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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
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 Posted - 08/21/2007 : 20:16:18
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Stars: In Our Bedroom After the War.
Best thing I've heard so far in this very good year for music. I was put off by the melodrama until I realized Stars is all about melodrama. I WESH Stars would stop doing longish intro tracks and just get to the pretty pretty songs. This is also the best Stars album in terms of merginghis and her vocals.
Check this shit out!!!: "My Favorite Book," "Bitches in Tokyo," "Life 2: The Unhappy Ending," everything else.
Weird!: "Personal," about a personal ad. Who still does personal ads? That kind of makes the song extra awesome though. Definitely the melodramaticist song on the recording.
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 21:03:41
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Talib Kweli: Ear Drum
This album starts so boring I was thinking, "Wow! Is this what's it's like to listen to Common"? Worse, there's a lot of gospel references, and everyone knows that while gospel is great, gospel rap is shit. But then Kweli kind of saves the thing with some of the most awesomely left-field references ever, like, "Don't need no romance, they belong to the sisterhood of traveling pants," and "Rhymes turn a new page like Mark Foley, touch kids like when Larry Clark gave the part to Chloe."
Nifty: "Holy Moly"
Unedutaining: "The Perfect Beat" feat. KRS-1
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Alexander Humpaslut
COOL BRO
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Posted - 08/21/2007 : 21:04:26
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| This is great. I'd really love to hear you on the new Rilo Kiley. |
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 21:12:48
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A request? How can I say no?
Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight
I love RK's second album, "The Execution of All Things" and hate their third, "More Adventurous." I wasn't optimistic about this one but it's surprisingly great. They sound like they're having lots of fun and aren't engaging in the shallow politicizing or feyness that have undone past songs. It's similar to Jenny Lewis' solo album, but with the benefit of Blake Sennet's loose, frisky guitar lines engaging her melodies in flirty conversation. (They used to bone.) There's also just the right amount of 808, befitting Lewis' one-time dream of a rap career.
Well executed: "Silver Lining," "Close Call."
Brave, though not necessarily good: "Give a Little Love"
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Alexander Humpaslut
COOL BRO
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Posted - 08/21/2007 : 21:14:03
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| Nice. I agree in general. But "Portions for Foxes" was a highlight of a crappy album. |
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 21:14:55
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agreed.
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Alexander Humpaslut
COOL BRO
113 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 21:15:48
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| More! I'm downloading some Stars now. |
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Alexander Humpaslut
COOL BRO
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 22:45:27
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M.I.A. - Kala
It's cool that M.I.A. is getting retroative praise for "Arular" in the form of lots of good reviews for this album, but the record's actually rather boring. All the references to worldwide social disasters feel a little like branding, as if M.I.A were dance music's Zach de la Rocha with his grab bag of psuedo-revolutionary chants. Also like Rage, the music sounds different and new at first and then starts to drag. Nothing on "Kala" is as good as "10 Dollar" from the last record, though calling a track here "20 Dollar" is a cute idea. Also better than anything on "Kala" is "Hit That," released on MySpace in May. For zero dollar.
Infectious, kinda: "Bird Flu"
Where is Your Mind?: The Pixies reworking on "20 Dollar"? Weird.
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DJ Halfway Decent
Big into the Psychobilly Scene
USA
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Posted - 08/22/2007 : 10:08:40
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Originally posted by flipwilson
For zero dollar.
These are great, keep it up!
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Alexander Humpaslut
COOL BRO
113 Posts |
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 23:54:45
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Over the Rhine - The Trumpet Child
Wow. I'd never heard of this Ohio-based husband and wife duo before this album, but it's great grown-up music. I imagine fans of Elvis Costello's last album with Allen Toussaint would love this, and not just because Elvis is their MySpace friend. The lead singer, Karin Berquist, gets compared to Feist a lot, and they do kind of sound alike, though Berquist has been doing this for about 10 years longer. They have the old timey feel and some of the humor of the Ditty Bops, who I love, but much more range, going easily from pop to jazz and country. While I wouldn't listen to anything this blue all the time, these two are very good at what they do.
Over the Top: "Let's Spend the Day in Bed."
