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― System, Friday, 9 May 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
the title track may be the boring vote but it is the safe vote, and who does not need to feel safe
― j., Friday, 9 May 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
well i've leaned on you for years,now you can lean on me.that's more than love,it's the way it should be
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 9 May 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
"Weather Storm" over "Karmacoma" and "Eurochild" cause no one else is gonna vote for it ("prove me wrong, kids. prove me wrong.")
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Friday, 9 May 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
I love Karmacoma but title track really is actually the best here and also thanks for reminding me to dig this album back up
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 May 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
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― System, Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Cool, glad Sly did so well
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
who the fuck voted for 'light my fire'???
― balls, Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
DJP?
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
Don't all be boring and vote for the title track plz
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:11 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 10 May 2014 08:51 (nine years ago) link
just bein real
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 10 May 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
surprised Sly did so well! I thought it was one of those first album singles which are fairly big at the moment but that no one remembers years down the line.
― Max Florian, Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
there's such a distinctive hush over this entire album
― j., Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
you know what rules, is No Protection
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
Heh, seriously.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
Would've voted for 'Karmacoma', I think, but I haven't heard this album in like 15 years.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
does anyone know the story behind Vivien Goldman's writing credit on "Sly"?
― mahb, Thursday, 1 April 2021 08:09 (three years ago) link
From this piece by Goldman:
Years later, after the band had released Blue Lines and were preparing the album that became Protection, I visited Bristol to collaborate with them, eventually co-writing the track "Sly." Sample-based songwriting in those pre-digital days could be laborious. I bought a child's Casio keyboard to help fill the gaps, which came in handy for "Sly," but the process often involved someone getting on their bike and cycling down to the second-hand record shop to try and locate half-remembered grooves that might be just right to fulfill the elusive conception of a song.
― willem, Thursday, 1 April 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link