paul williams "so you wanna be a boxer" (from the album "bugsy mallone")
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so, aside from it being a good song, what's so exciting about it? well, here you go:
dizzee rascal "wanna be" (from the album "maths + english")
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"wanna be" comes from dizzee's latest which apparently will finally get a proper american release this year on def-jux. of course i bought the import last year and will have to pay the price in missing out on the u.s. release's bonus tracks. also, if you think you don't know paul willilams, you may just remember him from his work with the muppets.
last year i added a new song to my all-time list of favorites. after reading an interview with justice where they mentioned gilbert o'sullivan i sought out his album "himself". had a hard time finding it, with the exception of his biggest hit "alone again (naturally)". great song. great lyrics. i played it over and over.
gilbert o'sullivan "alone again (naturally)" (from the album "himself")
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when i mentioned it to my friend mark he informed me of it's very important place in music history. remember back when artists could sample freely without worry of payments or lawsuits? notice how there's beatles samples all over the beastie boys "paul's boutique" and yet last year when wu-tang simply interpolated a beatles song it was all over the news as the first legally approved beatles "sample". gilbert o'sullivan was the one who ended it all when he sued biz markie back in 1991 over the following track:
biz markie "alone again" (from the album "i need a haircut")
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now depending on which side you stand on the issue of sampling you may think o'sullivan an evil man. nope. brilliant songwritter. i eventually found the whole album, so here's a bunch of tracks (for fans of belle and sebastian):
"houdini said" (you have to listen to this song all the way through as it best moment is the build at the end)
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"if i don't get you (back again)"
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"susan van heusen"
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"nothing rhymed"
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"matrimony"
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