Score: 2 bustouts, 2 hip-hop songs and 6 moderate-to-egregious AL standbys.
But, most importantly, did the set RAWK hard enough? 
Hee. I haven't seen FP's assessment.
Well, we got Lenny, Lou, Pixies, Smithereens, and the 'Mats, all of whom could be construed as rockers, so that should have sufficed to fill the RAWK quotient. Why do I get the feeling it didn't?
Probably because we got TWO hip-hop records as bookends. He's not a big fan.
"Buffalo Stance" is one of those songs that I once considered hip hop, but now I just think of it as a pop hit (and a good one at that). Evolution, baby!
I think hip hop is a fair placement. I note that
Buffalo Stance borrows heavily from Malcolm
McLaren's
Buffalo Gals. Today's other hip hop track also makes liberal use of sampling. Years
ago I read an article, the details of which are lost to my memory, that noted 3 Feet High and Rising
as a seminal album in regard to getting permissions and paying for sampling other works. If I
recall correctly, that wasn't the usual practice at the time, but De La Soul used the technique so
much that it brought the issue to the fore.
