{"id":233,"date":"2014-04-06T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2014\/04\/06\/idontliketheserecords-boney-m-kalimba-de\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:25:22","slug":"idontliketheserecords-boney-m-kalimba-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2014\/04\/06\/idontliketheserecords-boney-m-kalimba-de\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-233 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2014\/04\/06\/idontliketheserecords-boney-m-kalimba-de\/attachment\/234\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3l0s3Lb591twnymto1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/idontliketheserecords.tumblr.com\/post\/81826496818\/boney-m-kalimba-de-luna-1984-side-a-kalimba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">idontliketheserecords<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4fhntMmghNI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boney M. &#8211; Kalimba De Luna 1984<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Side A<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kalimba De Luna CLUB MIX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Side B<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kalimba De Luna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today Stef pulls a random one off the shelf and I get Boney M. I have no idea who these four people are or what they do. Judging from the cover I initially thought that maybe it could be boogie or something, I don\u2019t know where they are from but yeah I think this is gonna be like when Clair Huxtable got excited when the Theo\u2019s Brazilian teacher, the Dragonlady, came over and they talked about music or something. I don\u2019t know man, it\u2019s a vague memory. Anyways yeah the back of the record has names that could be latin so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going with. I don\u2019t know anything about Carrere records so I\u2019m just swinging in the dark right now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait we have scratching! AND RAPPING! Yeah I was totally off on this. This is very 1984 type shit, rapping about rollerskates and sunshine, lots of synth, drum machines, and guitars in the beat. The way this dude says \u201cPRETTY LADIES\u201d made me think it was Melle Mel for a second. The rapping doesn\u2019t last long before this guy sings about the land of the sunshine. The ladies do some background singing but yeah this is the terrible part, this part is super chorus heavy. I could take this when it was some basic ass rap but now it\u2019s on some lets all clap together and sing about about the land of the sunshine. Basically a unity theme. Oh god there is a flute, that\u2019s the second most annoying instrument, the harp is still number 1. This sounds like it could have been used for the ending of Coming to America when everyone in Zamunda was happy that Prince Akeem finally found his queen. It\u2019s pretty happy and I have no idea what Kalimba means but they keep singing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is the club mix now we\u2019re getting into the extended version of the beat. When the bass kicks in and gets kind of funky that\u2019s the part that I could see myself being into when I was 5 years old and thought the Beverly Hills Cop theme was the greatest music ever made (disclaimer:I still kind of do).<\/p>\n<p>The B side is what I assume the original album version to be since the rapping got cut and the song only clocks in at 6 minutes and 40 seconds as opposed to just over 9 minutes of the A side. \u00a0It\u2019s also probably missing the extended beat. I\u2019m not that deep into it but yeah not much of a change on this side so for our purposes I\u2019m going to stop listening to the B side and just go back to the A.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really know how to classify this shit, it\u2019s like 80\u2019s pop world music I guess vaguely dancehally I think. keytar stabs, drum machines, accents, ugh that flute though. I just googled this thing to past in the youtube and realized it\u2019s a cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=clpEyoPEXKQ&amp;feature=share&amp;list=PL17933EFA974D722B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Esposito\u2019s song<\/a> for the german market? After seeing something about germany I check <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boney_M.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wikipedia <\/a>and found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Boney M. is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vocal_group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vocal group<\/a> created by German record producer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Farian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Farian<\/a>. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group\u2019s official line-up were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamaican<\/a>-born singers <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liz_Mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liz Mitchell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcia_Barrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcia Barrett<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maizie_Williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maizie Williams<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montserrat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montserrat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Farrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Farrell<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aruba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aruba<\/a>. The group was formed in 1975 and achieved popularity during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disco<\/a> era of the late 1970s. Since the 1980s, various line-ups of the band have performed with different personnel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That explains a lot actually. Basically some german guy got a bunch of Jamaican disco lovers to cover an Italian song and it\u2019s pretty much a straight jack with some rapping add for the clubs. But yeah 80\u2019s world music is not my thing, I do not have any desire to listen to this music ever again in my life. <\/p>\n<p>Stef says: I pulled this out of the disco area. I love Boney M and many of their singles are classics but is not one of them, this is very 1984 (she laughed when she handed it to me). I love the flute too. It could totally be played in a movie for an 80\u2019s club scene.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stef pulled a not very disco record out of her disco section. This is the first record I reviewed that had some rap in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>idontliketheserecords: Boney M. &#8211; Kalimba De Luna 1984 Side A Kalimba De Luna CLUB MIX Side B Kalimba De Luna Today Stef pulls a random one off the shelf and I get Boney M. I have no idea who these four people are or what they do. 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