“You know how our skits are so long that people think they’re songs? That’s what this is.” - Posdnuos If you listen closely to “Fallin’”, it’s a very sophisticated blend of live instrumentation and sampling. “We wouldn’t play ourselves to do something that was wack, but the way the concept plays itself out, it’s supposed to be wack.”īut as they showed us on De La Soul is Dead with “Kicked Out The House” and “Who Do U Worship”, even De La’s joke songs end up being pretty damn good. In the same 1993 Vibe article, Dave echoes Pos’ statement that the group didn’t take the song very seriously.
The official music video for Duice’s “Dazzey Duks”. “You know how our skits are so long that people think they’re songs?” Pos said.
According to a 1993 feature in Vibe, the group almost viewed the track as a song-length skit when they first started recording.
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Agreeing that this idea had some potential, they picked up a copy of Petty’s Full Moon Fever from the store and started building a song around it. But we didn’t know who Teenage Fanclub were at the time, so we picked them.” - Posdnuosįrom there, Dave took the joke one step further and proposed a track about De La themselves falling off. “We could’ve been paired up with familiar names. “It started as a joke, ‘Hey, let’s make a song based off a Tom Petty video,’” he told LA Weekly. Something about the song and video lit a creative spark in Pos, so he pitched an idea to everyone else. As they hung out in the reception area of the studio with Teenage Fanclub, Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” video started playing on MTV. It was during one these early chemistry building sessions that De La found some unexpected inspiration for their contribution to Judgement Night. “We’re both musicians obviously, so we just started vibing.” “I think they might have been a little in awe of us at first, but when they saw that we were normal dudes they calmed down,” Pos told LA Weekly. They also had to contend with the fact that Teenage Fanclub seemed starstruck during their first studio sessions together. Shortly after catching a flight to Scotland for some studio sessions with Teenage Fanclub, Dave, Maseo, and Posdnuos realized they didn’t have a clue what kind of record they wanted to make. The official music video for Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’”. “We didn’t know who Teenage Fanclub were at the time, so we picked them,” Pos told LA Weekly. Despite the fact that the band boasted a fan base that included Kurt Cobain, De La had never heard of them. Seeing Teenage Fanclub’s name on the list of potential collaborators, they were intrigued by the Scottish-based group. We wouldn’t play ourselves to do something that was wack, but the way the concept plays itself out, it’s supposed to be wack.” - DaveĬhoosing a familiar name would have been far too easy for De La, a group known for pushing the envelope and re-inventing themselves with every release. “We actually went to the studio, and they started pairing up different artists, and we could’ve been paired up with familiar names,” Posdnuos told LA Weekly in a 2009 interview.
After De La signed on to the soundtrack, the Long Island natives met with the producers to figure out which group they would be assigned to work with. Some might think Happy Walters or a record label executive came up with the idea to put Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul together, but it was actually De La themselves who were responsible for the unlikely pairing. Acting as the soundtracks’ fourth and final single, it remains the most enduring selection from the project. But the shining moment on the entire album is without a doubt Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul’s “Fallin’”, a cautionary tale about the group losing their luster as well as their fans. and Del the Funky Homosapien, and several other surprising musical unions. A somewhat inconsistent offering that features some gems and some misfires, the album boasts collaborative tunes with Slayer and Ice-T, Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill, Dinosaur Jr.
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