Sir Mix-a-lot: Classic or Dud?

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The Mackro: [snip] but I definitely prefer bounce. I've been scarfin' up all the Sir Mix-a-Lot records I could find recently. They're easy and somewhat cheap pickin' here in Seattle, for obv reasons.
eTHAN P23: does he still live there?
The Mackro: Good question! I was wondering the same thing myself. I hope he didn't move to LA or some shit like that... I tried googlin' his name, but I just get all these personal frat boy home pages that quote "Baby Got Back"
eTHAN P23: : i liked his comeback single
eTHAN P23: : where he ended the first verse with 'something something something / and i still like butts!!'
The Mackro: Hey.. THREAD IDEA!
The Mackro: I missed out of anything he did after "mack daddy". I got into indie rock after that.... so sad.
eTHAN P23: : he's a bit of an odd one
eTHAN P23: : baby got back is one of the fifty best singles ever
The Mackro: It is a great song indeed... though I'm a little more partial to the stuff he did shortly before "mack daddy".. those late 80s/early 90s Nastymix singles were tops. "I Got Game" smacks me.
The Mackro: I almost bought one of his pre-Nastymix singles, from like 1984 or something... but it was really square and cheesy. Mix-a-lot was still gettin' his bearings.. or something.
The Mackro: btw, mind if I post the mix-a-lot part of our chat session as the subject of the Mix-a-lot thread?
eTHAN P23: : he's uneven-a-lot
eTHAN P23: : sure, go for it

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Butter. Milk. Biscuits.

― J Blount, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally. Fucking. Swass.

― kid sensation, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Duddoh.

― Nathalie - only dipped my toes in Hip Hop *butt*, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i must admit to a soft spot for square dance rap (with those hut- huews), when was that, 86?

― gareth, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was a big fan through Mack Daddy as well. I really liked the first Kid Sensation too, even with the awful Ken Griffey Jr guest appearance.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously it was missing its target when you had a soft spot for it, Gareth.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He lives on Mercer Island! Or at least did while I lived there. I always thought of him when I past 14th and Yesler Way. "King County cops are tough" he said, well...

― Mark, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh blah blah indie rock blah blah. Never mind that Sir Rump of Roast mixed it up w/ the Presidents of the USA. (Baby Got Lump?)

― Daver, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic = "My Hooptie," "My Posse's on Broadway," "Buttermilk Biscuits"

Dud = "Baby's Got Back," "Put 'Em On the Glass"

― hstencil, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dick's is the place where the cool hang out."

Hey, thanks Sir!

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

― kid sensation, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Which one's Sir Mix-a-lot?

― briania, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's got Dick's Drive-in, that's the important thing.

― Mark, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit! Who found that picture? I took it.

That's my boy K-Curl on the left (notice the tufts of hair behind the neck, hence K-Curl!), with Mix's personal trainer ("...takin' weight gainer" -- you know!) Critical Mass, on the right. The photo was taken just before Mix's hometown performance during the Put 'em on the Glass Tour. Critical Mass, where you at???

― Andy K, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I received word from a man on a flaming pie that I had to REVIVE THIS THREAD. I just scored an advance of Mix's new record, Daddy's Back, first in seven years, and it sounds damn good to me. So tell me what you think of Jet City's chief boot knocka: lyricist, bon vivant, scenemaker, broadway posse-being-onner

― Neudonym, Thursday, 10 July 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

never did manage to make it to one of the sir m-a-l/POTUSA shows when i lived out there -- tho they mighta started playing just after i left. either way, just for doing it, they're both klassic.

(and 'baby got back' is a gimmick track that lives up to repeated playings, which is classic.)

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Thursday, 10 July 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Please care not to post your dorky fucking unfunny chat logs in the future, k thnx.

― David Allen, Thursday, 10 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

SOMEONE woke up on the sore ass end of a Charles Nelson Reilly/Paul Lynne/Rip Taylor 3-way this morning.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 10 July 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

please eat a bag of putrid donkey dicks asshole, k thnx.

(xpost)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 10 July 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

please eat a bag of putrid donkey dicks asshole, k thnx.
(xpost)

-- Sterling Clover (s_clove...), July 10th, 2003.

Yay!

― David Allen, Thursday, 10 July 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

'jump on it' contains the worst casiocore use of 'apache' EVER. it's hideously bad.

I also heard a rumor that one mix-a-lot song was based on a sample of a cybotron/model 500 track that mike grant? accidentally left at a radio station in seattle back in the day...

