ok cats,
whats the best songs for your box then?
for me, modern wise it has to be cascada's "evacuate the dancefloor" cos its a bassy song and really gets the audiosonics speakers pumping-old skool it has to be michael jackson,or any one of my number of 80s compo tapes-ohhhh yeah!

Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest

Mantronix - Ladies

KeyMatic - Breakin' In Space

To name but a few....

Andy,Try some Loose Ends e.g Hanging On a String,Or some Sos Band,Remember...80s tunes were made for 80s boxes,most of the modern stuff makes these boxes sound crapp..over modulating,over clipping,basically they are recorded tooo loud for 80s boxes to handle,drives the amp and speakers too hard and they dont like it..

Also,good selection steppa...classics !

i notice that a lot, getto, some of my boxes do crap out on modern day songs cos, like you say they were made for 1980s tunes, not all the modern jungle music-i very rarely like modern stuff anyway-i dont have mp3/ipod etc cos i dont want them-absolute rubbish-i dont even have many more than 5 cd's.my collection is tapes-and 99.99% of them are old school tapes.just love it

heres a few of my faves.
freeez, i.o.u.
ollie an jerry, breakin
depeche mode, just can,t get enough
human league, love action
oh and...color me bad, i wanna s*x u up
these are my kinda box tunes
and of course, some late 80,s House music artists like s,express, bomb the bass, hithouse, and a real cool tune by Krush called house arrest

True gettoman, modern stuff doesn't distort my boxes it just sounds like the compressed, spitty, tiring dirge that it is. 80's / early 90's material actually had DYNAMICS, contrast between loud and soft sounds...
To be fair, FM radio is the worst culprit - over-zealous use of compression to make everthing REALLY LOUD AND 'IN YER FACE' ALL THE TIME WITHOUT ANY ROOM FOR THE SOUND TO BREATHE.

Phew!

Anyway, back on topic....

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Wonder If I Take You Home

Total Contrast - Hit & Run

Kashif - I Just Gotta Have You

herbie hancock---------rockit

the message----grandmaster flash and the furious 5

plus any 80`s electronic stuff..............great

yes yes steppa,does'nt matter what box i play,if i switch the tuner on,you dont get no sound level,the led's just all light up,or vu sweem needles just fly accross to full,totally crap !!
ha ha ha dave,i have all the electro's on mp3,and i was playing them all today through my laptop into my conion,it was good to listen too,cant beleve i used to blast them on the street when i was 13-14-15 years old,and i still listen to them sometimes,just sound slightly embarrassing now though ...

I'd have to say 'Never Too Much' by Luther Vandross, just check out the video; it's all boxes!

80's electric funk...Looking For the Perfect Beat and Pack Jam...The Show by Dougie Fresh is also perfect boombox music...

good choices lav-have several of those artists/somgs in my tape collection.now if only i could get a c100 to play them on.

Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

Edwin Birdsong -Rapper Dapper Slapper

Zapp- More Bounce To The Ounce

Started for ,me

None of the disco stuff for me. Give me something with some VOLUME, please.

How about a good old cassette side?

Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
The Misfits - Saturday Night
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
Aldo Nova - Fantasy

salt n peppa - push it
culture beat - mr vain
human league - dont you want me

Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Kool & The Gang - Fresh
Afrika Bambaataa - Looking For The Perfect Beat
Prince - 1999
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music It's The Thing
Manzel - Space Funk
Kano - I'm Ready
Desi - I Want To be with You
Kadenza - Let's Do It
World Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ
Clash - Magnificent 7
Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather

...they're too much to list!

Computer Love
Jam Master Jay
Ditty (Paperboy)

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Originally posted by davebush:
herbie hancock---------rockit...

agreed. It's THE perfect boomer tune.

eddy grant - electric avenue

PLANET ROCK

Get ready for some SCRATCHIN'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...c2qM&feature=related

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ollie an jerry, breakin

Damn straight, and this is just my personal favourite but Stir It Up by Ms Patti Labelle. Damn I really dig the vibe of the video too..that and Giorgio Mordoer & Phil Oakey's - Together In Electric Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIb00Sj7Ru4

ye that phil oakey tune is awesome great vid too, loads of boxes in it good taste their mate

quote:

Originally posted by +3 dB:
None of the disco stuff for me. Give me something with some VOLUME, please.

How about a good old cassette side?

Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
The Misfits - Saturday Night
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
Aldo Nova - Fantasy

Great list...I had to go download all of them!

quote:

Originally posted by Ghettoman:
Andy,Try some Loose Ends e.g Hanging On a String,Or some Sos Band,Remember...80s tunes were made for 80s boxes,most of the modern stuff makes these boxes sound crapp..over modulating,over clipping,basically they are recorded tooo loud for 80s boxes to handle,drives the amp and speakers too hard and they dont like it..

