Predictably, Chris GVB already scooped me on this, but if you haven’t heard “No one Does It Like You,” the new single from Department of Eagle’s upcoming album, In Ear Park on 4AD, it’s highly recommended listening. For those who don’t know, Department of Eagles isn’t a group of patriotic ornithology fanatics but rather the… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooJca4sXyY Since this week’s recurring motif seems to be, songs that I owned on cassingle, why not Domino’s “Sweet Potato Pie,” which narrowly missed the cut of my G-Funk mix in favor of the Long Beach rapper’s other hit, “Geto Jam.” God knows what happened to this dude, he pretty much fell off the earth… Continue reading »
Though my fever’s finally broke, the ’20s blues fixation persists. My latest revelation has been Washington Phillips, a Texas gospel singer known according to wikipedia for playing “something resembling a fretless zither.” I’m not sure what a “fretless zither” is exactly. My best guess is that it’s a Jew on valium. Washington Phillips was not… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjoSmSp4XU 10. I sincerely hope that word doesn’t get out that “the people” who came around looking for me, were really just Mormon missionaries. 9. Speaking of possible rumors to pro-actively quell. If the wrong definition of “licky boom boom doom,” is allowed to be disseminated, we could be ruined. Mental note: also stop using… Continue reading »
At the moment, I’m hard-pressed to envision two songs more diametrically opposed than Pedro the Lion’s “When They Get To Know You They Will Run” and this recently excavated Big L freestyle from a 1995 appearance on Funk Flex. After all what goes better with your sensitive Christian-skewing indie rock fix than some hardcore rhymes… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B94IHWXWrww As I mentioned in the “My Life” post, I’ve always been a sucker for wistful rap songs and even though when it was released I was probably too young to grasp the full sense of nostalgia, Ahmad’s “Back in the Day,” remained one of my favorite mid-90s rap singles. Ahmad pretty much fell off… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AnTAGUnWOY Never seen this video before. Not sure if it was official or what, but it has rough footage of a very young Big appearing to perform the song live, spliced with scenes from a presumably pre-arranged park jam. You Tube: single-handedly redeeming the Internet. Download: MP3: Notorious BIG-”Party and Bullshit”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUN9giYJhew I’m in no mood to re-hash the “Jockin’ Jay” debate. Promise. However, this weekend in a bout of channel surfing, I caught some of VH1′s 100 Best Songs of the 90s Countdown. Along with reminding me that I really fucking hate VH1 talking heads, the five minutes I watched featured some (obvious) gems. Bell… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjk9RFNzhNw One of the the finest songs from one of the most morbidly comic, intelligent and greatest songwriters to ever breathe. Sometimes, I think there’s a Warren Zevon tune for any mood or feeling you might have. I’m hoping to recover soon enough to go gambling in Havana and demand “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” Or… Continue reading »
Maybe it’s because I’m convalescing on a Saturday night , as weary as Weezy’s hook, or maybe it’s my time-tested affinity for gangster melancholia, but right now, I’m ready to go with “My Life” as my pick for the best rap single to see radio play in ’08. I’ve always found the auto-tune craze largely… Continue reading »
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