TS: "Lucas With the Lid Off" vs. "Cantaloop"

I still lol at Lucas's video when he keeps turning around from his little mixing board and saying "Whatever bubbles bubbles up!" all fruity.

SoHo, "Hot Music"

But, yeah, "Cantaloop."

Lucas all the way.

one more for Lucas

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funkay funkay

w-wait a minute

A random note about each:

My uncle loved "Cantaloop". This is back before he went crazy.

When I was a kid, I used to think "Lucas With the Lid Off" and "Here Comes the Hotstepper" were by the same person.

i voted for mc 900 foot jesus

Lucas video is so great

Lucas video is one of my 10 favorite music videos easy

Tough choice! I loooove these.

I go with Lucas.

Gondry! I had no idea

There's parts of Be Kind Rewind that are like straight out of "Lucas With The Lid Off"

Lucas because of the video, but was it really all shot in one take?

Canteloupe Island >>> MC 900 Foot Jesus >>> Lucas With the Lid Off >>> Cantaloop

i prefer golden-age jesus tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtlpG0hb38&feature=related

Gondry calls this video "a big turn for me, because it was so challenging. Nobody really believed - even me - that we could pull that off when we made it after 17 takes, because it was really done all in-camera in one shot. There is no post-production at all. I think this one really gave me a lot of attention."

hi-res version: http://www.partizan.us/musicvideos/mg/Lucas_with_the_lid_off.mov

The movie Lucas watches in the video is so o_O

Skee-Lo - I Wish

"rock-a-biddly-rock-a-biddly-bo.." (or something like that)

catch the vobs catch the vobs

Oh my God that "Lucas with the Lid Off" thing is gayest song I've ever heard in my life!

Oh my God

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The jazz-sampling elements of the 2 songs in question do not appear (as heavily) in any of the 3rd party candidates.. so sonically-speaking I don't see how they qualify.

Both songs are kinda gay.. but sorta guilty pleasures for me.

I would have gone with "Cantaloop" at the time, but "Lucas With The Lid Off" has worn much, much better.

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lame. cantaloop is way less gay.

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I hate to say it, but we'll probably never hear anything this original and, yes, uplifting coming from the hip-hop/rap genre ever again.
Nobody has the creativity anymore to make a great song like this, it's all about throwing shitty under written and over produced garbage (songs) to the money wielding brain cell deprived comsumers. It kinda pisses me off. But every once in a while a star, like lucas for example, does shine on us. Not to often though.

/rant

hey man, whatever bubbles bubbles up

i was so high the first time I saw the Lucas video in the middle of the day, and it took me years to figure out what it was I'd seen and confirm that it wasn't some pot-induced delusion

"Lucas' father, Paul Secon, is perhaps best known as the founder of Pottery Barn."

Missed this but "Cantaloop" drums still sound better.

hahaha i just remembered that thread where jess referred to a new mountain goats album as john's "lucas with the lid off"

While it inarguably had a brilliant video, I can't imagine listening to "Lucas With the Lid Off" now without getting insanely annoyed. "Cantaloop" -- though not without its own annoying elements ("biddy biddy bop"), isn't quite as grating.

http://www.jeffbots.com/twiki3.jpg

biddy biddy bop

The PBS station in Idaho, for years, wld broadast their list of local affiliates over sillhouettes of some kids doing the Running Man to 'Cantaloop.'

It is like what would happen if Brick had shown up in the '90s.

xp: Interesting, considering that the PBS station in Seattle seemed to have a severe "Canteloupe Island" fetish.

'Hand on the Torch' is one of the better dollar-used-bin albums.

huh i don't think i had ever heard lucas with the lid off before just now

what was it like for you

well to be honest i only listened to the first 30 seconds or so because my class was about to start and i was just trying to remind myself what song it was but if you like i can listen to the whole thing later and give you my detailed, DETAILED impressions

TWEAKY!!!!

Are you confessing, Alex?

I have nothing to confess. I was merely exclaiming at the visual invocation of Buck Rogers' diminutive robotic sidekick

I still lol at Lucas's video when he keeps turning around from his little mixing board and saying "Whatever bubbles bubbles up!" all fruity.

