that sample is from Jocelyn Brown’s 1985 Love’s Gonna Get You, lines from which Angie sings in I’m Gonna Get You

oops, pasted the back-end link but it redirects

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#UncoolTwo50 46: “Feed the Tree” (1993) — Jonathan Bogart

Brisk jangle and elliptical narrative.

i picked a different 90s R&B girl group song, but it was never a question that one would have to make the list. what an era! v. underappreciated in retrospect

TODAY: our own Carrie Frye on the devastation wrought on Asheville, and specifically the incomparable Root Bar, which featured a sport played nowhere else in the world. flaminghydra.com/r/025a8f0e?m...

Complete catastrophe

Carrie Frye, reporting from Asheville

i revisited some of my #let5d0it#uncooltwo50. the ronettes piece must have confused my memory. no wonder i haven't been able to work ahead as far.

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#UncoolTwo50 47: “I'm Gonna Get You” (1992) — Jonathan Bogart

While sequencer and strings pulsate behind her.

the fun part about this is that in my prep document i had already gone ahead and put in all the songwriting/production/label/chart notations. i'm updating them, but if i miss something there will be a very funny morning where I claim that (fake examples) Shock G contributed to "Stay (I Missed You)"

i know arron frowns on it because my list is ranked, but i swapped out 13 songs on my uncooltwo50 list last night and i feel so much better about it as a representation of my actual favorites. might even swap out more today. but the top five remain sacrosanct.

The September edition of Needles in the Haystack can now be streamed! It's a "gospel" edition, the term mostly applying but also rather loose. Here's the tracklist. SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/particlefm/n...www.mixcloud.com/particlefm/n...www.particle.fm/show/needles...