Deadly Tango

[FINAL UPDATE, 15-July: Thanks to everyone for the comments, especially Tim and Mark.  I'll put my thoughts/review in a new post, since this is really a separate item. For my part, hopefully this is the kick in the rear I need to write more frequently and be a part of more musical discussions going forward...]


It's now Monday morning, and I'm still awestruck and blissed out at what I experienced this past Saturday evening... not only an Unrest reunion of the 1991-94 lineup (Mark Robinson, Phil Krauth, Bridget Cross), but two shorter sets of the 1984-86 lineup (Mark, Phil, Tim Moran) and 1988-1990 lineup (Mark, Phi, Dave Park). I'll try to comment more later, but wanted to get the set lists posted/memorialized for future reference.

Unrest 1.0 (Mark, Phil, Tim)

Holiday in Berlin Pt. II
Solid State
Laughter
Chastity Ballad (yes. in German. a Tim solo.)

Unrest 2.0 (Mark, Phil, Dave)

Ragged (Cltd Hsbnd)
Malcolm X Park
Can't Sit Still
Teenage Suicide
She Makes Me Shake Like a Soul Machine

Unrest 3.0 (Mark, Phil, Bridget)

Plastic Film
Capezio
Volume Reference Tone
Isabel
June
Suki
U.F.O. (E.S.G. cover)
So Sick
West Coast Love Affair
Cath Carroll
Firecracker
Light Command
I Do Believe You're Blushing
Hydroplane
Cherry Cream On
Soon It Is Going To Rain
Angel I'll Walk You Home (encore)
Make Out Club (encore)

[entries in bold & italics were corrected based on comments below; I did not recognize any of those four except MXP (which I mistook for "Click Click").]

Goodness gracious. This kind of jumping to conclusions could get a little ugly, especially when the Whitman campaign starts running TV ads without clearing the sync rights...

RedCountry.Com: "California Uber Alles and the Dead Kennedys' Coming Revival"

So today's (justly) over-hyped listicle is the "50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples of All Time" as selected by two guys in Complex magazine.

I'm not here to quibble with the list -- it's worth your time to plow through and enjoy some slamming soul beats and a few back-stories along the way.  Instead, I was struck by hearing #10, a Kool and the Gang jam from 1969 that immediately had me scrambling for the single biggest punch-line used against me in college radio. My question: which band used this core riff first?

 

 

Kool & The Gang - Chocolate Buttermilk

 

 

Chicago Transit Authority - Beginnings

 

Seriously, spend a few hours poking through the originals and the sampled uses... a fantastic-ly old school way to start a weekend.

Yeah, if you haven't heard yet, Unrest is reuniting for a wacky set of shows in July 2010 to help celebrate TeenBeat's 26th anniversary.  All the details are right here... and I am looking into ways to catch at least a couple gigs (particularly the DC show with rotating members and one of the shows with the Ropers).

Others may have live tapes to share, and I may digitize some obscure vinyl this weekend.  But for now, I can certainly share one undignified photo from early 1993 when Unrest crashed in my dorm room after playing a show at Princeton.

Sorry to say so little, but this is just too much of a multi-pop-cultural reference to pass up.

From the thoroughly geek-tastic XKCD.