This Old Boombox

Maybe hip-hop producers have run out of old funk and soul records to sample. They’ve moved on to 80’s pop hits. Right now the number one song on iTunes is Flo Rida’s “Right Round”, which uses Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” for the hook. This follow’s Slim Thug’s “I Run”, which sampled A Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran”.

This isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, but it seems recently it’s becoming a sure-fire formula for success. It makes sense considering there isn’t a weekend that goes by without an 80’s themed frat party at every college campus in America.

Here’s a list of 80’s songs I would like to see sampled by hip-hop artists:
1. Duran Duran - The Reflex
2. Yazoo - Don’t Go
3. The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
4. Bananarama - Cruel Summer
5. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

-Dave

guess who’s back, y’all! in case you missed the earth shattering news from sunday’s grammy awards, blink 182 will be putting all of their other projects (boxcar racer, +44, not dying in a fire) on hiatus so they can run around in cargo pants and sing and stuff.

-pat

While He’s Just Not That Into You is 100% chick-flick, the soundtrack is anything but that. It’s only like 75% chick-flick music. You have the standard Corinne Bailey Rae, Tristan Prettyman, and Maroon 5 tracks. But then there’s My Morning Jacket, Wilco, The Cure, Talking Heads, and Scarlett Johansson covering Jeff Buckley. That’s a pretty healthy dose of indie darlings right there.

I don’t think they got hip enough though. Where’s the hip-hop inclusion for street cred? How about some Ghostface or MF Doom? Maybe some electronic too. Daft Punk?

-Dave