The Top 35 Or So Songs of the 80’s
#09: Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Funky Stuff
The Talking Heads took a similar route: Nervous punks hook up with Brian Eno, learn to groove, and eventually record worldbeat-inspired masterpiece (Remain In Light). Lizzy cut her teeth in the New York no wave scene, but she always had a more cosmopolitan presence than Byrne’s outsider journalism and dramatic monologues. Lizzy also has a more generous spirit: Press Color contains a goofy cover of the Mission Impossible theme, not for any geopolitical or ironic statement but simply because it’s a killer groove. Her masterpiece, Mambo Nassau, is organic, worldly and gleeful, and “Funky Stuff” is a testament to Lizzy’s boundless enthusiasm. In her hands, Kool & The Gang’s limp original is galvanized and transformed into a celebration about loving music, and her joy is positively infectious. “It’s so much fun,” she shouts with such honesty that the sentiment is liberating: Forget social divisions and genre boundaries—celebrate music.
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