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Flyboy in the Buttermilk choose

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[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 18: Free Lancing is good – but Are you Glad cuts it (though it’s a close call).
at cut it, v.3
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 19: At their Peppermint Lounge gig [...] Blood, Weston and Ali shattered stompdown funk into skronking shards, which is cool I guess.
at stomp-down, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 18: When Blood goes vocal the bottom drops out like a stumblebum and the bridges take it to the hokey-pokey.
at hokey-pokey, n.1
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 18: Are you Glad to Be in America? (Rough Trade import) is not only the most frenzied but, despite the muddy mixdown, the most Ital.
at ital, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 19: In between the strings oodles of cryptic licks that noodle towards unorthodox and unsettling pattern shifts.
at lick, n.2
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 19: In between he strings oodles of cryptic licks that noodle towards unorthodox and unsettling pattern shifts.
at oodles, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 17: These days there’s a lot of funkploitation going down. But don’t read me wrong, ’cause pimping The Funk ain’t bad per se – truth is, pimping it’s always half of the game-play.
at pimp, v.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 19: His idea of a rave-up is smacking spiky chrome-metal crash chords upside the groove.
at rave, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 18: That cut’s also Blood’s only tight vocal tune. Otherwise he don’t take the singing shtick too seriously.
at schtick, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 18: When Blood goes vocal the bottom drops out like a stumblebum and the bridges take it to the hokey-pokey.
at stumblebum, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 18: That cut’s also Blood’s only tight vocal tune. Otherwise he don’t take the singing shtick too seriously.
at tight, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 17: The Funk has gotten uppity and gone ‘universal’ on the everyday brothers and sisters, contaminating realms long defunked, namely black and white bohemia.
at uppity, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 41: A masterpiece of mindless pleasure made for both mass-ass and Maggot consumption. [Ibid.] 42: This old funk for new [...] is George’s way of begging his maker for reincarnation into mass-ass appeal.
at mass-ass, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Bad Brains’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 21: Even though three white acts they did [...] is all knee-deeper into black street ridims than the Brains ever been and ain’t that a bitch?
at bitch, n.1
[US] G. Tate ‘Bad Brains’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 23: Who would’ve ever thought that one day some bloods would go to the white boy looking for the spirit?
at blood, n.2
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 44: Great if you’re a breaking member of the boogie box brigade.
at boogie box (n.) under boogie, v.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 44: Great if you’re a breaking member of the boogie box brigade.
at breaking, n.3
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 44: Great if you’re a breaking member of the boogie box brigade.
at brigade, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 41: Computer Games is Clinton’s response to the dealiest dookey shtick of our times: information overload.
at dookie, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Bad Brains’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 23: The band’s Scot-screeching frontman H.R. throws down like James Brown gone beserk.
at throw down, v.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 41: Like I said upfront, however, Computer Games is one signifying furthermucker 20 times over.
at father-fucker, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 41: Fusing the dance-floor funk-intellechy of Parliament and the hardcore jollies of Funkadelic.
at jolly, n.1
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 42: I’m no ‘Planet Rock’ junkie.
at junkie, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 41: A masterpiece of mindless pleasure made for both mass-ass and Maggot consumption.
at maggot, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 42: I had no use for the way my main Maggot Overlord was pimping that Monochrome Drone Brainwash Syndrome beat and doing free promos for ’KTU and ’BLS on the side.
at pimp, v.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 42: I had no use for the way my main Maggot Overlord was pimping that Monochrome Drone Brainwash Syndrome beat and doing free promos for ’KTU and ’BLS on the side.
at promo, n.
[US] G. Tate ‘Bad Brains’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 23: Hardcore is white (and no matter how much Hendrix and Berry they ripped, it still ain’t nothing but some whiteboy sounding shit now).
at rip, v.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 42: ‘Loopzilla’ has to be understood within the conceptual continuity of Computer Games to be dug for the sweet scam it truly is.
at scam, n.1
[US] G. Tate ‘Bad Brains’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 22: That may sound like some seriously schizzy shit to you, sis.
at schizzy, adj.
[US] G. Tate ‘Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 44: Great if you’re a breaking member of the boogie box brigade, tired as shit if you ain’t.
at as shit (adv.) under shit, n.
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