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Okem said:If the level of racism we have to be concerned about these days is a pop song being mildly critical of one small aspect of African American culture then we must be golden. Don't be a blockhead. The level of racism we have to be concerned…
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Four things: One, compared to whichever half-dozen songs you're likely to hear played before it and after it, this song is unhurried, quiet, and unadorned, which always stands out amid the jam-packed clatter of radio (see the G.O.A.T., "Ode T…
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dukeofdelridge said:(also on some doth protest too much style with the totally badazz name) I recently came across my 90s-era tape dub of a Ninjatune compilation called--god help me--If You Can't Stand Da Beatz, Git Outta Da Kitchen. Whew--thanks …
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batmon said:Downtempo....cool... Blazing is some bullshit Well, lest we forget, the "blazing" part was a soulstrut-originated joke, good-naturedly poking fun at somewhat defensive dudes who used the fully updated hip-hop lingo when describi…
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coffinjoe said:Horizon Records yearly record fair at the Handle Bar Oh shit! I never spent too much time at Horizon (early on, some dude working there took what I felt was unneccessary glee in putting a teenage me through the wringer over s…
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bassie said:http://iranstories.com/vegetarian-taste-of-iran/ Warning - she provides no measurements lol I am nonetheless feeling the inadvertent poeticism of her typos: "grinned walnuts," "a glove of garlic," etc. Thank you very much for…
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I try to cook meatless as often as possible, but protein becomes an issue. My friend Terri says I need to start fucking with some buckwheat, but I don't know. The last time I made soba I took my eyes off of it for like a second while it was cooking …
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Hawkeye said:Does the snare also remind you on the Neptunes snare? No. While the reverb might be clipped, this snare still spreads out a little; the Neptunes snare hits a lot more crisply. Plus, this has has that quickly-evaporating snap--the Nept…
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Jonny_Paycheck said: bellend. I may have told this story before, but back when I was in college and standing in a record store waffling over whether to buy Al Green's Call Me or some other old bullshit, the expatriate Brit behind the counter start…
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I couldn't give two shits about Lupe Fiasco, but I will say that there are two important ways--ways, it is worth noting, that white enthusiasts of black culture (What it do, soulstrut!) often seem particularly tone-deaf to--in which saying "b***h" …
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A few months old now, but I just got it in a small parcel, so it's new to me: The Samps' Macrochips And Microdips. I was worried this was gonna be more of that post-Dilla, Flying Lotus-type glitched-out shittiness that wants so badly to sound…
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J i m s t e r said:What of that one you told me about, where the record had the partying sound all the way through, and the singer tried to do his own take on these effects, when they did it live. Years later. And it was massively embarrassing for…
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DRock said:Bar Kays - Soul Finger "Sang And Dance" and "Copy Cat," too. That Incomparable Seven is tough to beat, though.
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Enough already. They pronounce it themselves right at the top of "Promised Heights."
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El Guincho's Pop Negro.
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dukeofdelridge said:long sets of classique electro Aqui.
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Horseleech said:Predictions? A Miles Davis biopic where the white Rolling Stone reporter somehow gets second billing? Assuming this thing ever makes it out of development hell (music biopics are to actors as rapping is to athletes), I predict Bird…
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LazarusOblong said:james said: Anyway, as far as "radical," the first things that came to my mind were Jimi Hendrix and Suicide. Both were hugely sonically innovative when they came out, and while both were influential to greater or lesser…
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Frank said:bassie said:I tried to find some tv footage on YouTube that I saw years ago, but had no luck. I remember it as b&w film of Iggy and The Stooges performing for a studio audience of teens, sitting on the floor and low boxes. Iggy is…
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HarveyCanal said:james said:HarveyCanal said:Joe Jackson's Look Sharp on one side and Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables on the other. That's a hell of a one-two, right there. From the deep files (please pardon my ninth-grade…
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HarveyCanal said:Joe Jackson's Look Sharp on one side and Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables on the other. That's a hell of a one-two, right there. From the deep files (please pardon my ninth-grade handstyle): …
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HarveyCanal said:From the ole whole album on each side of a cassette days... Straight Outta Compton/Eazy Duz It Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash/Hootenanny Natty Dread/Exodus Damn, you had your shit together, thematicall…
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Duderonomy said:The Special Request full length is very good. So is this Very nice. I like that 80s saudade. Someone needs to tell the one batmon to check out dude's "Boot Hill." He'll either love it, hate it, or think it's just okay. …
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I tried to spend some time with her record back around the time it came out, but ultimately could not get with it. I think her involvement with dance music has done good things for her rhythmic sense and pacing, but not her melodic sense or h…
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dukeofdelridge said:I'm not sure we should be allowed to pick our representative sandwiches. Agreed. I had no idea that soulstrut's collective ego had it like this. Q: If you were a sandwich, what kind of sandwich would you be? A: WH…
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The Whaler.
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For what it's worth, I definitely remember Lou discussing in interviews both in print and on tv the fact that "Walk On The Wild Side" had been sampled in "Wildside," the then-happening hit by your man Marky Mark. It was obviously a point of pride wi…
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I feel a little gauche for saying so, but the Lou Reed stuff that means the most to me is the late-80s/early-90s mullet-perm material. Back then I had passing knowledge of his radio stuff, but had mostly kinda checked out on him, but then I s…
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bassie said:I'm a McQueen fan...love his shorts What about his skirts? Not feeling those ankles?