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Exclusive: General Elektriks "Pocket Full Of MCs" Download
Not to be confused with this GE, our musical friend General Elektriks is a one man bay area band that blends old school hip hop sounds, with quirky keyboard licks and ethereal vocals. General Elektriks second album is due out this summer and today at SEEN we've got an exclusive track from the mind behind General Elektriks, Hervé Salters. As part of the promotion for the new GE album, Salters has put together a project called "Pocket Full Of MCs". Each sample based track features a different MC and will not be released on the album. Tracks featuring Mr. Lif and Lateef The Truth Speaker are already available through the General Elektriks website. The track we have for you today is called "Death Of An 80's Limo" and features Beans. Man, we love story raps (Biggie = best rapper of all time). The 80s-ness of this track comes from the use of a sample of "The Chauffeur" by Duran Duran. Enjoy this track and keep your ears peeled for more tracks in the series at General Elektriks website and the new album from GE this summer.
Download: General Elektriks - Death Of An 80s Limo feat. Beans
Classic Video: "Goonies R Good Enough"
Think back to the days when Tears For Fears and Poison ruled the MTV airwaves. There was an amazing period in the 80's when music videos were chalk full of midgets, big hair, and absurd story lines that may or may not have had anything to do with the actual song. Some videos are forever burned into our memories like "Take on Me", "Thriller", Hungry Like a Wolf", and "Whip It", but most are often forgotten. We feel it is our duty to remind you of some of the most overlooked videos from the past. In this edition of the Classic Video series, it is our honor to present you with Cyndi Lauper's video for "Goonies R Good Enough".
Pretty much everyone has seen the Goonies (and if you are one of the few people remaining on earth that hasn't, Netflix that shit!), but few have actually seen the gem of a video that accompanies the film's title track. The song appears in the movie when the Goonies make the fateful decision to tie up Brand and go after One Eyed Willies rich stuff. Cyndi Lauper can be seen briefly on the TV set in the living room.
The 7 minute plus video for "Goonies R Good Enough" tells the story of a downtrodden girl (Lauper) and her family's struggle to maintain ownership of their big city gas station. When the Iron Sheik and Rowdy Rowdy Piper show up claiming they have just purchased the land from underneath Cyndi and her family, weird things start happening. Featuring a bevy of professional wrestlers, the cast of Goonies, and one of our all time favorite music video cameos (watch the video to find out who it is), this is what a soundtrack video should look like.
We should also mention that the folks over at Mezco Toyz have released a line of Goonies action figures to fill the void that the failed Goonies sequel has left in your in your heart.
http://www.mezcotoyz.com/products.asp?pline=goo-c07
Video: Yacht Rock's soft sail
We've had a soft spot for bands like The Eagles, Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers for some time now, so when we came across the Yacht Rock video series a while back it pretty much blew our mind. Yacht Rock is a series of videos conceived by J. D. Ryznar that spoof the writing process of some of the greatest soft rock hits of the 70s and 80s. The videos feature appearances by characters like Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Steve Porcaro of Toto, and Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan just to name a few.
There are now 11 episodes in the series with stories about Toto working with Michael Jackson on "Right Here", Steely Dan competing with The Eagles to write the title track for the movie FM, how it took 10 years and a rap group to take Michael McDonald's "Keep Forgetting" to #2 on the chart. The latest installment, and possibly our favorite, documents the great lengths Jimmy Buffet went through to get Kenny Loggins to write a song for Footloose (with Jason Lee playing Kevin Bacon).
Check it out above, and click here for another amazing episode. Check out their site over at Channel 101 where the whole series is available for download to your iPhone.
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