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tripledouble said: No Tuff Crew?
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DocMcCoy said:Spacecho said: i mean (and correct me if i'm wrong) he's essentially a bootlegger isn't he? That's one way of looking at it, certainly. But although those Dusty Fingers albums sold pretty well, he isn't really the kind of bootleg…
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mannybolone said:Charles Wright's double LP, "Doing What Comes Naturally." The one with Monk Higgins riding Hutch? That's my jernt. I like Curtis, down by the lake with the young youths, a bottle of Cutty, and mustard-colored slacks that sh…
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You know, record dudes always want you to know about something, but it seemed important to Matthew to always take that extra step--he wanted you to understand. His depth of knowledge and openness of heart always shone, and through his writing and mi…
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Hawkeye said:why is always Slick Rick the only one mentioned when people talk about great storytelling in the 80s ?? You've kinda answered your own question: It's because Slick Rick sounded like he was telling a story, where Fresh Prince sounded l…
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I liked this song a lot when I first heard it, and I've liked it a little less every time since, though I do like the rest of that Kindness record a fair amount. I think dude is nicely deferential in this video, though. It's always a dubious …
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Oh, man. Just the other day I saw something that made me think of how much I like the cover of that Jungle Brothers twelve-inch where the front cover has Mike G shrugging his shoulders (What?), Afrika pointing at the viewer (U), and Sammy B pointing…
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Jonny_Paycheck said:You should definitely step to him. The irony of course is that faux and Harvey are perhaps the most evenly matched opponents soulstrut has ever seen. The one deej came close, but then he lost stamina and got all tweeted out, sp…
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Rockadelic said:Yeah...we need more "Remember that hot looking girl I used to be with bitd that I really liked and invested a lot of time into until this better looking girl came around and I dumped her ass...whatever happened to that ugly bitch" th…
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Sign me up.
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I'd remind folks that history has shown that you should only nominate for moderator people whom you would like to see stop posting.
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Never as good as the first time: My vote is for John Peel crate-staple Sheener Easton doing it to it on "For Your Eyes Only," the titular (oh my!) song from the first James Bond movie I ever saw. Carly is a strong pick, though.
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batmon said:james said: I mean, it seems safe to say that rap owes a not-inconsiderable part of its cultural force and its market share to the fact that it has so successfully and for so long projected the idea (however shaky) that it's not r…
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batmon said:I wish Old Rappers would get the same pass that older Rockers, Jazz Folks, and other genre's get. As a place that's always been so diligent in checking dudes for holding rap to the standards of other genres (soulstrut was the first pla…
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batmon said:Herm said:Ed Hardy wasn't Hip Hop gear though. It was rocker gear that us (well, not me...HELL NO not me) made our own. i was well absorbed by cats. Crazy Cat Guy? Like, Romare Bearden steez? But yeah, I see lots of hip-ho…
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SIRUS said:i see rocawear on older folks who obviously took thier kid's shirts/etc when they stopped rocking it in the mid-00's Yes. I still see plenty of full-gear/all-matching dudes, but their vibe is less "with style" and more "off-duty securit…
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DocMcCoy said:Touches of 80s r&b, 'Miami Vice' AOR, New Order, Aaliyah, Eno, Art Of Noise, 'Tango In The Night'-era Mac, Eurythmics, Metheny, Loose Ends, Sade Bold claims. I might have to check this out.
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I'm holding out for the super-deluxe edition, where every couple of pages you have to put in another token if you want to keep reading. b/w Does this book have a happy ending?
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"student"
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LaserWolf said:Conflict makes for good story telling. Joe always knew he was gay/ he met another well adjusted gay man/ they loved each other just like to heterosexual people lover each other Might tell a story you want to hear, but it is…
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Herm said:james said: *Purely on some writing shit, I have to say that for a song 1) that concerns behavior considered by many to be subhuman and 2) that climaxes in an In-N-Out Burger, the title "Animal Style" is fucking genius. Whatever greivan…
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Herm said:james said:Herm said:Cali emcee Murs presents the Hobostewd-directed music video for "Animal Style", the Embassy-produced track from his recent BluRoc release Love & Rockets Volume 1: The Transformation. "Animal Style is a song I did f…
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Herm said:Cali emcee Murs presents the Hobostewd-directed music video for "Animal Style", the Embassy-produced track from his recent BluRoc release Love & Rockets Volume 1: The Transformation. "Animal Style is a song I did for many reasons," Mur…
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batmon said:james said:Anyway, I liked SJP, but the guidette gal was kind of a sleeper, too. Not her--the girl with the greaser boyfriend. In that picture you posted up top, she's the one in plaid. The more I think about it, her rol…
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I went to college with this dude named Alec who was a total 'roided-out gym-rat who wore bodybuilder-style thongs under his Zubaz, and who spent much of his free time sitting in the tv room drinking gallon aften gallon of proteinated sludge and tryi…
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DO YOU EVEN PARTY ABUSE RECREATIONAL INHALANTS?
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HarveyCanal said:On the Thin Lizzy/Van Halen thing...the problem is that people for so long made such a policy of being strictly alternative with their music interests that they started doing the dumb thing of dismissing clearly good shit right unde…
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batmon said:haha.......sheeeeit....id JamMaster Jay meets Terrence Trent D'Arby that shit. CRAZY I read something pertinent from Bill Adler where he's breaking down a pre-fame group photo of RUN-DMC, tracing their style continuu…
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batmon said:On the real, back in the late 90s i seriously considered a pair of black leather pants. My Black rocker buddies was rockin that shit. I remember occasional soulstrutter yo-i-got-beats posting vintage 1980s photos of himself roc…
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J i m s t e r said:james said:When did soulstrut get so Thin Lizzy'ed the fuck up? You started it. In the words of Ross Hogg's main man, Shaggy: It wasn't me. My thread might have caught a little slice of the zeitgeist, but that shit had alr…