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unbelievably drawn-out breakdowns.. list the songs they appear in here.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

ha i thought this would be a marissa thread

― amon (eman), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

answer = no you're an obscene insult against humanity you fascist fuck

you're fucking disgusting with your heartless sarcasm, you worthless piece of hate-filled, misanthropic selg-loathing cunt.

regards,
SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT PEOPLE

-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), October 28th, 2004

― BOY IN CHOADUROY, Monday, 12 September 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

wrong sort of breakdown

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Cymande-Bra
James Brown-Give it Up or Turn it Loose
Michael Vinter's Incredible Bongo Band-Apache

those kinds of breakdowns?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

"One More Time"

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

does the guitar solo in "the present lover" count?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Jarboe's "Walla Are Bleeding"

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Breakdowns Marked Path From Hurricane to Anarchy

― noizem duke (noize duke), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

jay z "come and get me"

― rio natsume, Monday, 12 September 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

every Youth of Today song

― pppp, Monday, 12 September 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

J. Geils Band, "Flamethrower" (great unappreciated breakdown)
Bruce Springsteen, "The E Street Shuffle"
The Chi-Lites, "I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine)"
Golden Earring, "Radar Love" (this song is like ALL breakdown)
Curtis Mayfield, "If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of Cymande!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

The Monkees, "Listen to the Band"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

You've heard them, though, because you've probably heard "The Score" by Fugees.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

download Bra right away, goes on forever, with a bassline that's been nicked about a million times. There other stuff is also good.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Josh Wink - "I am ready"
Kat Mandu - "The break" (kebekelektrik mix)
Koenig Cylinders - "Carousel" (it's virtually ALL break, though maybe it's intro, dunno really...)
NuYorican Soul - "It's alright (I feel it)" (Armand van Helden's darkside of da moon mix)

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

what about songs that are only breakdowns, and don't have intros, outros, verses, choruses, or other types of bridges?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Cymande's "Bra" has most famously been sampled for "Change in Speak" on De La Soul's "Three Feet" album.

Cymande

― Capital Letter Rock (jaxon), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

what about songs that are only breakdowns, and don't have intros, outros, verses, choruses, or other types of bridges?

Go-Go music to thread..

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Pretty embarrassing to have to ask, but, [inhales deeply] exactly what IS a breakdown? I've never been entirely sure. A song reduced to just the rhythm section for a certain interval? Or one of those patented James Brown-style stop-on-a-dime, sing the title, then right-back-to-the-song things? (eg. "Sexy MF", "Unbelievable", etc.) And is it a "legitimate" musical term (like "bridge" or "coda") or just a fairly meaningless generic term like "grunge"? I'm looking at all the songs above, trying to find a common thread between 'em, and I'm not seeing it. And I simply MUST know! Please answer me, anybody, and I'll be your friend.

― Myonga Von Boggle (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard anybody define it, but it's commonly used in dance music circles to mean the bit in the middle of a tune when the drums stop and everybody is supposed to get all hyped up waiting for them to kick back in a again. Breakdowns often feature empassioned wailing, a new melody starting up and drum rolls...

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 12 September 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Or the awesome bit in "One More Time" where it's just the vocoder and it drags out and out and out until...

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

"What'd I Say"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Soul and funk songs from the early 70's OWN this thread.
Kool & the Gang - "More Funky Stuff"
Eddie Kendricks - "Girl, You Need A Change Of Mind"
Dennis Coffey - "Scorpio"
Osibisa - "Phallus C"

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Forgotten 90s breakdown: DJ Zinc - "super sharp shooter"

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

darude - sandstorm
vitalic - my friend dario

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

Candy-coated breakdown: Justin Time - "Sweet in pocket"

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone said "Am I Black Enough For You?" by Billy Paul?

Great breakdown to electric piano and bongo with little guitar and then
the bass and horns kick back in...and wahooo!

Also the funky-ist opening of any song outside of Superstition...but that's another thread...

― ned trifle, Monday, 12 September 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually - what I just nebtioned isn't very drawn out - but I bet if he ever did it live it was really really drawn out...

― ned trifle, Monday, 12 September 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Brian Transeau owns the thread.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

what about songs that are only breakdowns, and don't have intros, outros, verses, choruses, or other types of bridges?

"Dance To The Drummer's Beat" Herman Kelly & Life = intro/chorus/loooooong breakdown/chorus outro

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

i don't know if it counts, but the drum breaks on 'cold sweat' off the dallas 1968 album by the JBs are my favourite moments in music

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

goddamn i love "Sandstorm".

shit yeah

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

80s:
"Rock The Boat" (12") - Forrest
"So Many Men, So Little Time" (12") - Miquel Brown (BOTH of them)

90s:
"Access" - DJ Misjah & DJ Tim
"Turn That Fucking Music Up" - Knuckleheadz

xpost: the bassline in Cymande's "Bra" was also nicked for Raze "Jack The Groove".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

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― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

"Doom's Night"

― ewmy, Monday, 12 September 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

"Rock The Boat" (12") - Forrest

"featuring the Linndrum"!, too bad the rest of the song isn't as good...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

"Paris 1919" - John Cale

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

"Rock The Boat" (12") - Forrest
"featuring the Linndrum"!, too bad the rest of the song isn't as good...

Oh, it was ALL about the drum break. We all went MAD for that drum break. In our local club, they would double its length by mixing two copoes together.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Brian Transeau owns the thread.

-- Sociah T Azzahole (stevem7...), September 12th, 2005 6:51 AM.

Trance owns this thread, pretty much

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah trance definitely:

Rank 1 - Airwave
Ozone - Rock
Active Sight - The Search For Freedom
Plastic Boy - Silver Bath

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Hardfloor - Hardtrance Acperience

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Robbie Tronco - "INRI"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fvtfhw

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

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