The Soundboard: Sucker for a Hook Series

Posted on June 16, 2005 by Professor Booty

Part 2

So last week at this time I intro’d most of you all to europop circa Y2K, which is an eternity in party circles. This week, we’re gonna get a little more recent.

First up, since I screwed up the link to the local high school’s radio station, here is a new link to Nathan Hale High School’s KNHC webcast. This morning they’re in the middle of their ‘Save the Wave’ 80’s New Wave music show. If you get in their quick, you could be taken back to a land of neon and sythesizers.

But back to this week’s selection:

My, My, My – Armand Van Helden

And you thought last week’s selection was repetitive.

This one just straight up kicks my ass, especially the one mix I like to call the Enduromix. 28 minutes long with multiple fades, rhythm changes and beats up to 210BPM.

This one is barely seven minutes long, but still kicks ass. No, I don’t know if that is Michael Jackson on vox, I bought the mp3, not the album.

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The Soundboard: Sucker for a Hook Series

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Professor Booty

Part 1

Confession 1: My name is Phil and I am an utter, total and complete sucker for a hook (some of the long time listeners to The Soundboard may have already figured this out).

It doesn’t matter if it is vocal or musical, rhythm or beat, if it is there and I hear it, I’m screwed and have to listen to it.

I don’t even have to like the song itself, let alone the artist. When I hear the hook for the first time, I have to listen to the whole song, as if waiting for the hook to reappear. If it doesn’t repeat in that initial listening, the next time I hear the song, I have to listen to it until the hook is played. Then and only then can I change the channel? Sometimes I cannot even identify the hook, but there is something in the song that is compelling enough that I must listen.

I’m not even smart enough to stay away from the stations that cause this reaction. The first preset programmed into every radio I own is this one (run by the Seattle School District and private donations with news casts and programming by students).

I’m a sorry sumbich, I know. I think I am doing this publically to try and exorcise this demon.

Which leads me to my next confession,
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3 Responses to The Soundboard: Sucker for a Hook Series

  1. David says:
    June 9, 2005 at 11:13 pm

    I too am a Sucker for a Hook. Here in the SF Bay Area the local party/dance station KNGY “Energy” 92.7 has been playing the “Bla Bla Bla” edit of L’Amour Toujours a lot. If you haven’t heard it, it has its charms in comparison with the original. Aw hell, I like it better than the original: Two hooks for the price of one….

  2. AnalogKid says:
    June 10, 2005 at 9:27 am

    Glad to see I’m not the only one. I do have most of the remixes, but I’m not up for releasing rarities yet after what I went through to find most of them.

    That one is definitely one of the better ones.

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