Also,good selection steppa...classics !

Wow Ghettoman, some of my favorites since I purchased my first box and still pumping on my iphone I would say Hashim - Al Nayfish (THE SOUL). I remember my neighbor inviting me over to listen to his brand new Fisher PH-480k with that song pumping, just amazing...

to me would be too many to list....
id say ELECTRO period!!!

but a few i will list...excellent perfect b-box beats!!!
Jam on it...
Clear...
Funky soul makossa...
Looking for the perfect beat...
Pac jam
Planet rock...
hip hop bee bop
two sisters high noon...
cod...in the bottle...
the mandingos...i got the bass
beat box...art of noise
Malcom mclaren..buffalo gals / do you like scratchin....

whew i gotta stop....id fill the page for sure.....

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Originally posted by retro:

Wow Ghettoman, some of my favorites since I purchased my first box and still pumping on my iphone

Same Here Retro,on my Mp3 Player i have

BB&Q band - Genie & Main Attraction

Cool Notes - spend the night

Dennis Edwards - Dont look any further

Joyce Sims - All & All,Come in to my life,Lifetime Love

Loose Ends - Hangin on a string,Nights Of Pleasure,Slow Down

Princess - say i'm your number 1

Rene & Angela - i'll be good

SoS band - Just be good to me,Saturday Love,The Finest

Surface - Happy

Chandra Simmonds - Never Gonna Let You Go

52nd Street - Tell me how it feels

Barbera Mason - Another Man

Total Contrast - Takes a little time

Hot Streak - Body work (bit different)

I love this stuff,i used to listen to it all the time when i was a kid

Blaster,i also love your selection,all good tunes from my past

Quick question for andy v what do you refer as jungle music...?

Back to the task in hand .

Zapp More Bounce to the Ounce .

Edwin Birdsong Rapper Dapper Slapper .

cman,andy v means fast pace drum and bass music..

Like This For Example..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ature=watch_response

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Originally posted by Lasonic TRC-920:

quote:

Originally posted by +3 dB:
None of the disco stuff for me. Give me something with some VOLUME, please.

How about a good old cassette side?

Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
The Misfits - Saturday Night
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
Aldo Nova - Fantasy

Great list...I had to go download all of them!

Awesome.

Does anyone remember these cheesy things?





They're great for an old box. Authentic, you know? Kind of like little time machines. They seemed to be everywhere and there were so may different tapes out back then too. Then for some reason almost all of a sudden they just quit making them.

Afrika Bambaataa - Bambaataa's Theme
Aleem - release Yourself
Art of Noise - Close to the Edit
Captain Rock - Return of captain Rock
Cybotron - Clear
Cybotron - Techno City
Davy DMX - One for the Treble
Disco Four - We're at the Party
Divine Sounds - What people do for Money
Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde - Butt Naked
Freestyle - Dont stop the rock
Keymatic - Breakin in Space
LA Dream Team - Rockberry jam
Malcolm Mclaren - Buffalo Gals
Man Parish - Boogie down Bronx
Mixmaster Gee - The Manipulator
Newcleus - Jam on It
Run DMC - It's Like That
Shannon - Let the Music Play
The Worlds Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ
Toddy Tee - Batterram
Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom
Twilight 22 - Siberian Nights
Whodini - Friends

The list goes onnnnnn.....

What?

My Radio - LL Cool Jay

JVC RCM-90 closeup on the album!

Oh - I think the LL ool J song is called "I Can't Live Without My Radio"

Just started downloading the old school joints because all your lists reminded me of the 80's... Here are some others -

Eveylyn Champagne King - Love Come Down
Run DMC - Sucker MC's
SOS Band - Just Be Good TO Me
Paid in Full - Eric B & Rakim
Don't look any Further - Dennis Edwards
It's Yours - T La Rock & Jazzy Jay
Encore - Cheryl Lynn
I Shot The Sheriff - EPMD
Don't Belive The Hype - Public Enemy
Fight For Your Right to Part - Beastie Boys
Roxanne - UTFO

Goodness, so many!

the cranberries-linger

I think any song that can remind me of when I was jamming my Aiwa Cs880 while playing hoop back in the early 80s is my favs because it just makes me reminice to the best times. Tom Sawyer, Cars-Gary Numan,Shout at the Devil- Motley Crue, I Love Rock n Roll-Joan Jett, Dokken, Billie Jean and alot of the stuff they were playing on MTV was at the same time the songs you heard coming from the boomboxes.