Jam On The Mutha

There is a worrying trend over at one of my favourite sites and from a man who should know better.

Ctel over at AcidTed has been posting some dodgy remixes of 70s and 80s soft rock. After his post on Friday featuring Foreigner's Cold As Ice, I jocularly commented what next a techno version of Boston's More Than A Feeling.

To my horror about ten minutes ago while checking to see what new stuff Ctel had posted I was confronted with, yes a bloody dance remix of More Than A Feeling. I tried, as instructed to suspend my prejudices and just listen to the track for what it is but I couldn't.

The chords transported me back to a rather awful time in the 80's when Miami Vice ruled,  all of the geezers in Lanark wanted to be Crockett and dressed in single button jackets with sleeves rolled up and slip on shoes with no socks. These guys would congregate in a particularly tacky pub called Flicks which was all shiny chrome and mirrors and would drink Shlitz. This is where the link with Boston comes in, as More Than A Feeling was used in a particularly successful ad campaign, well here it seemed anyway,  for that watery and tasteless brew as it became the beer of choice for the geezers with the permed mullets and dress jackets.

I had to delete the track after 3mins 24 seconds as I couldn't take any more.

Here is the only 'successful' dance cover I know of, of a soft rock classic and as it was on Wau Mr Modo I always suspected was rather tongue in cheek, either that or the Doves they were necking were that bit stronger than the ones available up North.

It was always a laugh dropping this in the pub where I used to dj as you would be guaranteed to have at least one aging rocker come up and tell me that it was sacrilege and I should take it off immediately.

Jam On The Mutha - Hotel California (Ibiza 90 mix)

Jam On The Mutha - Hotel California (Intru-mental)

Jam On The Mutha

After 19 years I still don't know whether I like this track or not.

I like the idea of it and most of the time will play the instru-mental mix rather than vocal Ibiza 90 mix. I also loved the fact that when I dropped it in the pub where I djed, I would get some long hair or double denim clad type coming up and calling it sacrelidge and how dare I play this rubbish, which just made me play it all the more.

I bought Jam on The Mutha's cover of Hotel California in the remix format first as it was remixed by the Orb and Orb remixes were always worth the money , it was also in the bargain bin, so I couldn't really lose.

I know very little about Jam on The Mutha, apart from the fact that it seems to be one of Youth's many guises and that Hotel California was released on Wau! Mr Modo, the same label as The Orb at the time.

I will make one statement for the defence in the case for the release of this record, it was 1990 and the E's were very good.

Jam On The Mutha - Hotel California ( Ibiza 90 mix)

Jam On The Mutha - Hotel California (Orb In Cali mix)