lol @ the biggie "burler alarm starts ringing" quotinglol @ the Enemy Mine sample
this album is just about nothing but great "deep cuts"
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
also lol @ "chopped and screwed for you"
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)
Erykah Badu is depicted as one of the movies characters on her album cover "New Amerykah, Part 2: Return of the Anhk"
is this wiki-vandalism or am i missing something..
― Tom doesn't sleep.. Tom Waits. (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 8 April 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
well this one makes more sense
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/80469430.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1270688323&Signature=YFh9tkvDquRU3g4Sgmc3G9XwG3w%3D
and nsfw: http://kaseydriscoll.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/a-holy-mountain-pdvd_000.jpg
― Tom doesn't sleep.. Tom Waits. (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 8 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
this record is so much more inviting than pt 1. i've been listening to it daily.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is a little boring tbh :(
i want to believe
― estela artois (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it got less boring for me
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
whenever someone says something is boring, i read it as "i have ADD"
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
well
― justin PeeBeR (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
dude did review 1000+ albums last year
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
btw after reading that studio article that mentioned how records vocals in the control room w/out headphones, i realized you can hear it really obviously at the end of 'the cell'
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
holy mountain so rad
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, April 12, 2010 1:25 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
definitely it gets less boring
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, the album is great of course but there are 3-4 tracks that I skip ("get munny," "fall in love (your funeral)" "incense," and sometimes "umm hmmm"), which seems like a lot... "get munny" and "fall in love (your funeral)" seem kind of pointless to me
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
get munny is top 3 for me easy
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe because I love the OG sylvia striplin song, so hearing badu's version is like "um...ok?" total filler, and not even in a good way like "my people" off of 4WW
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
get munny is sesame street funk at its finest imo
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha otm
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i'm the same way as Brainwasher w/ those 2 songs, the overly familiar samples make 'em feel like filler that just comes and goes imo
― some dude, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
also feel a lot less jazzed about "Agitation" after learning it's another beatjack, rockism or whatever be damned
― some dude, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
get munny is one of those tracks it'd be cool to hear her bust out unexpectedly at a show, but on an album, yeah, it seems pointless. the striplin version is better.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't realize how much of a beatjack get munny is! at least they replayed it.
'agitation' doesn't bother me, since her vocal melodies for it are totally new.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"agitation" is a sample? damn that is kind of disappointing... I dunno, when it comes to artists like Badu and the whole soulquarian movement I feel a certain type of way when I hear about their use of samples. Like, when I found out about all of the samples/interpolations on Voodoo... it's probably because they present themselves as "bringing back that real authentic musicianship" or what have you..
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"agitation" is the shit tho, should be longer
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, the album is great of course but there are 3-4 tracks that I skip
An album is not "great" if you skip three or four tracks, or maybe your scale is different than mine.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
especially when the album's twelve cuts long.
well, I think the other tracks make up for the ones that I skip... "out my mind, just in time" may be my favorite badu song ever.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
What about when a two-volume album with 23 cuts has only four or five skips? That's Key of Life territory there.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
how many songs are sample-based on voodoo, like two?
xp
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha -- I skip more than five tracks on Key of Life.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_of_life
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
?estlove broke it down on okp a while back, I think "spanish joint" and "send it on" are interpolations, "devil's pie" is a sample, and some others.. supposedly most of the album is just replayed dilla beats or something like that.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"feel like makin' love" is a cover
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, but it's a totally different take on the song, much different from the roberta flack version... and the marlena shaw version.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
huh, i never heard that. trying to re-create his feel via moving shit around in pro tools, sure. but even if they were trying to recreate beats that dilla cut up from other soul albums, i don't see how that's much different from the normal process of listening to those records and then writing tunes in the style. the melodies on voodoo are mostly original and the sound of the record as a whole is unique.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah definitley, I'm not hating on Voodoo at all (one of my all-time favorite albums), I'm just saying that when I first found out I was a little disappointed.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't help you.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 12 April 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
And I knew you'd say that, too.
Return of the Ankh > Key of Life.
Sorry all.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
My basic outlook to Soulquarians and samping is "who cares"? I don't envy you who have hangups over this at all.
xp loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
― he's a radric mane (The Reverend), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
like, that is too audacious to even be called a challenging opinion
― Bear Ana Gasteyer (HI DERE), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean I get that Key of Life isn't this all killer-no filler bomb, but it's highs are like the empire state building to compared to Ankh's portaloo.
Sure he was joking though heh
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
typo *its, gah
100% certain ilxor is not joking, which is fine in and of itself, but opinions like that tend to go over better when they are not delivered in a rhetorical style that implies an unwritten "now taste my ass"
― Bear Ana Gasteyer (HI DERE), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I"m not quite sure I trust the opinion of someone who thinks this is better than Part 1 or Mama's Gun, let alone Songs in the Key of Life.
― he's a radric mane (The Reverend), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
now i taste ass
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Not joking... but I'm not saying it as some kind of objective quality judgment for all time's sake, just my own preference. I've heard Key of Life a number of times, it's dandy, sure, but I know which I'd rather have with me on a desert island.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
delivered in a rhetorical style that implies an unwritten "now taste my ass"
you are high 24/7, right
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
hi dere, tell me how my ass taste
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
tastin ass takin names
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link