SJ.com old school: BYH & Bubs riff on MTV Classic

Are you addicted to pain pills? Do you steal from your own family? Then MTV Classic overnight is the place for you!

These commercials cost as much to make as a Joan Jett video.

 

Brass In Pocket. Chrissie Hynde had no interest in being a sex symbol, but this song is fucking sexy.

 

Oh fuck. Paul's Boutique-era Beasties. "Shake Your Rump".

Now I KNOW they didn't play this shit in 1989. It's hard to convey how disappointed everyone was that the Beasties didn't do Licensed To Ill, Part 2 when this came out. It got dismissed even though it may very well be the best rap album ever made.

The whole ironic lo-fi thing was definitely waaaay ahead of its time. NO ONE knew what to make of this on release.

 

"I've got a peg leg at the end of my stump-a ... shake your rump-a."

RIP MCA.

 

The Beastie Boys' career is one of the most remarkable in music history. Had all the trappings of a one-album wonder, took time off, did a second record on their terms, and then became a universally respected act that also managed to make one of the greatest videos ever in Sabotage.

 

This is the album that launched about 100 album purchases for me. I've sought out damn near every sample on it. Truly, my introduction to 70s funk.

Desert island album without question.

 

Holy shit. "Conga" by Miami Sound Machine. This has possibilities.

 

A gloriously herky-jerky hour continues with Miami Sound Machine's "Conga." I prefer the stylings of "1-2-3" but this is fine.

 

Gloria Estefan looks like Al Pacino's sister from Scarface if she went to rehab and got off cocaine instead of being shot to pieces by a Colombian hit squad.

 

When White America '85 was re-introduced to conga drums. In a way only the non-threatening Reagan years could produce.

 

I know this. I took about 10 seconds for Estefan to drop Miami Sound Machine like a bad habit when she went solo.

She hasn't been heard from in quite a while. Or perhaps she has and I just didn't give a shit.