Common Sense (band)
Common Sense is an American reggae and alternative rock band from Orange County, California. They are known for playing in the Mercury Mariner commercial. Since their formation in 1987, they have released five albums under their own label, Common Sense Records. They perform periodically at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California, and have, in the past, been members of the summer music and sports festival, Warped Tour.
They are also known for making the Chicago rapper formerly known as Common Sense, change his name to Common over legal issues.
Band members
Former members
Discography
Full-length albums:
Podcasts:
Matching books:
Common Sense
ALBUMS
- Disco Not Disco released: 2000
- Voices Inside My Head released: 1980
Common Sense
ALBUMS
- Don't Look Back released: 2005
- Common Sense released: 2001
- State of the Nation: Now & Then released: 1999
- Live! at the Belly Up Tavern released: 1997
- Psychedelic Surf Groove released: 1997
Common
ALBUMS
- Nobody’s Smiling released: 2014
- The Dreamer / The Believer released: 2011
- Go! Common Classics released: 2010
- Something In Common released: 2008
- Universal Mind Control released: 2008
- Cents released: 2008
- Cool Common Collected released: 2007
- Thisisme Then: The Best of Common released: 2007
- Finding Forever released: 2007
- Be released: 2005
- On Common Ground released: 2004
- Electric Circus released: 2002
- Uncommon Classics, Volume 1 (Mixed by DJ Risky Bizness) released: 2001
- Like Water for Chocolate released: 2000
- One Day It’ll All Make Sense released: 1997
- Senseibility released: 1996
- Resurrection released: 1994
- Can I Borrow a Dollar? released: 1992
- Uncommon: The Mixtape W/Mick Boogie released:
- Uncommon Classics Episode III: Full Circle released:
- Uncommon Classics, Volume 2 released:
Something In Common
Released 2008- Common Symptoms (intro)
- A Penny for My Thoughts
- Breaker 1/9
- 1st Days of the New School
- Who Shot Ya Freestyle
- While I'm Dancin'
- 87th Street Kid (interlude)
- My People, Hold On (DJ Unexpected remix)
- Take It EZ
- 5 Deadly Venoms
- Fresh Rhymes Daily
- Dooinit in Waves (DJ Unexpected remix)
- Common Speaks on J Dilla (interlude)
- C.R.E.A.M. (live in Germany)
- I Used to Love H.E.R.
- The Misunderstanding (interlude)
- The Bitch in Yoo (live at Tramps 1996)
- The Bitch in Yoo (original version)
- State to State
- Jam
- Makin' a Name for Ourselves (Mathematically Aware)
- Resurrection (DJ Honda remix)
- Common Speaks on the Light
- Baby, We Must Be in Love (DJ Unexpected remix)
- 2 the Temple
- Dilla Says Go (DJ Unexpected remix)
- Full Moon
- Universal Mind Control
Cool Common Collected
Released 2007- Intro
- Breaker 1/9 (Beatnuts remix)
- Soul by the Pound (Thump mix)
- Can-I-Bust
- Resurrection '95 (Extra P remix)
- Resurrection '95 (Large Professor remix)
- The Bitch in Yoo (original demo mix)
- (Lately) I've Been Thinking
- Reminding Me (of Sef) (The Roots remix)
- All Night Long (Brand New Heavies remix)
- 1-9-9-9
- Like They Used to Say
- Car Horn
- The Light (remix for U)
- Tekzilla
- Geto Heaven (The Sound of Illadelphia remix: extended version)
- Come Close (remix: Closer)
- The Corner (remix)
Uncommon Classics, Volume 1 (Mixed by DJ Risky Bizness)
Released 2001- Freestyle Live (Prince Concert @ The Metro; Chicago, IL 11/22/00)
- Soul by the Pound (Thump remix)
- Tekzilla
- Confusion
- Slam Pit
- Interview - Joe Clair...DJ Love
- Fresh Rhymes
- High Expectations
- Lately I've Been Thinkin'
- Freestyle
- The Remedy
- Freestyle
- Remind Me of Self (Roots remix)
- Like They Used to Say
- Sun God (prod. by Hi-Tek)
- Divide & Conquer
- Can-I-Bus
- The Bitch in Yoo (Ice Cube Dis)
- State to State
- Da Bizness
- Resurrection (Large Professor Remix)
- 8 Minutes to Sunrise
- A Better Tomorrow
- Car Horn
- Play Dis ('98 Version)
- U-N-I Vs. All
- 'A' for Effort
- The Light Live (Prince Concert @ The Metro; Chicago, IL 11/22/00)
Like Water for Chocolate
