The Vault: Cymande Should Be Played At All Hours
Your Idolators have many obsessions–puppets, blooper reels, puppet-blooper reels–but one that’s been popping up inexplicably lately is Spike Lee’s The 25th Hour, a movie that’s likely much better than you remember, and which is highlighted by a fantastic (but disturbing) nightclub scene featuring Cymande’s 1973 funk-soul classic “Bra.” The group’s catalog has long been plundered by both sample-needy DJs and soundtrack supervisors–Lee also used “Bra” in the much-likely-worse-than-you-remember Crooklyn–and even though we’ve heard this track about a dozen or so times in the past week alone, we’re still not sick of it:
Cymande – Bra [MP3, link expired]
