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  • Friday Throwback – Party All The Time

    Before Eddie Murphy was bagging Scary Spice and Babyface’s ex-wife in the same month, he was a fairly insecure young man when it came to women. Actually, he probably still is. Recorded in 1985, the song was produced by Rick James. This must’ve been before he kicked mud on Eddie’s couch. And I’m not sure if everyone knows this, but Party All The Time peaked at number 2 on the Billboard charts. Not bad for a comedian. The song isn’t great, but it’s very 80s.

    • Who put the dirty mop on Rick James’ head?
    • How come Eddie didn’t say, “Yo, turn me up in the headphones,”?
    • Is Rick wearing leather pants?
    • That one dude in the studio looks like a tall Michael Bivins.
    • And were all those people in the studio Eddie’s posse?
    • This might possibly be the greatest verse in music history: I’ve seen you in clubs just hanging out and dancing/You give your number to every man you see/You never come home at night because you’re out romancing/I wish you bring some of your love home to me.
    • Why is that one dude touching himself at the 2:28 mark?
    • I wonder if Rick burned the naked girl before or after the making of this video?

    That was the only song that you could get through on his debut album How Could It Be. I guess the world wasn’t ready for sensitive Ed. He would go on a release a much better album (we are talking Eddie Murphy here) called Love’s Alright which included a very memorable song with Michael Jackson called Whatzupwitu which featured Eddie and MJ floating in the video. No word on if Mike gave him a kick and a “hee hee” for making fun of his crying in the song She’s Out Of My Life.

  • Mandy Moore Does “Umbrella”

    You know how Rod Stewart’s latest albums have been those Great American Songbook titles where puts his touches on “classic” songs of yesteryear? Well, this isn’t exactly that.

    There are certain songs that are horrid, yet hit so big and are so catchy that you eventually like them even though you’ll deny it to everyone. Think Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps, Fergie’s London Bridge, Patrick Swayze’s She’s Like The Wind, or Nick Lachey’s What’s Left Of Me. Ok, maybe only I like those last two. But you get the picture. I think Rihanna’s single, Umbrella, was headed that way except that everyone figured that it was actually good and even though they thought they were supposed to hate it, even music snobs kind of dug it, so people could joyously singing it aloud without worry that they’d get hated on. Even Mandy Moore likes it.

    Mandy Moore has covered Rihanna’s hit single Umbrella. And I have proof. Thanks to Speeddeezy for sending this to me.

  • Friday Throwback – (I Know I Got) Skillz

    I have to tell you a story about a man named Eddy Zucko. Right around the time, Shaq O’neal came into the NBA this man named Eddy Zucko decided that he loved the man’s free, fun spirit. He loved it enough that when Shaq decided to drop rhymes on an album called Shaq Diesel, young Eddy bought it. When Shaq came back for more with Shaq-Fu: Da Return, Eddy bought it again. He loved both albums so much that I’d hear him reciting lines and calling himself the Ken Dogg. I think he may still hold both albums in a special place in his heart.

    (I Know I Got) Skillz is the first Shaq single, though he was first heard on the Fu-Schnickens song What’s Up Doc? (Can We Rock?). He’d also do verses on Michael Jackson’s 2 Bad and Quincy Jones’ Stomp. Does anyone remember TWISM?

    • Shaq will do you like Spielberg and you’ll get jurrasic’d in the park.
    • I wonder if anyone ever calls Shaq ET still. Extra Tallums?
    • Look at that, it’s Def Jeff with the Shaq attack.
    • I wonder how much leather it took to make Shaq’s vest and pants?
    • Nah, nah, let him continue.
    • Best line ever: “Built like Chevy Impala/ Shaq’s a smooth baller/ But what about rhymes? /I can hold my own/ Knick knack Shaq attack, give a dog a bone”
    • How you like him now? He drops bombs.
    • Shaq gives a shout out to his cousin Ron, and his other cousin Ron.

    How many of you know that Shaq dropped 5 albums? And what’s more impressive than that (or at least impressive because a label kept putting out Shaq records), is that his first record went double platinum and his second went platinum. Though I don’t think I’ve ever seen a copy of Presents His Superfriends, Vol. 1 and highly doubt we’ll ever get Vol. 2.