christ, that king of queens show ran for 10 years? we had a series of that on morning terrestrial a couple years ago i think, it fukking sucked
i say that as an everybody loves raymond fan btw
― r|t|c, Friday, 18 September 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is mad generic and samey, I can name 5, maybe 10 better male r&b albums this year. it's not bad but it's not worth getting all hyped over, tho I do like Jeremih's personality
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 18 September 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it's one of those albums that you listen to a few times w/o paying much attention and then realize that nothing on it is bad and you love it.
― goole, Friday, 18 September 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
have y'all heard Pleasure P's album? Trey Songz (album & mixtape)? J. Holiday?... cuz all of their albums are way better than this.
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 18 September 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
maiayayayayayayayayayayai haus!
i haven't heard Pleasure P but i support him as his name sounds like some fictional they'd have in like a Lethal Weapon type movie in the late 80s, perhaps played by damon wayans
― scared of gaucho (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 18 September 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW the best song on this album is "My Sunshine" the uplifting ray of sunlight over a funeral scene fade out into end credits ballad. Check it.
― Tim F, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know about uplifting but i think you're right about funeral scene - "how could someone just take your soul so fast / and now youre gone"? and "if i could hold you again" might be a standard line but once i realised you could hear the chorus as having a double meaning............. :(
incidentally the abrupt switch in tone from that song into "...bet you'll fall in love with my ride!" is my favourite cackle of 09 i think.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
brainwasher i take the point those other albums might be being underrated here (especially pleasure p's) but wtf man ur trippin so, so hard if you think you're gonna make that point on the basis of them not being as "generic and samey" as the jeremih
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
this record is brilliant yeah, listened to it more than anything else this year probably. quite surprised by how both the big ballads are so good, after initial "this sounds like what u2 make" reservations about "my sunshine" i've been listening to it loads now. don't like "runway" too much tho.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
guess i really gotta listen to this again
― cank yankers :( (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
wow fuck me, i've been sleeping on this album like crazy. loving some of these deep cuts, "buh bye" is killing me
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i've sort of slept on this album except for imma star but i think theres a really good chance i would like it?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i really want to like this album based on posts on ilm but i can barely listen to this guy sing longer than 15 mins and not many of these songs hold up to "birthday sex"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i love the production on "birthday sex" but songwise i think "imma star" and "buh bye" are in the same conversation
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
see that's the weird thing--i think i like his singing?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
what else has Mick Schultz produced? sounded like LOS to me
xp yeah his voice has really grown on me too
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa why did i capitialize mick schultz there
it sounds very teenage to me-- it has that reedy quality a la beiber tbh
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"buh bye" is great and so is "my ride"
― cogito, ergo some dude (dyao), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
this could get me in trouble but kinda sounds like a much more confident and sound chris brown
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like that trick where part of the beat drops out and it's just him singing the chorus or whatever, like towards the end of 'imma star' and 'my ride'
― cogito, ergo some dude (dyao), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
sarge how do you feel about "break up to make up"? that song is a pure joy to me.
― HOTT LUNCH II HARDEEZ (some dude), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
chris brown is a better comparison than bieber yeah -- but i think chris's songs work more because of their teen pop trappings
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the production on "raindrops" !!
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
ship i really dig that song except for the insanely retarded metaphor in the chorus -- what's with this song & the new jt/timbo & fast food? anyway, the production on this album definitely surprised me -- altho it prob shouldnt have bcuz of how many subtle production tricks are in "birthday sex" -- and it's def why i keep wanting to like the album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i've kinda tuned out the lyrics -- "break up/make up" is a big red flag at lazy couplets ahoy -- but the vocals and the melody, especially on the bridge, are so great. baby James and I have bopped along to that song many a time.
― HOTT LUNCH II HARDEEZ (some dude), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
aww
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
^^how can anyone dislike the song now
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i held off listening to the album for ages b/c "birthday sex" was so perfect, but in that fragile don't-know-if-i-want-any-more way - it's a lot better than i thought it would be, but i think i agree w/jordan about his voice - it doesn't bother me in small doses but so much reediness over 45 mins is a bit much.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm streaming this right now--i think i just really like the sonics of it enough to carry the parts where the songs or his voice aren't quite up to par? so i'm like on the cusp of purchasing it but with my self-imposed 2 records/week limit not totally sure if/when that'll happen.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 January 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm so glad i put this on my ballot, just listened again today and it just gets better
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 January 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just listening to 'raindrops' on headphones and when the thunder sound happened I actually took my off my headphones and looked out the window
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"imma star" is on constant rotation here on kauai right now and i'm totally hooked. that little vocal glissando on "ice" is genius.
― pshrbrn, Thursday, 28 January 2010 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"imma star" is so good to nod your head to
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
did i mention that starting all over is the classic deep cut
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
OTM, besides the singles which are all incredible the can't-live-without-em cuts are "starting all over," "my sunshine," and "buh bye"
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i shall always be inordinately fond of this album, the one thing that felt like it really came right out of nowhere to steal my heart in 2009.
and the kid had good videos too.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this year's contestant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWF-2a_TtUw&fmt=35
... yeah it's okay, i could get used to it?
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty good!
― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
doooope
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Agree re the Jeremiah album, endlessly pleasurable to listen to.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
haha that reminds me whenever i search for one of his videos on youtube it always autocorrects to 'jeremiah'
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a Google Autocorrect in my brain it seems.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno it's weird, i never really thought we'd ever hear from this guy again for some reason...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVENqMrTi3o
<3 HURRAH THOUGH
― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 June 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
inevitable procession of the luda verse makes this track seem more slight and generic than it really is, needed to assert itself a tad longer before and maybe even during. still v v v good though - schulz is a beast, like who else other than these guys would bother chipmunking the chorus so very lightly like at 3mins
― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 June 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
hey what a good song
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
mad sexy
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
man this is good
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
and yeah the schulz production is great, he really owns this sound
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I like, but could do without the Luda verse really (though on first listen that could just be knee-jerk thanks to Bieber)
― billy, Saturday, 5 June 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link