3361. Kym Mazelle: "Got to Get You Back" 12-inch
3362. MC Shy-D: "D.J. Man Cuts It Up" 12-inch
3363. Charlotte McKinnon: "Dance to the Rhythm" 12-inch
3364. Mean Machine: "At the Party" 12-inch
3365. Lisette Melendez: "A Day in My Life (Without You)" 12-inch
3366. Jillian Mendez: "Feel Like Making Love" 12-inch
3367. Metropolis featuring Jacqui Maxwell: "Leave Him" 12-inch
3368. Ministry: "All Day" 12-inch
3369. Miss Thang: "Thunder and Lightning" 12-inch
3370. Mr. Rhymes: "Stop Breakin" 12-inch
3371. Mitsou: "Deep Kiss" 12-inch
3372. Najee: "Feel So Good to Me" 12-inch
3373. Nasty Boys: "I Was Made for Lovin You" 12-inch
3374. Nayobe: "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait" 12-inch
3375. Phyllis Nelson: "I Like You" 12-inch
3376. Never....But Aways: "Never Enough" 12-inch
3377. Newcleus: "Destination Earth (1999)" 12-inch
3378. Nice & Wild: "Diamond Girl" 12-inch
3379. Nu Intensity: "Danger Love Dance (i...Ya!)" 12-inch
3380. Oaktown's 3•5•7: "We Like It" 12-inch
3381. Overmind: "Everybody Let's F**k" 12-inch
3382. Paige 3: "Baby It's U" 12-inch
3383. Paris Red: "Gotta Have It (From New York Straight to Paris)" 12-inch
3384. The Party: "Summer Vacation" 12-inch
3385. Peech Boys: "Don't Make Me Wait" 12-inch
3386. Pepsi & Shirlie: "Heartache" 12-inch
3387. Pierre Perpall: "J'aime la Musique, Party Down" 12-inch
3388. Pleasure and the Beast: "Roq the House" 12-inch
3389. Pop Will Eat Itself: "Def.Con One" 12-inch
3390. Princess: "Say I'm Your No. 1" 12-inch
3391. Princess Ivori: "Wanted" 12-inch
Mixworthy: "Say I'm Your No. 1," Princess, #3390.
Special "Honorary Mixworthy" Category: "Baby It's U," Paige 3, #3382.
I guess I don't have to explain anymore why I disappear for a day or two from this--
I've been out clubbing with the 24-hour party people, cutting it up and rocking the
house...Almost as long a list as the previous one, but I remembered right away that
I liked the Princess record, so I didn't have to search around this time. There was
a time when I found Ministry's "Everyday (Is Halloween)" (#3368's B-side) pleasingly
inane, and I think the Peech Boys are held in the same regard (and come out of the
same post-backlash moment) as Taana Gardner, but I don't have the initiative to check
either one right now. Miss Thang's "Thunder and Lightning" was an answer record to
Oran "Juice" Jones' "The Rain," which was somewhat of an answer record to the Dramat-
ics' "In the Rain," which, even as the best of the three, is not in the first tier
of my early-70s favourites. I used to have a hard time telling Nayobe and Najee and
Nocera apart; I later bought a whole album by Nocera, so I now know who she is, but
Nayobe and Najee remain of indeterminate gender...The A-side of Paige 3's "Baby It's
U" was produced and mixed by Dave Newfeld, now Broken Social Scene's producer, but it
was Dave's protégé, the reclusive turntablist behind the B-side's "Clubmix," whom I
managed to track down one night at Toronto's Club Ecstasy and corral for an autograph:
"To Phil D: Comin' at Ya! Keep Partyin! (I'm all out of clichés). SMW." Cliché or not,
SMW's words have served as my mantra ever since.
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3392. Fonda Rae: "Last Train to Clarksville" 12-inch
3393. Jackie Rawe: "I Believe in Dreams" 12-inch
3394. Razzamatazz: "Two Time Boy" 12-inch
3395. The Real Roxanne with Hitman Howie Tee: "Let's Go-Go" 12-inch
3396. René and Angela: "I'll Be Good" 12-inch
3397. Kim Richardson: "Peek-A-Boo" 12-inch
3398. Warren Rigg: "Didn't I Love You Right?" 12-inch
3399. R.J.'s Latest Arrival: "Off the Hook" 12-inch
3400. Safire: "Made Up My Mind" 12-inch
3401. Sandra: "Everlasting Love" 12-inch
3402. Mildred Scott: "Prisoner of Love" 12-inch
3403. Jon Secada: "Whipped" 12-inch
3404. Seduction: "Seduction" 12-inch
3405. Sequence: "Funk You Up" 12-inch
3406. Serious Intention: "Serious" 12-inch
3407. Shakespear's Sister: "Break My Heart" 12-inch
3408. Soupir: "Metal" 12-inch
3409. Lisa Stansfield: "All Around the World" 12-inch
3410. Stetsasonic: "Speaking of a Girl Named Suzy" 12-inch
3411. Strings of Love: "Nothing Has Been Proved" 12-inch
3412. Symbolic Three featuring D.J. Dr. Shock: "No Show" 12-inch
Mixworthy: "Seduction (Club Mix)," Seduction, #3404; "Nothing Has Been Proved,"
Strings of Love, #3411.
