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ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone

Any racial connotations with bananas in the UK were/are directed at black people rather than (South) Asians.

It's never crossed my mind before to even think about what the banana skit is about.

I like Born Free but mostly it makes me want to listen to Suicide.

i assumed whiney was being pointlessly facetious by harping on about that skit

i guess that makes sense? Did all 4000 rock critics who jizzed on the album understand that? Or did they all just blow by the fact that the first 45 seconds of the year's most "important" album kind of made no sense?

It's obviously an English lesson you fucking moron.

I mean, it's rubbish and a bit annoying and I'm willing to bet that most of those critics did exactly what I've done for years and skipped straight through to Pull Up The People after the first couple of listens, but still it's not exactly any great mystery.

skipped straight through to Pull Up The People after the first couple of listens

can't really imagine doing that tbh

I tend to skip skits whatever happens really.

yeah i skip skits 99% of the time too. one of my least favourite type of review is the one where the critic focuses overly on skits/intros/outros.

I usually only skip skits if they are non-musical

I tend to like little musical bits and pieces anyway

and the ones on Arular are kind of perfect imo

lol "skip" -- untick moar liek

I usually skip "Banana Skit", "Pull Up The People" and "Bucky Done Gun" altogether and play directly from "Fire Fire"/"Sunshowers" (depending on which version of the CD I'm playing); the only reason I skip "Banana Skit" is because it's easier to just start playing from track 4 since I don't really like the first two "real" tracks all that much.

I only like reviewing skits. I skip the songs.

there should be Greatest Skits comps

skits4u http://danteross.com/blogs/jzone/2009/07/13/j-zones-top-8-most-perplexing-hip-hop-skits/

hah. love that post.

I've played "Born Free" about a bazillion times now and I still like it a lot

Only heard it the once but I can summon up the chorus in my head just like that = sign of a good pop song. (Seriously.)

I've played "Born Free" about a bazillion times now and I still like it a lot

― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That J-Zone post is hilarious. Reading ludicrously well-informed hip hop heads cracking wise about ridiculous lyrics/skits is one of my favourite things.

Re: skits, best ever is TLC's Ho Remover off Ooh... On the TLC Tip.

i'm partial to the madd rapper one on life after death

I used to be obsessed with Snoop's Classroom Intro and the one on The Predator about winning the wet T-shirt contest. I suspect 95% of all skits end with either (a) swearing, (b) gunshots or (c) both. There's a comforting routine to them - I don't really demand originality in the skit arena.

snoop classroom skit took 2nd in my mental rolodex.

I've played "Born Free" about a bazillion times now and I still like it a lot

― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yup

okay after actually reading this thread, if whiney going on & on about a fucking skit is what got him pushed off the SB cliff, then it was prob warranted

WGW was suggest-banned? yikes.

GOOD SONG, BTW.

thank fuck. he's a dull cunt.

I like Born Free but mostly it makes me want to listen to Suicide.

― broad layering (onimo), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:36 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

okay after actually reading this thread, if whiney going on & on about a fucking skit is what got him pushed off the SB cliff, then it was prob warranted

― ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:18 PM

i do not get this

he was posting about album reviews from 2005, and getting all pissed off, and no one even cared other than him

i like whiney but dude really, really needs to take it easy

i couldnt even figure out what he was mad about

was he mad that the skit existed or what

i really don't see how that's worse than any of the other antics that go on on our beloved board

i think he was mad that reviewers did not discuss the issues with the skit (whatever they were--i've never heard it) which is basically insane

ok i just listened to skit in question and i'd just like to say:

It's obviously an English lesson you fucking moron.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's obviously an English lesson you fucking moron.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's obviously an English lesson you fucking moron.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's obviously an English lesson you fucking moron.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's obviously an English lesson you fucking moron.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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if people really SB'd him for that--which, yeah, we don't know--they have really thin skins

banana peel thin

hahahaha

Finally got around to listening to this and it's about as revolutionary as a year-old issue of Maximum Rock & Roll

It reminds of Children of Men crossed with this and cranked to 11:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk

Minus the humor, obviously.

to get back on topic for a minute, mia from germany has a ustream channel w/ a new dj set every week.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ur-wedding

mya (mya harrison) > mia (michaela grobelny) > m.i.a. (maya arulpragalsam) > mia (german indie band)

Lex OFFTM, the mnml German MIA is so dull.

untrue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Ylc5rSEhI