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Gnarls Barkley Album

Post by etch » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:05 pm

...just had a preview of their album, sounds well ok on a first listen. Quite different.Anyone else heard this yet?

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Post by phoze'l » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:50 pm

Where u hear this?

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Post by etch » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:14 pm

a friend had it on promo...think its released 2morrow.

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Post by boomnoise » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:01 pm

i've heard it and it's not something i rate at all.

read this:

http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=1212

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Post by etch » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:31 pm

hmm, moby-esque? hardly. this reviewer sounds like a hiphop pure-ist. He hates the grey album too. ah well.

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Post by boomnoise » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:48 pm

ok, that piece is totally harsh but i do think there is a coffee table gloopiness to the beats and a lack of meaningful substance to the whole record.

the gorillaz really have shaped the market for this sort of stuff. hip hop reconstituted from Hip Hop. i appreciate the pop of gorillaz but this doesn't quite float my boat.

cee-lo's voice just grates on me and the production makes me retch. the Danger Mouse album Ghetto Pop Life was much better than this.

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Post by kozee » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:30 pm

feelin it.

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Post by etch » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:56 pm

boomnoise wrote:ok, that piece is totally harsh but i do think there is a coffee table gloopiness to the beats and a lack of meaningful substance to the whole record.
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thats cool bro, on a second listen theres definately some crap songs, but some well good ones too. I'll check out Ghetto Pop Life. Nice1

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Post by Jubz » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:02 pm

cee-lo's voice just grates on me and the production makes me retch. the Danger Mouse album Ghetto Pop Life was much better than this.
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Post by Jubz » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:12 pm

Lo’s got a number one record (even in a country that doesn’t matter)
Idiot.

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Post by j_j » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:27 pm

its about as interesting as that dangerdoom dribble ....

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Post by elgato » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:00 pm

I havent heard this yet, im looking forward to it tho, i have heard some very aggressive opinions about it! I absolutely loved ghetto pop life, one of the biggest hip-hop albums for me in recent times...i have a bit of a soft spot for dangermouse, although dangerdoom didnt take me the same way.

Interesting idea tho...hip-hop reconstituted from hip-hop...what would you define as the true core of hip-hop though? Its history has been one of mostly constant evolution in one direction or another, from the early disco influenced days, electro, 808, boombap, dirty south, and thats just to trace a very linear and incomplete line (one not close to representative of the actual situation), but one kind of demonstrative of what im trying to get at- to what extent are people like dangermouse reconstituting hip-hop away from hip-hop, as opposed to simply modifying the sound in a way that could equally be conceived as within 'hip-hop'...he is obviously influenced by music that has probably not touched hip-hop much before, but hip-hop from its earlist days has been about exactly that...

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Post by j_j » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:49 pm

busy bee n grandmaster caz aint fessin bruv ...early hip hop was about making a good tune with whatever ..same as now.

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Post by datura » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:08 pm

The single was a great pop record, would be interested to ear the album, but probably wouldn't buy it..the DangerDoom album was good though..

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Post by bob grommit » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:54 pm

datura wrote:Any of you check the Dabrye/Mf Doom 12?
Haven't checked it. But I love most of Dabrye's stuff.
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