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"Who let the dogs out" is so OLD

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I was at Universal’s Islands of Adventure on Saturday in Orlando, Florida and at the Xtreme Xventure show, they played this song. I couldn’t believe my ears. I’m 28, and I immediatly remembered this song from a couple years back. Just my two cents.

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I think the song Who Let Them Dogs Out is more reggae is it not?

Right, the original version is like dancehall type sounds, but some radio stations have been playing an uptempo dance mix… which is where the discussion about dance songs comes into play

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Sasha, Digweed, Oakenfold etc etc… is WAY better than Dance. Infact I dont consider it dance nor do most people. Isn’t it more trance and/or house (maybe even british house)? Dance is general term and some of the catagories that fall UNDER dance is House, Freestyle, Euro, Trance, etc etc. I think the song Who Let Them Dogs Out is more reggae is it not?

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – "Who let the dogs out" is so OLD. This song came out almost 6 years ago in Canada, England, Guyana and Trinidad……by a guy named Anslem Douglas. The original style of this song is Soca. (A form of calypso) Now the Baha Men are covering this song, and now Americans are discovering it for the first time, and now they think this song is brand new?? That is a joke!! The original song is as old as Captain Hollywood Projects "More and More", And the song ISN’T about dogs.  When the guy says "who let the dogs out", he’s referring to promiscuous men who are players and want to use women for sex. He’s saying who let all those guys out, in reality. When he says "all doggie must have a bone", he’s referring to erections…….this song is totally sexual, although most people probably think that the song is referring to the animal, dogs. Anyone else who wishes to comment about this song, please do so. B man. Hmm… I’ll comment… this song is cheddar, on the level of Eiffel 65 (in fact, it sounds almost exactly like them), and of course gets overplayed on all of Long Island’s poseur stations: Z100, WBLI, etc.. .I’m willing to bet it’s overplayed on Buffalo’s KISS 98.5. I think this kind of music should be kept off the airwaves, it gives dance music a bad name (when I tell people I listen to dance they automatically associate it with Eiffel 65, ATB, Alice Deejay, and other shite when I listen to underground garage, stuff from Sasha and Digweed, etc).

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So, it’s time to move on from the ATB/Vengaboys sound and onto something

else.  Sasha and PVD have been around for awhile, but now they’re sharing CD Single space on the same shelves as The Hamster Dance and Eiffel 65.  What are we supposed to do now?<<< Ever heard the old saying, "Variety is the spice of life"? Oh, what would this world be like if only "cool" music was allowed to be created…I don’t even want to imagine.   Sorry, I like my cheese once in a while, as long as I have some top serloin to round out the meal. :-) JT

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – So, it’s time to move on from the ATB/Vengaboys sound and onto something else.  Sasha and PVD have been around for awhile, but now they’re sharing CD Single space on the same shelves as The Hamster Dance and Eiffel 65.  What are we supposed to do now?<<< Ever heard the old saying, "Variety is the spice of life"? Oh, what would this world be like if only "cool" music was allowed to be created…I don’t even want to imagine. Sorry, I like my cheese once in a while, as long as I have some top serloin to round out the meal.

Very good, but if they play "The Hamster Dance" at my favorite club, I’m going to ask him what he’s been drinking.  ;-)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – stupid, juvenile, (whatever!) dance tune that hits with the kiddies, goes Top 40 and gives dance music a black eye (in terms of credibility).  Back in the mid 70’s, when disco surfaced from the underground and went *huge*, we had stupid crap like Rick Dees ‘Disco Duck’ and someone did a disco cover of the I Love Lucy theme song.  People out in the clubs couldn’t/wouldn’t dance to this sh*t but they sold millions and got tons of radio. What can you do, you try soaking and scrubbing, and *still* you get cheese around the… Peace, Roland F (who can’t stand to see all the attention now given to the hamster song while Mary Griffin and Taylor Dane don’t get squat from radio)