Released 2000- Time Travelin’ (A Tribute to Fela)
- Heat
- Cold Blooded
- Dooinit
- The Light
- Funky for You
- The Questions
- Time Travelin’ (reprise)
- The 6th Sense
- A Film Called (Pimp)
- Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World)
- Thelonius
- Payback Is a Grandmother
- Geto Heaven, Part Two
- A Song for Assata
- Pop's Rap III… All My Children
One Day It’ll All Make Sense
Released 1997- Introspective
- Invocation
- Real Nigga Quotes
- Retrospect for Life
- Gettin’ Down at the Amphitheater
- Food for Funk
- G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition)
- My City
- Hungry
- All Night Long
- Stolen Moments, Part I
- Stolen Moments, Part II
- 1’2 Many…
- Stolen Moments, Part III (intro/outro)
- Making a Name for Ourselves
- Reminding Me (of Sef)
- Pop’s Rap, Part II / Fatherhood
Senseibility
Released 1996- Bitch in You
- Resurrection (Extra-P remix)
- Confusion
- High Expectations
- I've Been Thinking
- Like They Used to Say
- No Competition
- State to State
- The Remedy
- 8 Minutes to Sunrise
- Breaker 1/9 (Beatnuts remix)
- Don't Come My Way
- Tekzilla
- Reminding Me of Self
- Geto Heaven
- Soul by Pound (Thump remix)
- Car Horn
- Car Horn (Madlib remix)
Uncommon: The Mixtape W/Mick Boogie
- Common (intro)
- 1999
- Claimin' Respect
- State to State
- Who Shot Ya?
- Resurrection
- Common (interlude)
- The Bizness
- Car Horn
- Sun God
- Like They Used to Say
- May Be One Day
- Verbal Murder
- Play Dis
- High Expectations
- Life Goes On
- Slam Pit
- The League Freestyle 2003
- Days of Our Life
- The Hurricane
- Hip-Hop 101 Live in Concert
- Common (interlude)
- Respiration
- Reminisce
- In the Sun
- Act Too (live on MTV)
- The Truth
- 6th Sense (live in Germany)
- The Future of Hip-Hop
- The Bitch in Yoo
- The Bitch in Yoo, Part 2 (demo)
- The Remedy
- Come Close, Part 2:
- Come Close, Part 3:
- Common (outro)
- So Cool
Uncommon Classics Episode III: Full Circle
- Funk Shit
- Jesus Walks (remix)
- Respiration
- While I'm Dancin'
- Cryogenic (Refreshed Rhymes)
- The Corner (remix)
- The Struggle Continues
- Why (remix)
- 1-9-9-9
- The Train (unreleased demo)
- She Wants More (Native Tongues remix)
- Real Compared to What
- Better Than Yours
- Yelling Away
- Come Closer Remix (Closer)
- Days of Our Lives
- Enough Beef
- Claimin' Respect #2 (Coulevard Connection)
- Verbal Murder 2
- Ghetto Show
- Any Given Sunday
- Freestyle Song
- Wack Niggas
- I Used to Love H.E.R. (Molemen remix)
Uncommon Classics, Volume 2
- Intro (Be Yourself)
- Resurrection (Extra P remix)
- The Jam
- Embrace the Chaos
- Out for the Cash (original version)
- Life Goes On
- 89.9 WKCR Radio Freestyle
- Mic Set
- In the Sun
- Act Too (The Love of My Life)
- Play Dis ('99 remix)
- One for Love
- Money for Doe
- Who Stole the Clippers?
- 88.5 WHPK Radio Freestyle
- The Truth
- Don't Come My Way
- 1-9-9-9 (Duro remix)
- Unamerican Caravan
- The Bitch in Yoo (alternate lyrics)
- 88.5 WHPK Battle (Common vs. Kanye West '96)
Common Sense
ALBUMS
- Hip Hop - The Funky Resurrection released:
Hip Hop - The Funky Resurrection
- Know How
- Greedy Beat
- Can I Kick It (Von Trapp mix)
- I Like My Pockets Fat Not Flat (remix)
- 900 Number
- Movin' On
- Growing Like Weeds
- Go With the Flow
- It Ain't Hard to Tell (Large Professor remix)
- DWYK (Horny Horns mix)
- Punks Jump Up
- Flava for the Non Believers
- The Peacemaker (instrumental)
- Slow Down (Pete Rock Newromix)
- Life's a Bitch (Arsenal remix)
- The Creator (Surfboard mix)
- Resurrection
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Charms Alarm
by: Common SenseA-hem
What we have here is a very, serious delicate situation
Lots of people out here always ridin the dick, hmmph
But check this out
I like your style, I like your stride
and I like your motivation
But the Late Show, we ain't standin for that shit
So my man right here he wrote a little song about it
Why don't you sing it
[Common]
Ring the, alarm, here comes, the Com
Call me Mr. Hollywood -- check it out!
