So you may know Shaggy for his 2001 hit "It Wasn't Me" or "Angel" but how many of you are familiar with his first break out hit from 1995 "Boombastic"? (Though for some reason I have a feeling my Flossmoor people remember this track more than others) I picked this album up a while ago, pretty excitedly for 2 dollars at a Ukrainian church rummage sale on 2nd street and I don't regret a thing. Why should I? I remember my older sister playing this song all the time when I was seven years old and thinking it was the shit. Now 13 years later I think the same thing and wonder why this song isn't in our collective faux-retro consciousness like other classic 90's bangers such as Tootsie Roll or Jump Around. Maybe its just because it doesn't tell us how we should dance (in my opinion jukeing/grinding is clearly the implicit instruction), or maybe it is just too down beat for these fast paced times. Either way this track deserves a little revisiting and I hope next time you find yourself the unsuspecting DJ somewhere that is in desperate need of just a little more fun music, think of Soundout-Loud, then think of Boombastic... and put it on.
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