[Severian]

Originally Posted by rebeccagotcursedout

your enthusiasm is contagious.

cant say I like Miley because I don't. I don't like her music. I just don't like it. can't get on the Ciccone Youth train that says its ok to like pop stars. ironic, hip or not.

The Flamings Lips are fine. I enjoy their music sometimes. I even dug the Sergeant Pepper cover album and Yoshimi is my favorite, but like Miley I feel like they're asking people to hate on them....don't like that either. it's controversy.

so why don't they just shut up, get out of my fucking face and do what they do best... make music.

I live in a post-Nirvana world and I still don't understand it.

Miley can smoke all the blunts, give little children molly, and shoot birds in my face like kurt cobain all she wants, but that doesn't change the fact that her music sucks!!!!! she wants me to fuck off?.....I will.

this cross-over indie EDM, Pop, hip hop still confuses me. what's your fucking point you assholes? to desensitize me to music that's already happening with advertising.

you can claim it's just music, but it's not. it's ART. don't want to hear it everywhere I go and on my phone and TV.

FUCK YOU!!!! you stealers of sonics, craft, and tones.

Speaking of Flaming Lips...

They really should be working on something new (like, properly new) if their history is any indicator of their present recording practices.

Yet I've heard nothing about any new Lips releases for 2015. Yeah, on their last few studio LPs they've taken a good 3-4 years between albums, but usually even their off years are filled with miscellaneous releases.

I am starting to think they should wind things up soon. As much as I love them, they're starting to sound nothing at all like the band I fell in love with all those years ago. I'd rather they make maybe two more unmistakably Lips-like albums, then focus on their myriad pet projects. Seeing Wayne Coyne with Kesha and Miley Cyrus is starting to make me feel old and confused.

I think they should play on or co-produce some tracks for Kanye, like Justin Vernon does when he's not being awful all over.

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Yeah how is it than Bon Iver is so boring? The shit he does w Kanye is phenomenal.

[Severian]

Oh, KMD - Black Bastards reissue is dropping for Record Store Day. That's a motherfuckin must have right there.


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Oh yeah, and Sonic Youth is reissuing Bad Moon Rising, Evol, Screaming Fields of Sonic Love and Sister.... no idea if they're going to be deluxe 2-disc affairs like the interrupted reissues of the 00's, but I am still interested.

Though why Pitchfork gave Bad Moon Rising an 8.1 and didn't even name it a "best new reissue" is a mystery to me. Perhaps those fuckers are finally approaching a median age that makes early SY simply a thing beyond their understanding. What limited fanfare BMR received is probably perfunctory. They're probably just following a set of rules laid out by past staff writers, stating that "in the event of a Sonic Youth release, rate high and gush but don't try to understand the music itself. It's good, trust us. Now enjoy your ILoveMakonnen you little bitches"

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Yeah im aiming to get that kmd tomorrow.

The sy reissues are barebones far as i know.

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Kesha is talented, she just chooses to limit herself to shallow party music.

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i've come to a conclusion that Cherry Bomb's 1st half is pretty awful, except "Find Your Wings" and "Blow My Load". the 2nd half is on point though. "Smuckers" is still the best song for me there.

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now this is gonna be interesting, Wayne Coyne and fucking BIG BOI..

 

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feeling Earl's album more and more with every listen.

when i blasted it through my speakers, it sounded pretty boring. but now i just finished listening to it on my headphones and liked every song!

this is my top 5 so far:

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
3. Curren$y - Pilot Talk III
4. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
5. Joey Badass - B4.DA.A$$ / Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth.. i guess

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but man. it's really a tough call between Kendrick and Earl, i still need to think about it.

and yeah i'm definitely gonna cop it next week.

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the Earl is dope.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

but man. it's really a tough call between Kendrick and Earl, i still need to think about it.

and yeah i'm definitely gonna cop it next week.

You're singing a different tune, it seems.

Glad you like Pilot Talk. But you sound totally underwhelmed about Joey and Lupe. ?

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Originally Posted by Severian

You're singing a different tune, it seems.

Glad you like Pilot Talk. But you sound totally underwhelmed about Joey and Lupe. ?

i like them, just can't play them that often. when i do i hear good music. just not really my cup of tea i guess.

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In an interview with Four Pins, the “Know Yourself” rapper revealed that while he makes slow progress on Views From the 6, the proper follow-up to 2013’s Nothing Was the Same, he already has two tracks lined up for the LP, one of those featuring Beyoncé.

