Our last entry in the series brought you the Eddie Murphy classic, “Party All The Time“. Today we are going to up the ante with a mid 1990′s hit by the Presidents Of The United States Of America. The song of course is “Peaches”, which is both absurd and catchy but somehow still good and the music video is just bizarre. Either way it’s a classic slice of the waning years of MTV before it bottomed out.
Amazingly, “Peaches” was nominated for a Grammy.
Remember this gem? If you don’t, get ready. We are going back to the 1980′s when very little good music was made. Your tour guides are Eddie Murphy and Rick James. Here you will witness a reoccurring error made by many talented actors/celebrities, just because you are famous doesn’t mean you have the ability to sing.
This song is famous for a few reasons: It has showed up in Oscar worthy films such as Dumb and Dumber and Biodome and has been the inspiration for running through walls and nutball. The song my friends is none other than “Boom Shak-A-Lak” by Apache Indian. Don’t remember, enjoy this clip:
Apache Indian pioneered bhangramuffin sound, a combination of bhangra and raggamuffin, for all rasta and hip hop lovers to enjoy. The Indian is actually of Indian descent (the country not the oppressed natives of the America’s) which explains the bhangra influence. The raggamuffin influence came from his British roots, his love for rasta, and of weed.
“Boom Shak-A-Lak” was a cultural phenomenon in the mid-90′s. The song never won any awards, but it was awesome when used in Dumb in Dumber during the ski scene or Biodome when they chase the crazy scientist with coconut bombs at the end.
For those reasons and the for the fact that it usually makes a lot of people feel uncomfortable when played at unreasonably loud levels (try at a party), it is the official Forgotten Song of the Moment for April. Congrats Indian. All the Captian’s hope to hear some more crazy shit from you soon.
Welcome to another edition of Forgotten Song of the Moment. The featured song TCM is bringing you is one that you didn’t survive more than a few days of airplay in 1994, but it has been engrained in the Captain’s domes for 15 years.
Without further delay, we present you with “Lucas with the lid off”:
Who is Lucas and why is his lid off? What does any of the words in this song actually mean? We have no clue and neither do you. Lucas’s full name is Lucas Secon and unbeknownst to the Captain’s, his father founded Pottery Barn. Yes, that Pottery Barn – the mall deathtrap for any man that sacks up and does the mall trip with their girlfriend or wife.
Secon’s musical career ended after this song and it’s no surprise. If you make music no one can understand or even sing along to, you’re probably going to fail as a musician. Some of the shittiest rock bands, such as Poison, Warrant, the Damn Yankees, Bon Jovi, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Ratt, Motley Crue, and Def Leopard, mad millions by making bad music, but had very catchy lyrics. Lucas, if you’re out there and reading this, we suggest you take a page out of these guys’ books and try the same thing.
All the same, TCM salutes you Lucas for blowing your lid off and providing us with this song no one can interpret or even understands what it’s all about.
Remember that song you couldn’t stop listening to for a straight week? Well, TCM is going begin bringing those songs back. Why? Because it makes us stop and say, “What the fuck! I can’t believe that was once popular!”
Talk about a random song, do you remember “Scatman” by Scatman John? This song came out of no where in 1995 and took pop culture by hostage. It was huge, not Macerana huge, more Billy Fuccillo huge. No offense to Scatman John (RIP), but we don’t see how a sound about poop (“scat” = n. the excrement of an animal) could become so big. Also, we don’t understand why John pretty much named himself “Poopman” either.
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We hope you enjoy Forgotten Song of the Moment and if you have ideas for songs, be sure to leave comments. We’ve been breakdancing all day since we broke “Scatman” out of the vault.
