NEW SHIFTY SHELLSHOCK LP!

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sounds like an album only you could love.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

actually the last third is REALLY disappointing. After the memorial and the reminiscence about his thug life is a song called "Take Away The Pain" which discusses his fear of death and worries about the future. The closer, which is about how he's finally found the right girl and has some Joshua Tree Lanois synth washes, is alright but tainted by the fact that Shifty got serious there for a bit. If it was just the nine songs about love than this would be a classic no-cred white rap album. It's lack of nu-metal is still very admirable.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I also bought the new Wilco today.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I have seen this person at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Sunset and Fairfax a number of times. He drives up in a massive Hummer H2 with loud rap blaring out the windows, and his license plates read "CRZYTWN" or something to that effect. It's all very upsetting. (Outside of several prejudices about his appearance and band, though, I suppose I only really object to the H2).

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Like Alex In NYC, fatherhood has made a softy out of this former nu-metal badass.

"badass"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

(That's pointed at Slim Sha...er Shifty Shellshock, and not Alex, btw.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I really do like the single, but at the moment I can't remember what it sounds like.

Also, does Shift still believe himself to be the reincarnation of Sid Vicious, Bob Marley, and Kurt Cobain as he did during Crazytown's peak?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

haha when i saw this today i thought of anthony!

― jess, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

and when I saw it I thought of you!

P.S. We should be together.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno if he still thinks he's all that stuff, Dom, but he's definitely cut down on the I'm-hot-shit-so-much-pussy-so-little-time crap that made me hate every song on their first album aside from "Butterfly." It's definitely all about the love now (except for the I-the-teenage-badass track, which turns out was co-produced by the guitarist for No Doubtt).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I probably shouldn't hate on that song so much since I'll probably yell "I ain't afraid to bleed!" every change I get.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Wasn't the first Crazy Town record a flop for the first year or so, before the massive overplay of "Butterfly"? The same thing happened with the Spin Doctors back in the early nineties, if memory serves.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

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