I just put on the live TROUBLE FUNK album and my six-month is screaming with joy!

Who'd have guessed?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Adrian likes "Number One" by Patrice Rushen. Music for Airports made him very restless. He seems to enjoy dancing to house.

mmmh. good to hear that...i'll take good note of it.
(i'm blushing but i must confess: we'll have a baby in early november and i'm ALREADY preparing his first cassette...)

And he grows up and all he wants to hear is Nickelback. Rebellion, you know.

I've heard that reggae/dub and kids go well together. Maybe I'll try that.

Then again, she seems pretty amenable to most things. I'm definitely gonna try to rile her up with some Trouble Funk, though.

I hear kids like New Orleans brass band music a lot too. Seriously.

Yeah, and you could also try carefully crumbling some small pieces of hash into their strained apple....

OK, maybe that isn't such a good idea.

DON'T TOUCH THAT STEREO

I remember getting that reaction the first time I played "Lust for life" to Alice

I wish I could have played "Lust for life" to Alice

Why can you not?

No Alice

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There she is.

Where did go-go go?

go go

to and past rocking (me) baby

Trouble Funk, DC Go-Go, NME 1986, Soul Passion & Red Wedge Honesty, Sweat, Ripped Levi's With Red Tag, Chuck Brown's "We Need Money" black music equivalent of sailors' chorus crying out for bread in Boris Goudonov, &c.

black music equivalent of sialors' chorus crying out for bread in Boris Godua nov,

&C

I think the problem might have that by early 1987, nobody in DC was putting out any go-go records any more. As James Hamilton in Record Mirror had already pointed out, you couldn't base a whole scene around the same box of old 12"s forever. So the whole thing just stopped dead, in the space of about two months. (The last couple of imports I got my hands on must have been Paradise's "Paradise A Go Go" and the Davis/Pinckney Project's "Say No To Drugs", January 1987.) When Trouble Funk re-emerged later in the spring with "Woman Of Principle", they'd moved away from the template, and the single duly bombed...

Good God. "Woman of principle, pride in your eyes"; this is what happens when you make records for <i>NME</i> readers.

Top pop hits of the eighties based or partially based on Go-Go rhythms:
Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones
Pump Up The Volume by M*A*R*R*S*
It Doesn't Have To Be That Way by the Blow Monkeys

DON'T TOUCH THAT STEREO_

Hey Britishers, go-go lives on, even if you haven't been listening since 1987.

the new D.C. Go-Go thread

Saw Mambo Sauce the other night. Their songs "Miracles" and "Welcome to DC" are getting major DC airplay on Wkys and WPGC. They have a woman vocalist, another woman on drums, plus keyboards and congas and cowbell, and do more origiinals than most (less go-go-ized covers of rap songs)

WKYS' 2nd annual DC Go-go awards are coming up November 18th at DAR Constitution Hall (big place).

-- curmudgeon, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:10 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

You're lucky you didn't have the NME to put you off the scene since 1987!

I think the problem might have that by early 1987, nobody in DC was putting out any go-go records any more. As James Hamilton in Record Mirror had already pointed out, you couldn't base a whole scene around the same box of old 12"s forever.

what?

So the whole thing just stopped dead, in the space of about two months.

lol!

who is James Hamilton in Record Mirror

That whole paragraph is preposterous

He was a DJ, wrote the only decent coverage of "disco" in any of the music newspapers.

Of course, now they are all magazines.

Sorry, was writing from a totally Brit-centric perspective. I sometimes forget about our Transatlantic cousins, and I hope they will forgive me.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that go-go was dropped like a stone in the UK at the start of 1987, to the extent that not only were no more tracks licensed for UK release, but that the flow of imports also ran dry. I can remember being quite startled by this at the time.

James Hamilton wrote perhaps the most comprehensive, widely read and influential coverage of UK dance music of that time. He was also responsible for introducing the concept of BPMs to this country, via his weekly Record Mirror column, following a paradigm-shifting visit to the Paradise Garage in l978.

I love this thread.

Listening to live Trouble Funk now.

And my four-year-old loves Go-Go, especially the "Freaky-Deaky" refrain.

He listened to dub on a nightly basis when he was younger. Still loves it when going to sleep. Rhythm & Sound's S/T is his favorite for that.