CoYoT51
(Lima, Perù - Reims, France) | | Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 10:39 | |
"Chevere" :O)
Just a Ge-Nius.
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RabbitEars
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RabbitEars
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when you oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh off your trip...  |
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justin_thyme
(Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i) | | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 19:44 | |
gatorade wrote:
Dancin!!!
Yessiree, here too! We've a big cha cha cha in progress! Chevre! |
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gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA) | | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 19:42 | |
gatorade wrote:Can never have enough Stevie, oh no. Bring it on! Dancin!!! |
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Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal) | | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 19:42 | |
Zep wrote: Some songs, you have to go to. Others, you just let come to you. This is one of the latter. That's SO true! Took a couple of listens for this, but oh, it came to me. Zep, you're rather profound.  |
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gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA) | | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 19:40 | |
Can never have enough Stevie, oh no. Bring it on!
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maxgruv
(Surrey, BC, Canada) | | Posted: May 18, 2010 - 18:39 | |
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Zep
(The big country) | | Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 09:30 | |
philbertr wrote:Steve has another great song about Mistra Know-it-all that I think talks about the guy who is babbling away at the beginning of this song.
Richard Nixon. Now, go back and listen to Mistra Know-it-all, along with You Haven't Done Nothin', also about Tricky Dick, and it all makes sense. |
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Zep
(The big country) | | Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 09:28 | |
Proclivities wrote:F***king brilliant song by one of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. It doesn't matter what he's going on about in the intro.
Some songs, you have to go to. Others, you just let come to you. This is one of the latter. |
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twitterpated
| | Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 11:12 | |
derekd wrote:"Can't we all get along?"—Rodney King
April Fool's? :) |
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derekd
(Just Visiting This Planet) | | Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 11:04 | |
"Can't we all get along?"—Rodney King
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twitterpated
| | Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 11:02 | |
Can anyone translate what that man is shouting at the opening of this song? I've always wondered about that.
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2010 - 20:17 | |
rtrudeau wrote:Some song threads have great comments. This is not one of those threads.
Yeah; it's too bad, because this is a great song. |
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dmax
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philbertr wrote:
One last comment, then I'm gonna let all you white folks carry on with your over-intellectualizing on this language thing.
I was living and partying with black folks back in the day when this album came out. They knew who he was singing about (as I mentioned in a previous post, one "Mistra Know-it-all") and they knew that he was saying "Chevrolet" NOT "chevere".
(And for those of you who insist that he is singing in real Spanish, how do you explain "...Iran, Iraq..." in the same phrase? Or isn't that what he is singing? I suppose there are some real Spanish words that sound like "Iran, Iraq"?)
As has been noted by another black entertainer, "You white folks got such tight asses!"
Dude, this is so racist. Switch the colors around contend that another "white entertainer" commented on "all you black folks" and imagine the anger it would generate... I realize that you'll never cop to this, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve calling out. Stop ruining our enjoyment of this great song. |
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stevo_b
(Rock Ridge) | | Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 08:55 | |
RadioDoc wrote:Or Michelle singing this at the end of a hard.... ...nevermind.  exactly! |
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That_SOB
(The Dark Side of the Tune) | | Posted: Nov 26, 2009 - 13:05 | |
You don't have to like Stevie's music to realize he is one of the heavy hitters in R & B and R&R.He has had a long and distinguished career as a singer-songwriter. The mans got it, a gift that sets him and his music apart from the maddening noise of the shear mass of wannabe's. |
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Hannio
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Sep 24, 2009 - 13:04 | |
philbertr wrote:
I was living and partying with black folks back in the day when this album came out. ... blah blabbity blah
So you say you fraternized with and even participated in the uninhibited festivities of our proud Nubian brethren? I had heard of you. |
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rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California) | | Posted: Sep 24, 2009 - 13:00 | |
Some song threads have great comments. This is not one of those threads.
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RadioDoc
(Chicagoland) | | Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 01:39 | |
Tana wrote:Love this song - lifts all my cares away. Being that Stevie Wonder is Michelle Obama's favorite singer, I'm picturing Barack singing this to her at the end of a hard day.  Or Michelle singing this at the end of a hard.... ...nevermind. |
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On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud) | | Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 01:39 | |
Can't help myself . . . must . . . post . . . dancing . . . banana . . .  |
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denmom
(Connecticut) | | Posted: Jul 23, 2009 - 10:35 | |
Aha! I see we're on an anti-anxiety groove...better than pharmaceuticals. |
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Zep
(Third base) | | Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 09:37 | |
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Jun 05, 2009 - 14:47 | |
F***king brilliant song by one of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. It doesn't matter what he's going on about in the intro.
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toterola
(Further) | | Posted: May 20, 2009 - 21:53 | |
philbertr wrote:
One last comment, then I'm gonna let all you white folks carry on with your over-intellectualizing on this language thing.
I was living and partying with black folks back in the day when this album came out. They knew who he was singing about (as I mentioned in a previous post, one "Mistra Know-it-all") and they knew that he was saying "Chevrolet" NOT "chevere".
(And for those of you who insist that he is singing in real Spanish, how do you explain "...Iran, Iraq..." in the same phrase? Or isn't that what he is singing? I suppose there are some real Spanish words that sound like "Iran, Iraq"?)
As has been noted by another black entertainer, "You white folks got such tight asses!"
Unnnhh... at the very least, that was in poor taste. And that's "Misstra Know It All", by the way.  |
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Baby_M
(a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | | Posted: May 13, 2009 - 05:32 | |
justin_thyme wrote:I don't think Stevie sang "Chevrolet" . . . it's most likely " chévere," an expression used by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans and other Latinos as an affirmative acclamation of approval — sort of like "cool" or "groovy" or "it's all good" in contemporary English. Goes along with the song's theme, "don't you worry 'bout a thing."  The character Stevie is playing in the skit at the beginning is a show-off and a little bit of a huckster, so I wonder if he's trying to say "chévere'" but it's coming out as "Chevrolet" because his "very, very fluent Spanish" really isn't as fluent as the character wants us to think it is. Whatever he's saying, it's a great song and 'todo 'sta bien, chévere'! |
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philbertr
(Hurricane Target Florida) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 08:56 | |
justin_thyme wrote:I don't think Stevie sang "Chevrolet" . . . it's most likely " chévere," an expression used by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans and other Latinos as an affirmative acclamation of approval — sort of like "cool" or "groovy" or "it's all good" in contemporary English. Goes along with the song's theme, "don't you worry 'bout a thing." One last comment, then I'm gonna let all you white folks carry on with your over-intellectualizing on this language thing. I was living and partying with black folks back in the day when this album came out. They knew who he was singing about (as I mentioned in a previous post, one "Mistra Know-it-all") and they knew that he was saying "Chevrolet" NOT "chevere". (And for those of you who insist that he is singing in real Spanish, how do you explain "...Iran, Iraq..." in the same phrase? Or isn't that what he is singing? I suppose there are some real Spanish words that sound like "Iran, Iraq"?) As has been noted by another black entertainer, "You white folks got such tight asses!" |
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diazo
(high in the northern rockies) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 08:54 | |
A little caveat: this song is not on the pictured disc. |
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a_genuine_find
(not me, radio paradise) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 08:48 | |
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thatch
(Shhh....at work....) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 08:46 | |
daedalus wrote:Anyone who wants to learn about breath control and how to really sing with their whole being only needs to listen to this man and the "Innervisions" album,
Brilliant !
Yours sincerely,
Mistra Remembers It All
Are you listening, Ray LaMontange? |
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