― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan kuo (ryan kuo), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
Ha ha yes I was just thinking that the best example of a beat working in the same way in hip hop that I could think of was "Hovi Baby", which performs a similar feat of rejecting the dictates of an ordinary groove entirely. Perhaps beats have to be "useless" in order to qualify for this sort of narratological significace?
Yeah you're right Tim - I don't really hear the alleged "stiltedness" of Skinner's vocals on this because it just seems like he's talking in the manner he would if he were actually in the situation he presents himself as being in; it's just every so often he'll rhyme a word. A better angle than the "poetry" line that critics trot out might be single-actor monologue performances.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 24 May 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― MV, Monday, 24 May 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
Why do you emphasize "literally" so much? How else can it be taken?
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
On one level I bitterly resent the construction of the album because it's gotten to a zone of dangerous familiarity in less than a fortnight when The Avalanches took me almost six months!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 27 May 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 30 May 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 30 May 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
This seems as good a time as any to note that our own Tico Tico has an excellent feature length piece on the album that's up at the Seattle Weekly.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link
― J (Jay), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
YES! IT IS!
My opinion of it has changed not a whit in the past four months. It really is one of the greatest albums I've ever heard in my entire life.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 September 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I-was-check-ing-some-new-tracks-from-the-streets'-brand-new-al-BUMyou-might-say-that-I-did-not-re-ally-like-it-ve-ry-MUCH
― Hurting, Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Seriously diminishing returns.
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 26 September 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 26 September 2004 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link
So yeah, The Streets are not for me. (caveat: "Not Addicted" is actually great but mainly for the hook)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, you don't like Limp Bizkit anymore? Unusual!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link