R&B versions of "She's Like The Wind"

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• sticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts

  February 2007

  Thats's the recent craze over here and it is horrible. next one to follow will be laura brannigan's "self control"...go figure!

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• Terry_Clubbup 833 Posts

  February 2007

  
  What about diggin for a French record?
  
  In America, I think Patrick Swayze is one of those rare white dudes
  that gets a pass into African-American culture, along with the great
  Michael McDonald, Justin Timberlake, and possibly John Mayer.
  
  What I would like to hear is Omarion covering "Ride Like The Wind"
  by Christopher Cross. Maybe done up as one of those trance-rap-house
  pieces that noz was talking about.

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• james chicago 1,863 Posts

  February 2007

  Vibekingz featuring Maliq

  
  Gack. Believe it or not, dude, I actually heard this shit right here in River City, on the raid-joe the other night while I was washing bottles. They ran it into some song by Chamillionaire, which ran into an ad for some Chamillionaire-based promotion the station was running jerntly with McDonalds, which ran into an ad for McDonalds, which ran into some sub-fantastic sub-Fantasia keening about love, loss, and sedans both foreign and domestic. And the whole shit was punctuated by interminable calls-in and shouts-out from teenage girls who start coherent but, once they realize they???re On! The! Radio!, go dog-whistle with the Pretty-Ricky quickness.
  
  But anyway, when your man O.G. Swayzmore first came out with this, I remember this girl Tina at my middle school breaking down for me just how filthy this song was: ???Uh, ???my tree? ???wind???? Like, blow? I mean, talk about gross!??? I won???t pretend that all of that had occurred to me, but I do remember thinking that ???young old man??? was some profound shit.
  
  Which is more viable: Tree as symbol of male potency (???She???s Like The Wind,??? ???Get Off My Log,??? et al.) or tree as symbol of female fecundity (your Macho-City co-citizen Steve Miller???s ???The Joker,??? Cap???n Beefheart???s ???Peaches,??? ad nauseam)? I???m leaning (ha!) toward the latter, but it's close.
  
  Cheeseball covers that I nonetheless bang the shit out of: This eurodance version of ???Mary???s Prayer??? I got from somewhere, and The Latin Rascals ???Don???t Let Me Be Misunderstood.???
  
  Three notes on that last one, though:
  
  1) It???s still not nearly as corn as El Queso Combo Xingu???s cover of same (???I???m just a fool, and these changes are goot??????).
  
  2) Many of their vocal excursions are dubious, but know this: The Latin Rascals are pretty unfuckwithable on the mix. Maybe not quite as rodeo as some of that that volume-knob-and-a-dream ???regulating??? shit (Eff El Lay, stand up), but still just slamming. At its best, completely devoid of subtlety, making Mantronix look like a fucking pointillist. Dudes got some work from motherfucking Warren Zevon that will leave you--yes you!--tore up and tow down. And Terry_LaRock, you know you???ve got that Hall and Oateses ???Out Of Touch??? twelve; so turn that shit over, holmes, and feel the hot wind through your tree and beneath your mullet.
  
  3) Okay, this really doesn???t have anything to do with the Latin Rascals, but seems tangentially relevant: I currently have a crazy crush on the way Nocera pronounces her ???t???s in ???Summertime, Summertime.??? ???Thake meeee / Thake me to the whoa-thahhh / Sowmer-thime, sowmer-thime.??? High swoon. I think the first time I heard this, I was at a middle-school dance, chasing some smile that was attached to a sideways ponytail and an Italian Boys skirt. DJ Sam Something then segued into ???Summer Girls??? by your man Dino, and I felt kinda panicky, like I was caught in a vaguely Latinate version of the ???Hungry Like The Wolf??? video. I had to cool out on the bleachers for a second.
  
  (And you should know, Terry, that there???s an mp3 floating around of one of DeeRock Supreme???s live sets wherein he rocks Cris Cross???s ???Ride Like The Wind??? over a succession of ultimate breaks and beats. It???s revolting, yet undeniable. Yet really revolting. Remind me some time and I???ll get that shit to you.)

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• Terry_Clubbup 833 Posts

  February 2007

  
  You know if they re-did Dirty Dancing[/b] right now, how low would they have to go to make it truly dirty? Things done changed. Right now you got roller skating rinks in the suburbs putting the BAN on juke dancing and freak dancing.
  Freak dancing is the biggest craze.
  
  I mean damn, could you imagine putting a 21st century Freak Dance on to
  Jennifer Warren Lee?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tree as symbol of male potency?[/b]
  or tree as symbol of female fecundity?[/b]
  
  
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  Artist: Patrick Swayze
  Song: She's Like the Wind [/b]
  
  She's like the wind through my tree
  She rides the night next to me
  She leads me through moonlight
  Only to burn me with the sun
  She's taken my heart
  But she doesn't know what she's done
  
  Feel her breath on my face
  Her body close to me
  Can't look in her eyes
  She's out of my league
  Just a fool to believe
  I have anything she needs
  She's like the wind
  
  [SOLO]
  
  I look in the mirror and all I see
  Is a young old man with only a dream
  Am I just fooling myself
  That she'll stop the pain
  Living without her
  I'd go insane
  
  Feel her breath on my face
  Her body close to me
  Can't look in her eyes
  She's out of my league
  Just a fool to believe
  I have anything she needs
  She's like the wind
  
  Feel your breath on my face
  Your body close to me
  Can't look in your eyes
  You're out of my league
  Just a fool to believe
  (Just a fool to believe)
  She's like the wind
  (Just a fool to believe)
  Just a fool to believe
  (She's like the wind)
  Just a fool to believe
  (Just a fool to believe)
  She's like the wind
  (Just a fool to believe)
  Just a fool to believe
  She's like the wind
  
  (Just a fool...)
  (She's like the wind)
  (She's like the wind)
  (Just a fool...)
  (She's like the wind)
  (Just a fool...)

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• james chicago 1,863 Posts

  February 2007

  Only to burn me

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  putting the BAN on juke dancing and freak dancing gringos celebrating Kwanzaa by dressing in "jungle" prints and "freak dancing"

  
  "I CARRIED A WATERMELON!"
  
  
  
  TAKE ME HOME

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• white_tea 3,262 Posts

  December 2008

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• Fatback 6,746 Posts

  December 2008

  Best bump today. Classic need not be that old or more than one page.