TS: "Sunshowers" vs "Ghost Showers"

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Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

...taking a shower?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Buzzards' Original Savannah Band>>>>>MIA>>>Ghostface

jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

ned, you KNOW i hate taking showers.

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)

gawd the dr. buzzard's version is nice

miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

i'm looking for the track right now. it's on some other computer (and vinyl)

jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

obviously it's on vinyl, jaxon.

Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

I really, really hated the MIA song until I heard the Piracy Funds Terrorism version and then read what the lyrics are actually about; now I think it's amazing.

Dan (Semi-Nine And Snipered) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Dr Buzzard's - Sunshowers

Ghostface - Ghost Showers

MIA - Sunshowers (like anyone really needs this one)

jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:12 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that blows the other two the fuck away.

Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

"Sunshowers" is the one song of M.I.A.'s that gets hyped up so much but I don't get what's great about it all. Definitely my least favorite song on Arular. It's corny to me. "Quite beatin' me like you Ringo"? Dear lord.

"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)

Dr Buzzard by a mile.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I just listened to the OG version. It's pretty good.

R. J. Greene, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

what are the MIA lyrics about? more dad stuff?

jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I love pretty tone as much as the next fan and I dig MIA as far as PFT goes, but this is a no-brainer and then some.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:36 (twenty years ago)


I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess
Sundown, you'd better take care
If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you'd better...

/ E - / B7 E / E A / D E / E A / D E /

She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream
And she don't always say what she really means
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain
Sometimes I think it's a shame...

I can picture every move that a man could make
Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake
Sundown, you'd better...
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again

I can see her looking fast in her faded jeans
She's a hard-loving woman, got me feeling mean
Sometimes 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)

what are the MIA lyrics about? more dad stuff?

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)


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