Comments on: Blog ’92: JUMP UP JUMP UP AND GET DOWN http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 06:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marcello Carlin http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310562 Marcello Carlin Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:30:40 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310562 "how high, ladies?" ;-) “how high, ladies?” ;-)

]]> By: Lena http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310559 Lena Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:24:15 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310559 "Jump (For My Love)" by either The Pointer Sisters or Girls Aloud, on the other hand... “Jump (For My Love)” by either The Pointer Sisters or Girls Aloud, on the other hand…

]]> By: Marcello Carlin http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310486 Marcello Carlin Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:02:55 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310486 Other jumpist records unlikely to get a dancefloor moving: - Jump They Say by David Bowie; - Jump In The River by Sinead O'Connor; - Jump In My Car by David Hasselhoff. Other jumpist records unlikely to get a dancefloor moving:
- Jump They Say by David Bowie;
- Jump In The River by Sinead O’Connor;
- Jump In My Car by David Hasselhoff.

]]> By: Kat http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310291 Kat Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:14:20 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310291 I wonder if this theory can be extended to any phrase containing the letters JUMP? I know I'm wandering into dangerous Sultans Of Ping territory here... I wonder if this theory can be extended to any phrase containing the letters JUMP? I know I’m wandering into dangerous Sultans Of Ping territory here…

]]> By: Billy Smart http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310080 Billy Smart Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:02:36 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-310080 The best jump song of them all is the Aztec Camera version of Van Halen's Jump, which exposes the inherent vulnerability behind the tumescence of the original. Probably wouldn't go down too well at a rave, though. The best jump song of them all is the Aztec Camera version of Van Halen’s Jump, which exposes the inherent vulnerability behind the tumescence of the original. Probably wouldn’t go down too well at a rave, though.

]]> By: stevem http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309941 stevem Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:54:25 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309941 B*Witched 'Jump Down' under-rated. B*Witched ‘Jump Down’ under-rated.

]]> By: henry s http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309476 henry s Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:51:13 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309476 Come to think of it, it is only the most drunken of wedding parties that would jump to the dance floor when/if the DJ drops Montrose's "Jump On It". Come to think of it, it is only the most drunken of wedding parties that would jump to the dance floor when/if the DJ drops Montrose’s “Jump On It”.

]]> By: Marcello Carlin http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309464 Marcello Carlin Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:50:23 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309464 Not sure if it works with Mungo Jerry's "Baby Jump" these days. Not sure if it works with Mungo Jerry’s “Baby Jump” these days.

]]> By: Mark M http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309449 Mark M Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:09:35 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309449 I graduated in June, 1992, and thus am relatively fond of this song, which probably wouldn't be the case if I were a year younger... I graduated in June, 1992, and thus am relatively fond of this song, which probably wouldn’t be the case if I were a year younger…

]]> By: henry s http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309440 henry s Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:00:33 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309440 absolutely...("Jump They Say" being the exception that proves the rule)... absolutely…(“Jump They Say” being the exception that proves the rule)…

]]> By: emmersonladypalma http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309224 emmersonladypalma Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:39:06 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309224 Is the word Jump in the title of a song a guaranteed floor filler? Is the word Jump in the title of a song a guaranteed floor filler?

]]> By: henry s http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309168 henry s Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:01:44 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309168 I saw House Of Pain and Cypress Hill on the same bill once, the audience being 95% white boys with backwards baseball caps shoving each other...now there's a good time! I saw House Of Pain and Cypress Hill on the same bill once, the audience being 95% white boys with backwards baseball caps shoving each other…now there’s a good time!

]]> By: james http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309165 james Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:51:47 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309165 Also, for us Americans: the association of this song with Rave culture is nonexistant, whereas the association of this song with school dances is unavoidable and immediate. Actually, I've always preferred "Jump" by Kris Kross, which is also from '92. Also, for us Americans: the association of this song with Rave culture is nonexistant, whereas the association of this song with school dances is unavoidable and immediate.

Actually, I’ve always preferred “Jump” by Kris Kross, which is also from ’92.

