Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
alieNDN
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hey, i just was kinda curious about the age group on this board as of late...and im sure u remember how old u were when this song was big. here in toronto, it was huge in grade 5 (1990) and i remember for the talent show at our school, this dude named "Bucky" who used to theif people's baseball caps and had his name or nickname "bucky" spray painted on his acid wash baggy jeans lips synched the tune with a microphone that wasnt plugged in with his side dude doing the running man throughout (at one point they might have touched feet like the kid n' play dance from 'funhouse' but my memory is suspect, i think funhouse came out a year earlier or maybe it was the same year...anyways it was close). there was no song hotter than this in my existence in grade 5. it was cool that Bucky was a brown dude, cause back then brown dudes got no respect at my school, here's to Bucky, the Brown Trailblazer.i was 10.how old were you?
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6.9.90
1. Hold On... Wilson Phillips
2. Vogue... Madonna
3. Poison... BBD (peak position)
"Cradle of Love" was that Billy Idol joint.
2.25.84
1. Jump (five weeks at #1)
2. Karma Chameleon
3. 99 Luftballoons
4. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
5. Thriller
6. Joanna
7. Nobody Told Me
8. Let the Music Play
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. An Innocent Man
I'll just say that "Love Train" by the O'Jays was number 1 the week I was born.
The Billboard book is
bout the same for me...I bought the cassette at a mall in Chicago.
Also, can someone share this song??? I'd love to hear it again. Anyone seen the episode of Scrubs where Turk lip syncs it?
I was 21 years old in 1990. I was pumpin' the 1990 classics like "Wake Up," "Bonita Applebum," "Mama Said Knock You Out," "Crossover," "Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)," "Ya Wish Ya Could," "Just to Get a Rep," "Hip-Hop Junkies" and on and on... I was a blunt smokin', Old Gold drinkin', vodka chuggin', ho chaser heading nowhere fast.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
The photos are packed away, plus I wouldn't know how to post 'em anyway. That was way "before-fat" (uh, "got fat" happened to coincide with getting married; coincidence, I think not) when I dunked (klik-klank!!!) on muthafuckas every weekend at the Fort Bragg gyms. Those soldiers couldn't deal with the first step back then!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
PS I'm glad you enjoying Jersey mang.
Jerz is fun, mane. Now, I'm just waiting for those housing prices to drop some more by the 1st of the year. I'm missin' my vinyls, all boxed and packed in multiple closets. We're in the apartment on the short stay, so my stereo, vinyls, sampler, and so on will stay packed until we move into "the house." It's driving me mad not having my music handy, just the CDs I held out for the trip over (and a few my bro bought me for my birthday). Music (and beat) withdrawal!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
ME TOO! LOL
I assume we're about the same age, and the same thing is true about "Poison" for me too. I was 16 when it came out and I really kind of hated it. I think at that point I was more in a rock phase along with some rap, but R&B? Hell no. To make things worse, I worked as an usher at a Cinemark movie theater here and our dumbass manager insisted on playing that BBD album every damned day in the theater lobby by the video games. So, I wasn't much into R&B, didn't dig BBD at the time, and had to hear that album every single day I worked, multiple times a day. So yeah, I hated "Poison" at the time.
Of course, by about '94 or so I was getting a lot more into hiphop, and then after that started getting more into contemporary R&B (I've always liked older stuff like Stax/Motown/etc). These days I *love* that old new jack swing stuff, and dig the hell out of older BBD. Funny how times change. My favorite BBD song though is one of the remixes of "Do Me" from the CD single. Not to be confused with this:
I was into it, but more for laughs, because
the rap in it seemed so laughable compared to
what I was listening to. Still it was a dance
classic that year, and a big sing-along-when-drunk
party classic. ME N THE CREW USED TA DO HER
When I was in 5th grade, these were the top 20 songs
of they year, which was 1980:
1. Call Me, Blondie
2. Another Brick In The Wall, Pink Floyd
3. Magic, Olivia Newton-John
4. Rock With You, Michael Jackson
5. Do That To Me One More Time, Captain and Tennille
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
7. Coming Up, Paul McCartney
8. Funkytown, Lipps, Inc.
9. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me, Billy Joel
10. The Rose, Bette Midler
11. Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Rupert Holmes
12. Cars, Gary Numan
13. Cruisin', Smokey Robinson
14. Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl, Spinners
15. Lost In Love, Air Supply
16. Little Jeannie, Elton John
17. Ride Like The Wind, Cristopher Cross
18. Upside Down, Diana Ross
19. Please Don't Go, K.C. and The Sunshine Band
20. Babe, Styx
I had 45's of the Blondie, Queen & Billy Joel songs
Christopher Cross represent
i worked at TCBY. that shit sucked. mad frat beckies wanting fat-free & sugar-free swirls; i would lace with the opposite. i spit in a few, and was tempted to jerk-off in some of those dips.
frozen y.o.g.u.r.t., dolla dolla bill y'all.
word...throw in some Iesha and Is it good to you Teddy Riley bizness and puddles will appear on the dancefloor....
Hootie Mack and Above The Rim were my jams..
I still really like this track.
Of course, by mid summer Poison was a little long in the tooth, but they used to play this remix all the time where they changed it to "That Girl is...Dope!". I still get a little nostalgic when I hear it, along with "The Power" by Snap!, "Feels Good" by Tony! Toni! Ton??!, "Hippychick" by Soho.
ditto, and boy am i glad those days are over. don't regret 'em, but i'm happier getting up at 6 to get records as opposed to going to bed at 6 and having to work at 7.....yo Stacks holla on the PM.
YES! This song definitely gives "Poison" a run for it's money.
It may be the superior track - the rap is definitely better,
if still fairly laughable ... "Tony Toni Ton?? has DONE IT AGAIN"
Mocedes the Mellow--that's Pac's stepbrother, later a member of Thuglife and the Outlawz.
Ha - that solves a long-standing confusion of mine,
I didn't know he was saying his name and always thought
the rap started, "Most ladies are mellow, quite a nice fellow"
... and of course that never quite made sense to me ...
ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
damn i remember the video and when that girl with the uma thurman pulp fiction hair-do would go "oooh oooh baby", that was a turn on, that's sthe sexiest sounding vocal sample of all time, and i knew that as a 10 year old.