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I made two picks late yesterday afternoon. Grilled up dinner. Spent maybe another hour outside with the family then came in and we all watched a movie. As they went to bed I checked back in to see what I missed only to find out I was in the chamber again.
I remember their old band, [redacted]. Their old band was on Lookout! and put out a seriously good album in 2005. I never got into Free Energy, but glad you have all the spark you'll need on your island.
It was probably our 143rd spin through Cars. But our first one in a few years and it actually kept our 4 year old from not finding his typical evening appetite for destruction, so I pretended to pay attention then magically woke up this morning to our house not being destroyed like every other morning. I could actually walk to get the day's first cup of coffee without concern of stepping on a painfully sharp landmine.
Heh. The selections for that one are pretty much an Eazy solo about drankin' and cokin' and Dre's choice of beat, though. I think the more on the nose ones have been played out, actually. Strangely. Makes you think of why that is...
I think this means I can go. Sorry if I'm wrong, but I got one teed up and am gonna be out for at least a few hours.
weird ...2 snipes this morning ...assuming this is Vol. 1?
The beats behind it are blocky, if that could be a term. There's crunch to them due to El-P's production. He's incredibly varied, though his beats have always veered towards hyper electronica, so that might not be as easy a case as one could make. I also think that both in lyrical content and delivery, they're a little more old school, which most people can deal with than straight new trap, which sounds distant, and like it's in a tunnel. There's also the element of a "band" that people mythologize, and they seem to fit every construct of what constitutes one.
It's June 5th, I believe, if El-P's twitter feed is sticking right with me right now.
I’d been shocked this wasn’t taken yet. Seems like the consensus “best” of his records. I decided just to get one song of his through the Basquiat soundtrack instead of taking a whole album. I think...
I think it's in my top ten of all time for punk records. Quite neatly and easily, actually. One of their songs will have a huge and significant place in the rocacktion punk hundred coming in...sometime (another shameless plug). The selections you pick include one of the hardest, sprawlingest-yet-tight rock songs I've ever heard and a wonderfully re-imagined cover song off of what may be the best punk album ever. Nice work all around. I wish there was more than love to give this.
hmm, i don't feel that way about el-p at all, although he might be a little different now that in the co flow and solo days. i guess i can't speak for current rTJ fans, but co flow seemed like they crossed over a lot with the backpack rap crew (despite his beef with sole) which was certainly predominantly white and i think had a certain crossover with indie and punk rock and i always thought that the connection stemmed from there.
Oh yeah, I tried to touch on all of this as succinctly as possible so it didn't become a wall of text, and I think his previous love from the indie/backpack crew has tons to do with it. I also think I hedged the bet on gently disagreeing with the beats having a ton to do with it. He's wildly experimental and always has been. And I'll agree to an extent about the line standing out about their content and delivery, and while his flow hasn't changed all that much since his Co Flow days, the content is certainly different, and emcees tag teaming for braggadocio raps is certainly old school. It could be that it sounds old school to me because it's like water to me as a listener, possibly partially because of his influence now coming to the fore twenty years later in pop culture. But, the new album has production from other people (DJ Premier) and other albums do indeed have trappings that Co Flow and El-P solo just don't, and those flourishes veer toward more traditional rap culture rather than departing from it.