Ring the, alarm, here comes, the Com
Call me Mr. Hollywood
On the Goodship, Lollipop
POP goes the lolli lolli, for I'm, the Jolly
Good Fellow, he-LLO? Is anybody there?
I'm not a step, so don't stare
Because I Rock-well I always feel like
I always feel like, Somebody's Watchin Me
ooh, Somebody's Watchin Me
It's gotta be that, that that that nigga that sweat my shit
I say say say, "Black get off the 'zack,
you block my urinal tract"
I gotta go pee-pee, yo you don't know me
You're just a New Kid on My Jock, tip-seekin and you're phony
It's my little pony and you cannot get a ride
So when you see me homey, just please just step aside
Step aside, not talkin wlidside, I'm comin from the Southside
where the ruffnecks reign; if you can't stand it, don't go outside
Cause it's hot I got the stuff to call your bluff and pull your card
and nowadays it's all these dick kids, that wanna be hard
You're FRAUDULENT, I can tell a pussy by his scent
So sorry, but the van got tipped
And out is how I'm lookin, I'm lookin out for my people
I'm fly like I'm fly like but me don't have no eagle
Beat the beater with the juice, how far would you go to
You're never gonna get it, woo-wooh-wooh-WOOH! * sings like En Vogue*
You wasn't down from the +Jump+, so why you wanna Kris Kross?
You no business buyin, insecure junkyard motherfucker
Get lost, cause youse a sucker
[Common]
We really lucky we got em, you can spot em
from a distance, now let's just say FOR INSTANCE
you got a crank gettin ganked for his bank by some snake
little wench -- is you is, or is you ain't
the suck-errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
You gotta gotta be, gotta be, to let the shit occur
Gettin pimped, by a hoe, that ain't too proud to beg, for your dough
She get your money mo money mo money money mo!
I couldn't go out like that if it was my first day off of punishment
Just call me Kaopectate; in relationships, I'm runnin shit
So don't be comin to me with that, "We can go out, you pay"
Cancel that bitch, it's the, Unamerican way
This is the circumcision, and skins is gettin cut off
Ridin on my shit, just to get they nut off
NOT, no cops, just low-downs want a lick
If you ain't down with the 'Van, Dyke, get off the Dick
Cause I remember the time, the time, the time you tried
to play me like I was booty but now you're just a groupie
Sweatin me uhh, sweatin me uhh
Tellin me when I get big don't be forgettin me uhh
But forget you, forgot you, after, I rock you
It's Blo Pop time bitch, you better set your clock
to the Charms Alarm
[Common]
Why'd the sucker MC sucker MC cross the road?
To get to the other side?!
Why'd the sucker MC sucker MC cross the road?
To get to the other side, now check it out
I got the pep in my step, the slide in my glide
So I won't trip, when I let my backbone slip
Some shake it to the East, I'm shakin West, well I'ma shake your mid
And I'ma get you suckaz, just give me one side, and one rib
I barbeque the mouths HEY, I barbeque the mouths
Cause mom always said - don't play wack in the house!
So take that garbage to the backyard
And I was like, "Everybody wanna wanna rap hard"
Before you wasn't hardcore, so Sonic why ya flipped?
How you gonna hop when you ain't hip?
You found rap, on a two-way street - and lost it
on a parkway, I ain't sayin no names, yo Rico Suave
Fuckin goons fakin stab wounds, I need to shank the crank
Elvis Presley Jr., tryin to be somethin that you ain't
No daps, y'all are hoes, y'all go on stage
and take off all your clothes; then you -- strike a pose
You knows and I knows, that's how you sell your record
Because your shit is BUTT, you gotta get NAKED
But you're wack, you're wack, showin your body to me
I said you're wack, you're wack, showin your body to me
You got no Soul man, and you need to get a Pound
Cause you, ain't, ah-really down..
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