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sing hell album my adidas is fashion statement product placement and forever tied hip hop and sneaker culture together the first air jordans hit shelves just a year earlier here s nelson george on the phenomenon from hip hop america it was in 1985 that the athletic wear manufacturers begane to see how the link between hip hop and their products could pay off big time and unsurprisingly it was russell simmons who made the connection real run d m c s my adidas was a tribute to the seminal hip hop athletic shoe at the height of its appeal russell simmons and his rush management team were determined to turn that record s message into money athletes regularly scored endorsement deals from athletic wear companies and michael jordan was already on his way to revolutionizing the marketing of sports gear with his landmark nike deal russell wanted a piece of the pie for run d m c run d m c s 1986 headlining appearance at madison square garden provided the right venue for russell to prove his point with several adidas executives from germany standing in the wings run d m c was rocking 20 000 new york b boys and girls at the legendary arena before performing my adidas run told the crowd to hold up their adidas sneakers a sea of three stripped athletic sneakers emerged like white leather clouds over the heads of most of the fans when run walked off stage that night the adidas representatives told me that i would have my own line of adidas clothing he told the source in 1993 that was the most memorable event in my life at least until he became born again within a year adidas and rush management had negotiated a 1 5 million deal withthe rappers to market run d m c sneakers and various accessories including a run d m c jersey i still treasure with this deal a line had been crossed instead of just adapting existing styles and working with found materials the hip hop community was no having things made expressly for them by major manufacturers as a result other deals were whodini made a small deal with lacost sportif and l l cool j a large one with troop the message behind the song however is not about what brand of shoes to wear but about the fact that these three black kids from hollis queens were making a global impact my adidas cuts the sand of a foreign land with mic in hand i cold took command i stepped on stage at live aid all the people gave and the poor got paid and doing so while staying true to themselves in that sense by rapping about their shoes they re literally rapping about their roots run d m c were as ed mcmahon used to say on star search borrowing as it turns out from teddy roosevelt keeping their feet on the ground and reaching for the stars 9 gimme all your lovin zz top 1983 following their 1976 album tejas southern blooze rock trio zz top took a hiatus during which guitarist and singer billy gibbons and bassist dusty hill both grew chest long beards unbeknownst to the other after reconvening they had a minor radio hit with cheap sunglasses with that a look was born gibbons and hill would ever after front the band as a pair of indistinguishable twins hidden behind their beards sunglasses hats and matching outfits and custom instruments fun fact their mustachioed drummer the only member with out a beard is named frank beard for their 1983 album eliminator the band added a synth pulse to their boogie rock and hit the jackpot thanks to their mtv friendly image and a series of tongue in cheek videos that filled a customized 1933 ford coupe hot rod the titular eliminator with leggy models in sexy stockings and cast them as a trio of mute guardian angels who at the beck and call of the robotic boogie wizards in the band went about making dreams come true for downtrodden slackers gimme all your lovin was the first of the trilogy of deathless hits from that record along with sharp dressed man which uses a nearly identical riff and legs which had the most prominent synth pulse and the most entertaining video and the best of the three propelled by the unrelenting pulse of hill s base and beard s clockwork drumming the song is lean and tight though the three minute 58 second track concludes with a one minute outro solo it contains no extravagances as gibbons solo work is reserved relying on double notes and repeated melodic phrases all of which sound like they come from about the same spot on the neck of his guitar yet never become repetitive or boring the band s sound at this time was all about economy of notes and movement and forming a seamless whole something literalized by the synchronized nearly animatronic movements of the three members in the accompanying videos the result is a simple but effective song that sounds better coming out of your speakers than being replayed in your head 10 rebels tom petty and the heartbreakers 1985 a fairly typical example of mid 80s americana rock that starts off sounding like an outtake from born in the u s a and veers toward the sound john mellencamp conjured up on his scarecrow from the same year this was the leadoff track from petty s southern accents it s an odd choice for an album opener given it s middling tempo and rather tuneless verses the chorus hey hey hey i was born a rebel is strong but hardly catchy the lyrics fall into the i know i ain t no good but i can t quit you baby department for the most part though the chorus and the bridge curiously suggest petty who is originally from gainesville florida addressing his confederate roots though it s likely he s doing so in character bridge even before my father s fathers they called us all rebels burned our cornfields and left our cities leveled i can still see the eyes of those blue bellied devils when i m walking round tonight through the concrete and metal supposedly southern accents deals with these sort of southern identity issues throughout giving it s one true hit don t come around here no more a very different context than its trippy alice in wonderland video however i have this here from the two disc through the years anthology though some of his biggest hits were still to come petty s best songs had already been written by the time he got to this point in his career in fact the gap in quality between the first and second discs in that anthology echoing its placement on the original album rebels leads off the second disc is striking permalink comments 1 the tin ear ten 2008 02 01 09 33 by cliff corcoran this is not a new idea the ipod dates back to late 2001 and a cursory google search turns up examples of the first ten songs on your ipod shuffle meme dating back to early 2004 still as per the previous post i ve been looking for a re entry to writing about music and sometimes things catch on because they re just plain good ideas i thus give you the first installment of what i hope will be a weekly feature here at tin ear inspired by that classic meme and greil marcus s real life rock top ten it s a journey through my record collection ten songs at a time the tin ear ten 1 doin it ll cool j 1995 some post peak bedroom rap from james todd smith doin it makes it into my collection not from 1995 s mr smith but from the absolutely essential greatest hits collection all world from the following year on which it is one of the least essential tracks despite being a 9 pop hit in early 1996 doin it opens with 30 seconds of foreplay establishing the moody echo laden reggae derived keyboard hook from grace jones my jamaican guy while ll whispers sweet nothings