There's a quaint sticker on the cover of the Sandra record: "When You PLAY IT, SAY
IT!" I guess that was a bone of contention between record companies and radio during
the late '80s--can't say that I remember. The industry seems to have slightly bigger
problems on its hands these days...I'd list Lisa Stansfield if I were stuck for a
mixworthy pick, but I've got two easy ones this time. I made reference to the Seduc-
tion song in the compilation section, so I'm glad to find out that I have it after
all. The club mix is insanely pornographic, or at least as pornographic as mainstream
late-80s dance-pop ever got; I think some students at my school may have discovered
this site, so I've got to remind myself to be careful about what I quote, but there's
a spoken intro that ends with a little munchkin named Latoya promising that "Dinner's
at eight," and the rest is carried along by a bassline as hypnotic as the one in
"Good Times." Cole and Clivilles produced, two years before they struck it rich with
World B. Freedom and His Get Fresh Crew...I voted for "Nothing Has Been Proved" as my
#1 reissue of 1993 in the yearly eye poll, which is pretty funny--my definition of a
reissue (the category was discontinued a few years ago) was always all recorded music
ever released prior to the year in question. The Strings of Love 12-inch came out in
1990, I bought it in 1993, therefore it counted as a reissue. Anyway, it's a disarm-
ing and rather spooky record, one that, discovering it when I did (I knew, and liked,
Dusty Springfield's 1988 original), seemed to speak directly to a series of scandals
that were then gripping the public with an unprecedented intensity: Gennifer Flowers,
Tonya Harding, Bob Packwood, Michael Jackson, and others, with O.J. just around the
corner. Twelve years later, the Strings of Love sound as otherworldly and as secret-
ive as ever, but the context is gone, saturated into the commonplace.
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3413. Tamsin: "It's Easy" 12-inch
3414. Tapps: "In the Heat of the Night" 12-inch
3415. Troy Taylor: "The Way You Move" 12-inch
3416. Toddy Tee: "I Need a Rolex" 12-inch
3417. Todd Terry: "Check This Out" 12-inch
3418. Todd Terry: "Voices in My House" 12-inch
3419. Evelyn Thomas: "Sorry, Wrong Number" 12-inch
3420. Tone-Lōc: "Wild Thing" 12-inch
3421. Miss Nicky Trax: "Baby, It's Allright Now" 12-inch
3422. Two Minds Crack: "Cry Cry Cry" 12-inch
3423. Tyree: "Lonely (No More)" 12-inch
3424. Ultimate III: "Ultimate III Live!" 12-inch
3425. Ultra Naté: "Is It Love?" 12-inch
3426. "V" Project featuring K.O. and the Extra Specials: "Black Jack" 12-inch
3427. Vivien Vee: "Everybody (Respect to Me)" 12-inch
3428. Vicious Rumor Club: "Yeah, Yeah That's It (Rumor Rap)" 12-inch
3429. Joy Vogel: "Beat Box" 12-inch
3430. Voices of 6th Avenue: "Call Him Up" 12-inch
3431. Crystal Waters: "Makin' Happy" 12-inch
3432. Westbam: "Monkey Say Monkey Do" 12-inch
3433. West Street Mob: "I Can't Stop" 12-inch
3434. Wild: "Sex Junkie" 12-inch
3435. James (D-Train) Williams: "Misunderstanding" 12-inch
3436. World Famous Supreme Team: "Hey D.J." 12-inch
3437. Don X: "Dance With Me" 12-inch
3438. Yoyo Honey: "Groove On" 12-inch
3439. Zoo Experience featuring Destry: "Love's Got a Hold on Me" 12-inch
Mixworthy: "Hey D.J.," World Famous Supreme Team, #3436.
I used to like "Hey D.J." a lot, something I'm not going to put to the test here. If
it fails, I got nothin'...There's one clear misfiling in this group, and potentially
two more. If I'm reading the Todd Terry records correctly, the credited artist is
Hardhouse, even though it's Terry who's first-billed on the sticker affixed to #3418.
(Todd Terry, by the way, is not the first person I think of when I hear the name Todd,
and neither is Todd Rundgren, Todd Stottlemyre, Toddy Tee, or Derek Todd from my high
school. Todd forever means Bill Murray's SNL character, one of the forgotten pioneers
of new wave.) More awkward is the Tone-Lōc record, which is fine alphabetically, but
which breaks my rule of not splitting up an artist's work: either somebody's in the
12-inch section, or his 12-inches get filed alongside his albums. I think there are
a few instances where, even though I own one or two 12-inches by somebody and no LPs,
I still file in the album section because it's a song or an artist I know sufficient-
ly well that if I ever want to retrieve it, I'll know where to look (as opposed to
the Zoo Experience, who would disappear forever if I filed them in with the albums).
Does that make sense? Good, it makes sense to me too. I see now that I've got Tone-
Lōc in both places, though. What obviously happened is that I bought "Wild Thing"
and, because I failed to forsee that Tone was at heart an album artist, I forgot to
reunite 12-inch with LP when I later bought Lôc-ed After Dark. I thought of doing a
one-to-one switch with a lone 12-inch in the vicinity of Lôc-ed, but there's nothing
close. I'd have to backpeddle 750+ records and renumber from there to fix the prob-
lem. The fact that I can supply that number tells you how obsessive I can get about
such idiocy. This is one time where the exigencies of time and labour will thankful-
ly keep me safe from myself, though...I haven't figured out yet how to approach the
couple of hundred classical records up next. If you don't hear from me for a few
months, I've enrolled at Julliard and will resume as soon as I'm thoroughly schooled
in the Western Canon. If I can think of a couple of good Mozart jokes, I'll be back
sooner.