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Thread started 05/04/09 5:27pm

scriptgirl

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80s Classic of the Day: "Mercedes Boy" by Pebbles

"Lack of home training crosses all boundaries."
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Reply #1 posted 05/05/09 11:38pm

BettaPlace2Die

Love this song but love "Girlfriend" even better
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Reply #2 posted 05/05/09 11:41pm

scriptgirl

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I dig this track better than "Girlfriend"
"Lack of home training crosses all boundaries."
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Reply #3 posted 05/06/09 12:28am

dirtyman2005

great track,

but her best is "love/hate" from Beverly Hills Cop 2.

One of the funkiest jam and lewis productions ever! razz

oh yeah, and Pebbles is damn fine, way way too fine.
Beyonce is second rate in looks compared to Pebbles.

razz
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Reply #4 posted 05/06/09 12:31am

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scriptgirl said:

I dig this track better than "Girlfriend"

Co-sign.
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Wendy: He’s a girl, for sure, but he’s not gay. He looked at me like a gay woman would look at another woman. Lisa: Totally. He’s like a fancy lesbian.
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Reply #5 posted 05/06/09 3:02am

TRON

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I loved her until she went and fucked with TLC. Still love these old songs though.
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Reply #6 posted 05/06/09 5:25am

SoulAlive

dirtyman2005 said:

great track,but her best is "love/hate" from Beverly Hills Cop 2.One of the funkiest jam and lewis productions ever! razz


I thought that Andre Cymone wrote/produced that song eek
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Reply #7 posted 05/06/09 5:26am

SoulAlive

scriptgirl said:

I dig this track better than "Girlfriend"


Me too.I liked "Girlfriend" back in the day but I heard it recently and realized that it hasn't aged very well.
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Reply #8 posted 05/06/09 12:42pm

pzlyprk

dirtyman2005 said:

great track,

but her best is "love/hate" from Beverly Hills Cop 2.

One of the funkiest jam and lewis productions ever! razz

oh yeah, and Pebbles is damn fine, way way too fine.
Beyonce is second rate in looks compared to Pebbles.

razz

SoulAlive is right, dirtyman... Andre Cymone wrote and produced Love/Hate for Pebbles (appeared in short form on BHC2 Soundtrack and longer form on Pebbles debut). Love/Hate is, in my opinion, one of Andre's best productions. Further proof that MPLS wasn't hurting for great writers/producers during that time period (not to mention the fact that they ALL had a hand in creating the MPLS sound).
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Reply #9 posted 05/06/09 12:48pm

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scriptgirl said:

I dig this track better than "Girlfriend"


Not me, however the bass is hot on this track. This song was the first time I heard of Pebb's. That whole album was hot except for like 2 songs.
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Reply #10 posted 05/06/09 1:30pm

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Pebbles was/is beautiful. It ended there.

Always with Cherelle was the best -- and only listenable -- thing Ms. Reid ever did.
Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #11 posted 05/06/09 1:53pm

SPYZFAN1

I always thought she looked a lot like Halle in this video.

And didn't the "Mercedes Boy" become a woman? Someone on the org said that.
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Reply #12 posted 05/06/09 2:59pm

thatruth

IMO, Pebbles was never pretty, she was just pretty light skin. Sometimes a light skin Black person is considered good looking just because they're light skin, look at the Debarge family.
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Reply #13 posted 05/06/09 3:09pm

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Um, no. Debarge are very good looking and their light skin was not the only reason they were considered attractive and Pebbles, despite her stank ways, was and is, gorgeous.
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"Lack of home training crosses all boundaries."
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Reply #14 posted 05/06/09 3:26pm

thatruth

scriptgirl said:

Um, no. Debarge are very good looking and their light skin was not the only reason they were considered attractive and Pebbles, despite her stank ways, was and is, gorgeous.
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Your opinion. My opinion, Debarge is hella talented, great musicians, good people (met a few) but overrated in the looks department, same with Prince.
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Reply #15 posted 05/06/09 7:20pm

