Originally Posted by
BobbyC
Boogiedown--Yeah there's a whole album that was released a few years ago online, but never officially released. Nobody from the group knows who leaked it but they can confirm nobody got a dime out of it. The record was pretty solid--far better than that garbage In the house CD they released in 1995. I knew In the House was gonna be bad because I met the [[then) current 5th when they played Dallas. I met [[then) male lead singer Gregg Walker backstage--Florence announced onstage that their new record was coming out soon, and I was excited, so I asked Gregg about it. He immediately got kinda weird and evasive when I asked him if it was good. He sort of avoided the question but then said that "Well, Puppet Man is pretty good" but didn't say crap about the rest of it. I don't need a house to fall on me to read between the lines! And of course I understood his misgivings when I bought the CD. It was HORRIBLE.
Fun Fact: Florence dragged me out of the crowd to come up on stage with them to "help them sing a song." I couldn't have been more clear that I did NOT want to be onstage. But Florence forced me to sing that wretched song Jump by the Pointless Sisters. I am just an okay singer and had she wanted me to sing one of the 5th's songs, I probably would have been passable. But all she wanted me to sing was the line "Jump!!" Have you ever tried to sing just one word? It DOESN'T work. Even if I were a bargain basement Luther Vandross, it still wouldn't work. How do you "sing" one note, one word? Eventually my lack of cooperation led Miss Florence to say "You really don't want to be up here, do you?" I was thinking No shit, Shirley but instead just told her no and went off the stage. Needless to say, talent scouts did not knock at my door to sign me.
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