Under the Whelming: Using the phrase "bling bling" on one "playful" song, and when the husband half of the duo sings on the overly wacky "Don't Wait for Tom"
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Your French Tickler
BRO
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 16:54:46
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Originally posted by flipwilson
Brave, though not necessarily good: "Give a Little Love"
Starting to think this is very, very good song. |
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DJ Halfway Decent
Big into the Psychobilly Scene
USA
4507 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 13:20:28
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I read the recent SPIN magazine article on RK over the weekend. Jenny Lewis comes across like kind of a dick, Blake comes across like kind of a wiener, and it sounds like the band as a whole is on borrowed time.
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Your French Tickler
BRO
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 13:25:11
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Nope. They're just that good.
Where would we be if that kind of judgement worked? All the talented starts would be nice.
No, they're not, generally. They're arrogant, self-possessed, condescending. And it's good. That's what gives stars of the WESH-- B E L I E V E, Lester, Pleaj-- their charm. |
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DJ Halfway Decent
Big into the Psychobilly Scene
USA
4507 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 13:31:33
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Hey, I'm just the messenger once removed.
I don't give two shits about Rilo Kiley, so this is my completely unbiased opinion of how the article portrayed them.
If this article is right, the band will likely sink or swim with the success of this "mainstream" album.
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Your French Tickler
BRO
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 13:36:07
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It's funny to call it mainstream.
Amazing songs embedded with catchiness, commentary and capitulation of the craft to a different level.
This album may be more mainstream, but in a Sondheimesque way. |
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Mad Squirrel
PINKO!
Ghana
2948 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 17:28:07
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I like the new L.A. Symphony album.
It's mostly drops and unreleased tracks and such but it's pretty dope. I like the track sequence.
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 19:14:05
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MS, thank you. I'll check it out and perhaps review it in the future, space permitting.
JB, JLew is not a dick. She was very nice when interviewed for Lunchboxing, a Web site she had never heard of, when her band was at the peak of its creative powers.
That said, I think the band is totally on borrowed time. In revisiting it, I've decided the first few songs (or side A, for my fellow old people) is great, and the others suck, except for the last two songs, the last of which I go back and forth on.
If the album fails, they may feel they have no reason to go on. If it succeeds, it may encourage Lewis to keep going with her solo music, which is far more consistent than the music on either of the two latest RK albums.
Blake has some great guitar riffs but I find his side project, The Elected, as annoying as many people find Rilo Kiley.
Oh. If the next Postal Service is as big as it will probably be Lewis may focus on that, as well.
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Your French Tickler
BRO
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Posted - 09/04/2007 : 23:00:18
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On borrowed time? Bah. It's not the old music industry. They'll be releasing all kind of things forever. |
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 23:11:07
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Not if they break up on their own accord. :)
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Your French Tickler
BRO
83 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 23:34:50
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I figured that was your point but that doesn't change anything anymore either. Like in old movies when they have to stop the person they love from getting married. What does getting married really matter now? Just some old convention that you don't have to stick to.
Give a Little Love and Silver Lining are two of the best songs I've heard in the last few years. |
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Your French Tickler
BRO
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Posted - 09/05/2007 : 14:06:38
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I can't think of a meaner word than nice.
It's just an excuse for people to subject you to their appropriate cruelty. |
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 20:49:12
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Kanye West - Graduation
KW is the most honest rapper alive. For all the griping about his ego, it's better than false modesty. And at least he's also willing to admit shortcomings: On "Big Brother," a painfully blunt account of his history with Jay-Z, he confesesses he "spazzed" on the "Diamonds" remix.
This album has some clunky lines too, like the emphasis/sensitive and collagen/apolog'in rhymes in "Can't Tell Me Nothing," but then he caps the song with a CL Smooth homage that reminds me how much I just flat-out like him.
"Graduation" feels short and too the point, doesn't get buried in guest appearances, and has a few songs that are absolute gold: "Good Life" would've been the summer song of 2007 if it had come out three months ago. There's some boring stuff too ("I Wonder"), which Kanye will probably fess up to somewhere down the line.
Pass: "Stronger," "Big Brother," "Everything I Am"
Fail: "I Wonder"
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 20:51:04
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Added bonus: He's stopped doing the Michael-Geico rhyme and instead says "dyke" - a lot!!!
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B E L I E V E
Speaks with his hands
Andorra
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Posted - 09/12/2007 : 05:09:55
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It's funny you single out "I Wonder"--while I'm the first person to say that the lyrics are pretty atrocious, that beat has really stuck with me.
Maybe it just needs nas over it?
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2007 : 06:58:52
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It grew on me over a couple listens, but it just feels out of place. Kind of mannered and stately or something. Like he likes the sample too much to play with it.
