Random happytime remixes.
Macy Gray
Sexual Revolution (Blaze Shelter Vocal Mix)
Sexual Revolution (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Vocal Remix)
I miss Macy Gray! I guess it’s not really fair to say that. It’s not like Macy Gray is dead or anything. She put out a record just two years ago. What I really miss is a world that gave a shit about Macy Gray. Her voice is so cool. No one has ever or ever will sound like her. Truly one-of-a-kind.
SHE’S ALSO ON THE LAST GREAT BLACK EYED PEAS SINGLE FOR FUCK’S SAKE!
Her first two albums are just amazing stuff. They have fantastic love songs like the immortal “I Try” and the almost-as-good “Sweet Baby,” but the best tracks on both are the ones where Macy is horny as hell and DTF. Horny Macy Gray is the best Macy Gray because she wants to let you know that she’s down to do some hardcore nasty shit, not at all low-key about it, but always skirting the line right against outright vulgarity. She’s the hard PG-13 or soft R or sex jams.
This is a great jam, and the remixes both do a fantastic job of balancing the jazzier aspects of the original cut while still slicing in some nice dance beats. I sadly don’t have this album nor her first on my computer for some reason. Guess I’ll have to pick them up again sometime.
As killer as this tune is, if I had to name my all-time favorite “Macy Gray is down to do the deed” track, it actually wouldn’t be a Macy Gray song at all, it would be her collaboration with Fatboy Slim, “Love Life,” off of his 2000 album Halfway Between The Gutter and the Stars. The lyrics to that song are just fantastic, with one the greatest outros in the history of music:
Said I’m gonna A ya
And I’m gonna B ya
And I’m gonna C ya
Gonna D ya
If I E ya
Cause I wanna F ya
Yeah, I wanna F ya
Yeah, I wanna F ya
Its the horny alphabet song.
Talking Heads
Blind (Extended Remix)
Blind (Deaf, Dub and Blind Mix)
Blind (Beats)
I could’ve sworn that I shared these remixes at one point. These rips are taken from a fairly recent purchase I made here in Tokyo, but I recognized the mixes when I heard them. I know for a fact that these were on my late 2000s iPod. I have a vivid memory of driving around Pittsburgh with my friend who found David Byrne’s vocal deliver on “BLIND BLIND BLIND BLIND BLIND” the funniest thing ever. She rolled down the window and screamed along with him, much to the confusion of the people we passed by.
She may have been high at the time.
But I never shared them! So here they are now! Add Talking Heads to the list of immensely popular 80s bands with a substantive back catalog of remixes that have yet to be re-released in any way at all. Argh. Are all of their remixes locked in a vault next to Madonna’s remixes or something? They’re driving me crazy keeping this shit buried. At least it makes finding tracks for this blog easier.