and of course, moose bumps
― dmr, Monday, 17 September 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
x^ appropriate typo from g∞n
Keith toured here a couple of months ago, as Dr Octagon, playing this in full
(I didn’t go bcz I’ve seen him as Kool Keith before and he was horrible)
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
coppalating having sex
― pet carrier (Crabbits), Sunday, 16 September 2012 23:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha yeah this is totally ingrained in my braini feel like relistening would unearth/locate the derivation of a million other things like it too
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
youre missing out
― billstevejim, Sunday, September 16, 2012 11:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for real! was kinda afraid to hear this again because most automator stuff grates on me in 2012 but a lot of it still goes (this is on the dreamworks version, dont think ive ever heard the mo wax)
― fadanuf4erybody, Monday, 17 September 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
the bit about there being a horse in the hospital and the Peter jackson samples are fun.Can't think which song would be the bestest though. I have a lot of this on my walkman, possibly the whole lp and subsequently have bits popping up at random. Don't think I've sat down with the whole lp in years though.
― Stevolende, Monday, 17 September 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
Bear Witness- great beat. But this whole album is classic.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 17 September 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
Blue Flowers is the next-level moment on this album
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
cirrhosis of the eye
fuck it, he's dead
― dmr, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Bear Witness by a country mile for me. It was always the track I would put on C90 mix tapes in the Walkman days.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Bear Witness is fine but how can you (not just you, all the people repping for it) pick the track with no Dr. Octagon on it
― dmr, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
it is, but i have to vote for "i'm destructive"
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
"Blue Flowers", but I have weird love for "Half Shark Half Alligator Half Man". Such an odd concept, almost half-assed in delivery, yet entirely captivating.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
taking a paient out of the bathroom into water
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
rock wid it
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
i can't stop the blood
― backed by regular small people (Hunt3r), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
and an all-time favorite: you need a bad operation
I think I may actually prefer the skits to the songs on this.
― o. nate, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
Grateful Dead - ROCK WIT IT
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
production is interesting and the concept is cool, but the rhymes on this albums are pretty wack, and too self-consciously weird.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
I have weird love for "Half Shark Half Alligator Half Man". Such an odd concept
I think he took this from Cabin Boy, the Chris Elliott movie
― dmr, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
xp u crazy Kool Keith is at the top of his game on this record.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Totally possible. I couldn't make it 20 minutes into Cabin Boy.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
bear witness, i'm destructive, blue flowers - all great. i need to listen to this and think.
― backed by regular small people (Hunt3r), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
I don't consider lines like "Earth people / I am from California / Earth people / I was born on Jupiter" to be anywhere close to brilliant. The whole album is filled with these contrived left-field rhymes that don't really wow you so much as they just blend sci-fi and perverse porn themes into a half-assed mix. I'll give it credit for being different and quirky, especially within a genre that doesn't stray into weirdness very often, but most of the time, the rhyming just seems perfunctory and undeveloped, not clever and well-executed. I'd put this into a category of albums I like in theory, but whose execution actually isn't all that compelling.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'm destructive
― da croupier, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
xp what genre would that be?
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
rap concept album about your trip on bath salts?
― backed by regular small people (Hunt3r), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
I was really talking about rap music in general from that era.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
if the genre is "rap" then I don't really know how to respond. Fair enough not liking the rapping, sweeping and incorrect generalisations not so cool.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
xp!
feel like the criticism of the lyrics is reasonable, his flow is bonkers tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
kissing mary j blige on earth was quite normal
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
ya i mean the lyrics may be a lil too self consciously weird but its ok because theyre still funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
sweeping and incorrect generalisations not so cool.
what are some other sci-fi rap albums from 1996?
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
I don't consider lines like "Earth people / I am from California / Earth people / I was born on Jupiter" to be anywhere close to brilliant.
i don't know that "earth people" is the best showcase for KK's skills, but it's got some lines. "equator ex my chance to flex skills on ampex / with power meters and heaters gauge anti-freeze / octagon oxygen, aluminum intoxicants." isolating the repeated chorus hook as an example of bad rapping isn't a fair criticism. i think the rhyming is pretty clever, overall, even in its half-assedness. the nonsensical and often awkward goofiness of the whole project is a big part of its appeal.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
isolating the repeated chorus hook as an example of bad rapping isn't a fair criticism.
i called that out because i remembered it. but i'm also claiming that the rest of the album is littered with similarly half-assed and awkward rhymes, which you seem to agree with.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
xp it's got a stream of consciousness quality too, IMO, that makes even the nonsensical stuff sound sort of plausible. Plus his amazing flow helps as well.
re.sci-fi rap albums from 1996: true enough not many, but your assertion was that rap is a genre that doesn't do weird, and that's demonstrably false.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's actually "Earth people / New York and California / Earth people / I was born on Jupiter" fwiw. i mean if you don't like one you won;t like the other but it's still worth mentioning becaue it's a massive hook.
― jed_, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
your assertion was that rap is a genre that doesn't do weird, and that's demonstrably false.
i didn't phrase it right, but i was crediting it within the context of that time as being inventive. admittedly, i don't know too much about rap after the 2000s, but yes, i imagine it has a lot more subgenres now.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
otm, and i like the way the lyrics kind of ping-pong between dumb doo-doo jokes, self-indulgent non-sequiturs and moments of genuinely unsettling psychedelic oddity. the album isn't so much a showcase for keith's rapping as it is a cabinet of curiosities, the focal point of each song shifting from moment to moment from keith's bugged-out nonsense to dan's creepy sci-fi soundscapes, from qbert's jaw-dropping cutting to skits and samples, all the weird little fragments on the margins. it's funny, catchy and more than a little scary. one of my favorite albums of its era.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
i had the original bulk recording LP braggin
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
it's "half sharkalligator half man"
― billstevejim, Monday, 17 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
My first thought was No Awareness, but I'll have to listen again.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
saw him at ATP, at one point he just rapped the numbers from the dates on the back of a tour t-shirt some guy on stage was wearing and it was incredible, but it quickly devolved into really embarrassing poo and wee stuff.
― ledge, Monday, 17 September 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
You can call 1-800-PeePee5 1-Doo-Doo. I'm in your corner.
― jed_, Monday, 17 September 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Keith can be fun live but even then only in a half-assed way
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
You have bees flying around your rectum.
― billstevejim, Monday, 17 September 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
hammer... flame... i'm gettin ready to stab. jam it in.
― billstevejim, Monday, 17 September 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
blend sci-fi and perverse porn themes into a half-assed mix
I will listen to any album w/this description
― pet carrier (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9VYzNUXGDAblue Flowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=fc8zdLQuZp0Earth People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abky6hbKPpg&feature=relatedhalfsharkalligatorhalfman
Hadn't seen any of the videos until I was reminded by this thread and looked them up
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe that's one official one and two fan ones.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
either "i'm destructive" or "halfsharkalligatorhalfman"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
i remember seeing "Blue Flowers" on like MTV Amp
― wood grain, chestnut / cody, CHESNUTT (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNWt57Gklg
wasnt really a fan of rap in drum and bass usually, but this mix improved the on original imo.
― dsb, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
saillingtakes me awayto where i'm really goingshoo-be-do-wop
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
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