The fourth album is said to find the Canadian superstar set on deliver a “shock” for listeners, sort of like how Kanye did on 808’s & Heartbreak. As the writer brings up that said album in their conversation, he writes, “Drake agrees and, as if to reinforce that notion, he tells me that Boi-1da said he needs to listen to the non-Beyoncé song a few more times before he can decide whether it’s good or not. It appears that Drake is ready to deviate from his winning formula and get a little weird.”

source

Drake is finally taking his time with his album AND trying something different? seems like my prayers have finally been heard.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

i've come to a conclusion that Cherry Bomb's 1st half is pretty awful, except "Find Your Wings" and "Blow My Load". the 2nd half is on point though. "Smuckers" is still the best song for me there.

Hell yeah. But hey- it's Kanye. When does a Kanye guest spot not turn out to be the best track on an album? Ask Rick Ross or Game ... Hell, I only gave Jesus Piece a chance because of how electric Ye's 5 word chorus was.

But I don't think the first half is trash. I think it's refreshing. Tyler's music has been so slow and dirgy and downright fucking plodding and exhausting to listen to. Wolf was infuriatingly simplistic... There was no point in wasting time on such a empty hull of a rap record-- a redundant amusical "fuck"-fest-- in a year defined by convention breaking hip hop masterpieces, and reinventions of classic genre archetypes.

Cherry Bomb has this incendiary horror disco, death synth sound to it that is actually fun to listen to! For so long I've been worried that OF (particularly Tyler and Earl) would get stuck in the creative quicksand of shock-rap, only to become novelty acts or unkillable cult stars like Insane Clown Posse and Eminem. But Cherry Bomb actually feels like progress. A step away from the thoroughly beaten to death sound of early OF.

I'm still waiting for I Don't Like Shit... to "pop" for me. I'm waiting for a time when listening to someone ejacu-hate assaultive, bleak spitballs over sparse, claustrophobic beats actually sounds like a good idea!

But maybe it will and I'll do an about face of my own. Never know.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

i like them, just can't play them that often. when i do i hear good music. just not really my cup of tea i guess.

Well... shit. I think both albums are incredible. They may be suffering a bit because of the overwhelming effect of recency > primacy in hip hop, which makes it hard for any album that isn't brand new or *not yet released* to hold the attention of listeners... But I still think Tetsuo & Youth was a triumph. Aside from some typical Lupe lyrical foibles, it is a really well thought out and well executed experiment.

And Joey's version of East Coast '90stalgia is definitely a win. I haven't listened to it as much as I thought I was going to, but every time I do I'm quite surprised at how well it all comes together. I do skip some tracks, though.

I think my list for 2015 is more or less the same, only with a few additions:

1. To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Tetsuo & Youth
3. Mr. Wonderful
4. Pilot Talk III
5. If You're Reading This It's Too Late
6. B4.DA.SS
7. Sour Soul
8. Cherry Bomb
... Meh...

[rebeccagotcursedout]

lol...obviously I missed my AA meeting. like a drunk screaming in the streets. l'm cabin fever lucid and it's been raining all week.

it's nice to know im the only one who's crazy here.

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yeah, that Kanye verse is nothing but glorious. his delivery is tight, and there are so many quotables.

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Why, oh why, why?
Why don't they like me?
Cause Nike gave lot of niggas checks
But I'm the only nigga to ever check Nike

Richer than white people with black kids
Scarier than black people with ideas
Nobody can tell me where I'm headin'
But I feel like Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen at my wedding
They say I'm crazy but that's the best thing going for me
You can't lynch Marshawn, if Tom Brady throwin' to me
I made a million mistakes, but I'm successful in spite of 'em
I believe you like a fat trainer takin' a bite or somethin'
I wanna turn the tanks to playgrounds
I dream't of 2Pac, he asked me "are you still down?"
"Yeah my nigga", it's on, it's on, it's on, it's on
I know they told their white daughters don't bring home Jerome
I am the free nigga archetype
I am the light and the beacon, you can ask the deacon
It's funny when you get extra money
Every joke you tell just be extra funny
I mean you can even dress extra bummy
Cocaine, bathroom break, nose extra runny
And I gave you all I got, you still want extra from me
Oxford want a full blown lecture from me
And the Lexus pull up, err like hop, I hopped out, like wassup
Err-err-err, step back, hold up, my nigga you suck, hold up
I studied the proportions
Emotions runnin' at an Autobahn speed level
Had a drink with fear, and I was textin' God
He said "I gave you a big dick, so go extra hard"

[Severian]

Goddamn, Kanye. God fuckin' damn.

[rebeccagotcursedout]

kanye slurp fest alert


again.