somebody get a fire extinguisher
― flopson, Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
2. Alexander O'Neal - "Fake"
ha this guy looks v fierce -- honestly i'm not a huge fan of a lot of the sounds of the '80s, i think this has gotten me in trouble on ilx before -- anyway, this song is pretty cool -- bass is nice, altho i think it's still a bit... chintzy on the whole -- that said, i can see easily how stuff i grew up hearing as a kid (i guess boyz II men obv, maybe even like montell jordan) was borne out of a song like this -- not explicitly in the sonics, but just generally speaking
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
you're off my list, pal ;)
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
someone needs to throw a Billy Ocean song in there
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I was going to!
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Soto OTM
xpost
― Andy K, Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
DON'T BE SURPRISED IF YOU WAKE UP WITH THE HEAD OF RICH WALTZ BESIDE YOU
― Andy K, Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
OK for the albums rotation, it looks like it'll be:
1) the lex 2) me 3) alfred (i think? not totally clear if he was signing up 4) ilxor 5) whoever wants to go for it!
and i think generally ppl can just go in whenever j0rdan says he's ready for the next selection, or at least we'll try that unless it becomes apparent a firmer schedule would help.
― some dude, Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I'm in
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, ilxor if you give me some merzbow crap i'm gonna skip over if fyi
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
btw i like the anthony o neal song!! i just don't love it
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ANTHONY
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
btw how are we defining "album" -- a studio album or a comp of our own design?
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"Fake" and "Do I Love You", both classic. great choices!
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 21 January 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
make it a theme for each 25? next 25 could be synth pop or jazz or indie or some other genre?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
posts v. much in character
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Alfred
I'd prefer an artist album
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah let's keep albums albums -- doing a mix just seems like a way to do 20 song picks at once
― some dude, Friday, 21 January 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
ill take the one after soto-mayor
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
mayor of sototon
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the screen name ideas, bros.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll go after deej
― knits you a baby (The Reverend), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that's whiney's job
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 21 January 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
BAM
― some dude, Friday, 21 January 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's cool that j0rdan didn't seem v interested/steeped in older music & found moments of threads i've read where his ignorance of some unavoidable cultural cornerstone was exposed endearing. idk why but it just seems cool
― flopson, Friday, 21 January 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean it's more gentle ribbing than "what is WRONG with you," at least as far as i'm concerned. i just think it's funny how voracious his curiosity for new/recent music is and how little that seems to extend to older music, and if that's gonna keep being a topic of discussion on different threads we may as well make kind of a game of it.
― some dude, Friday, 21 January 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
100% approve of this thread, just wanted to say i think j0rdan is cool
― flopson, Friday, 21 January 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
chic - good times
― flopson, Friday, 21 January 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking forward to following this thread, I'm not as clued-up as some but I'm keen to suggest a track/album.
― Can your monkey do the Bot? (seandalai), Friday, 21 January 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
GUYShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2E_RSJAhYU
look at top comment lol
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haaa
― knits you a baby (The Reverend), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
this made me lol
no worries, i will find something halfway acceptable i suppose, if i keep the thread bookmarked that long
― ilxor, Friday, 21 January 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
3. R.B. Greaves - Take A Letter Maria
damn, i didn't expect a song that sounds like this -- this is structured really well, altho i don't loooove the chorus -- the verses are pretty immaculate tho -- reminds me of paul simon i guess \(o_O)/
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
4. debbie deb - when i hear music
i've definitely heard this song a bunch & obviously i think it's a stone cold classic -- every part of this song is basically perfect
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
5. The Supremes (70s) - Bad Weather (produced by Stevie Wonder)
stevie went ham on this one -- like the drum beat on this a lot -- lead vocal on this is pretty awesome too, showy but not loud, if that makes sense -- very nice song
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
6. tricky - hell is round the corner
i've obv seen tricky's name a ton before but never really bothered to check them (him? her?) out -- honestly can't decide if this is boring or secretly the shit -- i don't usually go for music that sounds like this, but the beat is a bit more interesting than i thought it was -- still don't really care much for the vocals -- i guess i like this song well enough but can't imagine listening to more than like 10 mins of it -- tbf this is how i feel about pretty much 95% of all uk beat music tho so
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
my fav thing abt 'take a letter maria' is how, right after dude finds out his wife has been cheating on him he boinks the secretary
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
7. Civilles & Cole - Pride (A Deeper Love)
there's like seven different versions of this on youtube -- this is the one i'm listening to xttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njwp7MJf_E0 -- in any event, i outright love this -- even tho i don't know tons of it, 90s diva house as a general rule is totally my shit -- like, jock jams vol. 1 music, that was my shit when i was 9, 10 etc -- oh this gets really cool at the end w/ the vocal sample
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
8. Mint Condition - Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)
hey mint condition has a vevo, good for them -- this is cool, i don't think it's spectacular by any means, tho i fuck w/ it vocally -- actually feel like if i had heard this a bunch on the radio or something i would end up thinking it was a classic -- altho i gotta say that i was hoping it would break into a searing prince guitar solo so i'm kinda disappointed w/ this cheesy ass sax solo -- the vocal bridge after this is pretty great tho
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
9. def leppard - love bites
haha... yeah idk about this one -- idk i fuck with power ballads but i guess i had to be 14?? or something...
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol. i picked the wrong track i think.
― goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
is that Pride (A Deeper Love) the same song that Aretha Franklin sang on the Sister Act 2 soundtrack? serious question, I really liked that song
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Aretha remade it
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 21 January 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
perfect song imo
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 21 January 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm now I'm curious to hear that version. loved aretha's, want to see how it started tho
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
this next song is on some days my favorite song ever
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
10. black ivory - mainline
hey, this is cool -- i dig this stuff, definitely -- not blowing me away or anything cuz i think i'm a sucker for, like, less tight, song oriented r&b disco, if that makes sense
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
alright i'm gonna play video games & listen to the cut copy album for a bit now
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
im not sure -- less song oriented? or more song oriented? is what u prefer
iirc the structure is intro -> verse -> chorus -> verse -> chorus -> bridge -> groove (best most awesome groove ever) -> breakdown -> final extended groove
basically a pretty structured R&B track but w/ a euphoric coda ideal for dancefloors etc
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
tricky is one dude, a producer/rapper, though for his first two albums his ex-gf martina topley-bird provided most of the vocals so it still pretty much fit the male/female duo taxonomy that so many trip-hop acts seemed to cleave to. "hell is round the corner" is unusually rap heavy for tricky. maxinquaye is a str8 up classic, nearly god and pre-millennium tension are secretly as good but got less attention cuz they were more "difficult". everything after that is varying shades of garbage and if you see any critics saying a new tricky album is a return to form you shouldn't believe them.
hang on if you're not familiar w/the beat already i guess that means you're not familiar with 90s portishead? oh man. next week.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a cover/reworking of PE's 'Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos' on the maxinquaye album that Lex mentions above if you wanna check it, goon that you are.
― waka flocka flamini (pandemic), Friday, 21 January 2011 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link