Blackout Crew - Put A Donk On It

heavy bam up the back of the bus, with cut up hands from scrapping, out his nut on ecto, who had just stolen a hat off a Polish guy, etc. was freestyling over this on the back of the bus yesterday. He asked my friend if he'd heard the tune, he said no, asked who it was by, he said Blackout Crew, I went home and youtubed it. I watched it about three times in a row there.

"I look well sick in an UV light" probably the lamest braggadocio ever.

there was a thread for this but who knows what it was called

it was called "john mcdonnell is a right knob"

i think it was donk vs donk

damn, I did figure this might be old news.

The guy on the bus had better rhymes tho,

"i'll shag yer ma
shag yer da"

"i'm stabbin' my way to the top"

"bring your team, bring your scheme".

He'll be the toast of Polmont.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=-JunSrW3Mgg

GRiiMeTiiMe2k9 (2 hours ago) 0 Reply | Spam
this isnt a choon THIS IS BOLLOX wtf lmfao how shit

Probably top 20 singles of the year, tbh.

^my nephew would agree with this. Fuck him though, the flamin eejit.

is this popular in the UK? i was thinking of adding it to your 77 thread, dom.

bw i agree this is great.

It gets a lot of play up north, but it didn't chart for reasons to depressing to comprehend.

http://www.last.fm/user/BenBarrett

^^^this is the last.fm playlist of a man who tagged "Put A Donk On It" with the tags "shit" and "even more shit". He has awesome music taste.

he's right though

Kings of Leon (1,274 plays)

Muse (1,119 plays)

Late of the Pier (896 plays)

Bob Marley (632 plays)

lol

Play BenBarrett’s Loved Tracks

Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
We Are Scientists – Ghouls
The Killers – Mr Brightside
Crystal Castles – Alice Practice

ugh, but since he listens to shit he can recognise shit music when he hears it.

i'm stabbin' my way to the top

such a tune

"bring your team, bring your scheme"

...new theme song of the staff at the Job Centre

Kings of Leon should put a donk on it, mate.

Apologies if old news: Blackout Crew donkumentary

Another classic from the Bolton boys

I'M AVIN FEELINGS OF ANXIETEH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKtUXVL-43Y

Still pushing the envelope

Someone should do a crabcore remix.

throw in some camden lurch while yr at it

Dancers dressed as Umpa Lumpas = not remotely sexy.

i really want Sound On Sound to do a 'secrets of the mixing engineers' profile on these guys

okay camden lurch for real? that's a thing?

Some genre made up to cover a few lumpen UK indie rockers for 4 weeks in 1991 iirc

Blackout Crew still got it tho

Disappointed in this, still looking forward to the album though.

pretty awesome.

didn't really like 'Dialled' apart from the intro and this is worse

is this like the british LMFAO?

donk da donk donk donk

this is too ambitious. it's their 'Six'. it's not donk enough for the duration.

Thanks to Radio One's Put A Donk On It - The Story Of UK Bounce, I found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJvOOeGBT6U

amazing version of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUJbe5mls5Y

I'm glad deaf people aren't deprived of donk

what's up with the donk scene these days?

hahaha

love how the in that Kings of Leon remix the donk drowns out the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74benH-G0oo

RIP Donk:

MC Viper, aka Kurtis Chadwick, revealed that Sticky Rib will be The Blackout Crew’s last donk song.

He said: “We hope it’s going to open new doors completely.

“We’re going to dabble in different styles — we’re going to try and look for more what people are wanting at the moment and mix it with our own unique sound.

“It’ll be more mainstream but it’ll still have that edge that defines us.”

MC Zak K, aka Zak Kabbani, said: “We want something fresh. We don’t want to keep doing the same thing all the time.”

Blackout Crew producer Tony Sabanskis said: “Diddy did it with Courvoisier, we are doing it with Pot Noodle.

“We make banging, quick beats, they are the banging‚ quick snack. It just makes sense and we’re glad Pot Noodle are giving us this platform.”

JUDAS!

You know people are always sharing a laugh over ICP but Blackout Crew seems much funnier to me.

This comment from the Rumper Pumper youtube page is also great:

r1982c
1 week ago
the fat cunt with the chain needs leathering,look at the fucking state of em,in 10 years time thell all be on heroin cuase thell be broke

http://indahouse.blox.pl/resource/Blackout_Crew__Put_A_Donk_On_It.jpg

has anything happened to donk l8ly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Oqo_2ddq4

very catchy

if you're not about putting a donk on it then fu tbh

Many of the men you see in the video for 'Put a Donk on it' are from the North West of England, they believe themselves to be music mavericks, yet in reality they are on day release from prison. (Lancashire Telegraph,2008)discogs</ref>[3]

How is everything ‘Electriced up’? Have you just put a donk on everything?

It’s funny, you used to say ‘put a donk on it’ a lot, but I only discovered last year, while working with Stuart Price, that there’s an actual fucking video! I had no idea! I sort of knew what it meant, but I didn’t know it actually referred to an actual song!

What did you think of it?

Well, it made me want to put a donk on everything. Also with this album, we were inspired by the EXTREME irritation that someone had written a review on iTunes, slagging off ‘Elysium’, saying they wanted “more banging and lasers”. And in fact, we thought, “alright then – more banging and lasers, here it comes”.

I revisit this video at least once a year. Over time I've come to genuinely love it. It brings me such joy. The best verse is the one with the acoustic guitar. I have still never heard another Blackout Crew song.

Thread doesn't seem complete without this other Blackout-produced gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fY-JU4dXXE

Can't believe it's been 7 years

rip donkdj

this joke never gets old

"I look well sick in an UV light" probably the lamest braggadocio ever.

i would say one of the best ever

Cheers for that, Siegbran!

