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Happy Mondays on a Thursday makes for a great Friday

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

I’ve been thinking of putting together a guide of some sorts showing how I record vinyl, would that be something any of you might be interested in? I’m trying to figure out what to focus on. Should I talk about hardware, like what cartridge and turntable to get, or is that bit kind of played out? I feel like people with far more technical know-how than I have covered that topic to death.

What about something about how to get the most out of the vinyl you got; a guide to recording beat-up and worn down records? Would anyone care to read that? Turning a scratched, beat-up 12″ single that was in the bottom of some DJ’s crate for a decade into digital gold isn’t easy, I hope you realize that. If you’re reading this post and you are interested in what I have to say about recording vinyl, leave a comment with some suggestions as to what you’re most keen on learning about, it’ll give me a good starting point.

Just don’t ask me for insight about writing a thematically consistent blog post with similar artists. I’m really bad at that.

Madonna
Music (HQ2 Club Mix)
Music (Groove Armada 12″ Mix)
Music (Calderone Anthem Mix)
Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Remix)
Music (The Young Collective Club Remix)
Searching to see if any of these remixes were commercially available (and hence not eligible to be on this blog) was a royal pain in the ass because when you do a search for “Madonna Music remix” on iTunes or Amazon’s MP3 store I think they just eliminate “music” from the search field. I wonder how many idiots actually do searches on iTunes for “Lady Gaga Music,” as if the “music” part wasn’t implied already?

Searchword unfriendly titles notwithstanding, these are all excellent mixes to a great song. Most of them are freaking long too, those five remixes add up to nearly an hour of music. That’s a lot of “Music.”

Sorry.

Happy Mondays
Step On (Stuff In It Mix)
Step On (One Louder Mix)
Step On (U.S. Dub It In Mix)
Wrote For Luck (Radio Mix)
Wrote For Luck (Dance Mix)
Wrote For Luck (Club Mix)
I was originally going to post these on a Monday, but I thought that would be a bit too literal. Besides, no one actually has a happy Monday.

I own shockingly few Happy Mondays records, and no proper albums by them. What the hell is wrong with me? I’ve fallen in love with nearly everything I’ve ever heard from the group, although I know to avoid …Yes Please! like the Factory Records destroying clusterfuck of heroin that it is.

They just got back together didn’t they? I assume they’re not going to play the states, leaving us few Americans with decent taste out in the cold. They should do a double-headlining tour with The Stone Roses here in the states. I know neither of those bands were as huge in America as they were in the UK and the rest of the world, but I bet that team-up could even sell out arenas here. That, and ecstasy dealers would make a bloody fortune.

If you’re wondering where the “Twistin My Melon” mix is, I didn’t include it because you can buy that one on Amazon and iTunes. And if you’re wondering what “Twistin my melon” means, sorry I can’t help you there either.

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Dual Divas

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Anyone care to recommend a good direct-drive turntable? I’m finding more and more problems with my Audio Techinca. Any advice would be appreciated.

Madonna
The Power of Good-Bye (Fabian’s Good God Mix)
The Power of Good-Bye (Slater’s Filtered Mix)
The Power of Good-Bye (Slater’s Super Luper Mix)
The Power of Good-Bye (Dallas Austin Low End Mix)
Of the 12″ Madonna singles I picked up in San Francisco last month, this one was my favorite and remains the only one I regularly listen to still.  It’s a great example as to why I love 12″ singles so much. One song. Four remixes. Each drastically different.

“Fabian’s Good God Mix” is a beat-heavy dance mix made for the dance floor, as is “Slater’s Filtered Mix” but while the “Good God” mix is a pretty straightforward 12″ mix, the “Filtered” mix changes the song radically. It transforms it into a crazy hardcore rave track with distorted vocals and a non-stop throbbing beat. But it’s not even the weirdest mix on the record. That would be “Slater’s Super Luper Mix,” which is nothing more than the lyric “freedom come” looped over and over again until it looses all meaning and devolves into unintelligible noise. It’s over eight minutes long though, and that one trick really wears thin after the first four minutes or so. Finally, there’s the “Dallas Austin Low End Mix” which is a sparse mix that is, not surprisingly, heavy on the bass. I enjoy that one as well.

