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    <updated>2007-03-03T18:11:22Z</updated>

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    <subtitle>rumor has it, a blogger once lived here.</subtitle>


    
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            <blockquote><p><em>Audio</em>: What&#39;s your favorite hidden track or song from an album?<br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">Submitted by <a href="http://kristine.vox.com/" class="enclosure-inline-user" at:enclosure="inline-user" at:user-xid="6p00b8ea0714f21bc0" at:screen-name="Kristine" at:delegate="people-connect" at:user-pic="http://up2.vox.com/6a00b8ea0714f21bc000d09e489a7fbe2b-75si" >Kristine</a>.</span><br /> </p></blockquote>

    




    





    
    
    





        





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 <div>Corny lyrics notwithstanding, this track not featured on the US release of Late Registration has quite the infectious beat and I&#39;m predisposed to like anything with Kweli and Common. Plus Q-Tip&#39;s verse feels very old school in a nostalgic but not totally offensive way.<br /></div>
        
    
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            <p>and the running undercurrent of just about everything I write on Vox.<br />    

    




    





    
    
    





        





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Now, I love both parts 1 &amp; 2 but at 3:51 of this song, the kids come in talking about what they are going to Be and Lonnie &quot;Pops&quot; Lynn, Common&#39;s father, gets on and goes off. I think about and quote this all the time.</p><p>Just be, people. Just be.</p><p>*<strong>note</strong>: My Mantra Song&#160; is not the same as my Theme Song or my Favorite Song. Those are for another time.<br /> <div><br /></div></p>
        
    
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<strong>“Soul Power” Common <em>Electric Circus</em> (MCA 2002)</strong></span><br /><span class="post_content">
We did a phase of beats that didn’t make the album, so “Soul Power” was
really the beginning, but we had already been working towards making
new stuff. I remember talking to Jay Dee about just taking the music to
another place. At the time we all were listening to Stereolab and
Radiohead and I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, so Jay
Dee knew I wanted some stuff that just didn’t sound standard, didn’t
sound as traditional. I would explain a direction and he would come up
with something that was completely above what I explained. We sat there
and he came across the bassline part. We were both like, Oh man, and he
started doing those drums the way he did it. It felt like that magic
that I wanted. I knew that the way the drums were programmed were
different than anything I had heard, and he went and pulled out this
record that had the “Soul power!” vocals on it. And once he did that, I
was like, “Man, this is a song right here.” The thing about Jay Dee was
he could take it anywhere you wanted it to go. He could play
instruments, he could cut. His musicianship was impeccable. <strong>Common</strong></span><br /></p></blockquote><a href="http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/11/18/shine-on-and-on-extended-sentimental-remix">Shine On...And On (Extended Sentimental Remix)</a>, The Fader Blog, 11.18.106</p><p>This song doesn&#39;t fall into the genres that make my usual Sunday Morning iTunes playlist but The Fader has me all sentimental.<br />    

    




    




    

    




    





    
    
    





        





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