Dizzee Rascal: Boy In Da Corner

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i mean shit i've got like 4 tracks, this instamatic download 'n crit mode is too fast for me today

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

Big ups to Blount for letting me d/l

There's not as much twinkly/pretty as I'd been led to believe, other than that it is greater than expectation. I'm very glad that it's right now and I'm hearing this.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

i like how the more fire crew "hey!" has become the sleng teng of the noughties

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

fassieman say more things about how great this record is

― ss sean, Friday, 20 June 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

original pirate material is happy compared with this record. FASSIEMAN SAY MORE TING

― ss sean, Friday, 20 June 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

i wish it wasn't so relentlessly "dark", but i'm glad the "idi amin" and "queen liz, she lives neat while i live street" lines i heard on all those freestyles made it in

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

"ladies: do the butterfly, shake your batty low shake your batty high" is classic. SKETBOY SAY TING! gosh i'm excited!

― ss sean, Friday, 20 June 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

it's like what you were saying about hip hop getting darker and shit; this pulls it off with far more zest and aplomb than an army of 50 fucking cents and joe buddens. hip hop sucks SO MUCH right now. HEY!

― sssean, Friday, 20 June 2003 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm just an MC like David Platt" = Old-skool Championship Manager (Midfielder Central: MC) reference?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

...maybe its a british thing

Counter-example: The Cold Vein?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

"maybe it's a dark night of the soul thing"

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not too proud to beg someone to mail me a burn of this (or whatever).

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 21 June 2003 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

i blatantly am. grr

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 21 June 2003 08:36 (twenty years ago) link

In his darkest adventure yet, the teenage boy wizard must struggle to deal with girls, his enemies - and his own temper!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 21 June 2003 08:45 (twenty years ago) link

haha! 'hermione's such a bitch!'

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 June 2003 08:54 (twenty years ago) link

harry shotta

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 21 June 2003 10:00 (twenty years ago) link

oh yes, this is good. i like that it's DARK. and i agree with tico tico above, but the music (or lack thereof!) and his flows more than make up for the occaisonally juvenile tone of the lyrics.

this really doesn't sound like an album genre though it is my first foray into nu-garage after weeks of talk about it here.

― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 21 June 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

(i don't think that was tico tico's point, disco.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

(well it also does have that whole "i'm going to take you to another world and that world is indeed reality, are you feeling it?" feel as well.)

― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

i love how utterly nihilistic the music is

― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

oh yah isn't it just sabulous darling!

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 21 June 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

brand new day is still the best song in the world right now (right here by swv being a close second)

― ss, Saturday, 21 June 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

"you wouldnt last an hour in my shoe / WHOOO! / it's a air force one!"

nihilist?

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 21 June 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm just a MC like David Platt".

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 June 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

yeah wtf no way he's 18 with that lyric!

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 21 June 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

i'm sure the gun noise on 'hold your mouf' is sampled from goldeneye. yet more examples of music as computer game

― ssean, Saturday, 21 June 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

Haven't got it yet, but how does it compare with the More Fire Crew album?

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 21 June 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

no comparison!

― ssean, Saturday, 21 June 2003 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

>>> Marcello, has now added an article on Dizzee Rascal, at The Church of Me: http://cookham.blogspot.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

just found out the dizee rascal is being interviewed on the rinse hour of the remix show on Xfm tonight, between 7pm - 10pm, [i think that the rinse hour is after 9pm]

tune in via the web:
http://www.kikido.com/Capital/Kikido/live/onair_xfm/player/onair_xfmIE.html
or
http://www.xfm.co.uk

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 22 June 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

good lord, that simon reynolds blog entry is some embarassing shit

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

i was going to say that i don't see what's so bad about it until i got to the last two points...

― robin (robin), Monday, 23 June 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

i agree with him on the neo-electro/glitch/idm stuff (but its more like...well, duh), but um yeah...

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 04:39 (twenty years ago) link

*checks blog* Actually the thing about the whole blog itself that's befuddling me is that apparently Noam Chomsky's a huge music geek. Although I guess I shouldn't be surprised that we're talking seventies prog mostly. Still, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 June 2003 04:56 (twenty years ago) link

marcello's is just as bad:

And also the distinct sense that Rascal’s been listening, funnily enough (because this album demonstrates no humour whatsoever or wheresoever)

this is such bullshit it makes me wonder if he's even heard the album

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link

par for the course in marcello land

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:25 (twenty years ago) link

(ie. listening to the album would mean listening to something besides the sound of your own voice)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link

odds on any of the hip-hop quotables sr pulled appearing in the source: 8000 to 1

odds sr is aware of the source's hip-hop quotables: 9000 to 1

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

marcello redux:

me. dizzee rascal. billy bragg. cabaret voltaire. night and day. david sylvain. ryuichi sakamoto. shut up and dance. bob dylan. w t pooh. the streets. karen carpenter. so solid. boards of canada. tony chrisitie. roger whitaker. bonham. tricky. madonna. sugababes. westwood. busta. gilbert and sullivan. trouble funk. lydon. pil. camus. wyngaarde.

postscript:

"so, in limiting yourself to a single glass, you have a much better notion of all other objects than if you had wanted to do everything. in having a quarter of an inch of something, you have a better chance of holding onto a certain feeling of the universe than if you had pretended to be doing the whole sky"

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

on the xfm interview Dizzee did not seem to know who Richard D James / Aphex Twin was, so the prospect of him listening to Sylvian does seem remote.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

nihilist?

the music, not the lyrics

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, that's a good distinction

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 23 June 2003 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

i found that marcello carlin (sic?) piece really cringesome

― ssean, Monday, 23 June 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

eh,ned,that wasn't actually chomsky,surely?

― robin (robin), Monday, 23 June 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

god, this record is so good

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

the stuff that seemed like filler on the first couple of listens has really opened up now

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

eh,ned,that wasn't actually chomsky,surely?

I dunno, I sorta like the idea that Chomsky is a prog freak! If it wasn't him it was a good choice of pseudonym.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 June 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

Into my second listen..... what jess said.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 23 June 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

have simon reynolds and dizzee rascal ever been photographed together?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 23 June 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

at - jess

The "hey" as heard on More Fire's LP is the trademark of Platinum 45 who produced that track, the More Fire LP and is a mate of Dizzee's.

He has, incidentally, a full Roll Deep Eskimo vocal special which is incredible.

― martin (martin), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

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