Best rap album of the past 10 years.

WHo would you compare it to?

Um, other than the Neptunes, I'm not sure. They produced the album and Pharrel guests on most tracks. I mean, it's Coke Rap but it's excellent and flawless. I'd put Pusha T and Malice up against Lil Wayne any day.

It isn't like... chopped and screwed sorta stuff is it?

No, it's a got a great flow to it. The real high points are the rhyming interplay ("some days I wasn't able, there was always cain") and the driving Neptunes beats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6SYuEWOTs

I'm going to start the deluxe edition of this, but I'll probably finish it tomorrow.

more like chopped and snorted type stuff.

You must chop and snort some more before giving any ye-yo to uhler again.

Scott Kelly's "The Wake":

Neptunes make rap standable. It doesn't matter how boring Pusha-T and Malice are; Clipse has it made.

Candlemass - Nightfall

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - The Spacial Crime Symbol

The Blood Brothers

well, i went to the boris/torche show in cambridge last night, and it was quite a night. besides the music, i took lsd for the first time since i was 18. at first i freaked out then i ended up having a fantastic night, just needed a lota water breaks. anyways, when i got home, i listened to TONS of music, needless to say, sleep was inattainable:

right now: om-conference of the birds
boris/keiji haino-black :implication flooding (japanese release, got it at the show, one of the best boris releases ever)
torche-meanderthal
bob brozman-devil's slide
birchville cat motel-siberian earth curve
the cherry point-night of the bloody tapes
the vaselines-way of the vaselines
fuckhead-male comedy
anne briggs-s/t
incedible string band-s/t
can-future days
t rex-electric warrior
the greatful dead-workingman's dead, live at the fillmore east

i think i like tender buttons better, at the moment.

Harold Budd and the Cocteau Twins

Polvo - This Eclipse

Good album but I think Tender Buttons is better, too.

What a coincidence.

perfect sound forever

sir richard bishop-improvika

Here be Smelly's playlist from yesterday, before I went out, innit:

P Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (uh, timeless)
Nico - The Marble Index (a work of genius, for sure)
John Cale - Fear (especially for "Gun")]
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Scream (2CD reissue, with an excellent demo of "Metal Postcard")
Loop - Collision 12" EP (awesome version of The Pop Group's "Thief Of Fire")
Lydia Lunch - In Limbo (T Moore guests, a total sludgefest. Me likey bigtime).

I'm finishing up Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Deluxe from yesterday. After this I'm thinking more Dino Jr.

"Welcome, Ghosts" by Explosions In The Sky from All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

I haven't given this a listen, but tender buttons is an amazing album.

The Birthday Party "The Bad Seed EP" and "Mutiny!" - almost goddamn perfect, if I say so meself.

Hello again! Am now listening to Skullflower's "Form Destroyer" - "Elephant's Graveyard" is one of their genius tunes - 11 minutes of sheer psychadelic noise heaven.

morriconne-citta violenta

John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

The Sticks/Hands In Hands - Split

Gallhammer - Ill Innocence

howe gelb - arizona amp and alternator
massacre - lonely heart
flower travellin' band - satori
rocket from the crypt - all systems go 2
satyricon - dark medieval times
tatsuya yoshida & satoko fujii - erans
dick rosmini - adventures for 6- and 12-string
chorchazade - discography
conspirators - demos


are things i've been enjoying lately.

LSD MARCH - Shinsuke Michishita's three nights bizzare match in tokyo -
"ENBAN", Koenji, Tokyo, Japan
2008-07-01

lord finesse-return of the funky man