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
So that Tom Waits cover has leeked already. Here's the video:
It sounds to me like some lost recording from Tricky's Maxinquaye. Can't say if this means I find it dated but Maxinquaye is a great album so I suppose it's a good thing.
― Moka, Friday, 7 November 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
ok I love this
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Me too. Neat idea for the video too.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 November 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
THE WIRE SEASON 6
― remy bean, Friday, 7 November 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
nice, but it sounds kinda like an outtake from Blowback to me.
― Ioannis, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:34 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
real late to the party here but did you mean this joint
― the birdman from the hilarious lil wayne albums (and what), Saturday, 15 November 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
nice
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
thank you, ethan :-)
― Eisbaer, Monday, 17 November 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/danny-boyle-on-slumdog-millionaire-and-the-smell-of-india/5013
You asked M.I.A. to do a song for the film? We asked her if we could use “Paper Planes”, and she watched the movie and she was very generous, gave me very smart notes. I said we were going to do the music with A.R. Rahman, and when she was growing up, he was one of her heroes, so she sang on one of his tracks.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 17 November 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
huh! tried to see that Sat. night but it was sold out (it's only on one or two screens in nyc so far)
that Esau Mwamwaya youtube is sweet
― dmr, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay I think "The Turn" is maybe an order of magnitude better than everything else on this album.
btw I was amazingly rong about this
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
13 Paper Planes (Allstars mix) - MIA15 Shells - MIA17 Far Far - MIA18 Big Branch - MIA19 What I Got - MIA20 Sound of Kuduro - Bukara Som Simesta & MIA
These are the only tracks that made it onto my bonus track copy btw. I've listened to them all once and I like them all but might be completely, insufferably obsessed with "Big Branch" soon.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
ethan your critique would have more weight if you'd actually give the stuff a listen - "fake dancehall" is beneath you
― J0hn D., Wednesday, September 5, 2007 10:11 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
cant believe i caught shit for this - im listening to the lady saw joint on this old 2003 dancehall comp & my co-worker just asked me "is this MIA"?
― and what, Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
was hoping this was getting bumped as part of worldwide hipster day 2008
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"cant believe i caught shit for this - im listening to the lady saw joint on this old 2003 dancehall comp & my co-worker just asked me "is this MIA"?"
This proves it then. It's just fake dancehall.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
where did i say it's "JUST" fake dancehall
there's other fake stuff on there too
― and what, Thursday, 15 January 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link