     These things too shall pass.  Remember, disco never really died. It just took a new name; "Dance Music."  The diehard fans never stopped dancing.  God bless Georgio Moroder.        I predict Eiffel 65 shall pass on,  unless they develop a different sound.  (It is SO VERY easy to identify one of their remixes.  They should be ashamed about their massacre of "U Gotta Be."  Yeah, "Blue" was a cute and quirky novelty song, but their best song to date is indeed "Europop."  Just my opinion.  I see the song as a commentary on market saturation, that’s why.)      It seems very few hated "9 pm" or "Better Off Alone" in the beginning.  These songs were entertaining at the time of their release, but due to market and radio saturation "bands" like Alice Deejay have become "artists" people (who actually had heard their music months in advance) have grown sick and tired of.  It doesn’t help that their songs all sound the same, either.        So, it’s time to move on from the ATB/Vengaboys sound and onto something else.  Sasha and PVD have been around for awhile, but now they’re sharing CD Single space on the same shelves as The Hamster Dance and Eiffel 65.  What are we supposed to do now?      I remember hearing an older version of "Who Let The Dogs Out," and I wasn’t impressed with that version either.      Peter and Roland, thanks for your perspectives on all of this.  The music shelves are as much lined with titles like "Trance Nation 2000" as they were with the "K-Tel Presents…" series in the 70’s.  And I thought I blocked out a lot of unpleasant events from my childhood.  ;-) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hmm… I’ll comment… this song is cheddar, on the level of Eiffel 65 (in fact, it sounds almost exactly like them), and of course gets overplayed on <snip, it gives dance music a bad name (when I tell people I listen to dance they automatically associate it with Eiffel 65, ATB, Alice Deejay, and other shite when I listen to underground garage, stuff from Sasha and Digweed, etc). Hmmm… <snip I think its the best song of the year, along with that wacky Hampsterdance song.  Maybe even ranks up there with Barbie Girl as the best song ever.  I would say this is a few steps above Alice Deejay and Eiffel 65, even though they’re two great groups this just takes the grand prize. <snip  You should be ashamed of yourself and join the bandwagon. <end sarcasm — Peter Listening to: Agnelli & Nelson – Embrace PS: That message was meant to be a sarcastic stab at this abomination.  I agree with you 100%.

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stupid, juvenile, (whatever!) dance tune that hits with the kiddies, goes Top 40 and gives dance music a black eye (in terms of credibility).  Back in the mid 70’s, when disco surfaced from the underground and went *huge*, we had stupid crap like Rick Dees ‘Disco Duck’ and someone did a disco cover of the I Love Lucy theme song.  People out in the clubs couldn’t/wouldn’t dance to this sh*t but they sold millions and got tons of radio. What can you do, you try soaking and scrubbing, and *still* you get cheese around the… Peace, Roland F (who can’t stand to see all the attention now given to the hamster song while Mary Griffin and Taylor Dane don’t get squat from radio) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hmm… I’ll comment… this song is cheddar, on the level of Eiffel 65 (in fact, it sounds almost exactly like them), and of course gets overplayed on <snip, it gives dance music a bad name (when I tell people I listen to dance they automatically associate it with Eiffel 65, ATB, Alice Deejay, and other shite when I listen to underground garage, stuff from Sasha and Digweed, etc). Hmmm… <snip I think its the best song of the year, along with that wacky Hampsterdance song.  Maybe even ranks up there with Barbie Girl as the best song ever.  I would say this is a few steps above Alice Deejay and Eiffel 65, even though they’re two great groups this just takes the grand prize. <snip  You should be ashamed of yourself and join the bandwagon. <end sarcasm — Peter Listening to: Agnelli & Nelson – Embrace PS: That message was meant to be a sarcastic stab at this abomination.  I agree with you 100%.

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Hmm… I’ll comment… this song is cheddar, on the level of Eiffel 65 (in fact, it sounds almost exactly like them), and of course gets overplayed on all of Long Island’s poseur stations: Z100, WBLI, etc.. .I’m willing to bet it’s overplayed on Buffalo’s KISS 98.5. I think this kind of music should be kept off the airwaves, it gives dance music a bad name (when I tell people I listen to dance they automatically associate it with Eiffel 65, ATB, Alice Deejay, and other shite when I listen to underground garage, stuff from Sasha and Digweed, etc).

Hmmm… I must say I am disapointed by your judgement of this song. Personally I think its the best song of the year, along with that wacky Hampsterdance song.  Maybe even ranks up there with Barbie Girl as the best song ever.  I would say this is a few steps above Alice Deejay and Eiffel 65, even though they’re two great groups this just takes the grand prize. Taking it off the airwaves would be a tragic loss to my ears.  Even comparing this class tune to people like Sasha & Digweed and garage is blasphemy.  You should be ashamed of yourself and join the bandwagon. <end sarcasm — Peter Listening to: Agnelli & Nelson – Embrace PS: That message was meant to be a sarcastic stab at this abomination.  I agree with you 100%.

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(when I tell people I listen to dance they automatically associate it with Eiffel 65, ATB, Alice Deejay, and other shite when I listen to underground garage, stuff from Sasha and Digweed, etc).

