The local modern rock corpo-station has been playing a 90's playlist this weekend, aptly titled "Smells like the 90's;" because, what more reminds anyone of the 90's than a reference to that deodorant phenomenon? So in the spirit of my 90's rap kick and the X's 90's rock weekend:
Ahh, the rap/rock crossover. Most hiphophistorians would claim the joining of Run-DMC and Aerosmith on "Walk this Way" to be the catalyst for two facets of music combining, enlightening fans and critics, and exposing more ears and opening more eyes and merging tastes. Subsequently, Limp Bizkit would be the downfall of this potentially beautiful friendship, and those of us whose collegiate years encompassed the dawn of a millenium would have to suffer hordes of douchebags packing our favorite bars and blasting pure incomprehensible garbage. Somewhere in the middle of that ride came a pretty decent collab of rap and rock for the soundtrack to a mediocre movie starring Academy Award winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Helmet makes House of Pain sound pretty raw and hardcore, Faith No More gives the Boo-Yaa TRIBE some pretty scary backing, Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth shared an ounce or two...and De La and Teenage Fanclub created this little gem.
Ahh, the rap/rock crossover. Most hiphophistorians would claim the joining of Run-DMC and Aerosmith on "Walk this Way" to be the catalyst for two facets of music combining, enlightening fans and critics, and exposing more ears and opening more eyes and merging tastes. Subsequently, Limp Bizkit would be the downfall of this potentially beautiful friendship, and those of us whose collegiate years encompassed the dawn of a millenium would have to suffer hordes of douchebags packing our favorite bars and blasting pure incomprehensible garbage. Somewhere in the middle of that ride came a pretty decent collab of rap and rock for the soundtrack to a mediocre movie starring Academy Award winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Helmet makes House of Pain sound pretty raw and hardcore, Faith No More gives the Boo-Yaa TRIBE some pretty scary backing, Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth shared an ounce or two...and De La and Teenage Fanclub created this little gem.
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The Tom Petty sample in that song always kind of threw me for a loop, pun intended.
If I watched that video and couldn't remember what band De La was with, my first guess would be They Might Be Giants.
ha...yeah, "de la collabs with (insert generic nerdy white 90's band here) on 'Fallin'"
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