Friday, July 31, 2009

YW Pregame Playlist: Roids and Beans

"They pick me (to be tested) every time," Ortiz told the Boston Globe, in 2005. "I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans." Word up.
Let's talk music. The first song is for Big Papi. Next is In the Jungle by the Beach Boys, even though I think I put it on last week's playlist. Whatever, everything associated with this song is awesome- The Beach Boys, The Lion King, and the scene from Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls, when Ace climbs out of the rhino's butt!
I threw the official Bohemian Rhapsody music video in there too, and it's worth a watch. So is the Beautiful Swimmers Oh Yea video (which I posted last month). Crystal Cat by Dan Deacon is the fifth track. Dude is a wilder, in the best sense of the word, and I love everything about this song and video. Next we have Too Many Puppies which was the bizarre second single off Primus' first studio album Frizzle Fry. It is followed by Night of the Living Dope by New York based rapper Curtains. Crazy things.
Now, let's talk a bit about Wolfgang Gartner. Originally Joey Youngman, this Cali born, Austin based producer is like an electro-house version of Daft Punk. I would cut off two, no, three of my fingers to spend a day in his studio. Gartner has a sound which is simultaneously hard and pretty, although at times his songs are just bonkers (see track ten). I put three of his songs in a row on this playlist.
Next is a brand new banger by Bart Bmore, followed by GTO's Love is Everywhere (Reach for the Sky mix)....It is a good song, and also substitutes a video with a very strange picture of a frog dog. I decided to put the 1995 Bucketheads' anthem The Bomb on here right before Pitbull's Calle Ocho in case anyone wanted to know where the sample was from. Of course, The Bucketheads sample Chicago's Street Player, which burnt down discos across America in 1979.
Since the last-mentioned song brought us back to the vinyl era, I figured I would keep it real with Getaway by Earth, Wind, & Fire very. Let's Dance by David Bowie is number seventeen on the playlist, and everyone knows that it's a great one.
But we gotta take it to the streets, and what better way to do that then putting on some Kingpin Skinny Pimp? BVMUndergroundHipHop wrote this of Skinny, "Although not quite as well known nationally as some of his Memphis counterparts, Kingpin Skinny Pimp is, without a doubt, one of the Deep Souths most revered rappers. He is a ten-year veteran with over eight independent albums totaling over 300,000 in sales, whose smooth rapid-fire flow has influenced legions of wannabes." Scarface's One Minute to Pray, One Second to Die certainly allows us to understand why the Houston OG is so often compared to Pac. I finish it out with Where do you go my Lovely by Peter Sarstedt, and he's about as street as one can be.
BK tonight, maybe Webster Hall on the late, probably Ella at some point. Here is a link to the playlist on youtube. The track listing is below. Enjoy the music and have a gewd weekend.

1) Afroman- Because I got High
2) The Beach Boys- In the Jungle
3) Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
4) Beautiful Swimmers- Oh Yea
5) Dan Deacon- Crystal Cat
6) Primus- Too Many Puppies
7) Curtains- Night of the Living Dope
8) Wolfgang Gartner- Push and Rise
9) Wolfgang Gartner- Killer
10) Wolfgang Gartner- Bounce
11) Bart Bmore- Basement Beats
12) GTO- Love is Everywhere (Reach for the Sky mix)
13) The Bucketheads- The Bomb
14) Pitbull- I Know you Want me (Calle Ocho)
15) Chicago- Street Player
16) Earth, Wind, & Fire- Getaway
17) David Bowie- Let's Dance
18) Kingpin Skinny Pimp featuring Three 6 Mafia- One Life 2 Live
19) Scarface - One Minute To Pray a Second to Die
20) Peter Sarstedt- Where Do You Go my Lovely

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