― roxymuzak, Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:16 AM Bookmark

I read this thread before I ever actually heard the song/watched the video, and this post really shaped the way I understand both.

hahahahaaaa

catch the vobs

catch the voms, woh OH oh

wanna drop this into my dj set

this is totally Lucas with the Lid Off btw

Let it reign, let it reign, let it reign.

catch the vibes catch the vibes

are there any other Lucas songs?

studies suggest the answer is no

I think the correct winner of this should have been "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style"

Lucas' father founded Pottery Barn

http://www.artfire.com/uploads/product/5/25/45025/4645025/4645025/large/small_covered_pottery_bowl_lid_with_bird_handle_handmade_studio_made_navy_blue_d59e4bb6.jpg

woah OH oh

whatever bubbles bubbles up

skeedaddle daddle daddle

I would have gone with "Cantaloop" at the time, but "Lucas With The Lid Off" has worn much, much better.

― mike t-diva, Monday, July 14, 2008 6:58 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

The appeal of the song and (especially) the video was lost on me at the time. This video! Kinda makes me nostalgic for the days when major labels still had oodles of stupid money to hire someone like Gondry to shoot a video for a prospective one-hit wonder

It took this thread to remind me of a Lucas song that was usually summoned into the CD player of my 1992 Toyota Tercel by a fellow stoner going, "uh play that song with the rappers in different languages."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcJi8hsfCnM

It was all very Carmen Sandiego.

thank god I embedded a video with no video. One of these days I will remember which url to use.

The appeal of the song and (especially) the video was lost on me at the time. This video! Kinda makes me nostalgic for the days when major labels still had oodles of stupid money to hire someone like Gondry to shoot a video for a prospective one-hit wonder

― Wimmels, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:16 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ so otm

Watch me now hear me now

feel like the results would flip 180 if this were done now but maybe I underestimate the endurance of the bubbles

funky funky

wonder if this is a generational marker -- millennials mostly going for Lucas vs. Gen X and older going for Cantaloop?

Half-assed theories here

some thoughts:

at the time, this would have been 'cantaloop' without hesitation. all the annoying preppy kids liked lucas and i wasn't down with that shit.

'cantaloop' was my gateway to empyrean isles. can't be too upset about that.

just looked both artists up on discogs and was surprised to learn that lucas had more than one album and that it actually preceded his hit. absolutely shocked to learn that us3 has (so far) released nine albums.

in retrospect, both of these acts seem embarrassingly gimmicky.

I was a DJ at an alt-rock station when these came out: the station played Cantaloop in heavy rotation

I was just thinking about all the other hip-hop acts that made their way onto alternative radio at this time: Digable Planets, MC 900 Ft Jesus, Basehead, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Arrested Development... I really considered myself quite the rap fan for a minute!

feel like the results would flip 180 if this were done now but maybe I underestimate the endurance of the bubbles

Maybe. I've already flipped my own opinion as reflected upthread.

I would definitely vote Cantaloop. The other one feels more like a novelty song and it’s somewhat annoying. I haven’t watched the videos for either.

On spotify “Lucas with the Lid Off” is mostly a forgotten one hit wonder compared to Cantaloop.

Lucas has 200k listens vs Cantaloop with 15.6 million.

Never heard of Lucas but it's the better song. Cantaloop always had the taint of a novelty song for me, and it's more poppy.

ugh just hearing the 1st bit of that loop and then trumpet coming in brings back all the cheesy aspects of 90s music to me

dorks in z cavaricci gear going "hey I guess I DO like hip hop! watch me 'bust a move' lolol"

I don't remember Lucas being a very prominent hit in the UK compared to Cantaloop?

lucas with the lid off i ONLY ever heard via the video (and I swear I only saw that twice in those days, but I remember both times pretty clearly which is a feat considering I was drunk most of that year). cantaloop of course was omnipresent.

Welcome to my brain
I've got the lid off
My chest, I got my nut off
The type of spirit
That could break your framework