Janet Jackson
Together Again (Tony Moran 12″ Club Mix)
Together Again (Tony Humphries Club Mix)
Together Again (Jimmy Jam Extended Deep Club Mix)
Together Again (DJ Premier Just Tha Bass)
According to Wikipedia, “Together Again” is one of the best-selling singles of all time, an ironic feat considering that the album it came off of, The Velvet Rope, was considered to be something of a commercial disappointment. I haven’t heard that album in its entirety in ages, but it does have two of my favorite Janet Jackson singles on it, this track and the excellent Joni Mitchell-sampling ” Got ’til It’s Gone.” For the record, my favorite Janet Jackson single is “Black Cat.” I need to re-record that 12″ single and put it back up here sometime.

The Tony Moran and and Tony Humphries mixes are good, but relatively standard as dance mixes go. The other two mixes are more interesting, especially since they feature entirely different vocals by Janet that slow the song down tremendously. I don’t know if I like them as much as the more upbeat dance versions, but they certainly match the bittersweet theme of the song better than the poppy, happy, delivery on the original version.

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American Life Wasted

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Hey, everyone is awesome!

I ask for help procuring the Driver: Sounds of San Francisco vinyl and one of you helps me out!

Then I ask for help finding I Scream You Scream’s Me Too and one of you come through on that too!

Are there any awesome people out there looking for a freelance music reporter? Because I’m totally available.

Madonna
American Life (Missy Elliot American Dream Remix)
American Life (Oakenfold Downtempo Remix)
American Life (Peter Raunhofer’s American Anthem Part 1)
American Life (Felix Da Housecat’s Devin Dazzle Club Mix)
American Life (Peter Raunhofer’s American Anthem Part 2)
Die Another Day (Calderone & Quayle Afterlife Mix)
Weezer’s 1996 album Pinkerton was aggressively reviled by both audiences and critics when it came out. Now it’s seen as a classic that helped paved the way for modern rock in the 21st century.

Bowie’s Low and Lodger were both poor sellers that received mixed reviews at best when they were released, but now Low is considered and classic and many believe Lodger to be just as influential and important.

Everyone hated Marvin Gaye’s Hear My Dear at first, but in the decades that have passed, many critics say that the introspective and experimental album is Gaye’s best work.

Sometimes art takes time to take hold. Often, a piece of art can be so ahead of its time that audiences of its era can’t understand it, causing them to lash out against it. Other times it may simply not fit in with the current cultural landscape, a victim of bad-timing more than anything else. Or sometimes a negative view of the artist themselves can cause backlash against a record, whether its deserved or not

None of those things are true with “American Life.”

This song sucked in 2003. It sucks now. And it’s going to suck 100 years from now. It will forever be known as a disaster. A colossal  misfire of epic proportions the likes of which the world rarely sees. It’s such a hideously bad song by such an amazingly talented and popular artist that it’s almost impossible to find another song or piece of creative work to compare it to.

So why do I own it and why am I posting it?

Well, I own it simply because I want to own every Madonna 12″ single, and this happens to be one of them.

I’m posting it because I’m sure someone out there loves this song (I actually know someone who does – and I’m still friends with them in spite of this fact) and they’ll be more than happy to find these remixes. Not all of them are…that bad. The Felix Da Housecat mix is actually pretty listenable, and I’ll even go as far to say that I actually like the second Raunhofer’s mix, most likely because it strips out the stupid rap. Conversly speaking, the Missy Elliot remix actually focuses on the rap (Missy even adds her own parts) and it, in turn, is probably the worst song I have ever put on my blog.

And hey, the b-side is a pretty awesome remix of “Die Another Day,” so it has that going for it, which is nice.

(Disclaimer: If any rabid Madonna fans are reading this, please don’t attack me for my opinion. It is just that, an opinion. If you like this song, good for you! There’s nothing wrong with liking it. I mean, it’s not like it’s a Fergie song or something. Everyone is entitled to their own unpopular opinions. Shit, I own Howard The Duck on laser disc, who am I to criticize anyone?)

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Junior Senior and an Ominous Madonna Warning

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Sleepy.

Madonna
Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Vocal Club Mix)
Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Future Mix) – as per evidence of this LP being evil, this MP3 is fucked up and I had to take it down
Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Radio Mix)
Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Phunk Mix)
Nothing Really Matters (Vikram Radio Remix)
Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Future Dub)
Nothing Really Matters (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
Man, that’s a whole lot of “Nothing”. I used to like this song, but this 2×12″ single was a pain in the goddamn ass. It skipped, needed to be cleaned repeatedly and then my recording of it got corrupt so I had to do it again. I still kind of like the song, but I fucking hate the record its on.

More Madonna later this week. You’ve been warned (trust me…you’ll see).

Junior Senior
Move Your Feet (Rascal Madness Mix)
Move Your Feet (Rascal Beats)
Move Your Feet (Rascal Edit)
Move Your Feet (Rascal Extended Club Mix)
Move Your Feet (Rascal Bonus Mix)
Perfect dance song? Perfect dance song.

What have Junior Senior been up to since the break up? Well Jeppe Laursen (Senior) did what every talented gay man in the music biz will eventually do, he went to go work with Lady Gaga. How could the man partially responsibly for the above track of epic awesomeness also somehow be the co-writer and producer for the Madonatrocity that is “Born This Way”? Ugh.

So we know what happened to Senior, but what about Junior (Jepper Mortensen)? Well, he released an amazing single called “Trust Tissue” (which was originally an unreleased Junior Senior song) under the name I Scream Ice Cream and then…I have no idea. According to Wikipedia he released an album as well, a record with three tracks that were 25, 35 and 45 minutes long. However, I cannot find any release information on it. Can anyone confirm this? I would love to hear that sure-to-be dance epic.

These “Rascal” mixes are from a 12″ single. In case you were wondering, “Rascal” is Albert Caberra, a very prolific remixer and producer.

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I’ll Bring the Dance Music, You Bring the Rainbows

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

More Madonna. More Pet Shop Boys. More Erasure.

Don’t worry, my next post will be less Castro.

Madonna
Beautiful Stranger (Calderone Club Mix)
Fact: This theme song to Austin Powers 2 is 192% better than any of the actual content in any Austin Powers film.

Don’t argue with me! I proved it with science.

Pet Shop Boys
New York City Boy (The Superchumbo Uptown Mix)
New York City Boy (The Almighty Definitive Mix)
New York City Boy (The Thuderpuss 2000 Club Mix)
If you collect enough remixes, (and I collect more than enough) you start to notice certain names keep popping up. In the 90s I knew the big names like Flood, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and so on, but as my collection of remixes extends into ludicrous numbers, I’m beginning to notice many more recurring names; such as Almighty and Thunderpuss. I have a remix of Erasure’s “Chains of Love” credited to Almighty, and a few Madonna tracks remixed by Thunderpuss, but who are these people?

Well, Almighty isn’t a person at all, they’re a company (complete with a garish website). According to their Discogs page, no one person can be linked to an Almighty remix, they are a nameless mass of remixers and producers whose sole intention is to increase the funkatude of any dance track they get their hands on. They’re kind of like the Illuminati I guess, but with beats.

Thunderpuss, on the other hand, are two people – specifically Chris Cox and Barry Harris. I can’t say I know much of either’s work, but I can say without question that Chris Cox, a skinny white boy from the US, is not related to electronic music legend Carl Cox, a big black dude from the UK.

As for Superchumbo? That’s a dude named Tom Stephan. If you want to know more about him I suggest you read his horrible Wikipedia page, which reads like a press release translated from a foreign language.

Erasure
A Little Respect (Remixed By Mark Saunders)
Oh L’Amour (Acoustic)
Walking In The Rain (37B Remix)
Since I’m already talking about remixers, Mark Saunders is a super-accomplished remixer, mixer and producer. He has a webpage, find out for yourself. Of course, as you already know, Erasure is fucking fabulous, you don’t need to go to their webpage to find that out.

The acoustic version of “Oh L’Amour” is haunting, while the remix of “Walking In The Rain” is…decidedly not. It’s more fabulous than haunting. But it’s so fabulous that its fabulousness may haunt your own fabulous dreams.

