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  • SonicClash’s Memorial Day Triple Play

    Hey folks, it’s the beginning of summer! Break out the sunglasses and shorts, because the warm weather is upon us! There’s no shortage of tunes to blast out of your boombox on those beach trips (do people still use boomboxes?), but here are a couple of my favorite songs that celebrate the season. Play them and enjoy the good vibes.

    If you like your summer songs spiked with a little bit of nostalgia, then NKOTB’s “Summertime” is for you.

    Next up is my man Doug E. Fresh with his own “Summertime” from 1990. This is by far the rarest of the three songs here, and the fact that embedding is disabled grinds my gears a little bit. Check out the hip-house influence in the song, and also check out a very brief cameo from Sean “Diddy” Combs at the beginning of the video.

    I think you can all guess what’s next. As I do every year, a summertime kickoff isn’t complete without DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince. Enjoy, and have a great Memorial Day weekend (we’ll still be here, so don’t forget to check in when you have a free sec!)

  • The Top 100 Songs of the ’00s, #98: “Clint Eastwood”

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    Not quite random thoughts:

    Show of hands: does this song remind anyone other than me of being high?

    I’m not sure if it’s the song’s musical bed-sampling music from “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly”, a movie starring (you guessed it) Clint Eastwood, or if it’s Damon Albarn’s dazed-sounding chorus. It could be the rhyming from the perpetually stoned Del tha Funkee Homosapien. Might be all three. Either way, I practically catch a contact just from *listening* to this song. Maybe that’s why I like it so much.

    Could a song like this have possibly come from anything other than a cartoon band? And what else could the line “I’ve got sunshine in a bag” be about?

    Gorillaz=best supergroup of the decade. Audioslave would be close if they hadn’t made that last sucky album.

  • First Look: Beyonce’s “Ego”

    Hey, have you checked out my friends (including me, occasionally) at The Round Table? They’ve got a new web address and a new look, which you can see here. Also, my people at Popdose have a new look as well, make sure you check them out.

    We also have a Twitter page! Follow us here!

    Now, on to Sasha Fier…uh, Beyonce.

    If it works once, why not do it again? That’s obviously what Beyonce was thinking when she decided to make a video for “Ego”, the fifth (fifth!!) single from “I Am…Sasha Fierce”. Rocking the same three girl-dancing lineup that made “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)” a viral sensation (and a surefire nominee for Best Video at this year’s VMAs), “Ego” showcases even more sexy dance moves, with Beyonce rocking the mother of all fright wigs and showing off those gargantuan peanut-butter thighs. DAMN!!!!

    As for the song itself? Meh. I wasn’t crazy about the album when I first heard it, and I can’t say that many of the songs have grown on me over the past six or seven months. Allegedly Kanye West is on tap to appear on this song’s remix. Kanye. Appearing on a song called “Ego”. ‘Magine that.

    I can’t help but think that this song’s about Jay-Z and the word “ego” is being used as a euphemism for…oh man, perish the thought!! Is Beyonce even that clever of a songwriter?

    Anyway, peep the video and let us know what you think.