Zapp "More bounce to the ounce" C/D

Heil Talk Box

"Much more bounce"

shucks

I love "Bounce", but while the following is not a solid album, New Zapp IV U has great moments, and "Computer Love" is my favorite Zapp song ever.

"Computer Love" is my favorite Zapp song ever.

I only have Zapp II, and I was wondering, if I want to hear more minimal electro funk like "Dance Floor", but not the more traditional P-funk tunes with horns and stuff, which Zapp album should I get next? Which one is the most electro flavoured?

I will never never stop loving this song

I've never heard/heard-of Zapp. Am I doing something wrong?

... yes, you're wasting your life!

which Zapp album should I get next?

Any of the first four, I'd say... but, just to be safe, get all of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfZRRRo_8A

shit yeah

He's all mixed up he doesn't know where the party is!

read this great, and quite sad, article the other week: http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-08-14/news/california-loved

influenced everyone from Ice Cube to Tupac Shakur.

is this really the broadest range of artists they could think of wtf

I think my favorite part of this song is the beginning, particularly the part where it first goes up in pitch on the Moo-ore BOUNCE / followed by the middle-eastern flavored "Much more BOU-oo-OU-oo-OUNCE"

Me: How in the hell can you not like Zapp?
Friend: Uhhhh... vocoders, dude.
Me: Vocoders are awesome. What has a vocoder ever done to you?
Friend: Cher.
Me: Uhhhh... good point.

(Yeah, I know. "Talkbox". Eat me alive, pedants.)

― The Reverend, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:57 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Didn't cher use AUTOTUNE?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:18 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

:)

One of the best songs ever duh. Computer Love might be better though.

Booom Boooom, shuffle shuffle KICK twinklle twinkle
WHOOHW-WHOOOHW-HWOOOWH-HWOOOWH BPAAAAAMP

I want nothing to do w anyone that doesn't like More Bounce.

one of the fonder memories I'll always have of living in So Cal in the '90s - during the peak of the G-Funk era - was how when Mexican gangsters would regularly cruise by in low riders, they'd almost always be bumping More Bounce to the Ounce or Cutie Pie. it was like a fixture of So Cal life. I'd be sitting in class and every 15 minutes or so one of those tunes would predictably drone by, pumping from flatulently loud speakers, bending in and out of tune as they approached and then slowly faded off into the distance

Yes dude, OTM. This phenomenon bled into central California too. Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters. That visual is very much in line w reality.

seriously, anyone who was there at the time should remember this phenomenon vividly (and actually I'd assume it's still pretty common today, but I'm in Nor Cal now so I'm in a whole different California)

All this does tho is add more charm to the track IMO.

"Cutie Pie"! I've been trying to figure out what that track is since forever.

word^, just the thought of the song makes me smile xp

one of the fonder memories I'll always have of living in So Cal in the '90s - during the peak of the G-Funk era - was how when Mexican gangsters would regularly cruise by in low riders, they'd almost always be bumping More Bounce to the Ounce or Cutie Pie. it was like a fixture of So Cal life. I'd be sitting in class and every 15 minutes or so one of those tunes would predictably drone by, pumping from flatulently loud speakers, bending in and out of tune as they approached and then slowly faded off into the distance
― Chris S, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:20 PM (25 minutes ago) BookmarkSuggest Ban Permalink

Word

*checks wiki* cripes, didn't realise it had been covered THAT many times

um... that was supposed to be on the bandproof songs thread relating to Heard It Through The Grapevine - I love Zapp/Troutman's cover.

but I'm in Nor Cal now

? they LOVE this shit in the Bay

Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.
Salinas is like the Mecca for mexican gangsters.

oh ILMpaws...

Great song though, loved it but then I heard "You Gots To Chill" and went (can I say this?) "muy loco".

also incredible when it pops up in "Jackin' For Beats".

"oh ILMpaws..."

?

when most thinks of mexican gangs in CA Salinas is typically not one of the towns that comes to mind

Do a search for Salinas gangs and see what happens, from the LA TImes:

"The killing was the 31st in the last 15 months in Salinas, population 145,000, a city the size of Pasadena with eight times as many violent deaths, every one of them gang-related.

