listen in: forever freestyle
My friends, I’d like to share with you the music that makes my world go round. This installment brings to you a sound that is nearer and dearer to my heart than the remnants of a veggie calzone lunch (shite was 90% veg/10% ricotta) and is my old man music from here on out.
I came up in south florida at a time when Power 96 ran the airwaves and DJ Laz was the biggest thing in local music next to Gloria, Emilio and the band. 2 Live Crew was the shizz, but being shy of double digits in age precluded me from hearing most of their stuff outside of whoever had their tape. My sound, the stuff that I jam out to in the car and hope they rock at the club is Freestyle.
A beautiful amalgam of synthesizer beats, club breaks, equal amounts of male & female singers, songs mostly about love and all of them were made for having fun. The sound has always resonated with me for reasons that I can’t fully explain besides saying that when I hear music it makes me dance (n. Debbie Deb).
To prepare for the upcoming Forever Freestyle concert at the UCF Arena, I offer you my heart, YouTubed.
Cover Girls: Show Me
Rockell: In A Dream
TKA: Louder Than Love
Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam: I Wonder If I Take You Home (wish I had seen her in her prime)
Shannon: Let Music Play
I close by saying if you don’t know about the skating rink, then I’m sorry that you’ve missed out forever.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:20 am
it’s a bit more recent, but my throwback to that sound has always been this diddy..
come visit,
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May 3rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Oh man do these songs remind me of shuffle skating at the skating rink every friday and saturday night. I still have my skates!
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
tracy: Good look on that.
Couples skate only, couples skate opposite direction.
Then you had to make the human chain, then the Chicken Dance, and Duck Duck Goose.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Last time I saw Lisa Lisa, was about 6 years ago. And she would so get it.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Jay: Cosign on that. I remember seeing her in one of the VH1 “I Love the….” shows and she was definitely still cooking.
Tell the truth, for full impact in making that happen, would you rock a drippin ass Full Force curl? Not even Eriq LaSalle in CTA, but the combined effect of the entire Jenks family on that couch.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:21 am
If it takes spritzing some Soul Glo on my mini fro to get some Lisa Lisa action, then so be it!
May 26th, 2007 at 10:56 am
[...] rocked a first look at my 80s reparte on forever freestyle and committed my undying love to the sound. it felt good to get that out, mostly because younger [...]
August 8th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Yo word I guess Socal and South Florida have more in common than beaches or big titty bitches… remember Spring Love Stevie B. duke was from the FLA right….1 hundred homie
September 11th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
All about Keyboards…
All about Keyboards…
October 18th, 2009 at 3:25 am
This will be fun! I wonder how many WP images on human body are going to come up!
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