#c & c music factory

[beardedmrbean]

[ohkate]

Where Does My Heart Beat Now?

For @sweetbee78's prompt "Where Does My Heart Beat Now?" and @galladrabbles!

Word Count: 100

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"What the hell are we dancing to?"

"It's a 90s prom theme. I'm guessing a 90s song," Ian answered smugly, pulling his husband closer.

Liam asked them to come, so here they were, dressed in suits, dancing along to some Celine Dion song as the cheesy middle school decorations sparkled around them. They watched him nervously ask the girl he liked to dance. Ian smiled.

"Who thought we'd be good chaperones? I'm about to spike that punch bowl."

"Mick, they're like 13. No."

Mickey rolled his eyes. "Wanna go make out in the corner then?"

Ian's eyebrows raised devilishly.

"Absolutely."

[dj-shortandstacked]

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #42: 1991

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Bryan Adams, Color Me Badd, C+C Music Factory, Paula Abdul, Timmy T, EMF, Extreme, Hi-Five, Surface, Amy Grant. End description]

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As I've stated in previous polls, the charts used to be mostly compiled from retail sales (ranging from physical media to sheet music). This data was gathered by Billboard sending out surveys or calling record stores directly. However, in 1991 Billboard began implementing Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). The technology first used to compile the country charts in 1990, which helped to give a more accurate picture of listening habits among country music fans. SoundScan and BDS was applied to the Hot 100 and the R&B charts in late 1991. This more objective method of music data collection will be instrumental in more country, hard rock, and rap albums reaching the top of the charts. Of course, there were still gaps in the data, as SoundScan was only able to work with stores with the technology to implement it, so sales from smaller retail venues might not have been tracked as accurately. Billboard has a more detailed article about the program here.

Speaking of rap, there is a moment in the genre's history that I would like to talk about as well. This happened in 1990, but I'm not going to let something trivial like the passage of time get in the way of me rambling about what I want. Miami bass is a subgenre of rap that grew out of (surprise) Miami, Florida. Musically, the sound is known for its heavy bass, electro and dance beat influences, kick drums, and high tempos. But the genre became rather infamous for its sexually explicit lyrics. One of the groups that came under fire for their lyrical content was 2 Live Crew.

In 1989, 2 Live crew released their third album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. A few polls ago, I talked about the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker, where the nature of explicit lyrics was brought all the way to the senate. But apparently, a parental advisory sticker wasn't considered enough for this album. In 1990, the album was ruled as obscene, making it the first album to be legally classified as such. Later that year, the members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing it. A record store owner in Florida was even arrested for selling the album to an undercover cop.

As horrible as this was, the news of the arrest made the controversy more of a matter of free speech in the eyes of the public. In 1992, Luke Records v. Navarro reached the Eleventh Circuit where the obscenity ruling was overturned. It's hard to imagine what the music landscape would look like today if that ruling went any other way, and I thought that it was an important moment to talk about as we see the evolution of music on these polls. There is a lot to this case that I couldn't get into, so I'm linking to a short MTV clip and a more detailed article about the arrest.

[metalsongoftheday]

Monday, December 4: Fear Factory, "Virus of Faith"

The Industrialist was a bridge too far for Fear Factory, the record where Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares followed the band’s whole conceit past its logical endpoint and painted themselves into a corner they were never really able to escape.  It wasn’t entirely a bad record, as numbers like the title track and “Virus of Faith” sounded completely natural and leaned in on the duo’s individual and collective strengths.  But for arguably the first time, this felt like Fear Factory by numbers, and the absence of a proper drummer was one of those nuances that, for this enterprise, may not have initially seemed like a big deal, but ultimately stripped away a lot of personality. 

[segadriven]

Added a Mega CD game to the collection today that I didn’t have. Power Factory is another multimedia title in the Make My Video franchise that features music by C+C Music Factory. Phil LaMarr features in some of the interstitial video sequences

[eye-of-the-purricane]

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

[ask-sebastian]

This week's Kiwi dedicated songs heheh 🥝💚

🐎 They have a horse in the clip at some point 👀🐴 https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM

THANK YOU FOR SENDING COTTON EYE JOE! If you hadn't I was definitely going to post it.

[domono08]

While listen to Their to last album, I decided to draw this as a gift for Robert clivilles and David Cole to thank them for all the great music they gave us.

[therealgchu]

30 day song challenge days 5 & 6

day 5: a song that needs to be played loud:

day 6: a song that makes you want to get up a dance:

[duranduratulsa]

On the turntable today...

Christopher Cross (1979)

Hard To Hold Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Rick Springfield (1984)

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory (12" Single) (1990)

Footloose Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)

Frehley's Comet by Ace Frehley (1987)

#christophercross #hardtohold #hardtohold40 #rickspringfield #candcmusicfactory #gonnamakeyousweat #everybodydancenow #gonnamakeyousweateverybodydancenow #footloose #footloose40 #acefrehley #frehleyscomet #70s #80s #90s #records #album #LP #12inch #12inchvinyl #vinylrecords #vinyl

[one-album-wonders]

Northeast Regional - Group K

Today’s the second day of the Northeast Regional competition of the March Madness of American Rock Bands tournament. Vote for your favorite band! The top two vote recipients move on to the next round.

Pixies (Boston MA)

C+C Music Factory (New York NY)

Fountains of Wayne (New York NY)

The Roots (Philadelphia PA)

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DID introjects, not fanart ▸ reblogs are fine

Some sketches of our Mike & his mother, Dolly.

These two are a great example of the healing that's finally been happening within the Factory Cluster, and it warms my heart to see. Dolly- Mrs. Teavee, sourced from the musical- unfortunately lost her son in the tour; she's been so scared of the whole factory, that besides one or two outer-factory trips, she's refused to leave her room for years.

So when Mike- sourced from the first movie, but fused with the second- reawoke, now a young adult, she was quite nervous. She didn't want to see him because it hurt too much at it not being her Mike. But he sort of persisted in that mischievous way he does, and barriers were broken, and she adopted him as her own son because it felt right. It was a form of acceptance for the mind to heal.

Dolly used to refuse to even talk about her son, but I'm allowed to say all this here because she's personally spoken about the whole thing on stream, which is... something we didn't think would ever happen. She's healed a lot, and she's helped Mike a lot with his own anxiety around the Factory. Sadly she still won't leave her room, but it's small steps.

[fuchinobe]

(1988, Fever Records, SF 829)

Mix by Clivillés & Cole