]]> By: james http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309164 james Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:49:32 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309164 Re: "Jump Around" vs "Insane in the Brain" Well, they're both produced by DJ Muggs. He was the reason Cypress Hill were so surprisingly consistent (he produced their first 3 albums) and also the reason House of Pain only had the one good track (it was the only one he produced for them, I believe). Consequently, I can only love "Jump Around" because I imagine that it is a song from an alternate reality in which Cypress Hill were Irish. Once I remember that it's also the same guy who is Everlast, my excitement of it is temporarily diminished. (for the record, the thing that always brings me back is the line "Word to your Moms / I came to drop bombs / I've got more rhymes than the Bible's got psalms" which is just plain irresistable.) Re: “Jump Around” vs “Insane in the Brain”

Well, they’re both produced by DJ Muggs. He was the reason Cypress Hill were so surprisingly consistent (he produced their first 3 albums) and also the reason House of Pain only had the one good track (it was the only one he produced for them, I believe).

Consequently, I can only love “Jump Around” because I imagine that it is a song from an alternate reality in which Cypress Hill were Irish. Once I remember that it’s also the same guy who is Everlast, my excitement of it is temporarily diminished. (for the record, the thing that always brings me back is the line “Word to your Moms / I came to drop bombs / I’ve got more rhymes than the Bible’s got psalms” which is just plain irresistable.)

]]> By: Steve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309161 Steve Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:43:05 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309161 Pete's defence of 'Jump Around's inclusion could be applied to any number of rap hits still, and this compilation came out a few months before 'Jump Around' became a top ten hit and an established crowd pleaser. The compiler could've been cannily pre-emptive here! A lot of rave scenesters were also into hip-hop tho, having got into that first. Pete’s defence of ‘Jump Around’s inclusion could be applied to any number of rap hits still, and this compilation came out a few months before ‘Jump Around’ became a top ten hit and an established crowd pleaser. The compiler could’ve been cannily pre-emptive here! A lot of rave scenesters were also into hip-hop tho, having got into that first.

]]> By: Kat http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309156 Kat Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:38:26 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309156 I vaguely recognise the artist names but am not familiar with the tracks. Interesting! I shall have to track these down. I vaguely recognise the artist names but am not familiar with the tracks. Interesting! I shall have to track these down.

]]> By: Pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309120 Pete Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:38:44 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309120 Yes it is a sample (Harlem Shuffle intro?) but for our generation I know what it is ushering on to the dancefloor. Apparently a picture taken during a wedding spin of Jump Around: <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/119323392_869ffa100a.jpg?v=0"> Yes it is a sample (Harlem Shuffle intro?) but for our generation I know what it is ushering on to the dancefloor.

Apparently a picture taken during a wedding spin of Jump Around:

]]> By: CarsmileSteve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309119 CarsmileSteve Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:33:07 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309119 <i>On hearing that instantly-recognisable intro</I> um, isn't it a sample? On hearing that instantly-recognisable intro

um, isn’t it a sample?

]]> By: Pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309108 Pete Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:23:45 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309108 The question of if it should be on Rave '92 can be answered in two ways. a) Would you have heard it at a Rave in '92? A. Possibly. A lot of the Rave's were not just nosebleed acid house, and a crowd pleasing pop hit would occasionally get thrown into the mix. Actually, less so by '92 admittedly. That said smaller (illegal) Rave's often had chancier DJ's with less of a collection of white labels. b) Does it have a thematic place in this collection. A. Yes, almost as a counterpoint to the kind of collective dancing that Rave was about. JUMP is a song about excess energy, and ways of getting rid of it. It is explicit about what it wants you to do. Rave was a lot less so, it took all of that as a given. I think it fits. The question of if it should be on Rave ’92 can be answered in two ways.
a) Would you have heard it at a Rave in ’92?

A. Possibly. A lot of the Rave’s were not just nosebleed acid house, and a crowd pleasing pop hit would occasionally get thrown into the mix. Actually, less so by ’92 admittedly. That said smaller (illegal) Rave’s often had chancier DJ’s with less of a collection of white labels.

b) Does it have a thematic place in this collection.
A. Yes, almost as a counterpoint to the kind of collective dancing that Rave was about. JUMP is a song about excess energy, and ways of getting rid of it. It is explicit about what it wants you to do. Rave was a lot less so, it took all of that as a given.

I think it fits.

