Hello friends.
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Friday, 8 January 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i can entirely get behind that
― i am not down with ppl farting on salami (stevie), Friday, 8 January 2010 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
The soldier is mama's gun.
― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
lexpretend cf danger, "gotta keep that clip on mama's gun"
lexpretend …and of course "danger" sets its scene with erykah pacing the floor, baby in her arms
rodneyjgreene which of course ties into "Otherside of the Game", hence "Otherside" ---> "Danger" ---> "Soldier" = a vicious cycle of like father, like son
― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
the honey vid is evidence she reads ilm
― i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
haha how so?
― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
It's probably not fair of me to wanna SB people for what they wrote over a year ago, huh.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i was gonna say Honey vid is like cover connections but maybe not so much the connections part. IT IS however like having yr girl wear one of your shirts to bed ^_^
also this should be again:Here's a Youtube of a song from the new album, from a VH1 performance. It is called "Annie Don't Wear No Panties"
http://www.youtube.com/v/9d9eydCfTdw&hl=en
― i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think I voted in this or "Master Teacher" would have a '1' next to it.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"the soldier," for being the only inspiring protest song of the decade
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this got such a strange vote distribution
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
well 4WW is a real creeper album...Rev said something about taking three months to get into, I think it took me even longer to REALLY get the second half...I mean I voted The Healer kind of automatically, and I would prolley still today, bcz I think it's one of the best songs of the decade, but it would be a lot harder now to not vote The Cell or Twinkle or Master Teachers (no votes?! wtf!) or even That Hump...
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah and "honey" with no votes??? "my people"???
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Of the ones that got no votes, I love both Master Teacher and Amerykahn Promise (I can sort of see why this didn't get the votes though, it's very much an introduction to the album). Still can't get into the last two on the album (That Hump and Telephone) - they just seem so generic in comparison with what went before.
― emil.y, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
xp well, Honey doesn't really mesh well with the whole One Minute to Doomsday vibe, but I think it's way cool...it's like finding out that the Oracle at Delphi is actually the sweet-natured girl work at Caribou Coffee or something...
does anyone else think this album kind of got snubbed in the decade-end polls? I mean this album is better than Kid A and waaay better than Is This It?
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
eh people into r&b rated it highly, indie websites gave it a middling placing or none at all
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
what r&b people rated it highly? (i take it from the 'eh' that this is not a conversation you really wish to have...)
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
(That Hump and Telephone) - they just seem so generic in comparison with what went before.
what; i guess that's a valid criticism of telephone if you appreciate the lp for its originality and different-ness, but they're two of my favourites. that hump seems like a comparatively grounded analogue for the choppier cuts like the cell at the start; bassy rumbling instead of trelby synthesizing. & i can't be analytical about telephone but i kinda want it played at my funeral.
― egregious apostrophising (schlump), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
naw it's just that it's hard to make sense of r&b consensus since most of the big mags and webzines online are more indie-oriented. not that there's not plenty of good indie music of course
but our own andy kellman (here) and al sh1pley (here) each rated it highly on their respective lists and ILM loves it (iirc it was top 5 in the 08 poll). ctrl-f "badu" on this thread Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists doesnt yield anything but i know it was on a few lists - i think at least top 50 in pitchfork
xp
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't be analytical about telephone but i kinda want it played at my funeral.
v. much OTM
― Wat ho, goatee'd man? Thy skinnee jenes hath byrn'd my corneyas. (stevie), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
love this track to death
Was about to speculate on the distribution for Return of the Ankh, but I'm pretty sure "Window Seat" would bury the competition. (My vote right now goes to "Love" or "Out My Mind.")
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd go for 'get munny' today.
― Wat ho, goatee'd man? Thy skinnee jenes hath byrn'd my corneyas. (stevie), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i think "gone baby, don't be long" would win
has anyone listened to both straight through consecutively?
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Not yet. I think the moods are a little too divergent for it to work.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the winner would almost certainly be "window seat" or "get munny" imo
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
btw 4WW wz #133 in Pitchfork's Top 200 of the 00's
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it was in their top 10 of 08 too
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
no it wasn't, it was 13 of '08...
i guess it doesn't really matter...just irks me a little.
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
r&b is still a pretty ghettoized genre critically
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
this record doesn't really fall into the category of r&b as it stands in modern terms tho -- and anyway, badu (and other older artists like r. kelly or maxwell or d'angelo if he puts out a new record ever) exists outside that sort of ghetto anyway -- this record should've been a huger deal than it was, but it's hard to find real geeking out about non-rock, non-rap records outside of places like, um, ilm because there are rarely publications that cater to those audiences critically
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
can we please not break out the small violins for the critical standing of an album that finished 5th in P&J
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
wow that's your most fatherly display name ever
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
fatherly as in dad joke? old reference? you know scooby wasn't scrappy doo's dad, right?
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont get it
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
dad-ish reference
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
are you familiar with longtime poster 'uh oh I'm having a fantasy'? xpost
dude scooby doo was on cartoon network and shit when you were a kid just like when i was a kid
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
ok im giggling now
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, i mean that it's silly in a dad-ish way, not old in a dad-ish way
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i giggled too
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so dad joke more than dad reference
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
just realized that i haven't thought a display name to be as alternately good/bad/hilarious since m@tt's El Garbage
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry about whining over nothing
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i mean shit yeah it's better than Kid A, but it's not like i really expected any 2008 album, no matter how good, to really represent on end-of-decade lists like that, at least not this soon. it was actually the 7th highest '08 album on the Pitchfork list, so really it climbed a bit from being ranked 13th a year earlier.
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
To be fair, it is the best album of the decade, so it's not "whining" to point out any list/poll that doesn't reflect that.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
meh, diff't strokes -- half the albums on my list that k3v linked upthread were on no other blog or publication's list, so i have a hard time thinking of it as insufficiently appreciated
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
'that hump' was my vote i think -- the chorus is just great
― deej khalifa (deej), Monday, 29 March 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I mustn't have voted in this cuz "that hump" has been my fave on this from the beginning. that bassline is crazy, the vocals, the lyrics... it's one of my top 5 badu songs easily. I never really got the crazy love for "the healer," i don't really understand why it won this poll by such a large margin, it's one of the lesser tracks on the album imo (though the album is pretty much perfect... but still, "that hump," "twinkle," "the cell," "soldier," "telephone," "me," >>>>>>>>>>>> "the healer"....)
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 29 March 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree, altho i still like healer more than 'master teachers'
― deej khalifa (deej), Monday, 29 March 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link