JRGoldman Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Devin the Dude is awesome and really underrated. I think sometimes his albums are a bit too.....stoned? which has hurt him. Like you were saying, rap is so personal and you can tell those records are his voice, it's just I think some of the things he raps about and tries beyond his every day diary stuff isn't all that interesting unless you are also high. It's like sitting in a college dorm and listening to the ramblings of a pretty cool dude, who happens to think he's a little deeper than he actually is. I always thought it was funny that he was on Rap-A-Lot too, because he was so different than the other dudes on the label from that time. Like, it was basically a bunch of dudes that wanted to sound like Scarface, Yukmouth and Devin. The rapper I've been listening too lately that I think never got a fair shake and is really freaking awesome and influential is Mac Dre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Outkast's 2nd album was some sort of crazy, comic book/sci-fi adventure sounding shit, and we loved it. . I consider ATLiens to be the greatest album of all time. Not greatest Hip-Hop album, greatest album of recorded music ever made. Also, why bother nominating The Smiths for the HOF? We all know they won't be voted in, because we all know Johnny and Moz won't show up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Outkast's 2nd album was some sort of crazy, comic book/sci-fi adventure sounding shit, and we loved it. . I consider ATLiens to be the greatest album of all time. Not greatest Hip-Hop album, greatest album of recorded music ever made. Also, why bother nominating The Smiths for the HOF? We all know they won't be voted in, because we all know Johnny and Moz won't show up... ATLiens biggest triumph is that it is spaced out and crazy, but is a hugely personal album. It really feels like Big Boi and Dre's lived in a world that only existed to them, but was just as real as the one I lived in. It is my 3rd favorite Outkast album, but Outkast is my absolute favorite musical act. Song to song it isn't as good as Aquemeni or Southernplayalistic in my eyes, but the peaks on ATLiens are probably the highest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I still don't get the love for Outkast. I'm accepting I'll never get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 B L A C K I E S U C K S 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 RIP Steve Mackay. Blow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 goddamnit. B L A C K I E has five rap albums before GEN ever came out and that progression is why I admire the hell out of him. But I'll let that go. Can't expect people to know that. And it's not about New > Good. There's plenty of old post-punk that's better than most of the records I've been alive and conscious to hear. It's about seeing that constant resistance to New. At the center of this- I make music. Album #5 is written out but I can't record it because I've torn something in my knee and I'm the only engineering staff I have so I can't have someone else set up microphones for me. I've got two other works in infancy. My closest friend makes music. My favorite musician is another one of my friends. If you asked me to pin down a genre we're in, I 100% could not. We are trying to make things that exist in spaces outside of these firm fucking lines, because knowing what genre you are is a trap that just leads to having to swallow all these rules wholesale. So all this "this genre is one thing, and one thing only" shit riles me up real bad, because it means I don't even get to exist to people because I'm not wearing my guitar at crotch height while my overdrive pedal is cranked, or I'm not using rap to talk about the drug trade, or I'm not using country to inspire rural forms of power and happiness. It's more than just a boring mindset, it is a strangling force that makes fear and aggression and doubt over what we do. It makes otherness out of our desire to create. I resent it. If anything changes it'll be a full embrace of this otherness, and not capitulation like you're threatening. I'm going to keep making music. It matters to me, and because for my mental health I have to. I'm gonna keep barking at all the cops out there too. and that energy I'm wasting is what I usually put into making shit, but I fucking can't until my knee is fixed, so I can't avoid getting set off like I usually can. It's been years since I've been caught up in a thing like this on here. I'm truly sorry I said anything. Now, anyone, talk about something else. Here, here's the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee list. Chicago Cheap Trick Deep Purple The Cars Chaka Khan Chic The JB's Janet Jackson Los Lobos Steve Miller N.W.A. Nine Inch Nails The Smiths The Spinners Yes The JB's should probably be in. Assholes will not put Cheap Trick in just to infuriate me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 My ballot would probably be Cheap Trick/NWA/NIN/Yes/Janet going more off lasting cultural influence (CT and Yes are the only ones I listen to on a semi regular basis, but I don't think you can not include the rest). I know who the JBS are, I get that they are influential but it's hard for me to really understand how influential they were separate from Brown as a soloist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Weird that new wave hasnt found its way in there in a bigger way. Duran Duran were hardly one of my favourites but fuck were they everywhere for a few years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 For my entry on the fan ballot, I went Cheap Trick/Deep Purple/Janet Jackson/Steve Miller/NWA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 This is the 10th time that Chic has been nominated and I would put them in before half of that list, including Jackson and NIN. There is absolutely no question that Nile Rodgers needs to be in the RnRHOF at some point. But put a gun to my head and I would vote Cars/Cheap Trick/Deep Purple/Spinners/NWA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 NEW ADELE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Carry on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 I just got turned onto the three Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs "Under The Covers" cover songs albums. I listened to a couple tunes and bought all three. Just fantastic fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 My only slight disappointment in those Sid 'n' Susie albums was that I got all psyched when I heard they did a Mott The Hoople song, then was let down when I realized it was probably going to be "All The Young Dudes", which is exactly what it was (great song, but done to death). Other than that, love them, first volume was the album that got me into the Zombies, and love their version of "Go All The Way" (enjoy the awesome moment where Susanna Hoffs blows out her microphone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Busdriver has a new project out next friday called Thumbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 This may not be a big deal outside of California, but last night we got the closest thing to an live Oingo Boingo reunion than we'll ever get, Ignore the title. The concert is actually his Nightmare Before Xmas orchestra concert. Special guests included Paul Reubens and Cathering O'Hara singing their roles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiffshots Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 So the stoner/porn-star who's been my best friend for a decade convinced me to scoop up some last minute tickets for the Dead and Company at Madison Square Garden on Halloween. (For those keeping score, that's Bobby, Bill, and Mickey, with Otiel Burbridge filling in for a sick Phil Lesh...and John Mayer on guitar.) Keep in mind I'm no Deadhead by any stretch of the imagination... IT. WAS. AWESOME. Older, mellow audience, Dead dancing in the aisles and passageways, open and unbridled drug consumption. They opened the main set with "Truckin'," and you can bet your ass EVERYONE sang along. Also: say what you will about Mayer's dick's tabloid adventures, the boy can play guitar like a houseafire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Yeah, Meyer has been killing it with the Dead. A whole lotta my friends were at those MSG shows, and they've all raved about them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Because I have no other place to put this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 reminder: Busdriver's "Thumbs" is out this friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 John Mayer is an amazing guitarist who spends way too much of his time recording music that doesn't take advantage of that fact at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 So Weezer has come out with a couple songs in the past week. Maybe my bar is set so low with them now, but they're actually kind of good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 The subject of this week's Unsung (Wednesday night on TV One) is going to be mother fucking Nate Dogg. Normally I avoid Unsung like the plague because it is super depressing, but I will voluntarily watch this episode... and weep like a child once it is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I actually got angry at the tattoo parlor Thursday night due to the jukebox proggy they had cutting into Regulate. Luckily, they played it again later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimWresPowr Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Being somewhat of a ticket snob may have caught up with me. I was so excited yesterday to hear about the announced Dixie Chicks US tour. Now after seeing the ticket prices I'm not quite sure if I will bother going. I can appreciate the fact that it's a big deal but I wasn't planning on paying "big deal/once in a lifetime" prices. I guess it costs money to get the Chix out of the house & on the road but I'm really curious to see if these concert promoters really know what they are doing. I'm wondering if they are pricing themselves out of the market & won't really get a true gauge of what the interest level is. Paying twice as much for a seat as any other big name concert at these venues just isn't going to fly for most people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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