― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
I've got the Dave Matthews/James Brown "Sho Is Funky Down Here," which was JB's last King LP. It's really not exactly acid-rock, more like King Crimson or something, which isn't necessarily bad.
Ulmer's "Black Rock" is pretty great in this vein. And I like the Muddy Waters and Wolf electric Chess records.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
Anyway, what the hell:
RFI : Dub metal
― edchuck, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Stress, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Don, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Don, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― cherd, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Don, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
You guys have covered Love already, right? Seems to me that Arthur Lee sounded blacker as the guitars got noisier. At least up until his '72 solo LP, which I've never heard.
(Onward I go, to Chuck's dub metal thread)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
I third whoever said Blo. Also, check out the Nigeria 70 comp on Strut and the Ghana Soundz comp on Sound Way.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link
I was just amused that you seemingly missed the 100 or so posts where everyone just sort of goofed around and played around with the idea of the racial boundary, and you went straight after Jason's first post on the thread -- written well over a year ago -- where he was basically feeling out the territory and looking for recommendations. And you used that irritating "I don't want to [x], BUT" construction. And Chuck already made the same point you did anyway, except funnier. The whole thread had a nice arc and teleology, winding up with Jason's "perfectly fucked" comment -- and provided many laffs along the way. Don't take my silly post as anything more than another grenade lobbed in that general direction.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago) link
I'm in the Chuck/Don camp, which is to say I agree in a let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom sense with what George said on the first Funkadelic album (on two separate cuts): "Loan me yr funky mind so I can play with it, FOR NOTHING IS GOOD UNLESS YOU PLAY WITH IT."
New Kingdom rules. Justin Warfield, in my opinion, never got fucked up enough to realize he was playing music in the first place.
The Slash/GNR thang is obviously gamin' on ya, but didn't his dad do art direction for 'Court and Spark,' come to think of it? One thing to think of: Slash might well have been like Martin Chambers, who once noted that he never knew what the words to Pretenders songs were . . . which obviously never kept him from doing his job in 10/10 fashion.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 04:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
that aside, im with whoever doesnt get how afrobeat is in this thread.
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 07:42 (twenty years ago) link
― RE Orient, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
well actually, i dont know about chuck but im not white.
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
being a white guy from detroit (like, um, jack white) = less white/a different kind of white guy?
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
dr. israel (at least the album where he covers black sabbath)
I kept thinking I was the only one who knew about this album!
Has anyone mentioned the Veldt yet? (Besides me, right this second.)
Scott OTM about that Divine Styler album, as with the New Kingdom one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
On his debut 10 years ago, Divine's acid-drenched linguistic seminars were already fully formed— one song's centerpiece was the sound of an extremely painful childbirth. But it was 1992's Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light that would make Divine a household name (at least in houses where all the scary drugs were). It still stands as the most deranged and psychically damaged rap record of all time. It's a harrowing and epic tale of the war between Satan and God for Divine's soul and the inner torment he goes through in order to achieve wisdom and enlightenment . . . oh, and be careful of gothic stonecutters, too. At times funky and beautiful, there really isn't anything else like it (not even that time the Jungle Brothers were picking up bad habits from Bill Laswell). You had to worry for the man's mental health— even his mommy wonders at one point if he's "psycho-spastic."
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
divine himself downplays the whole "losing his mind" thing when it comes to that record. but if it was all an act, it was quite an act! divine and his krew where even grungier than the jungle brothers. they had the greatest rolling-around-in-the-dirt acid-rap look. check out everlast's "i got the knack" video for evidence. (the one where they are slam dancing and nowhere near the poetic demigod with skin that's fair.)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link