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This was a hard one.. The last time I did anything that resembled dancing I wound up trying to explain to the nurse what 10 drunk twenty-somethings were doing at Childrens Hospital at 3am. (Hint, it involved a glass shard in my leg and 7 stitches.) The band was Merry Go Drown and the song …
Really, who didn’t spend every waking moment of their life in 1986 listening to Licenced to Ill? I remember singing Paul Revere in the cafeteria with Christian Olavesen once, trying to figure out WTF the word “fly” meant. I thought this was kind of a cool version.
You’re probably tired of hearing me talk about Katrina – but it was kind of a big deal. Anyway, this song was all over the place after the storm and it was pretty amazing at the time.
New Orleans, straight up. I like Beyonce and all, but this is real dance music.
This song was played a LOT at Lafitte’s after Katrina. My friend Randy Bush and I would do the little dances and sing the little “dip dip diddydip dip dip” parts and crack each other up all night. Randy even stayed with Alberto and I for a while after I moved to DC and he …