What song are you listening to?

[KOAB]

Eh, only album I liked from Jay was Reasonable Doubt... I never really liked him, but he's fallen pretty hard and gotten comfortable and lazy.

 

[CBright7831]

Jay used to put on some entertaining live shows a few years ago - but when he performed with Eminem a few weeks ago at the DJ Hero concert he just seemed so bored:

Jay Z & Eminem - Renegade LIve in L.A (NEW 2009)

BTW, why is everytime they perform that song live, something goes wrong with Eminem's mic?

 

[Kinetic]

Picked up a Gang of Four comp called 100 Flowers Bloom today. Beyond the excellent Entertainment!, I've always found this band to be pretty unexceptional, and consider Solid Gold (admittedly the only other album of theirs that I've heard) to be downright boring. I'm looking to rectify that situation, but it really doesn't look promising so far. For whatever reason, Rhino elected to include some totally baffling remixes of certain songs that immediately give away the comp's 1998 release date. Beyond that, a cursory listen reveals that, as I feared, the Entertainment! songs sound really vibrant, and everything else is just bass-heavy dirges and Jon King muttering about consumerism and the working class.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

more of the same tired, lazy bullshit that we've been getting from him for the last three years.

I must be the only one who really liked American Gangster.

I love that album.

It's an okay album and the writing is at times inspired, but he still relies way to heavily on that dull "whisper flow" he's been kicking since at least Kingdom Come. Far too often he resorts to adding unnecessary inflections and emphasis to the last word/syllable of lines in order to obscure the fact that he can't string his bars together in any kind of crisp, interesting way anymore. This isn't as much of a problem on the tracks where he speeds his tempo up (eg "Fallin,'" "American Gangster"), but tracks like "Say Hello" and "American Dreamin" and "I Know" are just kinda painful to listen to. The problem with post-retirement Hov isn't that he's completely run out of interesting things to say (though that's certainly part of it), it's that he's lost the ability to make uninteresting things sound interesting. Compare stuff like "Snoopy Track" or "So Ghetto," where he makes rote "slangin' and fuckin'" cliches sound totally fresh and exciting, with something like "Hello Brooklyn," where he just sounds old and tired.

Jay-Z's appeal, to me, has always lay more in his song construction (to be fair, probably more the responsibility of the people he collaborates with) and overall intangible charisma than in his pure technical ability as an MC.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes.

I absolutely love this album. The fact that I'm 18 years old probably has something to do with that.

 

[alkeiper]

God Help The Girl - Funny Little Frog

 

[Kinetic]

Sounds like Michelle Branch or Sara Bareilles. That sounds like it could be a top 40 hit over here, but I like it a lot less than the B&S version.

 

[alkeiper]

It's Brittany Stallings, part of a project led by B&S frontman Stuart Murdoch.

 

[Kinetic]

Yeah, I know. I was saying that it sounds reminiscent of certain successful contemporary female recording artists and that I could therefore see it being a hit in America, but that I didn't like it as much as the original recorded version.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

The Tallest Man On Earth - Honey Won't You Let Me In

The Tallest Man on Earth - Honey Won't You Let Me in


The Dylan comparisons this guy has been bombarded with weren't off the mark. Jeez.

I still kinda like it, though.

 

[KOAB]

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

 

[luke-o]

Lady Gaga - Just Dance

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Cocteau Twins: Pepper-Tree

 

[Smartly Pretty]

History Lesson Part II by Minutemen. This song is so fucking great. I revisit Minutemen every once in a while, not too often because really, they're a pretty good band at best. I sometimes forget that History Lesson Part II is really one of my favorite songs.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The Power Station- "Some Like It Hot"

Holy overproduced '80s music. I've always had a soft spot for anything Robert Palmer related since my pop was a big fan of his early stuff so this one is a big guilty pleasure.

 

[tonyjaymz03]

I've recently really gotten into Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, and Sonic Youth

 

[KOAB]

City Wings - Big-O featuring Lupe Fiasco

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

I haven't listened to Nasum in a while! I've been going all Inhale/Exhale and Human 2.0 crazy the past few days. Lots of pop bottle blast beats in the truck and ink pen blast beats on the spacebar.

 

[JHawk]

Led Zeppelin "D'Yer Mak'er"

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Nasum - Time to Act! (Riots Compilation)

Nasum - Rens

Highspeed Video: Nasum - Violation

 

[Positively Kanyon]

Absolutely loving this song right now... Awesome remix!

Paul van Dyk - For An Angel 2009

 

[Gary]

Al Green-Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun

 

[KOAB]

1983 Ronnie James Dio "Man On The Silver Mtn" (Rock Palace)

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Been listening to a few Meat Puppet songs and I can't work out if I like them or not, music is great but the singing is an acquired taste. The way I see it though, if I can happily listen to Ween, I should be fine with this.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Akron/Family - Akron/Family. I like this album a lot more than you'd expect me to.

