Help me identify this old school hip hop song!

[Club Molecule]

It has lyrics that sound like "sardines, and pork and beans" or something. I have no idea if they are the correct words, but that's what the chorus/hook sounds like.

It has a really cool two-note synth bassline.

Any ideas? I must get this track!

[Lex Diamonds]

I don't know what the original is but the Beastie Boys start singing that chorus in the live version of The Maestro on the Root Down EP.

[Kid Presentable]

Sardines-The Junkyard Band

[Ally Al]

Sardines-The Junkyard Band


if the kid is right, then tis GO GO and not hip hop. If you can't find it let me know i have it. If you can find it try to get the version that has "the word" as the opener

(washington hip-hop/funk hybrid scene from the mid-early 80's, still going strong i believe. If you enjoy that you should also track down anything you can find by Trouble Funk)

[Kid Presentable]

I expected The Mix Up to resemble it (don't ask me why), I guess cause I thought Alfredo Ortiz would be clangin and bangin away in the background a bit more.

[Ally Al]

I expected The Mix Up to resemble it (don't ask me why), I guess cause I thought Alfredo Ortiz would be clangin and bangin away in the background a bit more.

still haven't bought it yet, worth copping ?

[Kid Presentable]

still haven't bought it yet, worth copping ?

I would say no, but it's a grower. It really has a place, even if it doesn't grab you. I can only really be ambivalent about it, because I hated it at first, and listen to it pretty much daily.

Yeah, cop it.

[Club Molecule]

if the kid is right, then tis GO GO and not hip hop. If you can't find it let me know i have it. If you can find it try to get the version that has "the word" as the opener

(washington hip-hop/funk hybrid scene from the mid-early 80's, still going strong i believe. If you enjoy that you should also track down anything you can find by Trouble Funk)

Yeah I love really percussive music, I'll have to check out all this Go Go and Trouble Funk stuff. Any Trouble Funk you could reccomend as a good place to start?

[Ally Al]

Yeah I love really percussive music, I'll have to check out all this Go Go and Trouble Funk stuff. Any Trouble Funk you could reccomend as a good place to start?

start here

drop the bomb (http://www.zshare.net/audio/28694116464f5a/)

this is an excellent track released on sugarhill

also find still smokin', good to go, pump me up, trouble funk express etc etc

also tilt that they did under the alias arkade funk

very VERY good live band

i can find the version of the word/sardines together, it was on a def jam compilation from way back, my copy was taxed many years ago so i'll link up the individual tracks

[Ally Al]

It has lyrics that sound like "sardines, and pork and beans" or something. I have no idea if they are the correct words, but that's what the chorus/hook sounds like.

It has a really cool two-note synth bassline.

Any ideas? I must get this track!


the junkyard band - the word and sardines (http://rapidshare.com/files/45374004/the_junkyard_band.zip)

[Club Molecule]

Thanks for the info guys. I'm gonna check out this Go Go!

Do any of those bands till play live?