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Class (unfinished demo version)
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You've heard Parliament, The Time, Rick James & Prince. Now hear this.
funk soul prince jack black swing one all perkins
Soul, R&B, Reggae, Swing Beat, New Jack Swing
The band was originally called All In One and was formed in the late 80s. A lot of the songs featured were performed solely by me or by me and a great singer called Michelle. We were heavily into New Jack Swing/hip-hop soul & Funk (Punkfunk), whereas (at the time) the rest of band believed that sort of music was going nowhere and just wanted to do UK soul. I wrote and performed all of the songs myself. A couple of companies attempted to sign us but being an ignorant group of black Londoners we imploded the second the contracts came through the post. I've probably written over 1000 songs and have a high "scrap-rate" because I'm fussy. I only like people to hear songs of mine that I still like a few weeks down the road.
Song Info
Genre
R&B R&B/Soul/Pop
Author
C Perkins
Uploaded
January 05, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.1 MB 128 kbps 1:12
Story behind the song
It's rare for me to start a song with just a beat, but one day in 1990 on the way to the Laundrette this groove came to me, so I turned back, set-up the instruments and put it all down on tape. When I finally got back to the laundrette (about half an hour later) some of my clothes had been stolen.
Lyrics
The song is about how materialistic people try to buy class. A decade later I heard Prince's song Style which has a similar theme to the finished version of this song. These lyrics were improvised, which is how I write many of the verses to my songs. But I think it's the only time I've ever done it with both the chorus and verse and been happy with the first attempt.
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