Tuesday, December 26, 2023 6pm ET: Feature LP: Quad City DJ's - Get On Up and Dance (1996)
Get On Up and Dance is the debut studio album by American group Quad City DJ’s. Released June 25, 1996. The group was made up of Jay Ski and C.C. Lemonhead, both of whom had previously worked with Chill Deal, 95 South and 69 Boyz, and producing hits such as “Whoot, There It Is” and “Tootsee Roll” for them. Singer JeLanna “Lana” LaFleur was added to the group after being discovered dancing at the…
why i think about this song: i used to know every word to this song. all 5 minutes. if you were to play it right now i'd probably be able to sing the whole thing. it's embarrassing, but i'm not gonna diss my younger self for finding autistic joy in things like this.
god ive been listening to a lot of music from my childhood and its so funny how 1) on many cds that my mom and i listened to, we each would get to pick one song that HAD to play before we got to our destination, and now listening back in my adulthood i always like her favorite song better than mine 😭 and 2) CMON RIDE IT (THE TRAIN) BY QUAD CITY DJS STILL FUCKS SEVERELY YOU WILL CATCH ME GOING RIDE THAT CHOO CHOO WOO WOO IN MY CAR DOING A FULL TRAIN DANCE ON THE WAY TO WORK I FUCKIN ADORE THAT SONG
So get your next of kin, your sister and your friend;
Pack it up that, choo choo, ride on this, choo choo.
And, boo, you need to stop faking, and come on with me;
I wanna take you home with me, to be alone with me.
And I can see you wanna hide it, just divide it,
And please don't knock it, until you ride it.
If you were ever alive and in a sporting mood in the 90s, you surely remember Jock Jams! They were a series of compilation albums that was sure to pump the crowd at any basketball game of the era. We’re talking about Eurodance and party hip-hop, where the club meets the arena.
Five volumes were released between 1995 and 1999, in addition to an “All-Star” edition in 2001. They ran out of steam…
Something I love about reading the wikia/fandom articles about obscure Anne Rice characters is how she will give them these tragic Victorian orphan backstories when they were born in the 1990s.
Here's Rose:
This sounds like it happened in 1880, but in fact, this girl was bedridden and dying in a girl's home in 2008. She was watching Gossip Girl while coughing up spots of blood onto a white silk handkerchief.
Then there's Sybelle:
This girl lives in a luxurious home but alas! She is forced by her brother to support them with piano recitals! Also her brother just stole a little Palestinian boy to be her pet/friend like some fucking British colonial lord. I am never gonna read this book but I would love to know how Rice approached that.
This happened in the late 80s or early 90s by the way. And they were turned in like 1997. Just a captive piano prodigy and her kidnapped little brother playing Barbie Fashion Designer for PC while Quad City DJ's C'Mon n' Ride It (The Train) blasts on the boombox.
Like of course they all became vampires. What other career paths could they even have taken?