Spliff wrote:
quoted 13 lines jgill@u.arizona.edu wrote:>
> jgill@u.arizona.edu wrote:
> >
> > > little tired nowadays and today we Americans have latched onto "it's the
> > > bomb!" to describe great music and good quality whatnots.
> >
> > Eric, don't forget where the birth of "the bomb" took place! Was it
> > streetsounds(shite store, imho). refer to wls for further underground
> > details
>
> Actually, it comes from a song by Radioactive Golfish, called
> appropriately enough, "LSD is the bomb." This was released in late '92,
> I believe.
I don't know why I am contibuting to this thread but here goes.
One person already pointed out to the list that "the bomb" was an expression
used by P-Funk. It was actually a common term or expression used in funk with
various uses or meanings. Sort of like "tear the roof of the sucker" or
"let the mother-fucker burn". I guess in a simplified sense it would mean that
things are so right that they can't go wromng or that the speaker is too strong
or too content with who s/he is to let any difficulties get in the way of life
or the freedom of expression. In a more abstract sense, it is the re-structuring
of a language born of a culture or underground for the purpose of empowering
the speaker with the destruction and post-strucur(alism) of a language used
formerly as a control device by the speakers opressors. The paradoxical double
meaning of the slang in the simplest sense confuses the opressors and in a larger
sense becomes a language or code unfamiliar to the opressors and is thereby used
as a weapon against the originators of the bulding blocks of said language. It
is beautifuly sublime and should not be perceived as a substitute for an expressive
vocabulary or as evidence of poor skills of criticism (as was suggested in the
original post regarding this subject) nor should it be mistaken as having roots
in any sub-genre of house music.
Steve Grant
"You dropped the bomb on me"
-Gap Band