― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)
jaxon YSI me the original version! i think ghostface > MIA, just cuz i am fucking so sick of that MIA song!
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:59 (twenty years ago)
― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)
― Dan (Semi-Nine And Snipered) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:11 (twenty years ago)
Ghostface - Ghost Showers
MIA - Sunshowers (like anyone really needs this one)
― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:12 (twenty years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)
"Ghost Showers" on the other hand, implores the party people to do the bunny hop. Also, it's by Ghostface and therefore would have won even without the bunny hop business.
The way it goes mellow during the choruses/sung interludes, then hard during the verses is just butter. Sure, it's a retread of "Cherchez Le Ghost". It's got the beat switches, the Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah band rewrite, probably even the same female singer, but it's probably an even better song. ("Cherchez" does have "Ghost Showers" beat on one account. It's a party song that's kinda about Tommy Mattola and Mariah Carey breaking. Awesomeness.)
The Ghost-isms are at full strength. The singer who pops in occasionally to announce how awesome Ghost is is almost unnecessary. "Stage show magician/ Dip with with a bunch of candy" "Balleys/ Spaghetti jewels/ Machetes for y'all" "Who got the biggest burner?/ Ask the Terminator" Arnold Shwartzenagger is probably listening to this song in his gubanatorial mansion right now. He does indeed knock the beat up.
Then, just when you think "Ghost Showers" can't get any better, Starks calls out a bunny hop! He then states his intent to go back and double the vocals on that part, with the tape still rolling.
I have to admit there may be a bit of bias here. (Like you couldn't tell already.) Ghost Deini is easily my favorite rapper. This is one of his most underrated songs and my favorite on Bulletproof Wallets. (Unfortunately, the even better "The Sun" was omitted. Sample clearances, I believe.)
Didn't I tell y'all, didn't I tell y'all?
― R. J. Greene, Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:56 (twenty years ago)
― R. J. Greene, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:09 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:36 (twenty years ago)
/ E - / B7 E / E A / D E / E A / D E /
She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dreamAnd she don't always say what she really meansSometimes I think it's a shameWhen I get feeling better when I'm feeling no painSometimes I think it's a shame...
I can picture every move that a man could makeGetting lost in her loving is your first mistakeSundown, you'd better...Sometimes I think it's a sinWhen I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again
I can see her looking fast in her faded jeansShe's a hard-loving woman, got me feeling meanSometimes I think it's a shame...Sundown, you'd better...Sundown, you'd better...Sometimes, I think it's a sin...
― Gordon Lightfood, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)
The lyrics are about a cousin her age who stayed in Sri Lanka, got mixed up with a radical Tamil group and was gunned down by a rival faction.
― Dan (Awesome Descriptiveness) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 January 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)