2004 songs: batch 2
explanation for this post.
- chewing gum - if the robyn album had come out last year i don't think i would have cared about this song at all. it has no heft to it.
- dip it low - solid gold. what a great song. more r'n'b should be this infectious and earwormy.
- galang - ummm. do not feed the m.i.a troll. damn it i can't help it: has anyone actually stopped and listed to her lyrics? i usually don't even care about them but these are fucking atrocious. dub version? i like the outro/pseudo-chorus.
- yeah (crass version) - annihilatingly intense. as i have explained before, when i eventually pop my eardrums listening to music too loudly, i want it to be to this song.
- 99 problems - comes across so big and cocky that you eventually just give in and admit that it's great 'cause it's always there and it's never bad. sort of like jay-z...
- get up say what (dfa remix) - solid dfa avant psyche-disco freakout by numbers. wish it had a dancier groove.
- tipsy - massive in theory i guess. this is one of the songs i was hoping would grow on me and i'd be glad to have it here. it didn't and i'm not.
- mad sick - oh ragga ragga ragga! 2004, why can't you be more like ragga ragga ragga! 2003?
- forward riddim - this remains the only grime track i've heard that came close to rivaling the wow i got from hearing i luv you for the first time.
- all falls down - such a catchy backing track. kanye's vocals are another thing entirely... is there an instrumental version?
COMMENTS:
said: re: your thoughts on m.i.a.
m.i.a. = rage against the machine in the since that, in the early/mid-90s, ratm was incredibly well received and developed a surprising mainstream fanbase (mtv, what). they had a "new and interesting" sound as well as a feaux-political bent (this feature is what invites the ratm comparison, since i think it tends to make people more excited than they should be), but every subsequent year, their appeal dwindled. i think this was due to stupid lyrics and the loss of novelty, and some other factors that i can't recall because it's early in the morning.
10 years from now will anyone remember or care about m.i.a.?
will she team up with damien marley to form audioslave 2?
ps: to be sure, i still enjoy listening to about 50% of arular.... i'm no hater...
said: re: grime as good as i love you
for me, kano's p's & q's is at least as affective as anything dizzee rascal's done...
said: I like the m.i.a.-rage parallel. I really thought that diplo totally outshined m.i.a. on Piracy Funds Terorrism, and I was rather unimpressed with m.i.a.'s live show. (Of course, LCD rocked so hard, it was pretty easy for anything else to get overshadowed.)
said: p's and q's is good, but it's too under control. for me it lacks the frantic, paranoid edge that makes i luv you/pow feel like everything is going to spiral out of control and fly apart at any second.
said: i'm still kicking myself for dropping the ball when lcd soundsystem/mia made it to sf... damn...
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