Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)

^^^^^ read that originally as 'sharting on some of the keys' and wondering how the hell it is you type .

fuuuck i just read this entire thread

some of my thoughts on this album

-some good rap songs on it, but also a lot of crit-bait and wacky left turns that probably seemed like really wild ideas at the time but aren't really that interesting to listen to. the pitfalls of forcing that kind of wild creative spontaneity are put on display here. like prose with really outré adjectives that is not really fundamentally interesting

-some comment upthread about it being "so musical" reminds me of how i felt about fishscale when it came out. but fischscale is way better. and blaqkout is waaaaaay better. i get that this is the perennial surprisingly fresh old man rap album and those are the only rap albums that get rated these days, but it's not up to par with those of previous years & while i hope people do really love and get pleasure out of this album, a lot of what i have read feels forced.

-deeply feeling rtc's point about "lingering air of inconsequence."

-the yelawolf verse is by far the best rapping on the entire album. and yeah, tim is totally otm about trunk muzik being album of the year.

it's not up to par with those of previous years & while i hope people do really love and get pleasure out of this album, a lot of what i have read feels forced.

oh for god's sake.

i like this album cuz it sounds fresh sonically, and finds Big Boi still at the top of his game lyrically. not a mind blowing concept there. culdn't give a fuck if he's applying for medicare yet.

deeply feeling rtc's point about "lingering air of inconsequence."

in fairness though don't all albums now have a "lingering air of inconsequence"? serious q.

but also a lot of crit-bait and wacky left turns that probably seemed like really wild ideas at the time but aren't really that interesting to listen to

Interested to know what moments in particular you're talking about here?

in fairness though don't all albums now have a "lingering air of inconsequence"? serious q.

Ever since Merriweather Post Pavilion dropped and made every future album ever inconsequential... yes, of course.

O_O

that one song where some i think eastern european national anthem is sampled? generally love kast wacky left turns though

oh for god's sake.

i guess that was a dickish thing to say. there's a different between an album's selling point and it's talking points and so far the talking points are not getting to what i find good about this album

"general patton" just sounds like dipset circa "get em girls". u mostly otm tho.

wait whut did i say about general patton?

that one song where some i think eastern european national anthem is sampled?

????

lol, that is an opera chorus from Verdi's "Aida"

like, it's in the liner notes and everything

oh right, no one buys CDs anymore

i just assumed that was the song he was refering to. sounded like opera to me. ¯\(°_o)/¯

at any rate, the last time i could ~afford~ to buy cds was more than two years ago

wasn't lolling at you, Rev!

that one song where some i think eastern european national anthem is sampled?

*sigh*

big boi's next album should be all beats over Die Fledermaus...

I think Hungary's national anthem is actually called "You Ain't No DJ."

itt samosa gibreel's inability to distinguish verdi from eastern european national anthems exposed

ya'll really schooled me hard

also: have people not heard the "david blaine" joke before? or is it just funny that they told it on a rap album? patrice o'neal says it in some youtube i watched recently but have been hearing it irl forever alongside rusty trombone, spiderman, etc.

thank you for schooling me hard in patrice o'neal youtube videos

the part that is embarrassing for you is that the sample is credited in the liner notes

so either you could have looked it up yourself or you stole the album, and either way it's nagl when you're trying to DROP SCIENCE on something to out yourself as being kind of a big dummy

but he'll fuck the mohawk off yo head

getting all moralist about ppl downloading is nagl itself, dan

also, even legal dls don't usually come w/ liner notes

some do. Itunes has included em with quite a few of my purchases of newer albums

what San Te said

"usually"

i am kind of like a big dummy

would rather get nagged about something on ilx than buy & read liner notes of an album i'm not that into ;) <3

yeah im not listening to this much

except for the too short / george clinton track. A+ classic. i also get that storch beat stuck in my head all the time

yeah that beat is really sick

"fo yo sorrows" is totally awkward and meh

there really aren't many, if any tracks I skip on this album.

rev is trippin

This hasn't left my car stereo for a month now. I can't identify any weak/skippable tracks.

yeah im not listening to this much

― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Saturday, August 14, 2010 7:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

andre song that was left off

http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/08/big-boi-f-andre-3000-lookin-4-ya-jedi-rmx-mp3

andre sounds great!

this album alone is proof that this is a great year for music.

nice:

"but she don't understand / that I'm a fan of steely dan"

there's a solid EP of stuff that wasn't on Lucious that I'm considering part of the album cuz I dl'd the extras at the same time I got the LP

"tangerine" is such a secrete banger

i said this before

"Tangerine" is such a low-key banger imo

― The Reverend, Friday, July 2, 2010 4:07 PM Bookmark

best song on the album imo

Before I bought a physical copy I assumed the guitar lick was sampled. Now I'm hoping someone else samples it.

Also: my favorite T.I. guest verse in months.