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| page= 175}}</ref> However, the single was re-released less than a year later, in March 1990, and climbed to #15 on the [[United Kingdom|UK]] chart.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> It remained in the chart for eight weeks, making it the longest chart running for the band.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/>
| page= 175}}</ref> However, the single was re-released less than a year later, in March 1990, and climbed to #15 on the [[United Kingdom|UK]] chart.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> It remained in the chart for eight weeks, making it the longest chart running for the band.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/>


==Background==
==Aftermath==
At the time of release, MC Kinky didn't have a manager or an agent, and as such received many calls to her landline requesting that she perform somewhere; due to the nature acid house raves, she was given a rough location, such as "off the [[M25]]", and pulled in to a service station for a further set of instructions.<ref name="phnompenh"/> Due to the hecticity of said events, she often had to curl her hair in the car and put on fluorescent clothing inside pub toilets. Once she had performed, she used to start dancing inside the crowd, during which she would find herself bombarded with people claiming that she had changed her life. Due to the endopement of many of the venue managers, they tended to fork out enormous amounts of money, as they were too baked to recognise the fact that they were potentially being ripped off. Many of the people involved in the [[acid house]] movement went on to pursue related jobs such as in music or journalism.<ref name="independent">{{cite web|author=Polly Williams |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/e-generation-summer-of-love-1171777.html |title=E Generation: Summer of love - Life & Style |publisher=The Independent |date=1998-08-15 |accessdate=2014-05-15}}</ref>
{{quote|1=When I MC'd over `Everything starts with an E' I hadn't taken one. The track got banned from Radio 1 and TV, but it was massive. I had no manager, agent, nothing. People used to phone up my house all the time and say, `Hi my name's so and so, can you do a gig?' Me and my mates would drive up to a massive party somewhere. I'd put my hair in curlers in the car, put on mad light-reflecting clothes in pub toilets. When the screechy guitar on `Everything ... ' began, the crowd would roar like a football stadium. Afterwards I'd get off stage and go and dance for hours with everyone else. People would come up to me saying, `I love you. I love your hair. You've changed my life.' I couldn't believe it.

And there was so much money around; literally huge piles of cash in the Portakabins. Because everyone was so out of it they'd pay me huge amounts. We were like kiddies with cash, going into restaurants and ordering every dish we hadn't tried. It was never a job, just a brilliant way to live. When Thatcher stopped it, people didn't say, `Let's take off our baggy T-shirts and get a nine-to-five.' Many of us carried on and developed creative careers from that scene in music, journalism, whatever. In comparison, today's 21-year- olds seem so safe, so `better get a bank job'. I get really sad when I go out now. Everything's so corporate. And they subject you to eight hours of the same music. Yeah, I really miss it. Cool Britannia? I'd rather be dancing in a field in '88.|2=[[MC Kinky]], talking to [[the Independent]] in 1998<ref name="independent">{{cite web|author=Polly Williams |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/e-generation-summer-of-love-1171777.html |title=E Generation: Summer of love - Life & Style |publisher=The Independent |date=1998-08-15 |accessdate=2014-05-15}}</ref>}}


==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==

Revision as of 09:13, 12 August 2015

"Everything Starts with an 'E'"
Song

Everything Starts With An 'E' is a song by E-Zee Possee featuring vocals from MC Kinky. It charted at #15 on the UK Singles Chart, and is considered by many to be the anthem of the acid house movement of the late 1980s.

Background

E-Zee-Possee was a group compiled by Jeremy Healy of Haysi Fantayzee fame. It uses a different vocalist for each record owing to his experiences producing the Business Mix of Boy George's "Live My Life" with extra vocals with street rapper MC Cyndee.[1]