 

[Czech]

Hello, sorry we're late, but we were just tuning. What's the matter, they keep you waiting or something? Are we late? It's raining out there. What do you mean it's raining out? We know it's fucking raining out. God damn. Men, the guy who tightened this microphone is Godzilla, man, I can’t, look at that, look at that. I better either grow an inch, man, or I need a boyfriend.
"You need a what? ... You need a what?"
A BOYFRIEND, can't you fucking hear; what's wrong with you. I'm gonna quote a line, like, like, from, from, Yeats, I think it is, like, for you, and that's called "the best lack all conviction, while the best are filled..." no, no, it's the other way around. "The best lack all conviction, and the worst are filled with a passionate intensity." Now you figure out where I am.

Standing on the corner, a suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest, I hear you, I hear you knocking but you can't come in hey, Hey honey I'm in a rock and roll band. And ridin' a Stutz Bearcat, those were different times, and those ladies they studied rules of verse, and all those ladies, they rolled their eyes, and sayin' Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane. Now Jack, he's a banker. And Jane, she's just a little bitty clerk. And both of them...hey, you little people out there. This is for all you little people. Don't you hate it, those Academy Awards, man? You know, they say, here's fuckin' Barbra Streisand, she says "I want to thank all those...the little people, there's too many little people, I can't get their names." Fuck her and her little people! I like big people. Fuck short people and tall people, man, I like middle people! People from Wyoming. You ever meet somebody from Wyoming? Not me. Anyway. Now Jack, he's a banker, and Jane, she's a clerk. Hey clerk. Gimme good clerk. I give good clerk. Uh huh. And both them, man, they saved their pennies, and their fucking nickels, and their dimes, and it builds up. They got a nest egg. Here comes the condominium, aw, shit! Hey Miami. And they're sitting there by the fire, man. It's an electric fire. You plug it in. But I like make-believe fire. I like make-believe love, too. Ooh mama, give me some make-believe love. Hey! Make-Believe Love. That's an album title, Michael. Write that down, quick! Fuck, I might forget it! Listen to some classical music, heyyyy, better watch it now. There's only one time, one time only to vote. Hey, The March Of The Wooden Soldiers. Have you ever put a quarter in those machines, man? You know, like the bear that plays basketball? You put a quarter in. Uh huh. I guess you never put a quarter in me. Some people say I'm residue. The March Of The Wooden Soldiers. Hup! Where were you on the list when they called you for Vietnam HEY MAN FOR VIETNAM? "Are you political, Lou?" Political about what? Give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue. Wipe my ass with it. Aw yeah. We're just here to make out. You bend over, we'll put the head in. You know, if you don't like it, then we'll talk about it. Face north, Jack!Are we been broadcast tonight? Fuck Radio Ethiopia, man, I'm Radio Brooklyn! I ain't no snob, man. Haha. They said Sweet Jane, oh sweet Jane. You know, there's some people, man, they like to go out dancing. Watch this!
"Jane's a bitch!"
What about her?
"...fuck Radio Ethiopia!"
If you write as good as you talk, nobody reads you. What do I look like, Henny Youngman up here, man? YouknowIfoundmywifeinthelivingroominaVolkswagensaidhowdyougettheresaidmadearightthroughthekitchenAIN'TTHATFUNNYHAHAHA. And there's even some evil motherfuckers OOH. OOH. OOH. That tell you that life is just made out of dirt, and that, aw man, hey, those pretty women, man, they never really fake. Those villains always--SHUT UP YOU!--blink their eyes. And little bitty children are the only ones that blush, and that life--life, is just to die. But I’ll tell you something. Hey man, anyone who's got a heart, a rock and roll heart, would you turn around and break it? And you know, do that again, Michael. Is that control? Watch this. Now. And anyone who has played the part you know, hey. Hey man, they wouldn’t turn around and hate it, they say Sweet Jane.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I just heard Seether's cover of Careless Whisper. It is really fantastic.

 

[Gary]

Mad Season-"Long Gone Day" I forgot how much I like this song.

 

[Cerebus The Aardvark]

I just heard Seether's cover of Careless Whisper. It is really fantastic.

I found it dreadful.

I have gone back to "Orestes" a lot lately. It's like it's 2001 all over again.

@Gary Floyd,

I still feel that Above is overlooked. It's one of those "side projects" that doesn't really seem to get muchlove, but I liked it.

 

[KOAB]

Don Sugar Cane Harris I`gonna miss you

"Eleanor Rigby" by Sugarcane Harris