The Giant Panther

Over the President's Day Weekend, in between Stimulus Bill rhetoric, I was listening to a lot of my favorite singles from the 1990's. My list of songs I want to blog about is getting pretty long now, but I actually spent a lot of time relinking the songs I had already blogged about. I apologize to those of you who came and found the links dead after less than six months (yet another of my pet peeves), but I was unaware. The site I host my links on sometimes goes down, I'm assuming from the volume, and it exasperates me to no end. It's not the interruption of service so much as the download count. Since I get so few comments I have no other way to track the number of visitors I get. When my download figures get knocked back to zero I easily lose the mental count to see if a particular post has been successful. While that is frustrating I recently discovered another issue that crushes me.

It must have taken me nearly two hours to relink everything dating back to October, but the only reason I did it is because I discovered that any link over two months old, once fractured by downed service, is considered dead by the host because, in its eyes, nobody has downloaded the link in that time. Translated, every time I lose service now, anything over two months old will just disappear. That really depresses me I have to tell you. I know the service is free, but I've got believers (kidding). I try to be vigilant, but if you discover a dead link here please let me know OK? I'll bet those other links were dead for ten days or more. I just never knew. Arrrrghhh....

About 18 years ago, a guy named Mark Griffin, better known as MC 900 FT Jesus, released a single called The City Sleeps. I loved it the very first time I heard it. It's essentially a rap over a drum machine (at least I think it's a drum machine) about a serial arsonist. The lyrics and the imagery are great. I don't have all the facts, but I'm pretty sure MC released three records between 1989 and 1994. This one comes from Welcome To My Dream in 1991. I bought the CD single after my first listen, but I found the full length CD in a cut out bin about a year ago finally. I hesitate to call any artist a one hit wonder as previously noted, but I haven't heard anything that compares to this song in his catalogue. On top of that, there isn't a heckuva lot of information out there about him. No matter. Dallas can be proud of this export as far as I'm concerned. I'll be mixing this song into my own personal play lists for another two decades the way I feel about it. It's definitely one of the top alternative tracks of the 90's for my money. I hope you like it too.