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Frank Kogan ([personal profile] koganbot) wrote2008-05-16 09:04 am
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Bosh Jams On A Fast Break

The question is what is the genre.

[livejournal.com profile] skyecaptain says that, while no one in Internet history has thought up an adequate generic category for whatever the hell it is that Scooter does so very well, the answer is clearly "bosh jams."

I think Scooter'd officially be called Happy Hardcore, though I'd not be the one to hold an informed opinion on the subject.

Google reveals "Toronto's Chris Bosh jams on a fast break." But it seems to me that if it's a true jam it should be a slow break, so that there can be slow bosh jams. But that doesn't seem to be the Scooter style. I suppose a slow jam can have a fast break, if they're willing to change tempo.

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
errrrrrrrrm, dunno...

[livejournal.com profile] katstevens is probably the best person to ask :)

bosh is at use in the wider word, it's an cockney word, i'm trying to think of the best way to define it, it's a bit like WALLOP or THWACK

[identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
What hmm what? Sorry, I was watching Erasure vids on Youtube. There's no way that's him doing the backflip.

ANYWAY er yes I think 'bosh' is used by non-poptimists in the onomatopaeic sense, but not as a serious adjective. Its use in common poptimists parlance may well be entirely my fault.

[identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
my guess is it's not 'standard' as such - it's not in the 'bosh' disambiguation page on wikipedia.

'boshing' is stablish slang outside of poptimists, but is quite generic 'marvellous there'.

[identity profile] cis.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always assumed that the pmists use of 'bosh' comes from that bit in The Timelords' Doctorin' The Tardis where the dalek-voice goes 'bosh bosh bosh!' -- ie that it's quite specific to this group of people. But "bosh bosh bosh bosh" is also quite common onomatopoeia for four-to-the-floor bangin' techno.

'bish bash bosh' is quite a common cockney phrase, it sort of indicates that something will be fairly swift to knock together? And then of course to Edward Lear or someone 'bosh' meant 'nonsense'.

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
but that's nicked from the LOADSAMONEY song innit!

[identity profile] cis.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
ugh henfield. i will admit only to the existence of klf-spinoff novelty tunes, not the tunes they steal from!

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
for frank's "benefit":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2FhFi0FZ9Y&feature=related

no sign of the actual video on youtube strangely...

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
and by that i mean the bit in doctoring the tardis, obv ;)