Honestly, I’m way more into her than her more famous sister—there's just this raw sensuality dripping from every single beat. Even the music video can't hide it, though those "group" scenes totally give me alternative cover vibes for Electric Ladyland.
It’s pretty obvious the deep state and those agitators are pulling strings again. If America truly belonged to Americans, those radicals wouldn't be winning—but they would if it were just rockers and patriots leading the way, like Marko Perkovič. Honestly, I'm seriously considering whether I should even stay on this forum.
Such a killer album—and honestly, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this was the first truly essential hip-hop record in America. freestyle, trilogy of misery, ST state of mind, Little San Mak—they’re all absolute gold moments from those relatively gray American 90s (which I kind of miss, in my own way).
I had the same thought. With how Thompson is staring off into the distance, I actually wondered if it’s a queer album—like, he’s dealing with this split personality. Then, through "Stop the Winds," he’s trying to go straight—wants everything to just settle down and stop being so conflicted.
What really bugs me is how The Beach Boys are leading—I'm not feeling it at all because they don't have a single song about life here in America. Honestly, a couple of times I thought the frontman was from overseas just because he’s so curly-haired.
Voting's done. Honestly, felt more like a formality than an actual election.😁
Kudos to Jessica Morris6 once again—she really has a knack for spotting top-tier ethno-jazz. She’s claiming Thompson's tracks are actually better than those Tibetan jazz-funk monks, Tinariwen. Total rock perfection, if you ask me. Now all us American disco heads—STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY! 🙏 This is gonna be our week, I can just feel it.🙂
Heard it ages ago—honestly feels a bit closer to me than The Beach Boys.
Good call, you reminded me—it’s been way too long since I suggested anything for Album Week, but next week I’m definitely dropping Cooder's masterpiece, Into The Purple Valley.
Been gone for a week—needed a break from EVERYTHING—but I just had to say I'm glad this album is on the menu. I wouldn't call myself a die-hard fan, but man, this captures that specific magic of the turn of the millennium, like from 1997 to 2002... basically that untouchable stretch from 1967 to 1972 when everything I listened to—from American rock and indie to hip-hop, electronica, world music, even Billboard-pop—just felt like pure innovation and discovery.
Like I said, I'm no fanatic, and while everything here is solid, nothing can quite touch the magic of that opening Chan Chan.
Hands down my #1 hip-hop track from 2020—the whole Thank You For Using GTL album is such a trip, honestly—it was all recorded in rap studios using actual prison phones.
Lisa Davis46 said:sorry, I'm the one to blame again for this specific album landing on the list. .
Nah, don't apologize—I didn't even put anything up for a vote on purpose, mostly because I've got a backlog (on the forum, obviously, though work's piling up too, but the forum comes first🙏 😁), and then I finally remembered to vote on Thursday, headed to the grocery store—and totally blanked on it.😁 Total goldfish brain.😁 It would have been Crypt Sermon, since I really need some solid metal recommendations. Metal (and hip-hop) are genres I love discovering through someone else's taste.
Tried getting through them twice today—hit track 5 the first time, then made it to 8 on the second go. At this rate, I might actually finish by my fourth attempt, though that’s rarely a reliable metric. Honestly, I just don't get it—it just doesn't click for me. I've always struggled with them during that early phase—pre-SFTB—because there's this annoying, forced intensity to it. It wasn't until they hit the Seer and To Be Kind era that they became a massive band. They finally stopped giving a damn about whether they were the center of the universe or if every single lyric Mikey vomits out is some universal law of physics. The irony is, everyone treated them like the biggest rock band on the planet during those 2 or 3 seasons. And honestly? They were. On those two albums, they were just a straight-up genius rock band that completely let go of the brakes. As for that earlier stuff, I'd probably need to be 17 again to vibe with it, and unfortunately, that’s never happening.
@ analogbear40 That’s facts—for foreigners, music is just a trifle. When I was a kid, my whole dream was to work abroad—just so I could afford to drop cash on five albums a week.😁
@quietbison86/">@@quietbison86 For me, concerts are losing that edge. Em is basically cruising through routine territory now—I mean, if you're playing 100 shows a year, it’d be weird if it felt different—plus, I’m just not in the mood to drink crappy beer and stand around for three hours anymore. In 80% of cases, it really just boils down to watching the band play. After that Fleet Foxes show, I realized I was done with all that and now I only hit up gigs for artists who actually mean something to me. There’s no way I’m dropping 100, 200, $100 for a band I only listen to three times in five years.
Jason Miller80 said:It isn't just about walking away from the conversation... it's that I have no interest in having my profile associated with a Forum that effectively backs a bioterrorist state like China—a regime responsible, directly or otherwise, for the destruction of millions of lives across the globe—nor an organization that aids them by scrubbing posts that simply call them out by their real names. If people want to call this drama, fine. Let them.
Here's another outsider who gets exactly where you're coming from...
Yeah, I feel like I'm losing my mind when I mention in a casual, off-topic chat that China needs to bleed out to clean the mess they made, only to get confused stares, sudden topic changes, and the "top-tier" logic from all the geniuses around me—that everything is actually the fault of the USA. In those moments, I just want to turn around, grab a beer, tell everyone to go screw themselves, and move to the countryside to raise cows.
I'm pretty much on the same page as those two guys above—honestly, physical media is way overpriced. There’s zero reason why a record pressed in a run of a million copies should be hitting $120-$50. In reality, it should be sitting somewhere between $30-$20, liner notes and all, especially since production costs are only about $5-$3.25.
cosmiccobra2 said: J. Buckley's favorite little tune.
There’s really no reason not to look back at one of the most beautiful songs ever written about unrequited love—and that one line about how true love just never actually dies is honestly incredible: "It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter."
I've been drowning in catch-up work at the office for the last few weeks—but I think I'll finally be through the woods in about a week. Honestly, the panic attacks are hitting hard. In this headspace, I literally can't bring myself to listen to anything new. I only feel okay staying in my comfort zone with stuff I already know; for instance, I could barely even stomach listening to Homegrown.