henry s said:perhaps there needs to be some kind of distinction between "weird" and "avant-garde" here...think of the myriad chart-topping novelty songs (Crazy Frog/"Shuttup You Face"/that stupid "don't forget to wear sunscreen" song, etc.) that are certainly strange but hardly avant-garde...
borderpolice said:what is noteworthy about these -- and (almost) all the title mentioned upthread is that they innovate on one level but stay rather conventional on all others.
Poing was basically a minimal techno track, only faster. All variation was in the 909-programming. The poing-sound was a synth. I never cared much for the original, but there's some really great remixes, especially on the Merry X-mess-EP.mms said:that track poing by rotterdam termination source just a drum and a man going poing poin poing
hamarplazt said:Poing was basically a minimal techno track, only faster. All variation was in the 909-programming. The poing-sound was a synth. I never cared much for the original, but there's some really great remixes, especially on the Merry X-mess-EP.
It reminds me of a track called 'Distorgasm' by the danish gabber group Barbaque, which became some kind of cult hit in Denmark, even though I don't know if it ever got into anything but indie-charts (but at the time these basically contained nothing but grunge, so it's amazing anyway). It was a total gabber blast full of insane analogue synth noise, but it also had a sample going "Karin Østergaard er et svin", meaning "Karin Østergaard is a pig" (Karin Østergaard was their school teacher, legend has it), and that made it a kind of novelty hit. One of the Barbaque-guys later became a producer for Aqua.
BTW, wasn't 'James Browns is Dead' a chart hit too?
borderpolice said:early timbaland stuff, like Aaliya: are u that somebody. novel rhythmical phrasing. hugely influential. First HipHop HIts like rappers delight. i don't know if it made the charts, but
Brandy: what about us, at least the original mixes, has a really odd rhythm.
what is noteworthy about these -- and (almost) all the title mentioned upthread is that they innovate on one level but stay rather conventional on all others.