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Post by alex on Nov 23, 2011 13:56:41 GMT -8
I dig that Hugh Laurie record
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Post by Drew on Nov 23, 2011 13:58:34 GMT -8
Actually I haven't even listened to it
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Post by alex on Nov 23, 2011 14:02:43 GMT -8
not to detract from the very valid point you just made. Just figured I'd throw that into the mix.
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Post by romanticizer on Nov 23, 2011 17:15:14 GMT -8
It's really just a raw emotional thing, but I feel like he's an actor rapper. I mean, the dude was on a teenage soap opera. He's a child of privilege - for those of you who have been to Toronto, he grew up in Forest Hill and went to Forest Hill Collegiate Institute (via Wikipedia). But he sounds and acts like he's a real black southern rapper, like Lil Wayne, and he's just not. I'm not saying you have to be a former drug-dealer to make hip-hop. And to be honest, the production on some of his songs is cool. I also think it's mostly recycled, boring bullshit beats, but sometimes that can sound cool. But the second you step in front of the microphone and start rapping about your problems, you invite the spotlight. He doesn't rap about not being given as many lines as he wanted in Degrassi, and he doesn't rap about being cut from his college prep high school's basketball team, he wants you to think he's got problems, and he just doesn't. Fuck your problems, Drake. If he had decided that music was his passion and became a great producer, maybe I'd think he was cool. But frankly he's just another actor-turned-artist like, I don't know, fucking Bruce Willis and Scarlett Johannson and Hugh Laurie and Jennifer Lopez and every other fucking actor who's made horrible music. Plus, his name is Aubrey. I feel like he mostly raps about vulnerability in love/relationships and being famous... You'll never be able to live down the name Aubrey but I don't really think that he raps about anything fraudulent. It's not like he says he sold crack rocks with the Hell's Angels.
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Post by Drew on Nov 23, 2011 19:52:35 GMT -8
I'm not saying he's lying flat out, I'm just saying he's putting on an act
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Post by jeffmac on Nov 28, 2011 20:32:02 GMT -8
Do you like Childish Gambino drew? just wondering.
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Post by Pea on Nov 28, 2011 22:44:40 GMT -8
I guess the new Black Keys is pretty good after all. I'm definitely enjoying it more than any of their other albums.
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Post by Drew on Nov 29, 2011 9:04:40 GMT -8
Do you like Childish Gambino drew? just wondering. I've never listened to him
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Post by wompwomp on Nov 29, 2011 15:01:05 GMT -8
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Post by wompwomp on Nov 30, 2011 14:10:17 GMT -8
Yeah The Roots album is really, really good. Awesome.
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Post by Pea on Nov 30, 2011 14:49:07 GMT -8
I can't believe I'm saying this, but the new Black Keys album just crawled into my top 20 of of the year. This album is brilliantly fun to listen to.
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Post by Drew on Nov 30, 2011 15:05:59 GMT -8
Board suicide.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Nov 30, 2011 18:39:43 GMT -8
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Post by emptyfox on Nov 30, 2011 20:27:05 GMT -8
Hono(u)rary Canadian suicide, (eh)
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Post by Pea on Nov 30, 2011 20:56:03 GMT -8
Mother of God!
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Post by Cysquatch on Dec 1, 2011 22:04:20 GMT -8
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack Pre-sale for this album just started. Album drops on the 9th. It has the Immigrant Song cover with Karen O. You can use the link for order info, or to get a free 6 track sampler. www.nullco.com/GDT/usd.phpEDIT: Only the digital version is available on the 9th. The rest ship out on the 27th.
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Post by Pea on Dec 2, 2011 8:40:37 GMT -8
Is Pitchfork's review of the new Black Keys especially awful, or are all of their reviews such rambling stews of word vomit? I typically view their number grade and skip the actual reviews, so I can't really gauge this one. I've heard you guys mention this before though so I'm thinking it's the latter.
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Post by Cbats on Dec 2, 2011 9:07:12 GMT -8
No that's a fairly typical review for them. I have a hard time getting upset about it though cause what are you really going to say about the black keys? They've just been refining the same album for the better part of a decade, no one really needs to be told what it sounds like.
The Childish Gambino review from today is absolutely stellar though. Sums up all my thoughts on that album very succinctly
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Post by Pea on Dec 2, 2011 9:25:07 GMT -8
I wasn't referring to the reviewer's opinion of the album. More so his multi-paragraph dribble about absolutely nothing before actually getting to his few lines of actual review.
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Post by Cbats on Dec 2, 2011 9:55:53 GMT -8
oh no it's straight up garbage. absolutely nothing in that review is useful in any sense. I'm just saying that reviewing the black keys at this point is kind of unnecessary.
"sounds like the black keys. It's pretty catchy. You'll probably like it"
That's my review right there
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