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  • The best pure pop single I heard this year was probably Ke$ha's "Die Young."
  • Phenix Horns for second. Can't speak on Afrika 70. I've never really gotten into Fela.
  • SIRUS said:batmon said: Black Core Audience acts that tried to Reverse Crossover. that would be a good thread I'd settle for an example. I'm having trouble figuring out what this means. Do you mean like Teena Marie with "Lovergirl"? A…
  • vintageinfants said:rootlesscosmo said:vintageinfants said: that jacket is sick.
  • james said:The_Hook_Up said:Flomotion said:The_Hook_Up said:OptimusLime said:Love 'em or hate 'em Bon Jovi is a great stadium band. If by "great stadium band" you mean they have the ability to hype up large groups of dipshits with terrible tas…
  • The_Hook_Up said:Flomotion said:The_Hook_Up said:OptimusLime said:Love 'em or hate 'em Bon Jovi is a great stadium band. If by "great stadium band" you mean they have the ability to hype up large groups of dipshits with terrible taste in music…
  • Mr_Lee_PHD said:I've tried all her music videos God help you. Even so, the fact that the song is not wholly memorable also points to Ms Keys. Just saying. Was there a scene with records spread out on the floor?
  • I don't know the answer to your question, but if it was a popular female r&b artist emoting in front of a keyboard with a mellow and dilute retro vibe in the early 2000s, I'm gonna say there's like a sixty to seventy-five percent chance that it …
  • bassie said:oh my gosh! you're right! guys were rocking them with little buckled ankle boots! I had blocked it out....along with most goth-themed horrors. I used to know a dude named Daniel (no, not that one) who rocked some of the Lip Service jer…
  • DocMcCoy said:the idea that rap needs to "marinate" be protected from a publication such as Rolling Stone is utter fucking nonsense
  • This reminds me of a more talented--and thus perhaps less mainey--relative of your hewmie Diddy's "Get Off." Shit's still crazy as a bowlful of mice, though. I love it.
  • billbradley said:The Bottom End (M+K) record has some decent jazz. This contains the desirable mix of that perennially sweated Valli Scavelli thing, right? (In a side note: "perineal sweat"--don't google it. Trust me.)
  • Juan Cocktolstoy said:Big Muthafuckin L Speaking of which, if I'm remembering right, Stunts was released the exact same day as Showbiz and AG's Runaway Slave. They aren't making Tuesdays like that anymore.
  • HarveyCanal said: That whole side of that record is great. Primo Sunday-morning play-through. Also: "Real Thing (12" mix)" (you can't front on Lani Hall cooing "Let me hear you say 'Baby / everything's gonna be all right...'") and Terry_C…
  • A local park has had chained outside of it for months and months now what appears to be a Dinosaur Jr.-branded mountain bike. Is this shit legit or what? It's locked up underneath a flyer advertising conversational Russian classes "for singles" (win…
    in Bicycles Comment by james December 2012
  • raedcabello said:Someone pointed out that there was a distinctive "Ding" in one of the tracks. I humbly apologize. It was an email notification that made it's way into the mix while recording. Carry on. I wouldn't sweat it. It'…
  • Bobby Caldwell's got some shit. And I'm blanking on titles, but I feel like every One Way lp has one of these type of numbers on it. I was thinking The O'Jays' "I Want You Here With Me," but that might be a little up-front. Possibly: …
  • This is a pretty distinctly post-Earth Wind & Fire groove, isn't it? Slow with the muted horns, sweet vocals with occasional gritty patches for effect, "That's The Way Of The World" steez? Or does some of this stuff pre-date that?
  • Sween said:Anyone in the Illinois area think they can come up on an extra bottle or two of the Goose Island Cherry or Coffee Stouts that got released yesterday? Hey, Sween. I'm not much of a beer drinker myself (I stay on that cold gin like…
  • DB_Cooper said:james said:I'm not directing this at anyone in particular, but for real: If it's at all possible to use a couple extra words and talk like yourself, please do it, you fucknut. I wholeheartedly agree with this. The point of speak…
  • There are far fewer words that "have no English equivalent" than people think. Sometimes this is truly true (e.g. saudade), but it's more often the case that people (myself included) are lazy, and have succumbed to one of our era's shitty little mis…
  • TheKindCromang said: pocket pool enthusiast / Hasidic dandy My dreams of a Gary Higgins/Remy Shand/Retail Electronica hybrid have now been fulfilled.
  • The great thing about soulstrut, which I would hope Rockadelic knows by now, is that while there will always be someone to hate anything, there will never be anything that is not loved earnestly by someone. Put differently: At the same time t…
  • DJ_Enki said:Two places I wanted to go to as a kid because of incessant local TV ads: 1) Twitty City 2) Maggie Valley ("Ghost Town In The Sky") Beautiful Mt. Airy Lodge Yes! There was some NY-based station that somehow reached Sout…
    in Twos Comment by james November 2012
  • [As as aside: you know that I will forever ride for that first Jackson Browne record--so much so that I've never even heard of the "Rock Me On the Water" cover you mentioned.] It's funny, back in college I had a professor whose husband wanted to g…
    in Twos Comment by james November 2012
  • DS_Cooper said:hogginthefogg said:But I'm not about to try to defend the use of "Donkey Sauce" in any way. I am actively trying to find a way to work that into everyday usage. N.B.: If you find yourself having difficulty working it in, that …
  • Given the right context, I'll fuck with just about anything. If I walk into some random taqueria, for example, I'm most likely not gonna order head tacos. But if someone I know is all like "Dude, you gotta check this place out, they're famous…