Wednesday, September 19, 2007
"Da' Butt," E.U. (4/23/88)
...and now for something completely different.
Go-go is basically funk with a syncopated, percussive twist. It's never made much of a national impact outside of the D.C. area (where, for some reason, go-go started and has always been huge), with two exceptions: in 1978, Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers topped the R&B chart with "Bustin' Loose," and a decade later, E.U. (Experience Unlimited) replicated that feat with "Da' Butt" - with a little (okay, a lot of) help from Spike Lee. Lee's second film was the quasi-musical School Daze, an examination of relations between African-Americans at a historically black college in the south. One of the film's peak scenes is a school dance - at which everyone is clad only in their underwear or swimsuits - where the music is provided by E.U., then one of the ruling bands of the D.C. go-go scene. The song they play is, obviously enough, "Da' Butt," a fierce and funny slab of greasy funk that stood out from its compatriots at the top of the R&B chart like anything that wildly stands out from its surroundings. This is a guaranteed party-starter with no musical hangover: too black, too strong, too silly, too classic. A
...and now for something completely different.
Go-go is basically funk with a syncopated, percussive twist. It's never made much of a national impact outside of the D.C. area (where, for some reason, go-go started and has always been huge), with two exceptions: in 1978, Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers topped the R&B chart with "Bustin' Loose," and a decade later, E.U. (Experience Unlimited) replicated that feat with "Da' Butt" - with a little (okay, a lot of) help from Spike Lee. Lee's second film was the quasi-musical School Daze, an examination of relations between African-Americans at a historically black college in the south. One of the film's peak scenes is a school dance - at which everyone is clad only in their underwear or swimsuits - where the music is provided by E.U., then one of the ruling bands of the D.C. go-go scene. The song they play is, obviously enough, "Da' Butt," a fierce and funny slab of greasy funk that stood out from its compatriots at the top of the R&B chart like anything that wildly stands out from its surroundings. This is a guaranteed party-starter with no musical hangover: too black, too strong, too silly, too classic. A
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