Fabulous.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, “Walking In The Rain” is a cover, the original is by The Ronettes.

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Pet Shop Fever

Monday, August 29th, 2011

San Francisco finds continue! Or is it rather obvious given tonight’s selection?

Pet Shop Boys
Before (Danny Tenaglia’s After Mix)
Before (Classic Paradise Mix)
Before (Joey Negro’s Hed Boys Mix)
Before (Joey Negro’s Hed Boys Before Dub)
Before (Danny Tenaglia’s Underground Mix)
Before (Danny Tenaglia’s Bonus Beats)
Before (Danny Tenaglia’s Twilo Dub)
Before (Danny Tenaglia’s Bonus Dub) 
I’ve been using Discogs for a while now to catalog my collection, something I deemed neccessary once I hit 1,000 records. It’s a pretty great site, the only downfall being when you find you have something that isn’t in their massive system. Thankfully if you stick to pop, dance and rock like I do, it’s not a problem you’ll come across that often.

My favorite thing about Discogs is that it allows you to discover stuff about your collection you might not realize. For example: I found out I own 35 Pet Shop Boys singles. Furthermore, I figured out that I own multiple versions of several singles; I have two different versions of “So Hard”, “New York City Boy”, and “Before”; and three different versions of “I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore.” What’s more terrifying is that by using Discogs I found out about twice as many Pet Shops Boys singles that I don’t have (As well as this. Oh. My. God. It’s. So. Fabulous.).

I started using Discogs so I could look up my collection on my phone while record shopping, after I accidentally bought the same Erasure single four times in one month. It certainly came in handy during the San Francisco trip, because I would have never bought this CD single of “Before” without first checking to see if it was the version I already owned. It wasn’t, so I snagged it up. Good thing too, these mixes are excellent. Danny Tenaglia knows his shit. They’re long too, this is nearly an hour of “Before” goodness. Get ready for some disco dancing!

Madonna
Bad Girl (Extended Mix)
Fever (Extended 12″)
Fever (Shep’s Remedy Dub)
Fever (Murk Boys Miami Mix)
Fever (Murk Boys Deep South Mix)
Fever (Oscar G’s Dope Mix)
I love “Bad Girl.” It’s one of my favorite Madonna tracks. I even gushed about it in a previous post. So finding the 12″ single at Amoeba was a big deal for me. I was especially happy that I found the 12″ and not any of the CD singles too, since the 12″ is the only one that contains the extended mix. Sure, it’s not that different than the album cut, and it’s not even that extended (just a minute longer) but it gives me an excuse to post the song, and that makes me pretty damn happy. It also gives me a chance to post a link to the amazing video by David Fincher, which I suggest you all watch if you haven’t.

Of course, for many I’m burying the lead here, since the “Bad Girl” single comes with five remixes of the much bigger hit “Fever.” Meh. I like “Fever” a lot, don’t get me wrong, but there’s not much to that song in my opinion, no matter who is singing it. These remixes are good club mixes though, and if you like the track you should dig them.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I have 30 Madonna singles. No repeats, all unique releases. One day I will have the 12″ for all her singles. Oh yes. They will be mine.

Next post: More Madonna, more Pet Shop Boys. Maybe more of other stuff too.

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Occular Remixes

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Ever go kinda sorta blind in one eye for a while? Yeah, that’s not fun.

I’m feeling much better now though. I just thought that was a great excuse for delay in updates.

Madonna
True Blue (The Color Mix)
True Blue (Remix Edit)
True Blue (Instrumental)
Ain’t No Big Deal
There are not a lot of classic-era Madonna that can be safely called “rare” but most of these tracks fit the bill. “The Color Mix” of “True Blue” is on some versions of the album, and it’s even on iTunes. However, if you want it on iTunes you have to buy the whole album, which is a giant pile of horseshit. I can’t believe they still do that, it’s so 2002.

Truth be told, “The Color Mix” isn’t that radically different than the original, it’s just a little longer, with an an added instrumental interlude about two-thirds in, with some random vocal samples thrown in for no apparent reason. As for the “Remix Edit”, I’ll be honest, it’s been so long since I heard the original version I couldn’t tell you how this version is different.

