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"City life," Thoreau wrote, "is millions of people being lonesome together." The centerpiece of the Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I expertly nails that feeling of being alone with everyone. See also: Jay-Z, "Can't Knock the Hustle" Janet Jackson, "Escapade"

A remarkably self-assured song about not being quite sure what's to come. A confluence of samples including Audio Two's "Top Billin'" on the drums provides Mary with a fittingly insistent new jack waggle, over which she pleads, belts, straightens herself up and walks out the door, her voice perfectly blending longing and lambasting, her head held high. A whole career's worth, as it turned out. "Real Love" may be less musically weary and weatherbeaten than a lot of her breakup numbers, but it's no less devastating she's bound and determined to get what she wants, but she makes it clear she's still got some searching to do. Even at her strongest, Mary never seems to catch a break. Of course, that was years after the searching "Real Love", her second single and still her most electrifying tune. Blige actually called a stop to the stuff in song. See also: Saint Etienne, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" Saint Etienne, "Mario's Cafe"Īll but synonymous with drama on and off record, Mary J. The effect in the end is appropriately both blissed-out psychedelia and graceful, refined pop. Saint Etienne intended to be their version of the Beach Boys' "Wonderful", a sort of acid house version of baroque pop. One of their first true widescreen successes, the ambitious "Avenue" is often called Spectoresque but it's much more nimble and agile than that. Most of what's great about Saint Etienne is difficult to distill into one track, but the LP length version of "Avenue" from So Tough manages to come close. And amidst the backdrops of first grunge and Oasis-fed Britrock, creating a world in which romanticism, beauty, sophistication, and youth are central to your sound was risky. Music geeks at heart, hipsters in practice, Saint Etienne's cratedigging for sounds from girl groups, Northern soul, yé-yé, soft rock, and dub weren't the safe moves they are today.

#Jay z albums sample 1990s mod#

Saint Etienne managed to cobble together everything mod and fresh and exciting about just about every sound other than chord-heavy rock music and assemble it into one effortlessly cool blend. See also: Basement Jaxx, "Fly Life (Brixton Vocal Mix)" Basement Jaxx, "Jump N Shout" Its massive backbeat- Larry Graham slap bass and drums that slickly churn along like a freight train on glass rails- keep it moving, on and on and on and on. It's a contraption built out of G-funk Minimoogs, yelps, whistles, cordless-phone burbles, sirens, shouts, and a massive lead vocal from Blue James that paradoxically alarms the listener ("Red alert, red alert it's a catastrophe") and eggs them on ("Ain't nothin' goin' on but history/ But it's alright, don't panic"). But for most of its length its Prince-ly house groove seizes anyone who locks into the beat and launches them smack into the middle of a haywire pinball machine. "Red Alert" has its rare pockets of calm, mostly in the false-ending interlude featuring some gelatinously deflating melodrama strings.

The best Basement Jaxx songs sound like they're threatening to shake themselves apart from all the activity rattling around inside them, even as a rock-solid rhythm and bassline keep it all held together.

See also: Boards of Canada, "Telephasic Workshop" Boards of Canada, "Happy Cycling" Rather than being built, "Roygbiv" seems to bloom, in a state of rare electronic grace. For a group that always seemed to prefer one-minute vignettes and six-minute dioramas, these 150 seconds move but never get ahead of themselves. New synthesizers and samples- a cut of a child's voice, an understated piano, a glowing synthesizer wash- appear with redoubtable timing, decorating and redecorating the rhythm. A study in propulsion by layers, "Roygbiv" begins with a distorted keyboard bassline, the drums dropping between the notes like exclamation points. No track bridges that divide with more clarity or concision than "Roygbiv". For instance, from the Scottish duo's mesmerizing debut, Music Has the Right to Children, adoration comes either for the massive, rhythmically playful beats of "Sixtyten" and "Telephasic Workshop" or the sprawling, sonic environments of "Olson" and "The Colour of Fire". Praise for Boards of Canada generally works as a binary.