I've only bothered to listen to Kala the whole way through twice. Arula still gets the odd play, though.
― chap, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
you mean arugula.
kala is still my almost-4-year-old son's favorite album. his favorite songs keep changing, though. lately it's been "20 dollar" and "hussel."
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
best toddler ever
― blueski, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't comprehend only bothering to listen to Kala twice.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
also heard paper planes on some olympic filler, maybe one of those "holy shit look at what michael phelps eats!" spots.
― Jordan, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know that it proves or disproves anything and it could just mean she'll be the 2008 men without hats, but in re the last four years of snarking about whether she'll "make it," m.i.a. has a top 5 u.s. single as of this week.
-- tipsy mothra, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:56 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Together we made it (you see we did it niggaz!) We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall (c'mon) Forever we waited {ha ha!} And they told us we were never gonna get it But we took it on the road (to the riches) on the road (to the ghetto) On the rooooad (and the projects to this bangin instrumental) On the road (ride with me) on the road (we come and get it) On the rooooad (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Kala sounds GREAT now. I've really come around to it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll give it another shot at some point.
― chap, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
if i want to hear anything, it's just the first three tracks and maybe the paper planes remix w/bun b
― Jordan, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
The tracks from this that I always play through no matter what:
Bamboo Banger Hussel $20 XR2 Paper Planes
The track I always skip:
Jimmy
― HI DERE, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't like 'The Turn'
― blueski, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the queasy vibe of "The Turn" but I don't always want to hear it; when I'm in the mood, though, those quavery tremolo filters on the synths shoot right through me.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
This is the only song on the album that's any good!
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"Jimmy" is a total chik song. i can tell, i'm a chik. She's smart though, she keeps the guys interested by bringing girls up on stage to dance during live performances.
― myndbloom, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
a Frankie Knuckles remix that does something with the Bollywood hook would sound incredible.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Jimmy used to bother me a little, but it's really grown on me. Overall, I think this is one of the most perfect albums of the last few years.
― Dan S, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i like paper planes and jimmy, but the rest didn't grab me so much.
― the next grozart, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
she really is our Gavin Rossdaledoes that make diplo gwen?-- lex pretend, Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:03 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
does that make diplo gwen?
-- lex pretend, Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:03 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
either that or Albini
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Weird year for 'internet hype acts hardly anyone in the real world likes'. MIA in the US top five, Wiley and Dizzee both with massive hits in the UK, when did With Every Heartbeat come out again?
There's a four or five-year lead time on these things presumably.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
ILX: so far ahead of time its parents haven't even met yet
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
"Jimmy" rules, but I like the original better ("Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja" by Parvati Khan, which is the exact same song without M.I.A. on it). I've yet to figure out if there are other Bollywood tracks out there that are such good catchy disco numbers. Any recommendations?
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
HANDS UP GUNS OUT REPRESENT THE WORLD TOWN
There is so much awesome sloganeering on this album.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
that chorus is just a reworked version of a Baltimore club song ("hands up/thumbs down/represent that d-town").
― some dude, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
if i want to hear anything, it's just the first three tracks
I'd extend this out to four, but this is def. no Arular
― The Reverend, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh okay, I hate the song now.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i was just saying, jeez.
― some dude, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i think that's the reason i don't get into jimmy that much, it just feels jacked.
― Jordan, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't get into "Jimmy" because that's the song where her voice is the most irritating.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I love it when her voice is straining to hit those notes on the last verse!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
A masterpiece, IMO. The only two records better than this are the White Album and Pink Flag.
― Inertia_90, Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ link to your old-skool sockpuppets
― and what, Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks in part to the movie soundtrack placement, "Paper Planes" and the various "Swagger Like Us" remixes are everywhere---I keep hearing it in the background at the Tampa Rays stadium during their baseball playoff games, "Paper Planes" is the # one song on one of D.C.'s r'n'b /rap stations, and it's been all over the top 40 pop station too. Wayneandwax.com linked to the remixes awhile back.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 October 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
update on ongoing toddler appreciation: the other night i was putting him to bed, and sometime between where the wild things are and lights out, he started chanting, "ussell ussell ussell, grine grine grine..."
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 19 October 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://hotbiscuits.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/best-paper-planes-remix-by-far/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh here it is, Sean F. at Vibe posts some of "Paper Planes" remixes
http://blogs.vibe.com/rapidshare/2008/09/this-paper-planes-thing-is-way-out-of-control/
But you've probably heard 'em all by now anyway
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
My meathead post-frat downstairs neighbors who have no taste in music (they usually don't listen to it, just have whatever ball game on), had a party last night and I heard M.I.A., Yeah Yeah Yeahs and MGMT. Friggin weird. I wonder if Kala will climb back up to the top 50 and push it to over 500,000.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope so, it feels like such a zeitgeisty album its a shame only losers like us know about it!
― I know, right?, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
paper planes peaked at #4 on the billboard hot 100. i don't even know what those charts mean anymore, but i found that bizarre and actually sorta heartening.
― jaime, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i find this woman irritating beyond all explanation
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
bun b briiiiiiiiiiiiings it
― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Any further word on her retirement/non-retirement?
― Freedom, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard she's currently recording with Blaqstarr a Tom Waits cover of 'way down in the hole'.
― Moka, Monday, 20 October 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The retirement is/was temporary. She's currently expecting.
― sensual harrassment (naus), Monday, 20 October 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
They reissued the album this week with a bonus disc containing 5 or 6 extra songs - not just remixes. Anyone know what those are?
― Savannah Smiles, Monday, 20 October 2008 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
1 Bamboo Banga 2 Bird Flu 3 Boyz 4 Jimmy 5 Hussel - MIA & Afrikan Boy 6 Mango Pickle Down River - MIA & Wilcannia Mob 7 20 Dollar 8 World Town 9 Turn 10 XR2 11 Paper Planes 12 Come Around - MIA & Timbaland 13 Paper Planes (Allstars mix) - MIA 14 Boyz (Akon mix) - MIA 15 Shells - MIA 16 Get It Up - Radioclit & MIA/Santogold/Gorilla Joe 17 Far Far - MIA 18 Big Branch - MIA 19 What I Got - MIA 20 Sound of Kuduro - Bukara Som Simesta & MIA
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 October 2008 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
lol gorilla joe
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 October 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/46/167402212_c29e4d861a_o.jpgi keep the purp by the pound
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 October 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
he's a hood figga
― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
what're you gonna do
She was repping dancehaller Ward 21 in an ad I saw in a LA Weekly a friend brought me
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link