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[thebitterguy]

Does anyone know if the phrase "It's a trip it's got a funky beat and I can bug out to it" is from anything other than a Beastie Boys song?

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[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

I can tell you that the phrase "I give it a 10, Dick - it's got a great beat and you can dance to it" would be a usual feature of the song review segment of AMERICAN BANDSTAND - so what you've got there is kind of a funk-i-fication of that.

So as far as Pop Culture is concerned, it has more to do with guys in crew cuts dancing The Madison than a lot of other people might think.

[thebitterguy]

Where did the "I give it a 97" bit come from? I remember that being mentioned in an issue of Giffen League.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

I think that's just them amping up the scale a bit - either that or Bandstand moved to percentages in the 80's.

[inscrutable.livejournal.com]

They did.

I distintly remember "I'll give it a 72, it's got a nice beat but you can't really dance to it."

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

Bingo!

Thanks Shawn.

[(Anonymous)]

On American Bandstand's "Rate-A-Record" segment they rated records on a scale of 35 to 98, with 35 being the low end and 98 the high end. Dick Clark used this variation on a 1 to 100 scale ostensibly because no record is all bad, nor is any record perfect.