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The A Side:
The Humpty Dance (Mini-Hump Radio Mix) 4:40
The B Side:
The Humpty Dance (Bonus Hump Mix) 6:28
The Humpty Dance (Humpstrumental Mix) 3:16
The Brief:
As the 80s ended and the 90s began, a change began in popular music or a change in my perception of popular music began. A change I didn’t/don’t really care for. Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance” is one of those songs that helped usher in that change in my opinion (as well as the other records I’m posting this week). It isn’t necessarily a song I don’t like; it just seems to fit the mold of what I perceived in the 90s. A gimmick produces a single that becomes a smash hit, driving an album of average to way below average songs that didn’t meet the expectations of the single. Maybe I just have a more romanticized view of the 80s cause that’s where I spent my teen years but, it seems to me that the songwriting and musicianship in the 80s produced more consistent and balanced albums than the 90s did. A trend that I feel has continued right on to the present day…
The Billboard Charts:
| Chart | Debuted | Debut Pos. | Peak Pos. | Wks on Chart |
| Hot 100 | 3/17/90 | 81 | 11 | 23 |
| Hot Black Singles | 2/17/90 | 7 | 21 | |
| Hot Dance/Disco | 3/3/90 | 20 | 13 |
The Source:
Label: Tommy Boy Records
Catalog#: TB 944
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 1/3 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1989
The Equipment:
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable
Audio Technica AT440MLa Phono Cartridge
Yamaha RX-Z1 A/V Receiver
Sony PCM-R300 DAT Deck
Turtle Beach Catalina sound card
Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Scanner
Spin Clean Record Washer MKII
The Software:
Cool Edit Pro
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
Microsoft ICE
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A song that got banned on the radios here…
And I so agree with what you said…back in the 80s…each artist have their own distinct sound….except if they are produced by Prince…LOL!
R&B in the 90s (and even up till now) especially became so homogenized. And the pop music these days…there’s no difference if your Rihanna’s or Katy’s or Jessie’s are fronting the songs…because they all sound alike!
Why ya gotta pick on Prince? LOL
hehehehe…that’s the true testament to the Prince influence!
Time to defend Digital Underground? Thanks for the “Hump Mix” by the way.
There LPs were excellent: Full of creative ideas that at times were both accessible and unique. When a track wasn’t transcendent, it was, at least, original–just like the group that they frequently sampled, Parliament/Funkadelic.
The worst thing I can say about “The Humpty Dance” was that it was overplayed. I was sad when the mid-90s hit and Shock G began to run out of ideas.
Now, if you ask me about changes in hip hop during the mid-90s, I can start to get a bit acerbic!
Agreed, it wasn’t too bad late 80s early 90s but, in my mind songs like this led to the blandness in R&B that set in from the mid90s on…
This is cool to hear again! Never had it on vinyl but I did have the Maxi-cassette….thanks for the rip! FYI…Tupac was a member of this group.