about dropping the track evoking erotic moans from an unknown female companion that companion turns out to be never was tommy boy recording artist leshaun with whom this is something of a coital duet per the chorus he represents queens she was raised out in brooklyn ll s first line is it s our first time together and i m feeling kinda horny and it just gets dirtier from there as we re essentially eavesdropping on a lovemaking session complete with orgasmic moans from leshaun at the end as ll chuckles to himself safe sex bonus points for the exchange you use a rubber damn right 2 miami vice theme jan hammer 1985 remember when tv theme songs used to become hit songs hell remember when tv shows used to have theme songs this instrumental is all keyboards and drum machines but was a 1 pop hit for the prague born hammer his only top 40 hit and evidence of just how much miami vice dominated the culture of the mid 80s side note years ago i was trying to explain the genre of prog rock to my now wife then girlfriend and when i was done she said yeah i get it but why to they call it prague rock although he s remembered as a one hit wonder hammer had a long career as a session man and fusion artist after coming to the us in the wake of the communist invasion of czechoslovakia in 1968 since his association with miami vice however he s made most of his money through other soundtrack work for tv film and video games 3 neil jung teenage fanclub 1995 pleasant strummy power pop about a dysfunctional relationship sung in the second person by a third person observer there s certainly a neil young influence particularly in the slightly scronky outro solo but the title exists as much for the pun as anything else rich warm mid tempo and generally unexceptional 4 who are you the who 1978 the who are one of my favorite bands but that s largely because of their work up through who s next after that they became a bit too bombastic who are you is one of the best examples of that despite clocking in at 6 21 there s not much song here and most of the middle of the track is wasted on noodling and ineffective atmospherics lead singer roger daltrey who had been oversinging since 1974 s quadrophenia isn t so much singing as growling here something the song a prog rocky mess of synthesizers doesn t warrant this was the title track of the band s last album with drummer keith moon who would be dead by the time the song cracked the american top 40 moon who had famously eschewed the use of a hi hat for most of his career leans heavily on the hi hat here while bassist john entwistle fails to make his presence felt robbing the band of its dynamic of four virtuoso performers guitarist and songwriter pete townshend seems largely concerned with his layers of synths save for some lightning quick picking in the noodle y middle section townshend made early and tasteful use of synthesizers on who s next but he s lost his way here 5 your sister can t twist but she can rock n roll elton john 1973 this is one of the lesser tracks from john s double album goodbye yellow brick road an up beat 12 bar blues pastiche that sounds about how you d expect glam rock era elton doing an early rock tribute song to sound though it s not nearly as annoying as crocodile rock from don t shoot me i m only the piano player released earlier the same year your sister can t twist rocks harder than that hit but lacks a strong hook and in making direct allusions to such oldies as twist and shout and palisades park some of which come via what seems to be intentionally choppy editing sounds more like concept album filler than a song able to stand on it s own merits on the album it gives way to saturday night s alright for fighting making it all the more forgettable 6 no remorse metallica 1983 you can count me among those who believe that metallica were at their leanest meanest and best on their debut kill em all no remorse isn t among the album s best tracks however in part because the song s structure is somewhat haphazard there are a handful of solid riffs in here but the better ones come and go too quickly or arrive too late in the track almost as if the song was a storehouse for leftovers from the rest of the album the song s fairly generic anti war lyrics surely owe a debt to black sabbath s vietnam era war pigs generic as they may be however they re sadly more relevant now than when they were written 7 shakin all over the who 1970 from live at leeds one of the few absolutely essential live albums comes this riff heavy blues that the who make their own written by johnny kidd born frederick heath of johnny kid and the pirates and originally released by that british beat band on the b side of a single in 1960 shakin all over has become a standard thanks largely to this electric who performance as with the rest of live at leeds daltrey is in prime voice properly menacing but never excessively growling moon is in syncopated perpetual motion entwistle holds things down out of the left speaker with a fuzzy bass tone that nearly doubles as a rhythm guitar entwistle takes the first solo on this song while pete townshend turns in some of the best guitar work of his life out of the right speaker it s hard to believe that you re listening to a simple four piece essentially a power trio plus vocals the album also boast tremendous sound as the presence and tone of each instrument cuts right through to the bone do yourself a favor and track this one down on vinyl there are a few missed notes along the way but this track is an absolute classic 8 tv party black flag 1981 henry rollins era black flag was pretty bleak but this track from damaged is downright goofy playing the part of a group of beer swilling couch potatoes or using a phrase from the day televidiots rollins and company hide from the outside world and watch their favorite shows that s incredible hill street blues dallas saturday night live monday night football jeffersons and something that sounds like either vegas or the short lived snl knockoff fridays both of which were on the air at the time the version used for the classic low budget video substitutes dynasty for the jeffersons until their tv breaks which really bums them out it s a sing songy gang vocal and a hardcore classic 9 too young to fall in love mötley crüe 1983 a pop metal classic from the crüe s best album shout at the devil see my retrospective of the band on the sidebar this track was inexplicably left off both decade of decadence and their 1998 greatest hits despite that repeated oversite it s one of their best driven by tommy lee s half time beat and a great nikki sixx penned riff the lyrics also by sixx pull the old trick of having metal verses run for the hills were both sinners and saints not a woman but a whore i can just taste the hate well now i m killing you watch your face turning blue with pop choruses that simply repeat the title three times the video an early mtv staple appears to have been inspired by samurai movies it s supposedly set in shanghai though its actual new york location gives it more of a chinatown feel and features a brief cameo by a 21 year old michelle yeoh as a sword wielding woman who is punched by sixx as the band apparently win a conflict that is never established evidence of their victory is given when the characters at the end of the video all sport two black stripes of makeup on their cheek to match tommy lee s look at the time this one of us trope was quite popular 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