Well that’s probably because most people are force-fed music from the radio.  I was in the record store the other day and these four kids came up to me and were like "Do you listen to techno?"  And I was thinking they were gonna try to go a little "Extreme" (they looked like they were club kids) and they couldn’t identify "Kernkraft 400" by Zombie Nation.  Which, I figured, they must be playing that song in clubs (I don’t go clubbing), even though I haven’t seen it on the charts, and so I led them in the right direction.  Last night on the way home I was scanning on the radio and they were playing that song on "Southern New England’s HOTTEST Music" followed by Nelly and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Now that I think about it, I probably should have told them it was Paul Oakenfold or Dimitri from Paris and ran for the border. -Greg PS: They played "Who Let the Dogs Out" on a radio station I listen to and they said it sounds like Eiffel 65 vs. the Bloodhound Gang.  (I had to laugh considering there WAS an Eiffel 65 vs the Bloodhound Gang earlier this year.)

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"Who let the dogs out" is so OLD. This song came out almost 6 years ago in Canada, England, Guyana and Trinidad……by a guy named Anslem Douglas. The original style of this song is Soca. (A form of calypso) Now the Baha Men are covering this song, and now Americans are discovering it for the first time, and now they think this song is brand new?? That is a joke!! The original song is as old as Captain Hollywood Projects "More and More", And the song ISN’T about dogs.  When the guy says "who let the dogs out", he’s referring to promiscuous men who are players and want to use women for sex. He’s saying who let all those guys out, in reality. When he says "all doggie must have a bone", he’s referring to erections…….this song is totally sexual, although most people probably think that the song is referring to the animal, dogs. Anyone else who wishes to comment about this song, please do so. B man.

Hmm… I’ll comment… this song is cheddar, on the level of Eiffel 65 (in fact, it sounds almost exactly like them), and of course gets overplayed on all of Long Island’s poseur stations: Z100, WBLI, etc.. .I’m willing to bet it’s overplayed on Buffalo’s KISS 98.5. I think this kind of music should be kept off the airwaves, it gives dance music a bad name (when I tell people I listen to dance they automatically associate it with Eiffel 65, ATB, Alice Deejay, and other shite when I listen to underground garage, stuff from Sasha and Digweed, etc).

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"Who let the dogs out" is so OLD. This song came out almost 6 years ago in Canada, England, Guyana and Trinidad……by a guy named Anslem Douglas. The original style of this song is Soca. (A form of calypso) Now the Baha Men are covering this song, and now Americans are discovering it for the first time, and now they think this song is brand new?? That is a joke!! The original song is as old as Captain Hollywood Projects "More and More", And the song ISN’T about dogs.  When the guy says "who let the dogs out", he’s referring to promiscuous men who are players and want to use women for sex. He’s saying who let all those guys out, in reality. When he says "all doggie must have a bone", he’s referring to erections…….this song is totally sexual, although most people probably think that the song is referring to the animal, dogs. Anyone else who wishes to comment about this song, please do so. B man.

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And the song ISN’T about dogs.  When the guy says "who let the

give people credit…the term has been popular in america since the eighties at least, possibly MUCH earlier??? and it’s not the first time there was a huge lag between a song coming out and a song going big–EBTG’s Missing took two years to get off the ground, Real Life’s Send Me An Angel took seven years to get off the ground…let it go! hehehe —Da Klondike Fiver —"are you doing being or being doing?"

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Boy, I know its an old song but when I heard it again for the first time in a while at a night club the other night, the crowd was acting like it was a current #1 hit and were going nuts. And yes, it’s a very sexual song. I think most people know that already by simply paying attention to the lyrics. I find the version by Xtatik to be better (faster and more energy). The Baha Men verison is a little slow for my taste.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – "Who let the dogs out" is so OLD. This song came out almost 6 years ago in Canada, England, Guyana and Trinidad……by a guy named Anslem Douglas. The original style of this song is Soca. (A form of calypso) Now the Baha Men are covering this song, and now Americans are discovering it for the first time, and now they think this song is brand new?? That is a joke!! The original song is as old as Captain Hollywood Projects "More and More", And the song ISN’T about dogs.  When the guy says "who let the dogs out", he’s referring to promiscuous men who are players and want to use women for sex. He’s saying who let all those guys out, in reality. When he says "all doggie must have a bone", he’s referring to erections…….this song is totally sexual, although most people probably think that the song is referring to the animal, dogs. Anyone else who wishes to comment about this song, please do so. B man.

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