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Artist: Bloodhound Gang
Title: I Hope You Die
Date: March 17, 2005
“You must die. I alone am best!” So begins one of the best comedy/rock albums I’ve ever heard. Not afraid to resort to 4th grade insults or blatantly sexist/racist/elitist lyrics, their songs consistently deliver high-quality, low-brow humour. And sometimes their analogies are really quite brilliant […]
Artist: The Dust Brothers
Title: Commissioner Castration
Date: March 16, 2005
From the soundtrack to one of the awesomest movies ever, America’s Dust Brothers (not to be confused with England’s ex-Dust Brothers) prove that they can not only produce an album for themselves (as opposed to for The Beastie Boys), but can make it a cohesive, kick-ass soundtrack […]
Artist: Beulah
Title: Popular Mechanics For Lovers
Date: March 15, 2005
For some reason, when I hear Beulah, it seems like it would be the perfect music to play on a pop-radio station. For me, this means that it’s easy-listening with fun lyrics that could easily get massive playtime. Yet the surprising thing is that even though I’ve […]
Artist: Massive Attack
Title: Special Cases
Date: March 14, 2005
When I first heard the most recent album by Massive Attack (a “group” that now has only 1 member left), I was very skeptical how it could possibly match up to their previous Mezzanine. As far as I was concerned, that album was virtually untouchable, with it’s 1-2-3-4 […]
Artist: UNKLE
Title: What Are You To Me?
Date: March 13, 2005
UNKLE’s first album was a stunning collaboration that came out of left field and showed what great things were possible when a handful of talented artists including (famously) Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Beastie Boy Mike D, and others were harnessed under a grand musical design by […]
Artist: Deftones
Title: Pink Maggit
Date: March 12, 2005
A friend of mine once said that “music is nothing but a series of boring parts followed by exciting parts.” While I don’t think that’s necessarily true of every song, it does have some merit with regards to “Pink Maggit,” as the first several minutes of this song are […]
Artist: Primal Scream
Title: Kill All Hippies
Date: March 11, 2005
Any song that starts out with the words “Hello, this is gorgeous, anybody out there read me?” is automatically kick ass, especially if it’s followed by “Destroy, kill all hippies. Anarchy! Disco sucks! Subvert normality!” The song excels in its ability to convey a sense of unease […]
Artist: DJ Shadow
Title: Giving Up The Ghost
Date: March 9, 2005
The second of two very different songs with the same name–this one is purely instrumental, with a nice groove in typical DJ Shadow fashion (i.e. more interesting rhythms than standard 4-on-the-floor dance songs along with a good mix of instruments and some nice intricacies that you […]
Artist: BT
Title: Giving Up The Ghost
Date: March 8, 2005
The first of two very different songs with the same name–this one is standard BT fare (i.e. very strong dance music with much more innovation than the standard dance DJs), with a very catchy chorus and insanely addictive sections of hemiola (overlapping simple and compound meters, i.e. […]