they call me candle guy
courtesy of the hollertronix board
sorry, i've been enjoying summer. eating ice cream treats, walking around, moving to a new house, having house parties, looking for a lady friend. i've been in great spirits. the next record should be down the halfpipe. it's dance music.
dates:
Aug 25 - Calgary - Slam City Jam @ Stampede Park
Sep 9 - Edmonton - Ookfest at NAIT (w/ Yellowcard, haahhaha)
Sep 10 - Vancouver - De La Soul! @ UBC Pit Pub (/w Mike Relm)
Sep 14 - Calgary - Broken City
Sep 15 - Calgary - Univ. Of Calgary
Oct 5 - Hamilton - Dr. Octagon!
Oct 6 - Montreal - Pop Montreal: Club Lambi (w/ Russian Futurists)
Oct 7 - Ottawa - Zaphod's (w/ Tokyo Police Club)
also, i only update when i think it's time to update.
Justin Timberlake - My Love (ft. T.I.)
it's time to update.
320 kbps. fuck wit me, mang. please note timbo's weird laughing sample in the background. t.i. is that dude, btw.
HOLD UP! HI SPEED EDIT!!!
Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Love Sound
banger! three hits so far! and i haven't heard the song with three 6 mafia yet! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH what a beat on this one. will sound great in a club. this has to be timbo as well. nice drums. i feel a lickle bit chi chi for listening to his vocals sometimes. but yeah, it's a banger.
Peter Bjorn And John - Amsterdam
it ain't the song of the summer but it's damn close. the broad from the concretes is absent, but the drum work with the band is off the meat rack or also possibly ill status. these dudes are touring europe with my boys the russian futurists. i'm real curious about the album now.
Bob Dylan - Nettie Moore
bob is my favorite dude in the world. he'll never fully fall off. the new record is en fuego. the first half is real, real country but the last few songs are those lovely slow burning ballads where he gets all emotional. i'm feeling this shit to the fullest, it has an ill sequence near the beginning:
"i'm gonna travel the world, that's what i'm gonna do
then come back and see you
all i ever do is struggle and strife
i won't do anybody any harm, i'm gonna get back on the line
i'm the oldest son of a crazy man
i'm in a cowboy band"
he's still got it!
posted by rollie at 7:23 PM
30 Comments:
Great post today, I am loving the "Amsterdam" track. Hope you swing by T.O. again in the near future.
you pretty much made my, like, day.
That candle guy shit is hilarious, but what is he saying to Jay?
so hey what do you REALLY think of justin timberlake? his phony style and total musical cluelessness make me need to vommy, ugh!
like gag me with a spoon!
i only post stuff that i've been told to like. i have no original opinions.
i think he's michael jackson with no creep factor and timbaland beats. i wonder if he were on anticon...
peter, he says J-T not Jay-Z!
You have that Game Theory in full, or FS/LS? Can you ysi-out that in the fold or comments? I like that J.T single, not so much "Sexyback". But it isn't awful. Been liking Justified; scratch what hate is saying. And looking forward to FS/LS. Check.
btw: "Ain't Talkin'" is what I'm loving.
Mike Relm's off the UBC show... cancelled all his west coast dates or something.
I thought it was "Jay-Z" not "JT" too.
'ain't talking' is a killer too
i have all of game theory, but considering it's probably the best rap album is like five years, you should cop the vinyl. like i will as soon as possible. copped the single when i was in new york.
ten-four.
rollie + dance. yes. excited for the album!
Justin Timberlake!
Justin Timberlake!
to be fair, anticon never would put out anything as good as the latest j-t.
but, to call him the new Michael Jackson is plain post-aural-orgasm crazy talk. The number of amazing rekkids that MJ was involved with (either as part of a group or solo artist) from the early 70s until say the late 80s (especially 79-84ish) sets him on the level of prince, george clinton and - dare i say it - james brown as one of the all time greats, creepiness notwithstanding. i bet mj could do jt better than timberlake if he got in the studio with timbaland with some drive.
and let's be even more honest, dylan totally fell off in the late 70s (the christian phase) through the 80s, infidels notwithstanding, until um love and theft maybe.
i'll give you the christian phase which was ultra lame but blood on the tracks fully redeems the 80s for homie
and i'll argue that as a soloist, mj didn't release very many ill records. jackson 5 shit, yeah yeah yeah, some of it classic, no classic album though. as himself, you got off the wall, thriller and bad. that's it, for his whole life. and yeah, that's better than 98% of people in the world. but dangerous sucks and invincible was really bad. that's a serious fall off that can't be fronted on, graham.
i also think that even if he had timbo beats, he's jumped the shark and can't keep up anymore. like his voice isn't hitting these days. the shit over the rockwilder beats didn't work at all.
and he's TOTALLY not in the same house as george clinton, james brown or prince. in my opinion, he's chilling with fucking lionel richie, yeah that's right, i said it. okay, maybe i'm exaggerating.
(i'm drunk, obviously)
been missing your updates.
The JT w/ Timbo and Three Six is tragically ruined by Timbo. I'm actually not as down on his maybe-I-should-try-being-a-performer stuff as many people are, but he shows up on the track and drives the schoolbus full of my appreciation for the song right the fuck off a cliff.
One thing I keep hearing in all the leaked JT tracks (many of which I admittedly have yet to hear, the title track being first among them) is his goddamn falsetto being thrust into the foreground. I'm sure it was all over his first album too, but it never really struck me how bad it was until I started hearing it on the tracks from these albums. All his midrange stuff on "My Love" is godlike; all the falsetto is miserably ass.
I'm kinda starting to see it as the American equivalent to that Rachel Stevens album last year where she hired a gang of retardedly great producers and it kinda made everyone sit up and go "Man, she's really the dictionary definition of 'just good enough for these tracks', huh?" (of course fs/ls is going to sell a bajillion copies where Rachel's would have had to climb up from China just to have gone wood, but that's another story)
ok I'll shut up now.
I've scooped up a copy fs/ls in full, James, and I can't entirely disagree with the "thrust" of your point: Definitely too much falsetto, but not way too much, mind you. While generally effective, the falsetto is pure treacle, and jt’s Inability to register a consistent baritone (though his lower register is ill) throws a number of the tracks off.
A good example of this is the lower register schemes that lead-up to the chorus on “My Love”, which is really just talking, but work much better than the verses, I think. The lower register verses in “Chop Me Up” also work, and, thankfully, jt’s falsetto doesn’t saturate the track. And yet, I don’t mind timbo’s bars since they break up the monotony of what would have otherwise be a banal bass/drum burner.
“Summer Love” (fuck the preludes), “Sexy Ladies”, and the title track, “FutureSex/LoveSounds”, ebb and flow with a similar head-pumping baseline, songs that are typically uninspiring while posessing a number of nifty compositional layers, both structurally and lyrically.
There are a number of tracks, however, that either aren’t working for me or are simply doa; sonically, what “(Another Song) All Over Again” is doing on this album is anybody’s guess. Even “Losing My Way” doesn’t necessarily fit under the rubric fs/ls. But the last quarter of “What Goes Around-Comes Around” crept up on me. What was left unsaid on “Cry Me a River” is finally put to bed – so to speak.
Overall, though, fs/ls isn’t as surprisingly good as justified turned out to be. But it’s still a generally strong if somewhat poorly assemble album. There isn’t a standout like, say, “Cry Me a River” or “Like I love You” or “Senorita”, or even any appealing ballads; but there are at least eight slow-burners that’ll grow on you.
Meanwhile, the Rachel Stevens parallel is, I think, an uncharitable one. Admittedly, the stigma of being a member of a boy bad doesn’t reflect well on one’s autonomy. But as great as Timbo or Rick Rubin are, jt is due his credit. Putting together the arrangements and songwriting for “Gone” and “Girlfriend”, atypically good N’sync songs, was a portent for the particular sound and direction his solo effort would take. If justified was thesis and fs/ls can be called antihesis, the third will hopefully be synthesis.
Otherwise, I should give it a rest now.
roland i feel like i've heard all these opinions before somewhere
Indeed!
Blood on the Tracks was 75, and the record that redeems Dylan's 80s is Oh Mercy. 90s was Time Out of Mind, which is way better than Love and Theft
also in the Christian phase, Slow Train Coming has good songs, so does Shot of Love
GAETEWAY TO EQUINOX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LoTGII7ruU
a revolution in ha-ha
rollie, i think you're vastly underrating mj's late 80s catalogue. not nearly as good as the early 80s but those albums have real moments which are forgotten about beacause i supect (a) the beginnings of his turn towards pure creepiness and (b) the album in whole pales to trhiller, etc. also, to reect mj's jackson 5 work for the fact that they never put out a great album is to misunderstand motown's artistic thrust where the whole point was to make singles rather than albums (marvin gaye probably excepted); of course the albums weren't classics per se but the singles were better than great. the holy trilogy of mj albums you mention above too are better work than 99.99999999999% of artists could ever hope for, jt included. those shits changed pop music! ok, maybe i mispoke about mj and jb and clinton on the same level, but surely he's up there with prince.
also, the new bob dylan is pretty decent after all. argumetns about later dylan, i think, always hinge around the question of it he has a third act to his career ... that is, if we agree ulike a lot of dylanologists, that there indeed was a fall in his career which i usually think of as the christian phase which, sorry alastair, is pretty lame.
oh, it's totally lame. the lamest. but that doesn't stop individual songs like 'Slow Train', 'Every Grain of Sand' or 'The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar' being great
whoa dylans christian phase is slept on, his gospel shit was dope
that amsterdam track is ill man! good lookin out
What is the show at the University of Calgary all about?
on an unrelated note.. rollie go awol again. more updates sir! post haste!
Rollie,
come to Regina and hang with Def 3!
srsly
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