In LA

Some guy actually listened to the early 90’s song Informer, by Snow, for six hours non-stop. I know I’m a year late in passing along my appreciation, but wow. This man’s one act undoubtedly caused a rupture in the space-time continuum.

For those of you who don’t remember the song, it’s a sort of gangland anthem sung in an impenetrable and speedy Jamaican patois by a Canadian white guy whose name is not really Snow. I think the only word I can understand in the entire song is “Informer”, everything else is an interestingly syncopated blur. The song was pretty catchy back in the day, and was #1 for a while on some chart, but now people remember it as an oddity if at all.

There’s a reason I just now remembered the existence of this song and did the net searching that led to discovery of the 2005 Snow marathon, and it’s not that I’m just trying to distract myself from thinking about the fun I’m going to have going through airport security on Monday for my trip to the U.S. The real reason is that a good friend stopped by Beijing for a visit. He hooked his iPod up to my stereo, and in rotation along with a bunch of forgotten songs from the 80s and 90s was Informer. We listened to it once, which was pleasant, but I can’t imagine what 6 hours of Informer could do to a person. (Don’t remember the song? You can hear a clip at iTunes, or Amazon)

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