in the track beyond it sounding good as a song.

michael tell me more about that legit bootlegs album! is it gonna be an allstar affair?

― minna (minna), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

minna, i don't know too much about the album, i'm afraid (ws hoping someone else might have some info, too). i agree that it's abt absorbing and not abt cashing in on the bastard pop method. to me it sounds like a celebration of pop, the music giving itself a high-five or something. it is totally aware that for the listener pop is often abt a set of signifiers and pattern recognition and i love that.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i quite like it despite being REALLY SICK of people covering 'Ain't Nobody'

according to my sources there have been 4 other versions of this song released within the last ten years, argh

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, am I all alone, or is "Being Nobody" actually pretty rubbish? Backing - good song, good fit to the song it's being mated with, but Liberty X themselves aren't suited to this. And I thought their version of "Got To Have Your Love" was great.. this is just a clever, well-made novelty, a pointless hash of a song that's been done to death, and never as well as the first version.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

their version of "Got To Have Your Love" was great

WHY? why would you think this??? i would say your criticism of 'Being Nobody' could be applied to the Mantronix cover, except it hasnt been done to death quite so much of course, but Liberty X made it sound as if it had

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

got to have your love was great too.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 21 February 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

got to have your love was great too.

Vindicated! No, seriously, stevem, to answer, GTHYL was like revisiting a long-forgotten friend. This one just is unremarkable. It's not the sum of its parts, its sum total is the same as the value of its weakest part - i.e. L-X's rather boring singing torpedoing what was a really smooth combination of two really good songs.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 February 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

nope, i've got Mantronix right here whenever i want to hear it - the Lib X cover was utterly pointless and forgettable - at least with 'Being Nobody' you've got Richard X messing about with the bass sounds and adding neater drums and cool robotic blips etc. - i'm totally uninterested in the 'Aint Nobody' part in fact!

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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