Now available to stream.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/arts/music/de-la-soul-catalog-streaming.html
A major blind spot in my hip-hop knowledge. I know the singles everybody knows but most of this stuff will be completely new to me cos for whatever reason I never bought their albums back...
Listening to some So Solid Crew from 2001 and was thinking about the music that fed into grime — dark garage, garage in general, crunk, US rap, dancehall...
Never heard this Dizzee tune before, v sick indeed
Just saw a Facebook post by HMV, must be an advert cos I don't follow them on Facebook, I didn't even know it still exists.
It made me a bit sad, though, because I assume they're struggling. Eeking out the last few years before collapse. Not sure if HMV was ever a particularly down to earth...
Feel like someone did a thread about brazilian funk music recently but can't find it so I'm making this about this one guy.
My mate is getting into this stuff was playing me some last night and these two stood out as particularly weird and wonderful.
My advice is PLAY THEM LOUD cos I've got...
Really it all started with @Woebot's legendary 100.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/funks/woebots_the_100_greatest_records_ever__complete_/
And then God said let there be @craner
https://www.dissensus.com/index.php?threads/14556/
3 people on here who write brilliantly, have great/interesting taste and who I would like to force to write for no payment
Also don't think they've done lists yet? (Let's please ignore the fact that I've been asked to do a list and refused.)
So sounding them out to see if they have the...
aldi rembrandt rum
beards
betrayal
blairite eurocommunism
cigars
crazy golf
curren$y
fascism
hardback books
innocent smoothies
julian assange
killed by whirlpool
lager
lard
latin funeral
london skateboarding
modernist poetry
nicky blackmarket doing voices
odour of the cafe oto troubadour
pub chang
reality tv
religious pageantry
tasteful saxophone
the sega megadrive
trampoline accidents
trip hop
wang @ the cause
wetherspoons
whimsy
work hard play hard
This week I've been mostly watching videos on the subject of 'Britain's hardest convict' and all-round awful man Paul Sykes (R.I.P.)
The jumpoff: YouTube recommends me this documentary about Paul Sykes, which features the 6'4" heavweight boxer turned convict bullier/buggerer Paul mouthing off...
Top Gun: Maverick
I saw this at the cinema earlier this year and like most people who saw it (I presume), came out of it thinking fucking hell that was GREAT.
Rewatched tonight with my parents and for a big chunk of it was thinking "oh, it's actually a bit shit – all this rubbish dialogue and...
Any tips welcome, i'm in the mushroom/acid area usually, more mushrooms than acid
Recommendations for activities (particularly given its freezing outside), music, ways to counteract the bad trip and so on
thirdform welcome to recommending taking 500 doses and having a mental breakdown to breakcore
https://www.billboard.com/pro/new-music-tiktok-artist-development-suffering/
The steady disappearance of a musical mainstream, 80k new tracks a day (is that an exaggeration?), TikToks erosion of attention spans, remember the good old days of buying a CD from HMV and discovering later on that...
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