Hello Mog,Although I said I would be gone, I received news today that turned my world upside down. After a full day of teaching I came home to the news of Christopher Pryor's passing and I felt I needed to say something. Crash was one of the first people I met here on MOG, one of the first people to really talk to me about what I was writing and in turn take an interest in what was happening in...
...when Mental Floss for the Globe dropped in the US I was a sophomore in college...and although they got busy in their own right, I'm sure RATM took notes from these guys' Dutch take on how hip hop could sound with some rock on it...for my Hip Hop Thursday post, I submit to you "Fast Lane", the "*Urban Dance Squad*":http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3ifqxq95ldhe jammy that got th...
from the musical St. Jude Dept......I still say that the Dutch hip hop act Urban Dance Squad didn't get their propers for being one of the first rap acts to meld hip hop with a live band back when they were hitting it hardest in the late 80s and I've said as much "on MOG with a post & video":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/15887 featuring the cut "No Kid" about two months ago...well, I'm s...
...Couldn't sleep anymore, so I thought I'd post about a musical injustice that should be noted: I've always thought the Dutch hip hop rockers "Urban Dance Squad":http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=URBAN|DANCE|SQUAD&sql=11:b1ud6jah71l0~T1 never got their due here in the US and Mental Floss for the Globe was a hip hop masterpiece almost in spite of itself ("A Deeper Shade of Soul" g...
A totally forgotten classic. Kids, before there was Limp, Korn, Papa Roach, and lots more rap/rock mooks that won't be remembered, there was Urban Dance Squad, the original rap/rock mook band band to be thrown away. And unjustly so, I might add.1989. Yes, a long time ago. Paul McCartney released Flowers in the Dirt, Roxette was hot, Bring the Noise was the shit, and my grandmother was stil...
...Couldn't sleep anymore, so I thought I'd post about a musical injustice that should be noted: I've always thought the Dutch hip hop rockers "Urban Dance Squad":http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=URBAN|DANCE|SQUAD&sql=11:b1ud6jah71l0~T1 never got their due here in the US and Mental Floss for the Globe was a hip hop masterpiece almost in spite of itself ("A Deeper Shade of Soul" g...
...when Mental Floss for the Globe dropped in the US I was a sophomore in college...and although they got busy in their own right, I'm sure RATM took notes from these guys' Dutch take on how hip hop could sound with some rock on it...for my Hip Hop Thursday post, I submit to you "Fast Lane", the "*Urban Dance Squad*":http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3ifqxq95ldhe jammy that got th...
..ruh-roh, Raggy...senility alert...I thought it was Monday and shite...if you slipped like that too...it's Thursday...here's a little Mental Floss for the cells in your domepiece (turn up loud)...the good news: here comes Friday....and Fark U too...I'll send this link to "*Drew Curtis' website*":http://www.fark.com/ ...this outta put a dent in you "meddling kids' " productivity tomorrow...
from the musical St. Jude Dept......I still say that the Dutch hip hop act Urban Dance Squad didn't get their propers for being one of the first rap acts to meld hip hop with a live band back when they were hitting it hardest in the late 80s and I've said as much "on MOG with a post & video":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/15887 featuring the cut "No Kid" about two months ago...well, I'm s...