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You know, Sad Songs say so much.
Now this is being listed as the cover, again. What the FUCK? Shit is grotesque.
There are many poor indie rock album covers too.
Speaking of rap, I'm rocking to this right now:
YouTube - Mos Def Quiet Dog on Letterman 6 8 09
Yeah, I figured you knew some of his older work. His first solo album, Black on Both Sides is great too, but the couple in-between that one and the latest are uneven at best.
Let me know what you think whenever you get around to it.
Also, I've decided that Starburst are the best candy ever made. Especially now that they come in these "FaveReds" bags with all red fruits instead of those odd lemon and orange ones.
I actually liked The New Danger a lot.
I shall. Will likely be in doses, not sure I can listen to it all the way through.
Starburst are amazing.
Also, I've decided that Starburst are the best candy ever made. Especially now that they come in these "FaveReds" bags with all red fruits instead of those odd lemon and orange ones.
Here's a trend I've noticed as it pertains to my musical tastes:
When Hip-Hop artists incorporate rock elements into their music, even just a little, I usually find myself liking it much more than their other offerings. I just drift towards it.
However, when rock bands incorporate hip-hop elements into their music, I usually hate it.
Keep me posted if they do that for the strawberry ones. Those are my joint.
Now I really liked that Mos Def tune. Thuggish rap, though, is something I just cannot get behind. This may be in part due to my suburban white boy upbringing giving me no frame of reference or connection to the music. This carries over to no taste for just about any of it, although once in a while something comes along that I really like (Outkast, Kanye, and that Mos Def song).
So I perceive the genre as overall shitty and that causes me to project that even onto the good stuff. I'm a racist.
Now, if I were from Texas' sweaty taint (Houston), I'd probably feel quite different.
Generally rock bands incorporate hip-hop into their music poorly.
Here's a couple more videos from P.O.S., a Minneapolis artist that LM and I are fans of, who uses a live band all the time and is more of a hybrid hip-hop/rock artist:
YouTube - P.O.S - Optimist
YouTube - P.O.S - Purexed
Then you'd probably like some shitty chopped and screwed Southern rap. And that's no good.
Funny story. A friend of mine programs and is quite excellent at it, so him and I and two other friends got together to make a chopped and screwed rap song for our buddies birthday. Programming dude made the beats and played the synths, I wrote the lyrics and played the guitar part, and the other two sang. It turned out so, so good. I'll try to put it up sometime.
I don't think that I'll ever like another Hip-Hop act as much as I liked A Tribe Called Quest.
"Can I Kick It?" is the shit.