As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, January 31, 2014

#85 It Takes Two -- Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock (1988)



In his writeup of this song (which he has at #956), Dave Marsh provides a great description of dueling “best singles” lists developed by Rolling Stone magazine in 1988 and Spin magazine in 1989. The latter had “It Takes Two” at #1; Marsh quotes rock critic David Hinckley characterizing the pick as “the equivalent of a three-year-old shooting his mother with a squirt gun in order to get her attention.”

OK, so I wouldn’t put this at the top of my list, but it nevertheless is among the best of the classic hip-hop tracks.

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