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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Zookeeper Joe on January 23, 2008, 11:22:45 AM
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Art of the Slap made the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop poll of the best of 2007!
tied for #505? With the Polyphonic Spree? Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop07/winners.php?page=winners&type=album&page=11
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It beat Prince!
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I like searching the individual ballots for folks I know. Mike McGonigal has crazy taste (http://www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop07/ballots.php?cid=319) in music. And this is coming from someone who loves his Yeti comps!
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Nice!
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Wow, what a triumph. Please let my life be filled with triumphs like that in the future. Maybe next I can find a shiny penny on the street!
Tom.
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C'mon, that's at least worth eighty cents.
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000996GS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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Wow, what a triumph. Please let my life be filled with triumphs like that in the future. Maybe next I can find a shiny penny on the street!
Tom.
What if THAT was Diablo Cody's Oscar acceptance speech?
Without the "Tom" sign-off.
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Wow, what a triumph. Please let my life be filled with triumphs like that in the future. Maybe next I can find a shiny penny on the street!
Tom.
What if THAT was Diablo Cody's Oscar acceptance speech?
Without the "Tom" sign-off.
That would be fantastic, except she'd probably throw in a blog joke and shout "By the power of Greyskull," or something.
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I guess they (the Voice) are still correcting counting errors... now tied for #504 on this page:
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop07/winners.php?page=winners&type=album&page=13
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Dear God, someone please explain MIA to me. I listened to it 6 times, and haven't heard anything I had not heard prior to 2005 YET.
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Dear God, someone please explain MIA to me. I listened to it 6 times, and haven't heard anything I had not heard prior to 2005 YET.
She takes the harsh grime sound and makes it catchy and poppy with a big dose of exoticism. I like it a lot, but I have no idea if it will still sound interesting in 5 years.
Pazz and Jop usually gets "new" sounds wrong. In 1996, DJ Shadow was #4. The best album of Aphex Twin's career, meanwhile, "I Care Because You Do," didn't make either the 1995(British) or 1996(domestic, I think) lists.
Edit: And in 1995, Tricky was #1. Tricky. My goodness.
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I liked Tricky but I was high that whole year. I'm currently a big MIA fan, but I really don't think she's blazing any new trails - as far as I can tell it's basically a mix of techniques commonly used in hip-hop, and world-pop sort of stuff along the lines of Peter Gabriel and David Byrne. I love it, though, just for its catchiness.
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Dear God, someone please explain MIA to me. I listened to it 6 times, and haven't heard anything I had not heard prior to 2005 YET.
The music is alright, but she's got the whole smokin-hawt babe thing going on which sets her over the top.
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Dear God, someone please explain MIA to me. I listened to it 6 times, and haven't heard anything I had not heard prior to 2005 YET.
The music is alright, but she's got the whole smokin-hawt babe thing going on which sets her over the top.
Yeah that too.
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No one expects a girl that hot and "exotic"to have such good taste in beats. Especially when she also likes to make crazy and emotive blog posts on her myspace all the time.
I go between thinking the lyrics on that new album are genius and really really stupid. I think I'll settle on "ballsy".
People seem to think "Paper Planes" is crazy and fucked up. I guess it's like the kid-like vocals mixed with the gunshots. If Jay-Z did this no one would bat a lash, but MIA does it and the world gets a boner. I can't blame the world, btw.
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I think you just invented a genre: "World Boner Music."
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People seem to think "Paper Planes" is crazy and fucked up. I guess it's like the kid-like vocals mixed with the gunshots. If Jay-Z did this no one would bat a lash, but MIA does it and the world gets a boner. I can't blame the world, btw.
I'm not a big fan of MIA, but I do like this song. Why? Because I have a soft spot for Wreckx-n-Effect. ALL I WANT TO DO IS ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dear God, someone please explain MIA to me. I listened to it 6 times, and haven't heard anything I had not heard prior to 2005 YET.
The music is alright, but she's got the whole smokin-hawt babe thing going on which sets her over the top.
Yeah that too.
So, in my quest for new musics, she's basically a hip-hop approved hottie a la American Idol?
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Dear God, someone please explain MIA to me. I listened to it 6 times, and haven't heard anything I had not heard prior to 2005 YET.
The music is alright, but she's got the whole smokin-hawt babe thing going on which sets her over the top.
Yeah that too.
So, in my quest for new musics, she's basically a hip-hop approved hottie a la American Idol?
I don't know that she's hip-hop approved. She's a pretty shitty rapper. She's more hipster approved than anything. She's bros with Peaches.
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I don't know that she's hip-hop approved. She's a pretty shitty rapper. She's more hipster approved than anything. She's bros with Peaches.
So she is the new Tricky, then? Except for the Peaches thing.
How did she get a pass for that truck commercial when she's supposedly so anti-capitalist? Or is she "over that" now?
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So, in my quest for new musics, she's basically a hip-hop approved hottie a la American Idol?
I believe she started as a visual artist, and then moved onto making music. Her artwork, and music is really politically charged as well. Her father was a Tamil Tiger(?) so the art is kinda of a mash-up of graffiti stenciling and revolutionary iconography but DAY-GLO. I think if you watch a few of the videos on youtube, you'd get the jist of it.
the music kinda sounds like Buju Banton freestyling over a nintendo.
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I am thrilled that Art of the Slap scored as highly as it did, but it's got to give a lot of third tier label reps a headful of ideas when they realize you only have to get 2 of the "critics" to mention you to get into the top 500. ARE YOU LISTENING, PETEY TOBLERONE?
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I liked Kala a lot but I really liked Arular when it came out too and I don't really listen to that much anymore.
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the music kinda sounds like Buju Banton freestyling over a nintendo.
Best capsule review since "Gene Vincent meets a book on tape."
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i think i know how mr. perpetua got out of the hate pit.
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I listen to her music, and I dance and have fun. I've never really analyzed her much more than that.
EDIT: But come to think of it, that "baby girl baby girl" Timbaland vocal on the last track of Kala is god awful.
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After seeing her live, I discovered it helps to be able to listen to her music with huge, wall-shaking waves of bass behind it.