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It’s a three-day weekend in the U.S. — I’ll be back on Tuesday.
But here’s a little treat to tide you over. Slabba labba ding dong! (Passion!)

How I wish someone would speak those words in my house and have it be true!
If there’s a soundtrack in heaven, no way is this song not on it. Perfect.
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness from Love & Understanding (out of print, but you can get this on The Best Of Kool & The [...]

Ohhhh, I was a silly youngster, too quick to condemn. “Dio Sabbath is not Sabbath,” I would cry. Had I really listened to any? Nooooooo.
Then fate (or something) found me in a bar that had Heaven And Hell on the jukebox, and it looked like a good option. Did my friend pick “Children Of The [...]

This one’s for people in a spot like I once was in re: The Libertines, meaning that you pretty much know them as that band with that guy who gets in so much trouble that he makes the American tabloids despote the fact that not many in America really know what he does, but it [...]

Today you’re gonna get a chance to hear a remix while the original’s still fresh in your head.
I recently heard a wunnerful mix by Tittsworth (yes, that’s his real name) that included his own remix of Sub Focus’s “X-Ray,” which was last Thursday’s Veg. He gave it a sweet party-time Baltimore beat and some niiice [...]

This one’s a special dedication to Mrs. Vegetables. We have many “our songs,” but this one’s a classic.
I know that Parliament/Funkadelic gets a lot of props, but still I just don’t think it’s enough. Shouldn’t people be shouting about them from the rooftops every single day? I feel almost the same way about Prince. Don’t [...]

Um, I don’t know what I can add to that headline besides “Thank God for early Too $hort.”
And oh yeah, “years.”
Too $hort - Little Girls from Born To Mack (insound / amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)
http://www.tooshortworld.com

OK, so maybe I have a different opinion of what kind of song constitutes a pick-me-up treat.
I think I’ll have fewer disagreements with today’s Veg. Shaking it off by dancing like a crazy person to a ravey slammer of a DnB choon is a reasonably universal activity.
Right?
Sub Focus - X-Ray (mp3/wav download available at trackitdown.net)
http://www.myspace.com/subfocus

HV has been pretty melancholy lately, so here’s a sweet little Possum treat to balance it out.
I just found out that this song has a different title than it did back in the days when I fell in love with it. It seems that after this song’s release in 1989, Hanna-Barbera politely asked CBS Records [...]

DJ Quik is one of those guys you don’t hear about often enough. He’s been working consistently since the 80s, and he still has a keen musical sense — I’m particularly fond of the “Quik’s Groove” instrumentals he drops into most of his releases.
He also has a spot in my personal Hall Of Fame for [...]