I'm quite partial to "Raver's Binge" from the album.

I think this may be exclusively a Scotland/Glasgow thing but I'm fascinated by it.

So there is a radio show on a Saturday night which is huge locally, called the George Bowie Experience, or GBX for short. For a few hours on a Saturday night local DJ George Bowie plays a mix of cheesy rave/donk classics and EDM reworkings of current and classic hits. Artemesia's "Bits N Pieces" is huge, as are classics like JX' "Son Of A Gun" and N-Trance "Set You Free", but then you get superbad things like a donk remix of "The Gambler" or "Chasing Cars." Bowie himself travels across Scotland every weekend on a seemingly never-ending tour of terrible provincial nightclubs playing this stuff to people in small towns, and people love it. I think I love it too and I can't tell if it's because it's ironic or because it just sounds like Good Times to me, hearing it in clubs and at 21st birthdays in hired halls, etc.

There is this version of Paramore's "Still Into You" which gets played on the show every time I hear it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVReKV8XcNA

now, let's be clear about this: this is a terrible version of a good song. The production is so cheap and tinny and laughable. BUT people seem to go wild for it. I hear it nearly every time I go somewhere that isn't a Proper Dance Music venue. It has had 6 million views on Youtube. I was in a bar on Saturday and the DJ played this about 10pm and people were going wild for it, dancing on tables and everything. Not just young people either, men in their 40s were singing along.

Basically in 2018 people are wild for a terrible donk version of a Paramore song that wasn't even that big here and I am so bewildered by it.

sweet donking jesus

even after your description I am surprised by how terrible that track is

I'm going to listen to this now and I suspect I'm going to like it.

then you get superbad things like a donk remix of "The Gambler" or "Chasing Cars."

i assume you mean superbad in the james brown, bad-means-good sense here cuz there's no way 'chasing cars' isn't improved a thousandfold by having big fat donks added to it

scotland's seemingly bottomless appetite for this stuff is fascinating to me - i had friends at high school who were mental for this stuff 20 years ago and that very specific sound seems to have remained trapped in amber in communities all across scotland ever since

i feel like we might need a george bowie thread, he's such a huge figure in a scene which manages to be both incredibly popular and incredibly niche

remember when david bowie died and scottish twitter experienced a brief, confused spasm of grief at the prospect that george bowie might have died instead?

scotland's seemingly bottomless appetite for this stuff is fascinating to me - i had friends at high school who were mental for this stuff 20 years ago and that very specific sound seems to have remained trapped in amber in communities all across scotland ever since

comparable to the Dutch gabba/hardcore scene perhaps?

yeah, v much so i think

I didn't like it.

you are no longer welcome in scotland, sorry

in all honesty I think I might be more upset when George dies instead of David. Scottish Twitter is a paradise of bizarre linguistic mutations and social deviance and it's the only reason I still have an account.

I think the sound of GBX on a Saturday has evolved slightly over the years - when I was at school in the early noughties it was very trance-influenced, then for a while it got bouncey and Clubland-compilation flavoured, then it got quite Cascada ringtone, and now it seems to have slowed down to 130bpm and aligns with EDM as much as hard dance. But at it's core it's always been about big simple melodies and things you can "bounce" to.

apologies for linking to The Sun but here's a video of schoolchildren shouting "here we, here we, here fucking go" over this

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2111241/zander-nation-dj-schoolkids-chant-here-we-fing-go-glasgow/

oh wait its not this song its another GBX reinterpretation, but there is a longer clip from the same event which shows some ten year olds going tonto to this which I've seen shared a few times

During a remix of Pink’s “What About Us”, David can be heard shouting “here we, here we” before all the kids chant “here we f****** go”.

Shockingly, parents and other adults are at the party swearing along with the children.

lok at 'shockingly', like 'here we fuckin go' isn't a multi-generational uniting cry at this point

er, lol at

noted pornographers The Sun think swearing is bad

off-topic but my favourite reddit thread ever was by a confused American asking why at Scottish gigs the crowd chants "Billy, Billy, Billy fucking Joel"

Dutch hardcore has evolved mainly into hardstyle but that too is remarkably resilient as a subculture.

for reference here is my personal favourite GBX anthem, the aforementioned version of "The Gambler" which sounds like it takes longer to listen to than it did to make

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tdGz_IBWA

there are two types of people in this world: people who would run to the dancefloor for this, and people who would phone a taxi home immediately

i love that the lack of effort expended on this extends to misspelling kenny rogers' name

listening to George Bowie's show is a real experience, it isn't just the crimes committed in the name of tastelessnes from the music played but the listeners calling in for shoutouts. "awrite georgey boy its shireen fae eh shire, cin a git a shoutout tae ma maw ma da ma sister ma dug n aw the johnstone mafia, WAN TEAM WAN SCHEME" - there are thousands of people sitting in their houses, tanning wines and snorting lines, lapping this stuff up

pure makes ye proud tae be scottish so it does

that version of the gambler is basically the donk hamsterdance

it's cruel making me read this without access to speakers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYxC8DADFyM

I'VE GOT FEELINGS OF ANXIETY, ME

autechre

put a donk on it

put a gonk on it, obv

apparently this is the avenues teenage druggie crew* jam

https://youtu.be/ODQcs9ZDA0c

*not to be confused with "ella street bloods" which is currently sprayed down the tenfoot. or indeed "the bike gang" who are a genuine bunch of little bastards.

i feel that if someone made a donk steady one mix, nakhchivan might return to ilx

Loool Ella Street Bloods

Not since the golden age of the Marlborough Acid Posse

boxejoy this thread revive is giving me lots of joy. i listen to the gbx whenever I'm home in scotland. love georgy boy. if scotland ever becomes independent "bits n pieces" would be the most appropriate national anthem tbh.