Janelle Monae

the most jaxon

I find this record more and more obnoxious, and keep erasing more tracks from my iPod (still like "Cold War" and "Locked Inside."

We'll never reach a consensus with this one.

and I can't imagine what song woudl win a poll.

I'm not even ready to answer such a thing. The record is still revealing its charms to me.

I kinda feel like this hits the same spot last year's Platinum Pied Pipers album did, where even when it's retro, it's never reverent and uses those retroisms to springboard into something completely new, except the songwriting and production and everything are way better than on that record.

xpWow, I'm kind of jealous of how much you like it. I really wanted to, considering how fucking awesome she is.

Also, the weirdness on Locked Inside isn't necessarily just the voice. There's something offputting harmonically about the whole song to me. e.g., there's something unpleasantly *off* about the 4th chord in that accompaniment loop throughout.

'Tightrope' kind of reminds me of Róisín Murphy

We'll never reach a consensus with this one.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, May 29, 2010 3:39 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

by this i assume you mean, 'ill never agree with the emerging consensus'

i'm trying to wait til i'm in the right mood to give this a second chance but it's not happening yet, just thinking about how busy it is is tiring me out

There's something offputting harmonically about the whole song to me. e.g., there's something unpleasantly *off* about the 4th chord in that accompaniment loop throughout.

― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, May 29, 2010 3:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

to each his own but imo this is a great harmonic move

deej, you listening to & liking an album does not mean that there is an "emerging consensus"

btw who is Nellie Mckay?

me agreeing with matthew perpetua suggests something must have some serious appeal ha

nellie mckay is like the white precocious theater kid indie version of this -- way awful though. iirc miccio dug her

i really like nellie mckay's first album

heres an emerging consensus for u jordan
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/monaejanelle/archandroid?q=janelle%20monae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_mjAQb_2gc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q6HKiF83aI

heres an emerging consensus for u jordan
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/monaejanelle/archandroid?q=janelle%20monae

― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Saturday, May 29, 2010 4:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah no duh i already mentioned that -- alfred said "we" as in people posting itt & reaction has been completely mixed

alfred is an eccentric & u are riding lex kneejerk popism here

most of the monae stans aren't even feeling this!!

not sure how this qualifies as knee jerk popism -- she's signed to bad boy & sold 3 times as many albums in her first week as electrik red -- i just think there's a lot bluster & noise on the album and not much quality songwriting

i haven't even said i dislike this yet, and i quite liked her ep!! i will say that 100% of the critical response (ugh, that perpetua review that i ended up reading by accident) makes me roll my eyes though.

& you have more eccentric tastes than alfred, you tard

whats wrong with the perpetua review lex

the quality songwriting is exactly why this is great fwiw

cold war is def my favorite vocal performance

"there's a lot bluster & noise on the album and not much quality songwriting"
^kinda where I'm at; the razzmatazz gets cloying

and I voted for Metropolis as top 10 p+j in 08 and I'm pretty sure this won't make it into my top 20 unless another few listens really changes my perspective... though tightrope might be a top ten single.

i think a more restricted palette served her better; this is nice and it has def high points but after three or four listens I haven't felt as compelled to return to this as, say, Josh Turner or Guido or Ratatat or Ellie Goulding or

btw, nellie calmed down that jazz hands shit over her last two hands and is no longer quite so drastically unfocused and is quietly building a pretty nice discog

"last two hands" = "last two albums"

dog u like ratatat

yes and you like jacka

our respective crosses to bear

btw i listened to shooterz for a week and finally decided that, with exceptions, you and i have definitely different tastes and that's kinda where it's at

ratatat is great!

alfred is an eccentric

Ha! Okay! That's a first.

It's Memorial Day weekend, bros. Take the album on your iPods. Play it for your friends.

ipod got stolen

probably sunn0))) :(

this record is all songs -- if u cant make it thru the 'razzmatazz' thats on you -- and im kinda surprised you dont like anything on shooterz either. really? no songs stood out to you at all?

not even like www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhV-3FNUo5w

did the mods write "no bay area youtubes from poster 'deej'" into the code?

all over me and starz are runnin get some play every now and again, but overall not so much

reign god is okay but so much of that mix sounds like g-unit recycling

do you mean its ... gangster rap?

bcuz jacka himself doesnt really sound like any member of g-unit & certainly has his own lyrical style

anyway we should take that to the fruity therad

did the mods write "no bay area youtubes from poster 'deej'" into the code?

― ok dennis hopper (J0rdan S.), Saturday, May 29, 2010 7:12 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

i try to do yall a favor & u zing me for it -- just for that im posting 10 bay rap youtubes in the fruity swag thread before today is over

:-p

'faster' is sooo good.

^^^

dash-dashing prince or horny toad

Haven't really heard much of her stuff, but I'm excited that I'll be seeing her open for Ms Badu tonight.