Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Creamtastic Dollar, Dollar Bill Y'all: C.R.E.A.M.
Posted by Steve Haruch on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:06 AM
The esteemed Oliver Wang tracks the history of Wu-Tang's classic tale of rock in a hard place, "C.R.E.A.M.," from the original single by The Charmels to the recent El Michels Affair instrumental to to the EMA/Raekwon collaboration PJs. That's over at NPR and worth a listen. Or several listens, really.
As sample-based music ages into being called "classic" and songs like "C.R.E.A.M." go through cycles like this, of spawning cover versions, where does art have left to go? (Hint: the answer may be "nowhere.") Maybe it's like thrift stores--you used to be able to find lots of cool stuff. Now it's mostly Bill Cosby sweaters, broke-ass VCRs and Beefy-Ts from marathons. Pretty sure no one's going to make a good song by sampling "Hot N Cold."
(Via YICSAFWT.)
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