Salinas has 3,500 gang members — six times the national average — and a four-decade history of gang violence.

"The gangster element has become so embedded and well-organized that it's just been operating with impunity," said Louis Fetherolf, 64, who became police chief last year. "An aquifer of organized criminality runs under this city, moving tons of narcotics. And I'm concerned that the scope and depth of that is lost on the public."

welp time for me to move there and start a funk band

...or mariachi band

I don't know, I see Salinas as the Mecca of Steinbeck devotees.

Don't really want to argue about this but you should check into what Mexican gangs do in say, I don't know... Mexico? 31 fatalities is a quiet weekend in Nogales or Juarez. Comparing any town's crime rate to Pasadena is being absolutely cute with statistics.

That's cool if you want to rep how hard your hometown has gotten in the past 15 months, I guess. Maybe there's a Salinas thread in the archives? That said, my favorite mexican restaurant north of the border is in Salinas.

funkiachi

as the Mecca of Steinbeck devotees

uh isn't this Monterey

"That's cool if you want to rep how hard your hometown has gotten in the past 15 months"

Alright pal, I don't want to turn this into that type of discussion either, I mean after-all, my dad can beat up your dad etc. Maybe I should have qualified my og statement with "in central california." hyperbole is more fun. idk. who cares. Salinas has gang issues, i think that's undeniable.

Which restaurant, by the way?

Was also trying to find that clip in Napoleon Dynamite where Pedro's cousins are hittin' switches in the background and bumping So Ruff So Tuff(?) and Napoleon is picking up his date. Couldn't find it on youtube.

please don't disgrace this thread with that shitty fucking movie

Ya sorry.

Hey back to it then, I've really been feeling Freedom, that bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxnRS2VekY

lol salinas

? they LOVE this shit in the Bay

yeah, admittedly I'm still new up here (and living in Berkeley - not the most Mexican town) but I def haven't seen as strong a presence of that whole lowrider culture up around the city... yet at least (couldn't imagine people getting those cars up the hills in SF). now "old school" jams... yeah, definitely have seen a lot of love for that stuff though

well there's the annual lowrider parade in the Mission in SF:
http://dkphotocoop.smugmug.com/Culture/Latino-Culture/100530carnival11/1243358674_UDtdR-L-3.jpg

http://dkphotocoop.smugmug.com/Culture/Latino-Culture/100530carnival11/1243358674_UDtdR-L-3.jpg

last year:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2715346017_57c38a2fb3_z.jpg

but yeah Berkeley's a whole different story. Oakland more of a black thing obvy

apparently no one has seen http://www.lamissionthemovie.com/

bay area is bikecentric

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE

Shakey that actually makes me feel kinda nostalgic seeing those pics (and yeah would have guessed the Mission wouldn't let me down). might have to go to the next lowrider parade just for the vibe

i should go and play a drinking game for how many times I hear "More Bounce" or "Cutie Pie"

Is that movie any good, jaxon?

no. there's a reason no one's seen it.

wait is the whole premise of that movie that ese Benjamin Bratt has a gay son?! lol

ya. BB is into fixing lowriders. he doesn't like young black neighbor, until they like-like each other. son is gay. BB disowns him. son or bf get shot (i forget). BB has to learn to love his dead gay son again. somewhere along the line i think BB fixes up a lowrider for his son, but then realizes he's gay and smashes it. old school vs new school. culture clashes. blah blah blah.

i had burritos next to BB at mission taqueria. he was nice.

I lived next to BB for a year around the time he was dating Julia Roberts, in La Upper Haight.

SOD: El Charrito (tamales, carne asada tortas & chile verde)... although the missus likes Mi Tierra in Seaside more, we'll more likely end up there if she's with me.

Nice one, El Charrito is within 2 miles of the house I grew up in. Is good.

Never went to Mi Tierra.

still bumps

revisit the whole album. you will not be disappointed.

mega classic

Totally. I finally looked into Zapp & Roger Troutman's discography this past year. The singles (albeit in their full-length versions) are awesome, especially this one. Damn sad what happened to Roger.