Talking Sweet About Nothing

The Radio.Blog has been updated. I actually made this playlist months ago, but I never got around to converting the files, etc. That part of the process is a pain in the ass. Ask Al if you don't believe me.

Some quick remarks:

Tracks 1 & 2 are proof that Puff Daddy (yes, I still call him that) is an excellent producer. Just keep him away from the mic.

Track 4 is probably the first rap song I ever heard. When I was growing up in Ft. Worth, my brother and I used to listen to the radio together at night. Once, we were scanning through the dial and we came across a local college station that was playing rap music. We put a tape in the little jam box we had and taped the songs off of the radio and listened to it for weeks. Basketball was one of the songs on there. I also remember some Run DMC and Sugarhill Gang. There was also an awesome song that we think was called Einstein. I would love to find a copy of that song. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the artist and Einstein was really the only decipherable lyric (the rest was just random onomatopoeia).

Track 7 would be easy to skip as long as you don't make it to the chorus. Once you hear that you're hooked and the payoff is huge if you can make it to the two minute mark.

Track 8 was on the last radio.blog playlist, too, but I thought it fit well with the rest of this list. It's kind of like a leftover Color Me Badd track, or any other early 90s r&b crap. This is actually a pretty fun song, though. The half-time beat at the second verse (around 1:10) is totally hot.