You Never Knew
Hieroglyphics
Third Eye Vision, 1998 (iTunes)
SwapaCD has been very kind to me recently. Over the last few weeks, I picked up Verve Remixed 3 and cds by A Band of Bees, Joi, Amy Winehouse, MC Solaar, Richie Havens, Citizen Cope, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson as well as this CD. I’m sure Third Eye Vision is, at a minimum, a Bay Area classic and probably an across the board hip hop classic on some level. RikRok played this song at the Sucia party at Madame X a while back and I was caught unawares. I asked what it was and I, of course, felt like I “should have known” when I heard the answer.
I once heard Bobbito say, “It’s not how many records you have but how well you know your records.” Sometimes I feel like to actually know all of the (whole) albums that are considered classics (and yes, that is an extremely relative term) would paradoxically make me an authority on an obscurity. To that end, I’ve recently been concentrating my ongoing iTunes 1-5 rating process on my 2200 “golden era” hip hop songs and I’ve found some gems that I was totally unaware of. I don’t post a lot of hip hop on this blog because I assume people already know it but maybe I’ll rethink that a little.
Songs are available for two weeks.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
YES.
Is it wrong to say I like the Domino remix better?
March 30th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
of course not…and if you want to send it to me that would be ok too
(jon dot oliver at gmail dot com)