Armand Van Helden "My My My"

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Okay, it's been out a while now, but the damn thing states it samples Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver"?

I'm buggered if I can here anything remotely Weaver-ish aboout it, and many dance-related articles/press read the same, so I was wondering if anyone actually knows the original vocal source to this club-thumper?

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Saturday, 23 October 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

this song was just somewhere out there until work last night when we were polishing forks and it just popped into the brain (dont know whose 1st). we had been listening to romanian folk music all night. none of us knew the words but i believe they were subliminally nagging us to work harder and i guess helping us come to terms with the task (a 305 person 4 course deep pile of cutlery we had been neglecting all night, and the back room smelled of cabbage)

HOW WE GONNA MAKE IT THROUGH IT
WHATS IT GONNA TAKE TO DO IT
HOWD IT EVER GET THIS WAY
WHERES IT GONNA GO FROM HERE

my my my my my whoooahhh

anyway i had no idea this song was by armand v.h. until looking it up now! im so glad hes making happy songs again, there was this really depressing deadened era of armand for a while, with lame videos (if the video of 'my my my' is lame please dont tell me). this is a bit more sweet & sour instead of just sour... he just needs to pump up the sweetness a bit more, and possibly make it sound wetter too, i mean do you remember how exciting it was when 'u dont know me' came out?

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

haha i just realized what im asking for is 'lolas theme'

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

but 2005(well via 1999) style, by armand, with exceptional lyrics

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I listened to this album on the listening station at Borders and I wanted to like it but it was lots of rock sampling songs. At least I assume it was, that was what it sounded like and I didn't recognize the samples.

― deej.., Sunday, 2 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

CALL ON MEEEEEEEEEEEE

― deej.., Sunday, 2 October 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah, me too!! i listened to it at borders this morning: here's the breakdown

1) every song has the same dumb-sounding acid rock bass/guitar riff

2) much of it sounds like LCD soundsystem remixes of alice in chains

3) ALL of the tracks w/ virgin killer are disgustingly bad - he should have gotten bounty killer instead (or barring that, slarta john at least?)

4) the songs w/ spalding rockwell are great but his edit of "hear my name" is almost criminally bad. why not just use the full version? it's the best thing he's done recently!

5) the good parts (tracks 4->9? / everything from "sugar" to "my my my") sound heavily influenced by the washing machine thump of dj hell's last album and "watching cars go by" from devin dazzle + the neon fever.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

has this guy done one killer mindfuck remix in the last six years? damnit Armando!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah the album is very disappointing, plus no good remixers on the singles either, and yeah "U Don't Know Me" is one of those magic 90s dance records that will pop up on the radio here now and again when you're driving the car and cause you to ramp the volume to ridiculous levels.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I guess with the new stuff there's just no space between the beats or something, I don't really know what's to like about it, it's not as hard as some stuff I really like and nowhere near as funky or deep as other stuff I like, it actually is a fairly murky boring sound he's going for, albeit papered over with big drums.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

the album is very disappointing, plus no good remixers on the singles either

Agreed on the former, but...

"Into Your Eyes (The Droyds Delinquent Remix)"
"When the Lighs Go Down (Deepgroove's Dirty House Dub Remix)"

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

"Full Moon" is perhaps one of the best hip hop to house and back again tracks ever. Common's rap is incredible. "My My My" is good.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

(if the video of 'my my my' is lame please dont tell me)

It's shocking. Like Cunningham's Windowlicker except shitty.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

a looped chorus sample is not a complete song.

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

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