llena su tanque de adrenalina cuando escucha reggaeton en la cocina

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Some reggaeton mp3s, by request.

A while ago, freakytigger and I discussed how an emergent genre's willingness to magpie up and incorporate well-known pop hooks into itself was probably a major sign of its quality and health. Reggaeton does this spectacularly well, as the mp3s below (sampling Corona, Snap and Deee-Lite respectively) demonstrate:

King Africa - El Ritmo Es Tu Danza
Aldo Ranks - Mueve Mami
Lorna - Papi Chulo...Te Traigo El Mmm

And just for fun, two of the biggest and best reggaeton hits which don't have novelty Eurotechno samples:

Daddy Yankee ft. Pitbull, NORE & Lil Jon - Gasolina (rmx)
Hector y Tito - Baile Morena

See, the thing with these 'hipster' genres is that they're not wilfully obscure or esoteric; they're just pop music, a few years ahead of the curve.

Comments

Re: when it won that ILM poll I was like "...wtf, people? it makes me homicidal!"

[cis.livejournal.com]

Yes yes but without Pop Punk Sneer Avril there is no "Since U Been Gone", is there? She may not have been the one, but what a prototype. I am a sucker for the pop-punk sneergirls, I think it comes from being an emoist.

I hated RATM On Principle when I was er perhaps ten years old, because my brother liked them, and he'd encouraged me to like Take That and now I HATED them because the second album was RUBBISH and they WEREN'T COOL or some other rubbish pre-teen reasoning. I know it wasn't particularly logical because I um liked Ugly Kid Joe at the time. So there's a soft spot remains for the first album, though everything afterwards appears to have been cock.

Embrace the rubbish skapunk past! be one with it! you have to face your traumatic memories to get over them, isn't it?

Re: when it won that ILM poll I was like "...wtf, people? it makes me homicidal!"

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Skapunk?

Punk, maybe, JUST A LITTLE BIT, after all, I was a disenfranchised 14-year old WHO DID NOT YET FIT IN, but... SKA?

No, that was always a bridge too far.

Re: when it won that ILM poll I was like "...wtf, people? it makes me homicidal!"

[cis.livejournal.com]

uh-huh, honey, you just keep saying that.

Re: when it won that ILM poll I was like "...wtf, people? it makes me homicidal!"

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I think I have forgotten nearly all of the ska punk bands that were biggish ca 1994-1998 when I quite liked the not-pop. Refresh memory, please?

Re: when it won that ILM poll I was like "...wtf, people? it makes me homicidal!"

[cis.livejournal.com]

er, I'd have to dig out the tapes my friends made for me as I never bought much, but Rancid? Epitaph bands are all I remember, but whether they were punk or ska-punk... I always thought Pennywise were skapunk, but could be wrong. It's all a bit distant now.