M.I.A. - KALA

man maya is all over mtv this week. they've been playing literally every single one of her songs as they intro and outro of every commercial, while the credits play after shows, etc. v. cool i guess.

v. cool i guess.

the v. is for sv.elte

your withdrawl from ILX has really hurt your zing game, ethan.

http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/uploaded_images/T-Shirt-Winners%20practice%20til%20they%20get%20it%20right,%20champions...-761189.jpg

i was punishing you for not reviving the thread with pix

man i would beat that shit up-- she talks real nasty, but not like a flipper. TS, smash-off edition: maya vs uffie. i would get them dyking while my russian wing was making a snuff video of ed danger & diplo.

-- luriqua, Saturday, September 1, 2007 12:56 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

contrary to popular belief, there's only a finite amount of crouching m.i.a. pictures available on the internet.

post youtubes of her live concerts

post youtubes of her coconuts

'paper planes' is summertime classic in waiting,
-- lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:25 (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

OTM. Will Smith, Mungo Jerry, MIA. The trinity of famous summer songs that everyone knows.

ANTHEM

Man, this album suuuuucks.

Jaymc off the money.

The other day I heard the track that the whole backing of ... "Paper Planes," I think ... is lifted from. It was quite a bit better than the M.I.A., actually -- wish I could remember the name of the artist.

I still think "Bamboo Banger" is not only the best thing on this album, but the best thing she's ever done.

saw her in worcester last night; that her fans are generally obnoxious should surprise no-one.

seeing her live was a great as visual spectacle, but girl simply cannot carry a tune. again, no one should be surprised.

nabisco the paper planes beat is based around a sample from straight to hell...? right?

The other day I heard the track that the whole backing of ... "Paper Planes," I think ... is lifted from. It was quite a bit better than the M.I.A., actually -- wish I could remember the name of the artist.

-- nabisco, Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

??? isn't this the one that is 'straight to hell' by the clash??

if so i can't believe how few people actually heard this, and yeah its way better

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HQwm1v1R-qM&feature=related

dan perry otm.

Haha yeah I know it starts from a sample, but what I'm saying is that I heard a song with THAT WHOLE BACKING, that beat and sample-usage and everything -- something African, with a group vocal. I don't have any information on it, though -- it might just be a version someone did using the M.I.A. instrumental? (Or even something someone mashed up? Though it didn't have that quality at all.)

well, diplo produced it so who knows where it might have been stolen from

This album is good when it is fast and bad when it is slow.

I'll see if I can find it again. There is an instrumental of "Paper Planes" around, so maybe someone just used that to do a version -- still, it would be kind of a weird choice for a west-African vocal group to sing over, and it appears that the instrumental Diplo put out there still has M.I.A.'s chorus on it, which this one didn't (though obviously they could just loop the verses) ... I should just track this thing down again.

I agree about "Bamboo Banger"'s greatness. I love how the bass takes forever to kick in, when it finally does it makes it HUGE.

Dom dude, remind me next time I'm feeling a bit more combative to revive the Sway thread and mock your predictions with a few well placed "I remember this dude" type comments.

sleeve otm about the bass.

Matt, you should wait until he's no longer on ILX.

I still think "Bamboo Banger" is not only the best thing on this album, but the best thing she's ever done.

for sirius. fucker actually got "powa" and "banga" into my head.

Jimmy I could do without, but i love the little kids' NWA track.

"Jimmy" is great- straight-up Bollywood disco and not rap at all, but great.

Goddamn! I searched forever (well, really about an hour but...) for a clip of the number "Kaatukuyilu" from the film Thalapathi which M.I.A. sampled in "Bamboo Banga." And voila:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5onAObhwcE

The sampled vocal comes in at 2:39 in the clip, the opening drum sample at 3:13. But you'll recognize melodies/patterns from the start. A fantastic song. Beatier than the Hindi hegemony. According to this, it's dappangoothu, "an indigenous music (genre) of South India...characterised by relatively simple melodies sung to throbbing, flamboyant percussion." Sign me up.

Didn't get this record for the longest time since catchiness is my number one requirement. But now...well, ya know, album of the year and all. And lo - catchy too (and finally).

Thanks!

Great find, Kevin!

Some MP3 blog posted a load of MIA source material a few months back, I wish I could remember what it was.

i think it was palms out sounds, or poss attorney st?

yeah sounds like palms out sounds.

Here:

http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/09/sample-wednesday-39-mia.html

i successfully ignored m.i.a. for all of '07, but paper planes finally got into my head. some of those remixes are pretty great!

i miss lex!

yeah that shitty song is in my head after watching the pineapple express trailer like 50 times

isnt it just a straight clash loop anywayz?

i do think the half-assed dirtbag style of it fits the trailer fine

haha

DFA remix - really funky, has basically nothing to do with the original track.

and what's hatred for/love of m.i.a. never fails to astound me

there is some pretty great and some really terrible shit on this album.

Yeah I'll stipulate to that. But her secret is that she doesn't know the difference between the two, and doesn't give a shit what we think anyway.

"isnt it just a straight clash loop anywayz?"

Not exactly, but it's close.

Not that that's an insult either way. It's a great loop and it's used well.

there is some pretty great and some really terrible shit on this album.

-- Jordan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:11 (4 hours ago) Link

^^^this, and "Paper Planes" falls into the later category

More lunacy!