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i propose a special weekend subthread -
'THAT UNKLE RECORD: SEARCH AND
DESTROY'. let me begin by stating that the
kool g rap song is fucking amazing. work
from there.
also let me state this question will likely be
ignored.
― ethan, Saturday, 12 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Sold it so long ago I can't remember. I do recall the Kool G being
OK, not great. I liked one of the instrumentals, it may have
been "The Unkle Theme," the one with the circular guitar sample.
Nothing earth shattering, but it had a good feel to it.
Destroy that terrible Thom Yorke thing, also the Verve track. Those
were fucking awful.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
dude, the verve song is good. not as great as
that big verve single that i can't remember
the name of, but good. i've heard it
performed live as an instrumental and
shadow drops in all these boston/chicago/
70s-rock-band guitar chords and it's
awesome.
the thom yorke one isn't awful either, at
least as good as 90% of the radiohead i've
heard and a little more to the point. the
'jacob's ladder' sample works too. oh god,
i'm talking about unkle.
― ethan, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Okay, Ethan, what are you going to destroy?
― Mark, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
It would bother me a whole lot more, Ethan, if the sample you're
referring to was from a Rush song.
― Josh, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
my songs to destroy are the obvious ones:
the mike d song, the unkle theme (i love the
sample that's like 'we had too much
equipment, too many men, and little by
little we went insane'. went insane = MADE
A SPOTTY RECORD), that long-titled one
that's the game about breaking balls, and,
lord help me, fucking 'chaos'. all those are
terrible. the rest of the record is near
perfect.
in formal defense of the kool g. rap song, i'd
like say that after hearing marley marl toss
off some of his worst work on the man, i'm
just happy to hear him finally get a good
beat to go on. not to lose any cred, but i'm
all up on the premier mix of his new single
for the same reason, the man deserves to
rhyme over better than than a slowed-down
biz markie b-side. fuck you, marley marl,
but damn, 'it's a demo' was fly.
and hey, and it might be rush. you know that
one that's like 'LIVING ON THE LIGHTED
STAGE, THE ROACHES, NEON
(something...wheels?) BLAH BLAH BLAH
GILDED CAGE!!!!'? it wasn't from that. but
it doesn't sound like that.
― ethan, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
URGENT UPDATE: kool g. still hot, rest of
album still shaky.
i actually want to see people break down and
assess the pre-gorillaz (all music being
divided into epochal pre- and post-gorillaz
factions) blunted beatzzz combo that is
UNKLE. i mean, it's all like the soundtrack
to a 2003 dawson's creek episode, ain't it?
YOU BE THE JUDGE.
― ethan, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link