“Ain’t No Big Deal” is kind of an oddity. Madonna first recorded the track in 1980 with a producer by the name of Stephen Bray who Madonna worked with a lot during her early years. That version, along with most of the other stuff she recorded with Bray, remained unreleased until 1997, when Bray released it on an album called Pre-Madonna, which included many of her earliest recordings.

This version of the song, as far as I can tell, has never been released on a proper Madonna album. I have no idea why, it’s a fun little song, very 80s and pop. Sure, it doesn’t really stand out when compared to other early Madonna songs like “Material Girl” and “Borderline,” but it’s totally worth a listen.

Gus Gus
Very Important People (Dune Remix)
Very Important People (Francois K. Mix)
Very Important People (Masters At Work Main Mix)
Very Important People (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix)
Oh, those Icelandic people and their chill electronic music. After buying several GusGus 12″ singles over the years I finally caved and picked up an actual GusGus album – 1999’s Is This Normal. One day I might listen to it even. Sigh. I have too much music. The original version of this track is from Is This Normal, which many people have told me is a very fine album. I dig these remxies very much, especially the “Francios K. Mix,” it has a 70s funk vibe that I find totally groovy. All of these mixes were taken from a 12″ promo single.

Midnight Oil
Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix)
I haven’t posted anything by Midnight Oil in forever! Not since 2007 to be exact. Well hey, it’s not my fault that they didn’t release a copious amount of remixes and 12″ singles. This mix of “Blue Sky Mine” is odd. It starts out by sampling “Bed Are Burning” before continuing as normal, only to break it down at the end with a drums-and-vocals only bit, followed by a fairly manic guitar bit before it closes once again with the opening notes of “Beds Are Burning.” It’s a Midnight Oil megamix! But not really. Still, it’s good.

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A Madonna Amos Mashup Waiting To Happen

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

And so it begins.

I got two massive boxes in the mail today. They contained the 50+ records I bought in Oregon over Thanksgiving. I knew that was a lot of records, but seeing them piled up next to my feet right now (on top of the 8 billion other records I have yet to record) really drives the point of I have a lot of damn records in my home.

I’ve barely scratched the surface with them. I recorded three today, I had too much music to listen to for my actual job(s). I fear this pile will sit next to me forever. Although a lot of them are 12” singles, and those obviously take less time to record than, oh, lets say a collection of early 80s German electronic music (spoiler – that album is AMAZING).

Madonna
Hung Up (SDP Extended Vocal)
Hung Up (Bill Hamel Remix)
Hung Up (SDP Extended Dub)
Hung Up (Chus & Ceballos Remix)
Hung Up (Tracy Young’s Get Up And Dance Groove)
I bought this 2×12” single at 2nd Avenue Records in Portalnd. To further illustrate my previous point about their odd pricing, this two LP set cost 10 bucks, while their Bjork 12” singles cost 25 bucks! Why? Sure, I guess Bjork has a following, but not a $25 worth following. I’m not knocking the store (that much), it’s a great place. But someone needs to even out their pricing big time.

These remixes kick ass. Of course, that’s not that surprising because “Hung Up” is totally one of the best songs ever. The best use of ABBA in history.

Tori Amos
 Jackie’s Strength (Wedding Cake Club Mix)
Jackie’s Strength (Wedding Cake Edit)
Jackie’s Strength (One Rascal Dub #1)
Jackie’s Strength (One Rascal Dub #2)
Jackie’s Strength (Wedding Cake Meltdown Mix)
Jackie’s Strength (Bonus Beats)
Father Lucifer (Sylkscreen Remix)
Father Lucifer (Sylkscreen Instrumental)
So…funny story. After I got back from Oregon I started to organize my office/nerd den, going through the pile of records next to my desk so I could file and sort them. But then I realized that I hadn’t recorded over half those records! It was about 20 in all. These remixes are from a 2×12” single taken out of that pile. I guess my point is that I have a lot of fucking records.