]]> By: Steve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309050 Steve Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:17:52 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309050 'Perhaps they didn’t want to scare off bosh fans by making it too ‘hip-hop’.' Strange tho because this hadn't affected Technotronic (whether it was Ya Kid K or MC Eric) - you would think this Euro take on hip-house would've endured a little longer. I don't think H.O.P. should've been on this at all because of the disconnection from ideas of what 'Rave' term represented. It's seemingly not being used as a catch-all just to replace Dance here because there's only one other (much 'cheesier') rap-based hit on this comp - everything else is much closer to House, Techno/Trance and Ardkore blueprints. It's just weird really. Mind you I used to have a comp called <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/85995" rel="nofollow">'Essential Hardcore'</a> on the Dino label which featured Simply Read ('Something Got Me Started')! I've only just noticed the <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/473408" rel="nofollow">vinyl edition</a> of this comp features more tracks! All seem quite obscure. Have you heard any of these Kat? ‘Perhaps they didn’t want to scare off bosh fans by making it too ‘hip-hop’.’

Strange tho because this hadn’t affected Technotronic (whether it was Ya Kid K or MC Eric) – you would think this Euro take on hip-house would’ve endured a little longer.
I don’t think H.O.P. should’ve been on this at all because of the disconnection from ideas of what ‘Rave’ term represented. It’s seemingly not being used as a catch-all just to replace Dance here because there’s only one other (much ‘cheesier’) rap-based hit on this comp – everything else is much closer to House, Techno/Trance and Ardkore blueprints. It’s just weird really. Mind you I used to have a comp called ‘Essential Hardcore’ on the Dino label which featured Simply Read (‘Something Got Me Started’)!

I’ve only just noticed the vinyl edition of this comp features more tracks! All seem quite obscure. Have you heard any of these Kat?

]]> By: katstevens http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309027 katstevens Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:55:30 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-309027 That puzzled me for ages too. Perhaps they didn't want to scare off bosh fans by making it too 'hip-hop'. More on the Tlimited later, anyway. Does anyone think that House Of Pain deserve a place on a rave compilation? What if they were further down the tracklisting? That puzzled me for ages too. Perhaps they didn’t want to scare off bosh fans by making it too ‘hip-hop’.

More on the Tlimited later, anyway. Does anyone think that House Of Pain deserve a place on a rave compilation? What if they were further down the tracklisting?

]]> By: Steve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308838 Steve Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:25:23 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308838 'There’s definitely a place for rap in the rave sphere (just ask Ray from 2 Unlimited!)' But 2 Unlimited's UK label clearly didn't think so! We never heard his full length raps on TV/radio here (absurd decision - it wasn't as if he was hard to understand). ‘There’s definitely a place for rap in the rave sphere (just ask Ray from 2 Unlimited!)’

But 2 Unlimited’s UK label clearly didn’t think so! We never heard his full length raps on TV/radio here (absurd decision – it wasn’t as if he was hard to understand).

]]> By: katstevens http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308820 katstevens Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:59:44 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308820 Ben - I guess that depends on whether your definition of 'improve the atmosphere' includes 'makes people get more drunk'! Ben – I guess that depends on whether your definition of ‘improve the atmosphere’ includes ‘makes people get more drunk’!

]]> By: katstevens http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308819 katstevens Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:58:21 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308819 There's definitely a place for rap in the rave sphere (just ask Ray from 2 Unlimited!) but this is firmly in the hip-hop sphere. Kriss Kross and Cypress would be equally weird inclusions I think. I have a feeling that House Of Pain are the only non-European artists on this compilation. Yet another reason why they feel so out of place? There’s definitely a place for rap in the rave sphere (just ask Ray from 2 Unlimited!) but this is firmly in the hip-hop sphere. Kriss Kross and Cypress would be equally weird inclusions I think.

I have a feeling that House Of Pain are the only non-European artists on this compilation. Yet another reason why they feel so out of place?

]]> By: Ben http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308812 Ben Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:50:32 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/08/blog-92-jump-up-jump-up-and-get-down/#comment-308812 Goddam, my comment just vanished. Anyway, what I was saying was that all of what you say is true, but it's still a guaranteed floor-filler 15 years on, it's still guaranteed to improve the atmosphere whatever the venue or the occasion. But I have no idea why it deserved to be on Rave '92. I also wanted to compliment/scold Kat for not mentioning THAT Caffreys ad. Goddam, my comment just vanished. Anyway, what I was saying was that all of what you say is true, but it’s still a guaranteed floor-filler 15 years on, it’s still guaranteed to improve the atmosphere whatever the venue or the occasion.

But I have no idea why it deserved to be on Rave ’92.

I also wanted to compliment/scold Kat for not mentioning THAT Caffreys ad.

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