9 July 2009: 1992

[urth]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

[Davefish]

BOS for "The Contest", the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV.

[Davefish]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

Sounds like Luka Bloom.

ETA: Google confirms this.  It's called "I Need Love".  I don't like him.

[RGMike]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

Luka Bloom -- an Acoustic Sunrise fave. (he also does that bicycle song "Acoustic Motorbike")

[urth]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

Sounds like Luka Bloom.

I think you may have nailed it, DF.

[RGMike]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

Sounds like Luka Bloom.

ETA: Google confirms this.  It's called "I Need Love".  I don't like him.

because he's Irish? or because he's whitefacing LL Cool J?

[Tinka Cat]

BOS U2. 

[RGMike]

it's an Irish twin-spin!  "On your knees, boy!"

[Davefish]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

Sounds like Luka Bloom.

ETA: Google confirms this.  It's called "I Need Love".  I don't like him.

because he's Irish? or because he's whitefacing LL Cool J?

Well, I've never heard this tune before, but it's kinda painful to listen to, lyrically.  I've heard him on RadioParadise where he has another song with really dumb lyrics, though I don't remember what it was.  I generally switch the station when he comes on.

[urth]

BOS2 -- and an openly gay artist to boot.

Was always amused by the fact that two of the three members of Husker Du were gay, but the one who most fit the stereotype of what a gay guy would look like was the one who was straight (Greg Norton):

[RGMike]

So who's this Irish-sounding guy rapping? Stereo MCs maybe?

Sounds like Luka Bloom.

ETA: Google confirms this.  It's called "I Need Love".  I don't like him.

because he's Irish? or because he's whitefacing LL Cool J?

Well, I've never heard this tune before, but it's kinda painful to listen to, lyrically.  I've heard him on RadioParadise where he has another song with really dumb lyrics, though I don't remember what it was.  I generally switch the station when he comes on.

The LL Cool J version was a big hit in '87.  The rhymes are a bit... simple. But LL's delivery makes it sexy, whereas Bloom just sounds dorky.

[urth]

Wow, Sinead's big statement against that Catholic church on live TV. That caused a little bit of a stir, no?

[Tinka Cat]

cue sound of crickets after Sinead goes all rippy on the pope pic.  I read Lorne Michaels instructed the stage mgrs NOT to light the "Applause" sign when she did this. 

[RGMike]

BOS3 Sinead tearing up her pic of the pope. There's a great graffiti all over the Mission that says "The Pope is Poop". Heh.

hey! let's pretend that we're dead!  I can't decide if this song is really great or really stupid.

[radical347]

I'm going to be the voice of divergence about that Luka Bloom song.  I have not heard it before either, but it was nice and relaxing and did elicit that fuzzy feeling inside, so BOS2 to that. (The first BOS being Bob Mould)