Anyways, another Oregon story. One record I saw while crate digging in Portland was an original promo copy of Y Kant Tori Read, Tori Amos’ rarely heard debut pop album. I would love to own a real copy of that (I have a bootleg) but I was not going to pay the 90 bucks that dude was asking! That’s a fair price for that one I know, but I just can’t justify spending that much for a record that isn’t that good in the first place. The most expensive record I own is the original version of The Velvet Underground & Nico, complete with banana and the original back cover. That was worth the money. I guess I’m selectively stingy sometimes.

The “Jackie’s Strength” remixes are good, but the real highlight here is the awesome remix of “Father Lucifer.” That’s such an amazing song from such a great album. God, I’m having high school flashbacks now.

More Madonna and Tori Amos later this week. Why break the odd pairing now?

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I Bang The Drums

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Quick protip for all you adults of legal drinking age: Jagermeister goes shockingly well with blue Gatorade. Yes, it sounds like it would taste like anti-freeze, but it actually tastes like candy. Candy that will kill you. So drink in moderation.

Madonna
Rain (Radio Remix)
Waiting (Remix)
Up Down Suite
So according to Wikipedia “Rain” was a moderate hit for Madonna, far more so than “Bad Girl,” which was the single that preceded it. That sure is a shocker to me. I haven’t listened to Erotica (the album from which both songs came from) in probably ten years, and I can’t ever recall hearing “Rain” before. However, you mention “Bad Girl” to me and I’ll respond with “Bad girl/drunk by six/kissing some kind stranger’s lips/smoke too many cigarettes a day/I’m not happy when I act this way.” It does have a beautiful video though.

I’m not sure what to make of the “Up Down Suite,” it was probably made for clubs. The remix to “Waiting” is good though, if insanely mid-90s in sound. All of these come from the 12” single to “Rain.”

The Stone Roses
Elephant Stone (7” Version)
The availability of this version of the song has been sketchy over time. It was on the 10th anniversary edition of the band’s first album, but is absent on the 20th anniversary edition (shit, it’s been over 20 years since that record came out!?). I like this version way more. It’s shorter for sure, but it sounds like it was dipped in a vat of wah-wah guitars. Groovy. This is from the 12” single.

Random bit about The Stone Roses, well more like my obsession with them. According to iTunes, I have played both versions of “She Bangs The Drums” (the single and album versions) a total of 86 times. The second-most-played song in my collection is the first track of Foxy Shazam’s latest album with a paltry 45. So yeah, I like that song.

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I know what I have and I still have it. So hah.

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Random pop culture recommendations:

Foxy Shazam’s new self-titled CD is un-be-fucking-lievable. Buy it.
How To Train Your Dragon is amazing. See it in 3D if you can.
The Protomen kick ass. Buy everything they have and see them live if possible.

Janet Jackson
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Def Club Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Def Radio Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Armand Van Helden Speedy Garagez Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Nellee Hooper Master Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Jimmy Jam Mellow Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Ummah’s Uptown Saturday Night Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Original Extended Version)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (Ummah Jay Dee’s Revenge Mix)
Got ‘Til It’s Gone (LP Instrumental)
This is probably my fifth favorite Janet Jackson song. Behind “Nasty,” “Rhythm Nation,” “Control” and “If.” Although that last one is probably my favorite solely because of the video which was just…damn. Sure it may not be that risque now but it left quite the impression on me when I was 12.

But anyways, were here to talk about this song, which was apparently produced by the late great J. Dilla. And if you know who J. Dilla is then you probably already knew that. You also probably already knew that the “Ummah” mixes of the song were remixed by the Dilla also. Well look at you, aren’t you smart. Show off. These are from a 12” single.

Madonna
Causing a Commotion (Silver Screen Mix)
Causing a Commotion (Dub)
Causing a Commotion (Movie House Mix)
Now, don’t get me wrong, “Causing a Commotion” is an excellent pop song. I love it. That’s why I bought the 12” single. But the “Movie House Mix,” is nearly 10 minutes long. And unlike “Atomic Dog,” you can have too much of this number. The six-minute “Silver Screen Mix” is far more palpable. You’ve been warned. Also listening to either version will probably cause the chorus to be stuck in your head for about six hours.

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