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Frank Kogan

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Fan of MC Pipokinha; currently thinking about how the Chad Mitchell Trio foreshadow both punk rock and adult contemporary music. The people united will never be defeated. https://koganbot.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@koganbot

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · Dec 30

Made this Korean hip-hop playlist to put what I intend to write about XG in perspective. Am ignorant so would like your input on what *you* would put on such a list – obv I veer idol pop more than hip-hop per se, and count non-Koreans like XG, Jay Park. Chronological.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Enchanted Propaganda (Korean hip-hop and hip-hop adjacent) - YouTube

I’m incredibly ignorant (e.g. no Epik High), this is concentrated 2010-13, obv I know more about Korean idol than Korean hip-hop, Ash-B should be on this but...

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 10h

So could be the same guy!

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 10h

Annoyed as a tween by the Happenings as conventionally male temptees (w/ go-away-little-girl temptress) – but just discovered Marlena Shaw's hilarious re-work w/ irresistible seducer being her no-good husband; & in Samantha Rose's GB-worthy takeoff the irresistible buffoon is someone *else's* hubby.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 11h

Pushy-bordering-on-dissonant bassline feels very prescient as to what's going to come later in the decade (or is my memory wrong and was this already par for the course in '82?).

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 11h

The Joe Flacco trade must be very important, given that the Bengals swapped a 5th-round pick for a 6th-round pick in order to get him. That's why I just spent an hour-and-a-half reading about it.

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 22h

New Order's song "1963." Arthur Baker did a remix of it.
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New Order - 1963 (Arthur Baker remix)

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 22h

For that particular heat the only comments seem to be me, Tom, Henrietta Rose-Innes, and Nick Dastoor, but there may have been more from people who later quit Twitter. This is the one where I talk about the track ("him" being Arthur Baker; Tina B was his then wife, btw).
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Frank Kogan on X: "@tomewing Even for him it's a strange track: rather than build to a climax and lets go with an ending vamp, it's on the let-go from the very start. I put both versions of "1963" on my playlists; never came to a conclusion as to whether he'd helped the song or not, though his was the hit." / X

@tomewing Even for him it's a strange track: rather than build to a climax and lets go with an ending vamp, it's on the let-go from the very start. I put both versions of "1963" on my playlists; never came to a conclusion as to whether he'd helped the song or not, though his was the hit.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 22h

Did you scroll way way way down? Tom hadn't figured out yet how to put the comments at the end of each day's groups - which I guess is just by starting over every day as if you're beginning a new tournament, which is how he does it now - so they ended up at the end of an entire *round's* groups.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

Voted Sandra de Sá but made Ranking Ann my bonus.

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

Baker produced my very first PPP nom, Tina B's "I Always Wanted To Be Free."
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Tom Ewing on X: "Division 6 Group 7: Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases Bettye Swann! https://t.co/tbSiZN2juq The Chiffons! https://t.co/8uCH4T3GMF Garnet Mimms And The Enchanters! https://t.co/3hepXFoqXj Tina B! https://t.co/5ChWEK14X7" / X

Division 6 Group 7: Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases Bettye Swann! https://t.co/tbSiZN2juq The Chiffons! https://t.co/8uCH4T3GMF Garnet Mimms And The Enchanters! https://t.co/3hepXFoqXj Tina B! https://t.co/5ChWEK14X7

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

In Unpolled Bangers I voted for "Bam Bam" rather than my own pick ("Personality Crisis," which I love, of course, but...); she floats to the riddim (as opposed to Big Youth's "Jim Squashy/Jim Screechy," my other favorite use of this riddim, mesmerizing, punctuating, declaiming).

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

Sharon Redd and Evelyn "Champagne" King both warm my heart by allowing themselves to indulge in Teena Marie jazzisms, Evelyn going for Teena's high-climbing reaches and swoops, Sharon also for Teena's reaches and for her quick-note vocal fills.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

Strong heat, Baker-Robie reconstituting their electro-blob and Odyssey haunting us with strings, floating memories.

Voting Eddy tho, the big buzz on the fourth beat and the doubled-up voice on the phrase "Electric Avenue," also starting on the fourth beat (wonder why that works so well).

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

"Forget-Me-Nots" as beautiful as ever, the forget-me-nots like the letter in Taylor's "Tim McGraw," is it affection or a gripe? For Patrice the flowers might bring him back or make him grimace, while for Taylor the letter says he doesn't have the *right* to forget her, the – discarded – girlfriend.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 1d

Weirdly, your YT playlist version of King Sunny Adé's "365 Is My Number" just went dark in America, but this is one that still works here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HVR...

365 is My Number / The Message

YouTube video by King Sunny Adé - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the 12-inch on YouTube (hoping this version plays in Europe etc.; there are others if this doesn't)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOI...

Someone Loves You Honey / One Time Daughter (12" Mix)

YouTube video by JC Lodge - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

Fun w/ Dibangu (Francky) vs fun w/ Dvorak (Harrassment). (Incarcerated young man complains to Jessica Fletcher that someone stole his idea for a book; he recounts plot, Jessica says, "But that's The Brothers Karamazov!" "But it was *my* idea to steal it first!") Going w/ Lady Lumps, in a tight one.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

Bad Brains were a fantastically visceral live band in a way that no recording was ever able to capture. So going w/ the ridiculous Vanity 6: "Tramp, I'm dating yo' dad!" "Oh, well, he died about seven years back, Now ain't that just too bad!" "Well, that's how we like 'em – tall, stiff and ready."

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

Nahawa Doumbia was on my longlist w/ "Sakoro Mery": sounds like she stepped out of the Appalachian tracks on the Harry Smith/Folkways folk anthology. (Ali Farka Toure sometimes did too; thought in his case it could have been somewhat deliberate, his noting the affinity.)

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

Tuco & Les Freres Dejean "Mr. Magic" is my nom. Singing is a nice combo of suave and sweaty, but the real story is the equally sweaty trumpet.

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

Er, Dibango. I always misspell him. (Harrassment, however, is how they spell it on the record.)

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 2d

I once renamed "Let's Go Crazy" as "Let's Not Go Crazy And Say We Did," but 6 years of People's Pop have warmed me to the guy: "Delirious" is about delirium more than it's delirious itself, but I now feel it as affectionately contemplative (actually, this playlist may be the first I've heard it).

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 5d

Oops, I didn't see that Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam are in. And maybe we can count Planet Patrol in the adjacent category. And maybe some other stuff I don't recognize.

Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 5d

May be the only track we've got in the rough area I'd call freestyle/LatinHipHop/Miami bass/Miami Sound (tho I'd call Hashim & Soul Sonic Force freestyle-adjacent). For Miami Sound in particular it was hard to know who was actually singing (e.g., in the Flirts) much less what race they were.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 5d

And is an early example of NYC freestyle producers taking great wild liberties
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSl9...