I've really never had any interest in living outside the SF-Vancouver coastal region tbh.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
bay area sounds alright
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Bay area's great, so is Seattle. Portland and Vancouver a bit less so. I think the terrain/landscape/whatever is the number-one reason I love this region though. Even having grown up here, the beauty of the water/forest/mountains that are everywhere, even in the cities, never ceases to impress me. There are things I find frustrating about Seattle but they are relatively secondary concerns. Also my family and friends are super-important to me and very close (literally, my whole extended fam lives in my hometown of 100,000) I can't imagine living so far away that I can't see them on a whim.
How did this thread devolve into telling me where to live?
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Also, the fresh air is something I absolutely could not live without. I did actually very briefly consider moving to Chicago once, until I found out it smells like onions.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
blame dayo always
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah in my first month or two of living here i felt like i couldn't breathe
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
lol calm down rev did I hit a sensitive spot
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
ha, possibly
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
was p awful for me last year living half an hour from detroit and even car radios had trouble picking up rap/r&b stations, wth america
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Really? I live 45 mins north of Seattle and can not only pick up most stations from Seattle fine but most stations from Vancouver, which is 2+ hours away.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
it always weirds me out that there are places in lower 48 where you can't hear much rap/R&B on the radio. i lived in friggin delaware for most of the '90s and could pick up a pretty good R&B station.
― some dude, Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it was weird - the detroit stations were maybe underpowered?
xp power 99 is my fav philly station
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's possible. kube's signal is so powerful that when someone tried to start a rap/r&b station in vancouver (which was actually really really good, cancon problems aside) they only lasted a couple years because all their potential listeners stuck with kube, whose signal reached all the way up there.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
do canadian rap stations just satisfy cancon requirements by playing the same amount of drake as u.s. stations now?
― awful wedded wein (some dude), Saturday, 20 October 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
ha, no idea. this station existed circa 2002-04 and I am thus possibly the most knowledgeable person about early 2000s can-hop in america
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
btw listening to "Adorn" today and trying to think of how rare it is that you hear a big R&B hit that was pretty much entirely performed, written and produced by one person (like, even The-Dream's big hits all had co-producers).
― awful wedded wein (some dude), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
what about Kells tho? (not to disprove you, but another example)
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
no yeah that's a good point, i was trying to think of someone with semi-recent hits who'd be relevenat to that discussion and that's totally who was on the tip of my tongue (although i've never been clear on whether R. is super hands on w/ the beat-making or always has co-producers in the mix)
― awful wedded wein (some dude), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Marsha Ambrosius self-wrote and -produced a few tracks on her last album but they weren't the hits.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
from what I understand, Kells usually produces completely by himself but will occasionally have coproducers and for a couple projects has farmed out most of the production
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
I guess his only albums where he's done that are Untitled and to a lesser extent R.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
he also tends to use session musicians on some of his more lush stuff, compared to "Adorn" being just a guy programming everything. but still yeah good call w/ kells.
― awful wedded wein (some dude), Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
OHHHH
I read this thread on my phone while drunk on the night bus just now and was really confused cuz it looked like you were talking about kelis
― lex pretend, Saturday, 20 October 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
now the "i ain't talkin kelis" line from "clique" is stuck in my head
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Saturday, 20 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
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u live in MI?
― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
DID u live in MI? is the q I meant to ask
― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
I've lived within 45 miles of Detroit my whole life and have never had trouble picking up any of the R&B stations.
― Andy K, Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
rev, vancouver > seattle, for real
― heiswagger (rennavate), Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
for chinese food, but that's about it
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
has no one discussed the full track-by-track commentary on spotify? his divergent, almost rhetorical questions are awesome, 'kaleidoscope dream' and 'candles in the sun' specifically
http://open.spotify.com/album/6VcyVQu3YmkzIWvxHVyCCB
also this album taught me how to spell kaleidoscope correctly and for that, miguel, i thank you
― nose, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'd been meaning to listen to that (after generally avoiding every spotify commentary)
― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
hay everybody, this album is really really good
i kinda don't like the re-do of candles in the sun, seems like it wouldn't even make sense if you didn't know the ADC version
― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
thank you, i was starting to feel like the only person here who sees that version as a downgrade and a bum note for the album
― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i feel the same way
the rest of this album is ridiculously good though
― all mods con (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
I feel equally blah about both versions. It would have been the weakest song on the album either way.
― nose, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:10 AM Bookmark
^^^^this
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
i like how simple, loose and reverb-y his guitar playing is, kind of a wildcard element in the sound
― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
I thought he played more guitar but "Pussy is Mine" is the only song on which no one else gets credit.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
oh ha, i should have hedged with "the" instead of "his" but i had assumed it was him...
― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
He didn't play it on "Arch & Point"?
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
this is insane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_Dream#Content
― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
OMG
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
oh god. that's almost as bad as the wiki page for Kendrick's joint.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
the version of the album i downloaded has these really loud rave synths all over and are all tagged "remixed by sh0rty" :-(
― flopson, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
lol gross
I don't think anyone has mentioned this but I love how much tape hiss there is on "Arch & Point"
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 30, 201
I thought he did :(
Ace job putting his fingers on the right frets though.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
xposts YOLO imagery! wut
― Roz, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
I've been kind of disappointed to see that he doesn't seem to play that song live at all. :(
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
it does seem like it should be a live staple, doesn't it
strangely heartened to see that miggy has warranted some obsessive wiki attention
― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
It transitions into the rock song "Arch & Point", which has lascivious lyrics,[30] sexually-charged ballet metaphors,[22] bare power pop elements,[6] plopping percussion, and an acoustic guitar coda.[17]
#plop
― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link