Monday, September 03, 2007
Saturday (Monday) Top 10 (but really 20) XIV: So Totally Not Dead!
Hey everybody! Having internets is fun! Especially when it's in your own place. Technically, I'm moved in, though I'm still surrounded by boxes and clothes, and all my books are still at my folks' house. But the compys are all set up and connected and that's what counts. Between moving, work, and starting grad school (first class starts tomorrow), life's been busy as hell. And yet, somehow, I'm still finding time to listen to WAAAYYYYYY too much new music. But I'll get to that after the list. Here we go:
1. Rocket From the Crypt - Drop Out
2. Live - Iris
3. Lennon - Those Days
4. Sasha - Baja
5. The Postal Service - This Place Is a Prison
6. Prince - Right Back Here In My Arms
7. Superjoint Ritual - Waiting For the Turning Point
8. Plain White T's - You and Me
9. Missy Elliott feat. Ludacris - Gossip Folks
10. Slipknot - The Virus of Life
11. The Undertones - Let's Talk About Girls
12. Linkin Park - Session
13. Philharmonia Orchestra - Also Sprach Zarathustra 5: Grablied
14. Sophie Tucker - Some Of These Days
15. Busta Rhymes feat. Kelis & will.i.am - I Love My Bitch
16. Wilson Pickett - I'm a Midnight Mover
17. Blue Man Group - Your Attention
18. The Donnas - Searching the Streets
19. The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
20. Deftones - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
A nice, strange mix with a focus on some classic tracks, mainstream hip hop, and the awesome Rocket From The Crypt. But I don't wanna talk about the Random, I wanna talk about the best rap album of the year, put out by the most underrated and genius MC working today.
AESOP ROCK.
His last full-length, Bazooka Tooth, is one of the most-played full albums in my vast collection. Genius, bizarre and trippy wordplay over off-kilter beats coupled with one of the most recognizable voices you will ever hear. The lyrics come so fast and are so dense, you'll listen to tracks over and over and over again just to uncver the meaning of each line, and I LOVE that. Here, I'll give you the video for the first single (and title track) off the new album "None Shall Pass", immediately followed with the lyrics to said song. Derive whatever meaning from it that you will. I have my own theory, but I'll keep that to myself for now. Enjoy!
It might not beat The White Stripes, but this album is coming pretty damn close (to me, anyways) to being an Album of the Year contender. There is not one weak track on the whole LP; he doesn't even give you time for your ears to rest, doesn't give you time to breathe. Every single song is just as intense as the last, almost to the point of being overwhelming.
Knock 'em out the box, Aes.
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Hey everybody! Having internets is fun! Especially when it's in your own place. Technically, I'm moved in, though I'm still surrounded by boxes and clothes, and all my books are still at my folks' house. But the compys are all set up and connected and that's what counts. Between moving, work, and starting grad school (first class starts tomorrow), life's been busy as hell. And yet, somehow, I'm still finding time to listen to WAAAYYYYYY too much new music. But I'll get to that after the list. Here we go:
1. Rocket From the Crypt - Drop Out
2. Live - Iris
3. Lennon - Those Days
4. Sasha - Baja
5. The Postal Service - This Place Is a Prison
6. Prince - Right Back Here In My Arms
7. Superjoint Ritual - Waiting For the Turning Point
8. Plain White T's - You and Me
9. Missy Elliott feat. Ludacris - Gossip Folks
10. Slipknot - The Virus of Life
11. The Undertones - Let's Talk About Girls
12. Linkin Park - Session
13. Philharmonia Orchestra - Also Sprach Zarathustra 5: Grablied
14. Sophie Tucker - Some Of These Days
15. Busta Rhymes feat. Kelis & will.i.am - I Love My Bitch
16. Wilson Pickett - I'm a Midnight Mover
17. Blue Man Group - Your Attention
18. The Donnas - Searching the Streets
19. The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
20. Deftones - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
A nice, strange mix with a focus on some classic tracks, mainstream hip hop, and the awesome Rocket From The Crypt. But I don't wanna talk about the Random, I wanna talk about the best rap album of the year, put out by the most underrated and genius MC working today.
AESOP ROCK.
His last full-length, Bazooka Tooth, is one of the most-played full albums in my vast collection. Genius, bizarre and trippy wordplay over off-kilter beats coupled with one of the most recognizable voices you will ever hear. The lyrics come so fast and are so dense, you'll listen to tracks over and over and over again just to uncver the meaning of each line, and I LOVE that. Here, I'll give you the video for the first single (and title track) off the new album "None Shall Pass", immediately followed with the lyrics to said song. Derive whatever meaning from it that you will. I have my own theory, but I'll keep that to myself for now. Enjoy!
[Verse 1]
Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist
Wither by the watering hole, water patrol
What are we, to heart huckabee, art fuckery suddenly?
Not enough young in his lung for the water wings?
Colorfully vulgar poacher at a mulch like
'I'ma pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt'
(Fine) Sign of the time we elapsed
When a primate climb up a spine and attach
Eye for an eye, by the bog life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
So when a dog fights hog-tied prize sorta costs a life
The mouths water on a fork and knife
And the allure isn't right
It's gore on a war-torn beach
Where the cash cows actually beef
Blood turns wine when I leak for police
Like 'That's not a riot, it's a feast, let's eat'
[Chorus]
And I will remember your name and face
On the day you were judged by the funhouse cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky like 'None shall pass'
None shall pass, none shall pass
[Verse 2]
Now if he never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix
he wouldn't relate to the rouge vocoder bliss
How he spoke through a no-doz, motor on the fritz
'Cause he wouldn't play roll over, fetch, like a bitch
And express no regrets though he isn't worth the homeowners piss
To the jokers who pose by the glitz
(Fine) Sign of the swine and the swarm
When a king is a whore who comply and conform
Miles outside of the eye of the storm
With a siphon to lure and a prize and award
While avoiding the vile and bizarre that is violence and war
True blue triumph is more
Like wait, let it snake up outta the centerfold
Let it break the walls of Jericho. ready? go
Sat where the old cardboard city folks
Swap tails with heads like every other penny throw
[Chorus]
And I will remember your name and face
On the day you were judged by the funhouse cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky like 'None shall pass'
None shall pass, none shall pass
[Verse 3]
Okay, woke to a grocery list
Goes like this: duty and death
Anyone object, come stand in the way
You can be my little Snake River Canyon today
And I ran with a chain of commands
And a jetpack strap where the backstab lands if it can
(Fine) Sign of the vibe in the crowd
When I cut a belly open to find what climb out
What a bit of gusto he muster up
Make a dark horse rush like enough's enough
It must've struck a nerve so they huff and puff
Till all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck
And it's a beautiful thing
To my people who keep an impressive wing span
Even when the cubicle shrink
You gotta pull up the intruder by the root of the weed
NY chew through the machine
[Chorus]
And I will remember your name and face
On the day you were judged by the funhouse cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky like 'None shall pass'
None shall pass, none shall pass
It might not beat The White Stripes, but this album is coming pretty damn close (to me, anyways) to being an Album of the Year contender. There is not one weak track on the whole LP; he doesn't even give you time for your ears to rest, doesn't give you time to breathe. Every single song is just as intense as the last, almost to the point of being overwhelming.
Knock 'em out the box, Aes.