― tylero, Thursday, 10 July 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm. i thought he had a big complex out southeast, like enumclaw or black diamond or some sht. dunno about mercer island. but he kept all his cars out there, and had a studio where he recorded songs with that girl from the real world and such

also his beats are icky. take that as you will

― ron (ron), Thursday, 10 July 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd just like to add:

― David Allen, Thursday, 10 July 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

enjoy them donkey dicks didja?

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 10 July 2003 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I also heard a rumor that one mix-a-lot song was based on a sample of a cybotron/model 500 track that mike grant? accidentally left at a radio station in seattle back in the day...

Channel One's Technicolor -- yeah. I believe Grant took a bunch of Metroplex releases into the station on purpose, to see if the DJ would play any of them.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 10 July 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the new record's very good -- mix bites the whole dirty south sound and it works!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yanc3y OTM. There was always quite a bit of booty bass in Mix's sound before, and now he's gone and put in some yelling laddish choruses.

And that duet with Humpty Hump! It's 1989 all over again!

― Neudonym, Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Most underappreciated Sir Mix-a-Lot track is "Beepers" which came on a gorgeous white vinyl 12"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

/geek

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I love 'Beepers' too, but my heart belongs to "Posse on Broadway." Might be the best car cruising song since Chaucer wrote "The Mullette's Tale."

― Neudonym, Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

/corny

― Neudonym, Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Most underappreciated Sir Mix-a-Lot track is Gortex.

No wait...

Most underappreciated Sir Mix-a-Lot track is Ride.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Most underappreciated Sir Mix-a-Lot track goes to "One Time's Got No Case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EynIA_-_BYQ

First single on Mack Daddy and the only song on there with a sample (Stevie Wonder) instead of just drum machines and synths. His anger and righteousness make the Mix-a-Lot octameter build in intensity through repetition. The 12" extended version is better than the single:

I'm-a tell you little story 'bout one time
Cops always wanna try to take mine
'Cause I got me a Lamborghini
And the cops hate to see me on TV
But BOOM there I am rich rich
I take cops' girlfriends quick quick
I ain't gotta try to be slick
'Cause Mack Daddy takes no shhhhhhhhh

hhhhit's the man that you love to hate, etc.

― Eazy, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

quadrameter

― Eazy, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

the big man is droppin' his metal hammer on the northwest tip...and i'm readin' the mail

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Is that sampling Superstition? Nice.

― Jordan, Thursday, 4 October 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Butter. Milk. Biscuits.

― J Blount, Monday, May 13, 2002 5:00 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Totally. Fucking. Swass.

― kid sensation, Monday, May 13, 2002 5:00 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:36 (fifteen years ago)

really "buttermilk biscuits" is the greatest shit ever

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7mRC85C3c

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

DON'T YOU WISH YOUR BOYFRIEND WAS SWASS LIKE ME?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaJoMicA04

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

no bremelo yo

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:45 (fifteen years ago)

bumpin' bremelo right now

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:47 (fifteen years ago)

historical note:

ned = o.g. bremelo

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:20 PM Bookmark

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2cYAJvJpy0

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

I spent a lot of my childhood among the bremelos.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 January 2011 06:34 (fifteen years ago)

ha, I think I've only ever even been through Bremerton once

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 06:45 (fifteen years ago)

on a band trip to Sequim

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 06:45 (fifteen years ago)

Spent plenty of time there too.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 January 2011 06:50 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

i've done some research and "posse on broadway" is the only perfect song ever recorded

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2M8FVWmw8

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:01 (fourteen years ago)

I agree that "Posse On Broadway" is a perfect song but I strenuously disagree that it is the only one.

― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

god ICP sucks

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:13 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBq-H6pOHAE

― turfin' bird (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://ethicalwerewolf.blogspot.ca/2011/02/puzzle-about-your-butt.html

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:13 (thirteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Classic of course:

sir mix-a-lot breaks details his baby got back production 🥁 🍑 pic.twitter.com/5xyqHI3JKV
— hotbox (@thehotboxsocial) April 8, 2021

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 21:55 (four years ago)

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:13 (four years ago)

It's a totally obvious lift from It's More Fun To Compute which I never noticed before reading that.

― everything, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:07 (four years ago)

It's More Fun to Compute has to be one of those songs, up there with "Amen, Brother", as a song whose sound was so singularly influential it pushed forward whole scenes and genres.

― octobeard, Sunday, 11 April 2021 18:57 (four years ago)

I have a Todd Terje edit/mix of it (It's More Fun to Compute) that just smokes when I drop it in a set as if it was released yesterday.

― octobeard, Sunday, 11 April 2021 18:58 (four years ago)

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