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
Blue Flowers is the next-level moment on this album
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
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)
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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