sudden weird insight into why people like records w/bad singing
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 August 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha
― pr que (k3vin k.), Monday, 17 August 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Seein' him and Common at the Hollywood Bowl tonight.
Pretty f-in' pumped.
― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ive heard incredible things about his live show
― i got nothin (deej), Friday, 16 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Expect lots of wangs, tbh.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 October 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
This might be my album of the year.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 October 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah man its up there for me too
― i got nothin (deej), Friday, 16 October 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ive heard incredible things at his live show
― doe-eyed chicks get wiped out, fatally (The Reverend), Friday, 16 October 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
def in my top 3
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 16 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Got drunk. Wish I hadn't. Made for an interesting morning. Now at office, wishing I were still at Hollywood Bowl, last night, before the wine started flowing. Ugh.
― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh...but was the show any good?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
The show was phenomenal. Highly recommended.
― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
This record is amazing but I have next to nothing to actually say about it. Still, this is the shit.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 17 October 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
50 quid for a london ticket.
i cant go :(
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 19 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the musicians on this album are so fuckin good
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
like it is such a pleasure to hear session dudes in a non-sucky context just doing their thing
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel as if this is the most slept-on universally acclaimed album of 2009.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i think the length and the fact that it's an unusually understated "comeback" album cause that, tho i can't decide myself whether it's more "great" or more "really fucking good"
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I never felt like Maxwell's critical rep was that high, though. Certainly not compared to D'Angelo or Badu.
― swag the dog (The Reverend), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
im still not sure what happened to his sense of melody (sounds much more radio R&B influenced) here but this album is great. didnt blow me away as a 'comeback' album when i first got it, but its a solid grower. and yeah, the playing on it is fantastic.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone i work w/ loves it but the joke going around the ballpark is that the song is secretly called 'chicken wings.' big lols
― butthurt (deej), Monday, August 17, 2009 4:35 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol forgot abt this
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
this album doesn't have a sense of melody?
― BACKSTABBERS: THEY SMILE @ U FACE (some dude), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
...?
― d4n, d4n, d4n (yaosah, yaosah, yaosah) (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Another argument for having year-end polls in like August of the following year.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i love whatever instrument it is thats used at the start of pretty wings.
i believe it's an instrument called the gamelan, from indonesia (where i'm living) they're kinda like tuned mini gongs, usually grouped in 8 or 10 and lined up in a scale. it sounds to me like maybe it's the javanese brand of gamelan (as opposed to balinese or sundanese, which have slightly different microtunings) me and some indonesian rap dudes i hang with have sat around several times trying to determine if it's a loop from a gamalan cd or a producer playing it on a sampler - on one hand that intro sounds very much like the instruments are generally played live to me, but listening closely i can hear melody lines with just one gamelan playing coming in and out later on in the song, so i guess it's probably just samples. but i'm thinking the guy playing them has heard a gamelan record or two, he's got the style down well enough to have fooled me at first, and i listen to shitloads of gamelan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAumC4JP3o&feature=related
man pretty wings is just so damn... pretty! and serious staying power, in this age of easy all-you-can-listen-to downloads 99.9% of everything i download only gets a single listen from me, maybe 2 if it's my favorite artist or something... but this one keeps popping up on my stereo a LOT. hell, i just listened to it 4 times in a row reading this thread!
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
just re-listened to this recently. the first four tracks are so amazing and i think "why don't i listen to this all the time?!" then the second half is like "oh yeah, huh".
i'm so ready for a new album from this band, but it seems like his momentum has slowed down a bit?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
isnt this meant to be part of a trilogy?
"this album doesn't have a sense of melody?"
his sense of melody has *changed*, not disappeared.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc he had 3 albums' worth of material in the can over the long break, although I dunno if that means the other albums are totally done or if he's continued to work on them. the 2nd was initially going to be released less than a year later, but i think the 1st did so well that he's just riding it out with as many singles and tours as he can and it looks like the next one's pushed back to 2011.
i haven't listened enough to his earlier stuff to really compare, but the last album's melodies didn't sound especially different from before, or closer to other stuff on the radio.
― San Te Claus (some dude), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
if anything, i feel like there's ~more~ of a focus on melody than on his previous albums
― king boy swag (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ yup
I listened to the album this morning thanks to this thread, and, yup: it's still my favorite album of 2009.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"pretty wings" is really good but when he goes into his slurry soul-man vamps it sounds like "pret-ty WANGS" and i laugh every time...
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:07 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
― dayo, Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
Whatever happened to....Samwell?
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/did-robert-maxwell-die-296910.html
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
evan r. linked this to me on twitter just now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62c2oTTSLJM
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
How're those other two records coming, Maxwell? And don't pretend you don't follow this thread.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Maxwell duets w/Alicia Keys on her new LP... http://stupiddope.com/2012/11/20/alicia-keys-maxwell-fire-we-make-new-music/
― "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said. (stevie), Sunday, 25 November 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
god urban hang suite is ridic
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 December 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
hear hear
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
embrya is the greatest thing in the world
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 09:32 (eleven years ago) link
i've literally only listened to maxwell over the past few days...
i'm digging embrya but now is a bit better i think. the criticism that people levy against voodoo (too focused on grooves at the expense of songs) is something that i think actually applies to embrya to an extent, but that's still a raw record. "drowndeep" def has to be one of his best songs.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
there's a dearth of writing about maxwell... i want to read a fucking tome about these albums right now
i hope when he comes back he goes thru w/ that full albums tour
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
I endured a Maxwell phase in September and came away thinking Embrya was my least favorite, although "Cococure" is one hell of an aural bask.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Now's "Changed" is my new favorite.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
i've listened to "whenever, wherever, water" like 40 times in the last 24 hours
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i went through a phase late summer where all i listened to on the way to work every day was "drowndeep: hula"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 27 December 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
i wrote an extended thing about "pretty wings" four years ago but no way would i show that to anyone
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
now, you guys
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 30 December 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
i mean you knew it and i knew it but for some reason i never listen to this record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 30 December 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link