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Sell me on a CD in a hundred words or less

Seth

22:38 / 16.02.03

I like to be surprised by music I've never heard before. You therefore have a one hundred word limit to sell me on any CD. Any artist, any style. No limits except on the number of words.

It's my birthday soon: I'll let you know if I order any of your recommendations.

Char Aina

03:35 / 17.02.03

'Choking Victim' with NO GODS, NO MANAGERS

as the name suggests, it gets heavy. it also gets light. if you have an aversion to songs about killing yourself, killing the police, smoking crack, adopting satan as your saviour, or that sort of thing, you will hate this. when visiting glasgow,the singer of the band had crack on his unnoficial rider and another member of his new band was trying to score smack for after the show. despite being known by a handful of people and playing to about fifty, they still managed to have people running around town for them. oh, and they are new york anarchists.

ginsoakedboy

08:26 / 17.02.03

DJ Yoda – Cut and Paste 2

As a collector of Chris Walken-alia I had to have this record simply for the rendition of Star Wars scenes in his inimitable style. As luck would have it, the other hour of the record turned out to be just as breathtaking – Yoda brings soul classics to life as never before with his innovative mixing and unsurpassed turntable skills – I suspect his fingers are knotted and gnarled with pain. A little college boy gonzo in parts, but still technically breathtaking. Beg or borrow before the man cripples himself with RSI!

(hello. that was my first post. i'm very proud, but i'll try to do better in the future

in the meantime, stay alert and watch out for my frantic waving as i attempt to greet the barbelith masses)

No star here laces

08:40 / 17.02.03

Ooh. They smoke crack. I'll have to buy that then, I mean look what it did for Rick James' creativity...

The Strobe

09:19 / 17.02.03

Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where

Indescribable electro-breakbeat-wuh? madness on Ninja Tune. Basically, take the odd classical samples, some very hard electronica drums, and more filterbanks than are humanly right. Add some more mellow tunes, a vocal track that's been processed to sound like a stuttering hamster and plain old vastness of sound.

And the weird thing is it's entirely listenable. Perhaps because I'm a more mature listener now, but yeah, this is top stuff.

William Sack

11:27 / 17.02.03

As Barbelith is practically a reggae-free zone I'll have a stab at selling a well-known album that's over 25 years old. I will fail.

"Blackheart Man" by Bunny Wailer is so good it renders me ineloquent to say how brilliant it is, and I get frustrated that I do it a disservice. It sounds a lot mellower and more melodic than much 70s reggae, but the album itself explores a progression from wickedness and oppression, through armageddon to glory with a rock-solid faith in the equality of mankind and that righteousness will prevail. I am not a rastafarian, I'm not even religious, but I find this among the most goosebump raising uplifting music I have ever heard. And Bob Marley and Peter Tosh as backing singers. Backing singers for fuck's sake.

rizla mission

11:48 / 17.02.03

Oneida - Each One Teach One

An awful lot of drums hammer away like they're trying to generate enough power to propel a rocket into the sun. A whole load of obsolete organs and modified electronic gizmos are treated in a similar manner to that in which Sonic Youth treat guitars. Somewhere in there there's a deep rumbling bass spazzing out on it's own feedback. A robot who was clearly built in upstate New York sings folk songs concerning vikings, drugged visions, apocalyptic landscapes and rock n’ roll.
Opening track ‘Sheets of Easter’ hammers one note at hardcore speed for 15 minutes. The other tracks don’t, thankfully. One of the most original & exciting rock bands in the world, for my money. How many words is that..?

The Falcon

19:14 / 17.02.03

Ooh. They smoke crack. I'll have to buy that then, I mean look what it did for Rick James' creativity...

I assume you've not heard Ol' Dirty Bastards 'Nigga Please', then. Featuring a cover of James' 'Cold Blooded'.

It's an advert for crack. And one of the greatest permutations of hip-hop yet.

The Falcon

19:18 / 17.02.03

21st century soul, you know...

Ridiculous, tragic, exhilarating. All at once! Simultaneously!

Pass the glass pipe.

Seth

21:50 / 17.02.03

Rizla and H.I.R. are winning right now. More please!

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:18 / 17.02.03

It's predictable, but...

An Evil Heat, Oxbow.

A 300lb-wrestler grips his cock and keeps you in a headlock while singing fractured tunes about spirituality, sex and a handfulla ass. A kraken plays deep-sea bass that causes earthquakes in Panama while a truck crashes through your back wall in a strangely melodious fashion. You may bleed through the ears, but that's what happens when the guitarist is busy taking an angle-grinder to the fabric of the universe. Did I mention that it's loud?

Gypsy Lantern

11:05 / 18.02.03

Shango, Obeah, Shouter - Supernatural Calypso from Trinidad 1938 - 1945

Obscure collection of calypso tracks with a supernatural theme, containing songs about Shango (Trinidad syncretic religion, similar in certain ways to Santeria, Candomble, etc..), Obeah (sorcery and folk magic) and Shouter (songs by Shouter Baptists). Aside from being very interesting lyrically, and from an ethnological perspective, it also happens to ROCK WITH FISTS OF STEEL. Surprisingly accessible, damned catchy, and conjures up a very interesting picture of Vodou-type religions and folk magic in 1940's Trinidad.

Can be bought here

Quantum

12:05 / 18.02.03

Tenacious D (Eponymous)
"With Karate I'll kick your ass, from here, to right over there. Oh yeah motherfucker, I'm gonna kick your fuckin' derriere yeah-eah-eah.."
Comedy Rock, if you have MTV you will have seen the Tribute video and probably already own it. Buy it, steal it, get it somehow.
(50 words, yeah baby)

lolita nation

16:00 / 18.02.03

The glass dick... what has it done for Dirty's career lately? Prison? Just sayin'.

beatorbebeat

16:15 / 18.02.03

Dizzy Gillespie, Live @ Newport:
Mantecca is a brilliant song.
Bebop & Afro-Cuban rhythms played like no one else.
Great, just great.

Char Aina

18:49 / 18.02.03

peopl who smaoke crack are crazy, hard to deal with, and best just left alone.

to actually be talented enough to pull albums out of your ass and then be liked enough to keep a contract, you must be amazing.

drugs are not the way to creativity, and if you can do it without, then all the better.

i was not advocating buying any music based solely on the drug intake of the artists, rather i was demonstrating quite how mental these guys are. mental like a special wing of a military hospital.

and now i wait for cries of 'oooh, how mental, etc etc', because it seems impossible for people, especially people who can string more than two syllables together, to not have 'reasons' why their subjective tastes in music are great, and also better than yours.

ah well, such is life i guess.

PS
was this thread not supposed to be about recomending? not slagging off? sheesh.

The Falcon

20:46 / 18.02.03

I thought the bulletproof vest was what earned Russell bird.

And calling a female juror a "sperm bank".

He then informed a New York Times journo that New York and, indeed, the world ought to look out, because he was "after them".

The man is solipsism's poster boy.

"If I got a problem, a problem's got a prroblem 'til it's gone/ I'm the only unique Ason.'

lolita nation

21:02 / 18.02.03

Really? I thought cocaine possession and escaping from rehab... but I actually don't know.

Solipsism?

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Seth

22:31 / 18.02.03

Staying on topic is not difficult. All it requires is reading the title, the first post and the abstract.

Rothkoid's goes on the list.

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