1DirXtion

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do you wanna ride?
I am an 80s Music Junkie !
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Reply #16 posted 05/07/09 12:33am

tamewar

thatruth said:

scriptgirl said:

Um, no. Debarge are very good looking and their light skin was not the only reason they were considered attractive and Pebbles, despite her stank ways, was and is, gorgeous.
[Edited 5/6/09 15:09pm]


Your opinion. My opinion, Debarge is hella talented, great musicians, good people (met a few) but overrated in the looks department, same with Prince.


To this day i never got the whole Debarge Fever it was truly annoying confused
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Reply #17 posted 05/07/09 4:20am

dirtyman2005

pzlyprk said:

dirtyman2005 said:

great track,

but her best is "love/hate" from Beverly Hills Cop 2.

One of the funkiest jam and lewis productions ever! razz

oh yeah, and Pebbles is damn fine, way way too fine.
Beyonce is second rate in looks compared to Pebbles.

razz

SoulAlive is right, dirtyman... Andre Cymone wrote and produced Love/Hate for Pebbles (appeared in short form on BHC2 Soundtrack and longer form on Pebbles debut). Love/Hate is, in my opinion, one of Andre's best productions. Further proof that MPLS wasn't hurting for great writers/producers during that time period (not to mention the fact that they ALL had a hand in creating the MPLS sound).

Yeah you're right. I though Jam and lewis did it, as they did a few of her other songs.
But yeah, production on Love/Hate is sick. Cymone is a genius.
The album version is good, but the version on the Beverly Hills Cop 2 is bit more beefier, and has some nasty synths in there!
Sounds fresh everytime you hear it, and its a 100% dance floor banger.

I once made out with a hot chick to that song, as drove me really horny one night.
Pebbles is incredibly fine, even today, smokin hot!


razz
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Reply #18 posted 05/07/09 8:11am

scriptgirl

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Debarge fever? Nah. Just call it sex appeal
"Lack of home training crosses all boundaries."
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Reply #19 posted 05/07/09 9:09am

Ottensen

Love.These.Tacky.80's videos lol lol lol

I had my junior prom dress made to look like the red one she wears at the end...I sat down and sketched that bad boy out and took it right to one of my friend's aunties to give me the'Mercedes Boy' look. Nobody from school knew who Pebbles was let alone the video for this ( MTV was still a novelty back then with not as much influence), my red prom dress was a hit and is still hanging up in my parent's attic to this day. Whenever I visit my parents and go through the wardrobe I just start mumblin "do you wanna ride in my Mercedes boy..." lol lol lol lol [i] and nobody has any idea what the hell I'm talkin about lol lol
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Reply #20 posted 05/07/09 11:21am

diamondpearl1

dirtyman2005 said:

pzlyprk said:


SoulAlive is right, dirtyman... Andre Cymone wrote and produced Love/Hate for Pebbles (appeared in short form on BHC2 Soundtrack and longer form on Pebbles debut). Love/Hate is, in my opinion, one of Andre's best productions. Further proof that MPLS wasn't hurting for great writers/producers during that time period (not to mention the fact that they ALL had a hand in creating the MPLS sound).

Yeah you're right. I though Jam and lewis did it, as they did a few of her other songs.
But yeah, production on Love/Hate is sick. Cymone is a genius.
The album version is good, but the version on the Beverly Hills Cop 2 is bit more beefier, and has some nasty synths in there!
Sounds fresh everytime you hear it, and its a 100% dance floor banger.

I once made out with a hot chick to that song, as drove me really horny one night.
Pebbles is incredibly fine, even today, smokin hot!


razz


Nah, Babyface and L.A. did all of Pebbles music just like they did most of Karyn White's music.
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Reply #21 posted 05/07/09 1:52pm

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I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt.
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