All the beats are top-notch though. Music-wise I'd say it's his best album.
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shakey finch
the UK's answer to p-diddy
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/13/2007 : 11:31:02
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has flip reviewed or heard 50 cents new offering or squizzleshambles 2nd album?
no sig,ya dig? |
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THE ABSOLUTE NUTCRACKER
The Boogie Woogie Body Snatchers
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Posted - 09/13/2007 : 13:34:20
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Originally posted by flipwilson
Kanye West - Graduation
KW is the most honest rapper alive.
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 06:12:21
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why the long line of log faces?
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 00:28:44
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Britney Spears: Blackout
I am totally feeling this wonderfully insane album. Britney has surrounded herself with corporate-shark smart producers who take full advantage of working for a pliable mannequin all too willing to do what they say. Good call on her part. I've read reviews that say Spears sounds lost, awash in other people's creativity, but give me a break. This is the most present she's ever been in her own songs, and at least this time she's playing herself instead of embodying some 40-year-old Swede's interpretation of middle American sex fantasies. Mannequins have feelings too.
The net effect of the album's best tracks is kind of like that of "More More More," the Andrea True masterpiece supposedly funded by True's earnings in porn: You get the sense she's completely out of control and completely in control of being completely out of control. Spears wows and infuriates with her blank audacity: Does she even know the melody for "Ooh Ooh squizzle" swipes theTurtles' "Happy Together"? Or realize the beat for Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" makes slightly reconfigured appearances in no less than three songs? Would she care if she did know? Did she write the agonizingly precise Federline play-by-play "Why Should I Be Sad" or - more amazingly - let someone else write it for her?
Beautiful, repugnant, fascinating, concern-inducing, horrifying, rad, totally compelling: Blackout is all these things and more, more, more.
Gimme More: ""Piece of Me," "Radar," "Break the Ice," "Hot as Ice." (Recurrent ice theme=thematic cohesion)
Give Up Custody: "Toy Soldier"
The majority of the incidents took place in Lingdale and Boosebeck, although some offences were also carried out in Loftus, Guisborough Skelton, Redcar, Saltburn and Lazenby. |
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metroid
FUCK YEAH BRO
United Kingdom
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flipwilson
inventor of the rapaoke mash-up
USA
5673 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:30:20
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I dunno. The one song I hard was awful. I'm more a fan of the late 70s stuff - Hotel California and the Long Run. Desperado's good too.
And I'm waaaay more into the Henley songs. The new one is half Henley, half Frey. They never used to do that. Kinda weak.
The majority of the incidents took place in Lingdale and Boosebeck, although some offences were also carried out in Loftus, Guisborough Skelton, Redcar, Saltburn and Lazenby. |
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Mindless Dick Rider
BRO
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Posted - 10/30/2007 : 13:14:12
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Britney Spears could record herself taking a dump and I would buy it.
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Originally posted by flipwilson
Britney Spears: Blackout
I am totally feeling this wonderfully insane album. Britney has surrounded herself with corporate-shark smart producers who take full advantage of working for a pliable mannequin all too willing to do what they say. Good call on her part. I've read reviews that say Spears sounds lost, awash in other people's creativity, but give me a break. This is the most present she's ever been in her own songs, and at least this time she's playing herself instead of embodying some 40-year-old Swede's interpretation of middle American sex fantasies. Mannequins have feelings too.
The net effect of the album's best tracks is kind of like that of "More More More," the Andrea True masterpiece supposedly funded by True's earnings in porn: You get the sense she's completely out of control and completely in control of being completely out of control. Spears wows and infuriates with her blank audacity: Does she even know the melody for "Ooh Ooh squizzle" swipes theTurtles' "Happy Together"? Or realize the beat for Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" makes slightly reconfigured appearances in no less than three songs? Would she care if she did know? Did she write the agonizingly precise Federline play-by-play "Why Should I Be Sad" or - more amazingly - let someone else write it for her?
Beautiful, repugnant, fascinating, concern-inducing, horrifying, rad, totally compelling: Blackout is all these things and more, more, more.
Gimme More: ""Piece of Me," "Radar," "Break the Ice," "Hot as Ice." (Recurrent ice theme=thematic cohesion)
Give Up Custody: "Toy Soldier"
The majority of the incidents took place in Lingdale and Boosebeck, although some offences were also carried out in Loftus, Guisborough Skelton, Redcar, Saltburn and Lazenby.
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