― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― $corpium ($corpium), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link
― rgeary (rgeary), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― rgeary (rgeary), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe Chuck didn't hear the songs where Cee-Lo talks about murdering people, easy to miss that if you just play it in the background. And if anything this one is less r&b than the last one...
oh forget it, I like too much music. I must learn to cultivate my hate a little more.
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― rgeary (rgeary), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
So yeah, I guess that does disqualify me on the Cee-Lo credibility front! Carry on, then.
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link
― rgeary (rgeary), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
I'm listening to Cee-Lo now, and I guess I get what some/most of you feel about it. Might be a sequencing issue, some of the harder cuts towards the middle/end of the record. I haven't changed my mind though.
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc&feature=player_embedded
this is better than i expected from the title (i can imagine it being in something like a judd apatow film) but he seems too in love with himself these days. too much 'arent i clever' smugness in his voice. i know hes trying to hit that retro 60s market with the new album but i still wish he would just go back to the type of stuff he used to do in goodie mob. his believable 'pop' moments are pretty hit and miss.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i think its that hes susceptible to way more corniness as a singer than he ever was as a rapper. he needs to get over his dre3000 crisis and ditch the singing.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf r u talking abt that song is great?
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that song is cool, i was talking more about the other stuff ive heard that i think is from the new album.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This song is just awesome. I have listened to it at least 10x since yesterday morning. "Ain't that some shit!" <3 <3 <3
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Saturday, 21 August 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Leftsetz is busy spreading the word about this on his twitter and e-mail, and discussing the youtube and how it can't get on the radio. Catchy but retro and noveltyish imo.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 August 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, August 21, 2010 10:26 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is pretty rong, Andre kinda started singing more and more over time and eventually making it part of a "bored with rap" pose but Cee-Lo has always sung way more (and way more capably) throughout his whole career.
― richie goingham (some dude), Saturday, 21 August 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
although there totally is a cutesy smugness going on with a lot of his stuff, yes. i'm just not sure he'd have a lot to offer as a straight-up rapper at this point in his career.
― richie goingham (some dude), Saturday, 21 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this song. kinda hard not to. its certainly better than 'crazy'
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
is there any way in the world this song isn't the biggest hit of the year? it's going to be on everybody's grandma's facebook page by about monday afternoon.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
many ways
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
mainly the song is called "fuck you"
will still be #1.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(as "F You" or something)
and anyway, however billboard deals with it, there are going to be approx. 800 million kids walking around singing it.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
meh idk if it will be a hit but i looooove it
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 22 August 2010 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
p-fork's song-of-the-year?
it's kinda fun (in a boring way), but just seems waaay too derivative for me on 1st hearing.
― Ioannis, Sunday, 22 August 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I am feeling very cynical about Cee-Lo's new song.
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 August 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
is this really what excites ppl in life? i mean...
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 August 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://tumblinerb.com/post/988418888/whats-your-thoughts-on-the-new-cee-lo-songs
noz totally spot on here
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 August 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
its certainly better than 'crazy'
wrong
― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 August 2010 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
When did subtlety die?
― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 August 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
makes me think of jamie liddell type classic soul facsimiles but like thats not a bad thing
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
noz otm but i like jack black so
― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
First play of the clean version of F**K You tonight on Trevor Nelson's Radio 1 show 7pm - 9pm. There's a lot of debate about how there can possibly be a clean version but we won't spoil the surprise. Tune in.
please be farts, please be farts
― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, honestly, is this the first time critics have all universally spazzed out over a pop song RIGHT AWAY since "Hey Ya?" Like even "Crazy" took a while to take off.
Also, back in the Hey Ya days, there was no twitter/facebook and blogs were still sort of vanity projects. This seems kind of unprecendented in being a song """""everyone"""" loves in the span of 24 hours.
― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't love this song, i think it's terrible
― k'naamean (zvookster), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
NEW CEE-LO SINGLE IT FLY @ U FACE
― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― k'naamean (zvookster), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
go on and tell u little boyfriend
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^ I KNOW
pretty much the best 1 second of music this year!
― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
don't get all the "AW MAN CEE-LO AIN'T THAT GREAT A SINGAH KNAWMEAN". i mean nobody said the dude was Luther Vandross, but he has a cool singing voice that is sprinkles of Al Green mixed with some James Brown-esque rawness. i always loved his vocals at the beginning of Dungeon Family's "Crooked Booty"
― the master of unlocking (San Te), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno who yr railing against there santa. ryan pitchfork hates on cee-lo's voice?
― k'naamean (zvookster), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
def not but still
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, 23 June 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
this was TERRIBLE btw
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
I am shocked
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cee-lo-green-pleads-contest-slipping-ecstasy-woman-article-1.1921615
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 August 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
some discussion started about that over here: cee-lo's "closet freak"
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 30 August 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
it really sucks.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 August 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV8SQerjYvg
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 July 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
really weird but also fire
― nose, Friday, 17 July 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/business/media/cee-lo-green-strikes-pop-star-gold-without-a-gold-album.html?_r=0
saw this guy at a prince tribute show in between larry graham and the time at the weekend. he was the worst, obv. backing band that seemed to be playing/miming to backing tapes. and topped off by THAT voice, which goes beyond an acquired taste, to a taste which i am trying to make sure i never acquire.
q - how did people back in the goodie mob days ever believe he was the 'star' of goodie mob, and that what they really wanted, was whole albums of cee-lo singing? possibly the worst development to come from the dungeon family.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
oops. meant to link this instead - https://twitter.com/noz/status/747279777715752960?lang=en-gbthe dream of the modern musician is to become so popular that you can reliably earn money while making music that nobody actually likes
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
he was a good rapper at one time imo
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
i feel like it was mostly Cee-lo who decided that what the world needed was a whole album of him singing. He did a fair amount of rapping on his first couple solo albums iirc. Anyway I wouldn't fault anyone who heard, say, "I Refuse Limitation" and thought he was brilliant.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
i still think some of the songs on the record with 'fuck you' are good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBhdIcb84Hw
― maura, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
forgot he covered band of horses on that album hah
― maura, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
First two solo albums have so much good stuff
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
not sure how you could not see/hear why he was considered the star?
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
yeah the first two albums are really good. Dangermouse was the turning pt.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
it was a smart move monetarily but yeah i jumped completely off the boat at Gnarls barkley
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
still one of the all time great verseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CssC-DY4lO8
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
I really loved the first two solo albums, they were such unique things back then, and he definitely was a good rapper with memorable persona(s). And of course it helped that he was still doing rap music (with occasionakl singing) then, not this weird soul pastiche. But yeah, as nice as "Crazy" was, everything that came after it (including the Gnarls Barkley album) was a massive disappointment, and of course that ecstacy roofie rape is unforgivable, I haven't been able to listen to anything by him since.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 June 2016 08:42 (seven years ago) link
"not sure how you could not see/hear why he was considered the star?"
it was more a sort of 'how could we' question. i was a big goodie mob fan. cell therapy was one of my favourite DF songs. and i liked the first cee-lo album, even the songs he sung back then. though closet freak i thought did not work, and the second album (and most of his solo career) seemed to be inspired by closet freak. i like some gnarls songs. but overall, i think his solo career is a mess, filled with songs that do not suit him (then again, might just be me wishing he would just do what he used to do).
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 30 June 2016 09:34 (seven years ago) link
one month passes...#2 this week (behind Gaga)
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Thursday, February 24, 2011 5:26 PM bookmarkflaglink
deej was right
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
this is a mom songsounds like a song a mom would likewith the piano and that "chang-chang-changa-chang" guitarand a guy singin all sweet over ityour mom's going to dance to it at your weddingafter she's had some wine
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