Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
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Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
this thread could go on FOREVER
a personal fave:
but, really, is it a Pretty Things song?
a personal fave:
but, really, is it a Pretty Things song?
Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
Deconstructed Diddleybeat
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
The Dancing Did's "A Fruit Picking Fantasy (The Day Bo Diddley Almost Came to Evesham)"
No video, sadly.
No video, sadly.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Define sadly :/
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neville harp wrote:Define sadly :/
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Oof!
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
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Doctor Wu though.
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
Count Machuki wrote:this thread could go on FOREVER
a personal fave:
but, really, is it a Pretty Things song?
Dunno, but it sure uses that Yardbirds raveup thing to good effect.
I'd go with The Pretenders' "Cuban Slide."
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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
The original, the classic, the first thought:
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk!
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Some others
Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk!
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
As close to a perfect record as I know:
Things that a fella can't forget...
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
And of course this:
And ten years later:
And ten years later:
Things that a fella can't forget...
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
honestly, the very first thing I thought of:
https://twitter.com/pftompkins/status/8 ... 44?lang=en
https://twitter.com/pftompkins/status/8 ... 44?lang=en
uggy poopy doody.
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oh no, it's the double-post Jackalope!
uggy poopy doody.
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
That JET song that was everywhere ten years ago. Is that Bo Diddley or just on the 1?
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Re: Best non-'Bo Diddley' Use of the 'Bo Diddley' Beat?
Tactful Cactus wrote:That JET song that was everywhere ten years ago. Is that Bo Diddley or just on the 1?
I thought that a lift from Lust for Life. I didn't even think of Lust for Life as Bo Diddley lift.
Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk!