Albums/Songs/Whatever you want a specific ILXor to talk about

Bahtology: Jonatha Brooke & The Story - Plumb

Tim on whatever he thinks the worst singles he's heard are by both:

Bobby O
The Neptunes

And why.

; )

I hear that's what Keats means by negative capability.

Ned to be honest I don't know if I can identify/remember enough Bobby O to have a least favourite! I like "She Has A Way" and "I'm So Hot For You" and think The Flirts "Passion" is the best thing ever. But apart from that I'm blanking. This is an oversight I realise.

The Neptunes

The opposite problem with The Neptunes: they've had so many lacklustre/"just okay" productions that it's impossible to single out one.

I guess a boring Neptunes production would be something like Jay-Z's
"Allure" - there's just nothing there to care about, it's very limp. Also I don't like "Ballad For A Fallen Soldier" very much, but that's mostly b/c of Pharrell. I guess circa 2001 there were a couple of anonymous productions like Ray J's "Wait A Minute". But mostly almost any third party Neptunes productions that were released as singles were at least quite good. Like, while there's obviously a drop in quality from "Hot In Herre" to "Flap Your Wings", the latter is still kinda nice. Most truly anonymous/crappy Neptunes productions were buried as album cuts.

In terms of actively bad, it's almost exclusively N.E.R.D./Pharrell stuff: "She Wants To Move", "Maybe", "Can I Have It Like That"... But I think that the new Pharrell collab-o with Kanye West hits a new low, both contributions are so painful. And with these it's not even so much the production specifically as the entire song (of which production is a component yes), the hubris colliding with blandness and just obviously wrong stylistic and musical decisions that you'd think the people involved would be too professional to make.

It will be interesting to see what happens next with The Neptunes, they usually bounce back from their lowpoints (e.g. following up Fly Or Die with the run of great singles from the last Snoop album) but usually not as high as before. They're doing the first single from Ludacris's new album apparently, which is the first they've done with him since "Southern Hospitality" I think.

What, and have you guys get all curious and start downloading the stuff and costing me thousands of dollars in infringed copyright? I'm not falling for that old trick!

(seconding Lex's request to Tim btw).

Fixed.

uffie is better than pharrell though, yes.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE DEL AMITRI SONG???

Nothing...nothing is a concept especially embodied in the works of (heh, no more)

Don't Come Home Too Soon is probably the best WC song since World In Motion and I haven't heard any more Del Amitri.

Think that covers 'em all.

His John Cale reviews in the All Music Guide have been extremely enlightening, and as a result I've listened to the Fear album at least 100 times in the past week. I can't believe I had gone this far without ever hearing Ship of Fools.

Thank you kindly -- recent Cale, alas, is not an area I know well, and I really should. Anyone else care to step in?

The real one actually kinda sucks. (And doesn't make sense at all, but since when do music videos have to make sense?)

old-fashioned smooth, silky, and jazzy R&B

A current obsession of mine, and the Neptunes (and Ne-Yo too) are killing that niche right now.

At some point I have to talk about how everything about the song "Peg" is just pure songwriting/arranging perfection.

Please do.

"recent Cale, alas, is not an area I know well, and I really should. Anyone else care to step in?"

Hobosapiens is / was the the best thing he's done in a long, long time.

Imposter! Well done.

I like the imperative. "Peg! It will come back to you."

Hahah.

Some of Justin's new solo stuff on his MySpace page is good, if you like that kind of thing. Personally, I wish my cousin Justin would record something under water.

I want somebody to talk about Stefan Goldmann's remix of "Women in Toilet" by IT which despite its name is to my mind one of the crowning achievements of minimal house. It's eaten me alive since last summer and I just want someone to talk about it. Does it get to you too?

It's just so insinuating - it feels more organic, more part of my body and mind than anything Herbert ever conjured up from the microscopic samples of heart valves closing and opening or whatever.

It says "this part is over" but also "you go on".

I'm still not able to describe it at all.

u hi

I might be the only other person who love love loves it Tracer and I've already talked about it! I agree though, there's something about the way the synth-string sounds ripple across the surface of yr skin that seems to be the absolute apotheosis of whatever vibe minimal house might be said to go for as a genre.

Unfortunately I lost my copy when my computer died :-(

I owe my awareness that it is exists to you! Here it is, if you've got a place to keep it:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uykeph

i would like louis jagger to talk about nothing.

-- cutty (mcutt), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:06 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Any excuse to give my Meshuggah collection a spin...

I want to hear Ned's opinion (rant?) on the Unicorns, and Islands.

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I would like to hear J0hn D to talk about Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again."

delete the second "to"

It's a shame Momus aint around no mo.

His piece on Justin is about as generous a piece I've ever read.