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Astonishingly bitter album and a terrific listen.
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Astonishingly bitter album and a terrific listen.
Phyllis Stein
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johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
I'm not sure how I missed this in March, but Jdawg favorites, Oxford-based Jonquil are back with a new album and it's brimming with the kind of sunshine, sugar, and falsettos that made me fall in love with their first record. I am all over this. Exhibit A of a a song and a band that should be getting played on the radio as much as the stuff that currently pervades the airwaves. If I hear "We Are Young" one more time instead of something like this, I may be moved to violence.
[video=youtube;zblAhsJmPTw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zblAhsJmPTw[/video]
[video=youtube;zblAhsJmPTw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zblAhsJmPTw[/video]
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
I'm not sure how I missed this in March, but Jdawg favorites, Oxford-based Jonquil are back with a new album and it's brimming with the kind of sunshine, sugar, and falsettos that made me fall in love with their first record. I am all over this. Exhibit A of a a song and a band that should be getting played on the radio as much as the stuff that currently pervades the airwaves. If I hear "We Are Young" one more time instead of something like this, I may be moved to violence.
[video=youtube;zblAhsJmPTw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zblAhsJmPTw[/video]
This has gone straight to the top of my list of best albums of 2012, without a doubt.
icburns
pyar sauced
Will give a listen.
Baines' left foot
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Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
[video=youtube;oST77VRHXt0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oST77VRHXt0[/video]
Love this at the moment. I need to get their albums ASAP!!
Love this at the moment. I need to get their albums ASAP!!
De La Soul - Say No Go
[video=youtube_share;gzGRhxAkHPk]http://youtu.be/gzGRhxAkHPk[/video]
The song is a cautionary tale about the use of drugs, in particular "base" (otherwise known as crack cocaine); a topic they would tackle on their follow up album, De La Soul Is Dead, albeit from a different perspective, on the song "My Brother's a Basehead".
In the opening line, Posdnuos raps: "Now let's get right on down to the skit / A baby is brought into a world of pits / And if it could've talked that soon / In the delivery room / It would've asked the nurse for a hit".
The song's relevance in 1989, and indeed at present time, was tremendous as it dealt with what had become a new phenomenon in largely urban neighborhoods. This phenomenon later came to be known as the Crack Epidemic.
Peaked in the UK charts in July 1989.
[video=youtube_share;gzGRhxAkHPk]http://youtu.be/gzGRhxAkHPk[/video]
The song is a cautionary tale about the use of drugs, in particular "base" (otherwise known as crack cocaine); a topic they would tackle on their follow up album, De La Soul Is Dead, albeit from a different perspective, on the song "My Brother's a Basehead".
In the opening line, Posdnuos raps: "Now let's get right on down to the skit / A baby is brought into a world of pits / And if it could've talked that soon / In the delivery room / It would've asked the nurse for a hit".
The song's relevance in 1989, and indeed at present time, was tremendous as it dealt with what had become a new phenomenon in largely urban neighborhoods. This phenomenon later came to be known as the Crack Epidemic.
Peaked in the UK charts in July 1989.
Prince - Batdance 7min version
[video=youtube_share;YdZ7DULQORM]http://youtu.be/YdZ7DULQORM[/video]
"Batdance" was a last-minute replacement for a brooding track titled "Dance with the Devil", which Prince felt was too dark. Incidentally, though "Dance with the Devil" remains unreleased, some of the lyrics appear on the album's liner notes.
"Batdance" is almost two songs in one—a chaotic, mechanical dance beat that changes gears into a slinky, funky groove before changing back for the song's conclusion (except on single version in which it goes straight to the mechanical Joker laughter from the end of the movie and Prince saying "Stop"). The track is an amalgam of many musical ideas floating around at the time. Elements from at least seven songs (some unreleased) were incorporated into "Batdance": "200 Balloons", "We Got the Power", "House in Order", "Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic" (later released on the album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic), "The Future", and "Electric Chair", as well as the 1966 "Batman Theme" by Neal Hefti. Some of these were mere snippets, and other segments showed up only in remixes of the track.
Peaked in the UK charts in July 1989.
[video=youtube_share;YdZ7DULQORM]http://youtu.be/YdZ7DULQORM[/video]
"Batdance" was a last-minute replacement for a brooding track titled "Dance with the Devil", which Prince felt was too dark. Incidentally, though "Dance with the Devil" remains unreleased, some of the lyrics appear on the album's liner notes.
"Batdance" is almost two songs in one—a chaotic, mechanical dance beat that changes gears into a slinky, funky groove before changing back for the song's conclusion (except on single version in which it goes straight to the mechanical Joker laughter from the end of the movie and Prince saying "Stop"). The track is an amalgam of many musical ideas floating around at the time. Elements from at least seven songs (some unreleased) were incorporated into "Batdance": "200 Balloons", "We Got the Power", "House in Order", "Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic" (later released on the album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic), "The Future", and "Electric Chair", as well as the 1966 "Batman Theme" by Neal Hefti. Some of these were mere snippets, and other segments showed up only in remixes of the track.
Peaked in the UK charts in July 1989.
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
I'm enjoying that album too mate, they're pretty damned loud though.