Wednesday, December 18, 2002
I am listening to a few currents these days, in the midst of all my year-end mania. these include:
+go home productions' "ain't no sunshine in my closet" and their new christmas offering, "christmas on the block," which absurdly - but whimsically, as befits the season - mashes up j-lo's "jenny from the block" and macca's "wonderful christmastime" (along with a nice, sly sample at the beginning and end, all the more notable due to the current mccartney-ono public spat).
+the keni burke-sampling "paradise" by l.l. cool j featuring amerie. pinned around the eminently funky bassline of "rising to the top," l.l. talks love and devotion with a nice vocal assist from amerie. and damn, does this man have an 8-pack? fine as hell. sounds like he's rapping in a slightly lower register than usual, too, which I like. yessir, I like it.
+have finally got a copy of "danger! high voltage!" by electric six featuring jack white. wow. I'd add to what fred said that it's the best disco-rock single since the stones' "miss you." nasty, sleazy, with such a downtown-nyc feel. so of course it's from detroit.
+and liam lynch's "united states of whatever," a recent freak top-tenner in the u.k., is 1:30 of perfect trash-rock, like a cross between "fell in love with a girl" and "surfin' bird."
+go home productions' "ain't no sunshine in my closet" and their new christmas offering, "christmas on the block," which absurdly - but whimsically, as befits the season - mashes up j-lo's "jenny from the block" and macca's "wonderful christmastime" (along with a nice, sly sample at the beginning and end, all the more notable due to the current mccartney-ono public spat).
+the keni burke-sampling "paradise" by l.l. cool j featuring amerie. pinned around the eminently funky bassline of "rising to the top," l.l. talks love and devotion with a nice vocal assist from amerie. and damn, does this man have an 8-pack? fine as hell. sounds like he's rapping in a slightly lower register than usual, too, which I like. yessir, I like it.
+have finally got a copy of "danger! high voltage!" by electric six featuring jack white. wow. I'd add to what fred said that it's the best disco-rock single since the stones' "miss you." nasty, sleazy, with such a downtown-nyc feel. so of course it's from detroit.
+and liam lynch's "united states of whatever," a recent freak top-tenner in the u.k., is 1:30 of perfect trash-rock, like a cross between "fell in love with a girl" and "surfin' bird."
# posted by Thomas : 5:02 PM
