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Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you

THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER.

01. Sesame Street Fever (The Count, Grover, Ernie, Cookie Monster and Robin Gibb)
02. Doin' The Pigeon (Bert & the Girls)
03. Rubber Duckie (Ernie & His Rubber Duckie)
04. Trash (Robin Gibb)
05. C is for Cookie (Cookie Monster & the Girls)
06. Has Anybody Seen My Dog? (Marty and Grover)

The entire album is worth it if only for one line: "Look over there, your dog is getting funky with Cookie Monster!"

Now to find the Electric Company double album on MP3... I know it exists somewhere. If only I'd been larcenous back in my college days and ganked it from WMUA when I had the chance!

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littlegirltoast.livejournal.com

It is a great record. So is its followup, Sesame Disco:

Here's what happened to me, though. I sampled a kick drum and portions of the bassline from C Is For Cookie and made a beat (also using an isolated snare from Trash). The way I chopped it, it went really well with this spanish guitar I'd sampled, but it's still recognizable to anyone who's got a nose for samples.

I did that years after originally picking up the record, because I was going through disco records I'd overlooked for sampling. I hadn't messed with it before because it actually took some surgery to extract portions of the bass from in between other instruments because it's never isolated as a phrase on the record. But within a few months, Ninja Tune did something that made me look silly.

They teamed up with CTW and reissued the (apparently classic) tape edit 12" of C Is For Cookie. It looks like this:

The idea is, the record represents a bit of hip hop pre-history because it features a club remix created before the advent of digital editing. The multitrack tapes were physically sliced, copied and spliced, in addition to having different elements mixed higher or lower and/or having effects applied to them.

So what do you suppose makes up a huge chunk of this remix? My bassline, isolated. This bugs me for two reasons - one is that if they'd done that on the LP version (or I'd ever found the insanely rare and valuable 12" release), I would have been saved a lot of sample chopping time. The other is that I would NEVER sample a reissue, especially one that came out on a sample-based music label. It'd be like using a paint-by-numbers book if you wanted to be an artist, you know? So I'm frightened of the idea of someone recognizing my bassline, knowing about this reissue (maybe without even knowing about the LP version) and assuming I did something I would never do.

Okay, I'm sure you didn't need to hear all that. But what you DO need to know is what the b-side of the record is.

Pinball Number Count by The Pointer Sisters (DJ Food edit)

Yeah, that's "one two three FOUR FIVE! six, seven eight NINE TEN! Eleven twelve!" from the pinball animations. It was secretly performed by the Pointer Sisters. And for the 12", all of the separate, tiny vignette versions from the show, with their different solos and numbers called, have been edited into one big funky track.

If you love old sesame street music like I do, you need this.