This week, returning guest Corey duBrowa (An Ideal For Living- A Celebration of the EP) brings us De La Soul and their groundbreaking 1989 debut '3 Feet High and Rising'. Dizzyingly creative, relentlessly positive and hugely influential, these three teens from Long Island - along with producer Prince Paul - created a world as richly imagined as anything American pop has ever produced.
Songs discussed in this episode: Intro - De La Soul; The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five; Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.; The Crunge - Led Zeppelin; The Magic Number - De La Soul; Step On - Happy Mondays; Who Me (With An Answer From Dr. Bert) - KMD; Intro, The Magic Number, Change In Speak - De La Soul; Bra - Cymande; Cool Breeze on the Rocks - De La Soul; Rock Music - Jefferson Airplane; Rock With You - Michael Jackson; Jenifa Taught Me, Ghetto Thang - De La Soul; Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk; Transmitting Live From Mars - De La Soul; You Showed Me - The Turtles; Hey Jude - Wilson Pickett; Eye Know - De La Soul; Peg - Steely Dan; (Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding; Potholes In My Lawn - De La Soul; Magic Mountain - Eric Burdon and War ; Little Ole Country Boy - Parliament; Say No Go - De La Soul; I Can't Go For That - Daryl Hall & John Oates; Plug Tunin' - De La Soul; Stiletto - Billy Joel; Buddy, Description, Me Myself and I - De La Soul; (Not Just) Knee Deep - Funkadelic; This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.) - De La Soul; Buffalo Gals - Malcolm McLaren; D.A.I.S.Y. Age - De La Soul; School Boy Crush - Average White Band; Ain't Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie - De La Soul
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