Everything Starts With An 'E' was initially produced as an instrumental dance record with assorted samples by Jimi Hendrix, Lost in Space and from classical music.[1] It was written by Healy immediately after his first trip to Ibiza, where the acid house movement was in full swing, as Healy's and Roger's interpretation of house music at the time having taken heavy inspiration from the music being played there. The title, "Everything Starts With An 'E'", originated from a Ronald McDonald LP which contained the line and was subsequently sampled in the song. Healy then presented it to Boy George, who suggested they use MC Kinky,[2] a white female raggamuffin toaster who had previously featured on his song Kipsy. She then used the song to write an anti-drug rant spurred on her many years of living adjacent to an after-hours reggae party.[1] Boy George and Eve Gallagher both provide backing vocals for the record.[3] Despite its belligerent lyrics, it was rejected by every label George went to and eventually he opted to front the money himself,[1] pressing a thousand copies with the intent to get it played in the clubs. Its first play was in the Hacienda in Manchester,[4] and after becoming a theme for many of the raves, Virgin Records surrendered and signed the band. Although the song didn't receive any airplay owing to BBC Radio 1 refusing to play it[1] and later the entire BBC banning it,[5] the song was performed on the Sky1 show "Hits International",[3] and the song would later chart at #15 on the UK Singles Chart[6] and remains the flagship for George's More Protein label[1] as well as the entire acid house movement of the late 1980s.[7] It would later appear on E-Zee Possee's album The Bone Dance alongside follow-up singles Love On Love, The Sun Machine and Breathing Is E-Zee[8] as well as on Now That's What I Call Music! 17.[9] Despite it being banned, it was played once by Dave Pearce on BBC Radio 2 on June 15 2013 during his "Dance Years" show.[5]

Music video

A music video was made for the song after the song cracked the top 20. Despite this, the band were not allowed on Top of the Pops to promote it, and the song was not broadcast at the time on music video channels.[1] It features MC Kinky rapping to the song as well as Marc Massive and George Long dancing alongside her.[3]

Chart performance

Everything Starts With An 'E' was originally released in the summer of 1989, and peaked at #69 in the UK Singles Chart, leaving the top 75 chart after only one week.[10] However, the single was re-released less than a year later, in March 1990, and climbed to #15 on the UK chart.[10] It remained in the chart for eight weeks, making it the longest chart running for the band.[10]

Aftermath

At the time of release, MC Kinky didn't have a manager or an agent, and as such received many calls to her landline requesting that she perform somewhere; due to the nature acid house raves, she was given a rough location, such as "off the M25", and pulled in to a service station for a further set of instructions.[11] Due to the hecticity of said events, she often had to curl her hair in the car and put on fluorescent clothing inside pub toilets. Once she had performed, she used to start dancing inside the crowd, during which she would find herself bombarded with people claiming that she had changed her life. Due to the endopement of many of the venue managers, they tended to fork out enormous amounts of money, as they were too baked to recognise the fact that they were potentially being ripped off. Many of the people involved in the acid house movement went on to pursue related jobs such as in music or journalism.[12]

Critical reception

Simon Cantlon of AllMusic gave the song a negative review, noting that the song "had not aged well" although conceded that the track "is considered a classic by some".[13] Antipathti declared "Making reference to a then controversial drug does not make this any less of a novelty track than Mr Blobby or Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh. At least one of those is better than this fake patois part time rave nonsense.".[14]

Track listing

PROCD 1

  1. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (Edit) - 3:36
  2. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (12" Mix) - 7:10
  3. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (Sir Frederick Leighton Remix) - 7:49
  4. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (Beats) - 6:47

PROT112

  1. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (Renegade Soundwave Mix) - 5:23
  2. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (Renegade Soundwave Dub) - 3:27

PROTR112

  1. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (New 12" Mix) - 7:13
  2. "Everything Starts With an 'E'" (Instrumental) - 5:18

Release details

Country Date Label Format Catalogue Number
UK 1989 More Protein/Virgin Records compact disc PROT 1
maxi single PROCD 1

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Haysi Recollections". DeadorAlive.net. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Jeremy Healy". Resident Advisor.
  3. ^ a b c "Feral aka Mc Kinky". Losninos.be.
  4. ^ "Out, Volume 4, Issues 1-5". Out Pub., Incorporated. 1995: 67. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ a b "Pump Up the Volume", a documentary on the history of house. It is mentioned 85:48 in. on YouTube Cite error: The named reference "bbc" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ "E-ZEE POSSEE". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  7. ^ LengPleng biography for MC Kinky
  8. ^ The Bone Dance (Media notes). E-Zee Possee. More Protein. 1992.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  9. ^ "NOW 17 – JUST WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT TO DO?". Now That's What I Call A Music Blog.
  10. ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 175. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference phnompenh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Polly Williams (1998-08-15). "E Generation: Summer of love - Life & Style". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  13. ^ Simon Cantlon (2001-11-13). "Lucky for Some - Boy George | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  14. ^ "Now That's What I Call Music 17". Antipathti.com.
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