Planet Rock

And this isn't a...

I wouldn't say this is a comment on the rest of the album, because the rest of the album is... pretty... mids right in the very literal sense it's it's not bad it's not great either um but i'm wondering i'm wondering if the if bendy if you do you know the track i'm thinking of no i'll just is do you have a guess of which track is um okay it's future shock when you listen to this track ladies and gentlemen it's the most 85 track you could possibly like this this fits this fits right on a playlist with like planet rock it makes no sense that this song was made at the time or and released at the time that it did this is 2000 july 18 2000 Why am I hearing Planet Rock type beats on this album? It made no sense to me.

It was such a weird song to listen to.

And the even weirder thing is, is that the rest of the album does not sound like it at all.

Very innovative.

All of the cutting of tape that my father did on that, having observed producer John Roby in New York, who had worked on Planet Rock.

And they worked on My Love is Alive, the Gary Wright track.

Shaka covered it on that album.

You know

what I'm saying? If you've got Planet Rock on, you're not about to put on some other, I want to sex you up.

You can't put that on the next type of shit.

You get what I'm saying? So you had to really see, you got to know these records.

Made Back.

Oh, man.

What about Planet Rock? Hey, listen.

Out here on the West Coast, that fucking White Horse joint was the freak nasty song.

secret.

And listening to the radio and hearing planet rock for the first time, And just like, this is our thing.

This is our music.

This is what the future sounds like.

It was

like nothing or if...

Push the Button and Planet Rock sound like the music of the future.

Landspeed record sounds like...

Number 14, from 1982, Africa Bombarding the Zulu Nation.

Planet Rock.

Which is my first love of hip-hop.

I mean, I didn't know he was going to turn out to be a fucking creep, but Planet Rock was my entry into hip-hop.

I love that song.

So we are at number...

Really?

Because this song was produced by John Roby, who just a couple years previous had a big hand in playing synths and helping craft the song Planet Rock.

Ah! That makes perfect sense.

Yeah.

He's like one of

the co-writers and composers of Planet Rock.

Wow.

So, yeah, yeah.

I mean, get the fuck out of here.

Arthur Baker, whose Planet Rock production spawned a whole and I mean a whole culture.

that came from Miami and everything in it, including Jive Rhythm Tracks and everything else related to it.

We're talking about beats here.

Lick shots, pop lock, clown for the ooh.

Like Rock, I move a crowd for the ooh.

You talkin' loud and ain't sayin' ooh.

Trick or paper or the uh, Captain Save-A-Ooh.

Um, how a transfer from using a live house band-

Mm-hmm

... um, to e- e- to using electronic drums and, you know, Planet Rock was definitely one of the first records, um, to use the Roland and the 808 and-

Mm-hmm

And, like, we're kids, and we're standing there looking at them like, "Oh, my God," like, "Where did this come from?" So, like, you know, like, hip hop is starting.

They're finally starting to actually record hip hop records, so there's songs like, you know, The Message and Planet Rock with all these synthesizers, and, you know, pop is starting.

There's, like, post-punk, like The Police and, and, and Blondie are starting to make p- like, pop records.

Yeah, you were in an incredible time for all that stuff.