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[Drygioni]

NOOOOOOO

"no, I don't want to celebrate my birthday. It just reminds me that I'm closer to dying."
that will be me. that will be me.

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Top five: (remember, not necessarily BEST)

1. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Pulp - Different Class
4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
5. Echo And The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

[Hobot]

http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/temporary/PBF048BCTodayismyBirthday.html

Yes.  PBF understands me.

[theinevitable]

next step:

someone from the boards' friend comes to visit me on my birthday, and I tell them that sentiment. Then the CYCLE WILL BE COMPLETE.

[thedudeabides85]

I cut the list down to twelve, but each time I thought about removing any more I felt a sharp pain in my side.  The list shall remain:

Bob Dylan - (1965) Bringing It All Back Home
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - (1968) We're Only In It For The Money
Van Morrison - (1968) Astral Weeks
The Band - (1969) The Band
John Lennon - (1970) John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
The Move - (1970) Shazam!
David Bowie - (1971) Hunky Dory
Paul Simon - (1972) Paul Simon
The Rolling Stones - (1972) Exile On Main St.
Brian Eno - (1974) Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
David Bowie - (1980) Scary Monsters
Arcade Fire - (2004) Funeral

Also, doesn't anyone listen to rap?  Granted, I'm hesitant to put any MF Doom or Ghostface on my list just yet, but come on white folks...

Who are your favorite rapsters?

[misterqueue]

Also, doesn't anyone listen to rap?  Granted, I'm hesitant to put any MF Doom or Ghostface on my list just yet, but come on white folks...

Who are your favorite rapsters?

Good Sir I do believe Aesop Rock was on my list.

I'm pretty picky when it comes to hip-hop though.  I love the Wu, but Ghostface is far from my favorite.  (Shoutouts to Gza, Tiger Style!)

Also, even though he went insane for whatever reason a lot of the early Canibus tracks are kind of fun in their own way.

[swinehund]

Who are your favorite rapsters?

I like rap but I can't keep up with modern stuff. Kool Keith is the obvious one, of course, but otherwise I just listen to a lot of old and sort of corny stuff: De La Soul, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest. I have a Missy Elliot album too, that is okay. I think I have been pretty spoiled by the Kool Keith weirdness and cleverness and have higher standards for everything else. I mean to get some Jurassic 5 too.

Is this embarassing? I know all the lyrics to Ice Ice Baby, and I draw on U Can't Touch This to motivate me through difficult running.

Mostly I just like to freestyle on my friends' answering machines.

[FlipConstantine]

Man.  Rap.  Where to begin?

I'll just throw a list of my favorites out there.

Kool Keith
Wu-Tang
Busta Rhymes
NWA
Public Enemy
The Coup
3rd Bass
Three 6 Mafia
Krayzie Bone
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Rip Slyme (Japanese Rap, all kinds of yeah)
Wax Tailor
Eric B and Rakim
Nas


Yeah, I like rap.

[theinevitable]

I try so hard to like rap, but it does not work very well.

is Wu Tang a good place to start? their first album... 36 something-or-other?

I think I downloaded it a while ago... I'll have to check it out.

[misterqueue]

I try so hard to like rap, but it does not work very well.

is Wu Tang a good place to start? their first album... 36 something-or-other?

I think I downloaded it a while ago... I'll have to check it out.

Wu-Tang is pretty hard stuff.  (Ex: "Chop his head off... Peace!")  But, 36 Chambers is soooo good.  For a jumpoff point, something like Jurassic 5, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, or even Aesop Rock would probably work better. 

In fact, I highly recommend starting with Deltron 3030 now that I think about it.

[Mite]

I've known a lot of indie rock kids who start their transition to underground hiphop with Atmosphere, featuring my hometown boy Slug. I second Jurassic 5, and Mr. Homosapien. You may also like Giant Panda, Little Brother, Blackalicious, Common, Bus Driver, Talib Kweli, MF Doom, Danger penis, The Roots, Nappy Roots, and Dialated Peoples. (I am working my way through all of those artists at the moment - there's just so much!)

[theinevitable]

yeah. my friends who like underground hip-hop listen to all of this stuff like... Dead Prez. They are pretty... wow.
I have some Deltron 3030, and Dangerpenis, and Wu-Tang. So I'll check those out.

[starlight]

Lately, when it comes to rap, I mostly stick to anticon.  especially Why? and 13+God... I think when it comes to the latter, it's mostly 'cause The Notwist is a part of it.. hah.

I used to be a rap fiend in h.s. though.. I even made my own rap parody radio show with my cousin and another friend -- our dj names were masta lis (that was me; at the time I liked to go by Lisa which was weird since my name isn't even close to this), AK (an ak-47 sound clip would play as the opening) and Spanky (she was crazy; donkey kong country monkey noises was her opening) [still have it all on 4 cassette tapes in a drawer somewhere]... my favs at that time were 2pac, Warren G, Bone Thugs 'n' Harmony, Master P, Biggie, DJ Screw, Da Brat (Funkdafied!) and Too $hort (F*** my car).  some of it is still fun to return to in a joking way, but yeah, I tended towards ghetto 90's rap as can be seen, so I can't say most of it had much long term value..

Some was genuinely good for the time, but some I just bought for "cool factor" -- a boy I liked at the time who lived down the street was a wannabe gangster and he nodded in an approving way if I had the latest rap albums at his disposal while he'd hang playing video games while using my phone to call his other friends.  no, I don't know either.

[miles]

I love rap, too, but am always afraid to be too vocal about it as my tastes run a bit commercial, and it seems that aside from Nas and Wu-Tang, commerical rap is frowned upon here, and I so need all of your approval.

With a few exceptions, I don't like really old school rap, politcal rap, and most underground rap.

My favorites:

-Wu-Tang (GZA and Ghostface and my favorites, though GZA hasn't done anything worthwhile in at least a couple years)
-MF Doom
-Madlib
-Dr. Dre (who can do nothing on the mic, but who is also responsible for so much of what I love in rap)
-Ice Cube (It Was a Good Day is the best song EVER)
-Snoop Dogg
-Nas
-2Pac
-Kool Keith
-OutKast
-Public Enemy
-Cam'Ron
-Jay-Z
-The Roots

Favorite albums:
GZA: Liquid Swords
Madvillain: Madvillainy

(the first two are among my favorite albums of any genre ever, just barely missing the top 5 cut)

Snoop Dogg: Doggystyle
Nas: Illmatic
Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Quasimoto: The Unseen
Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint

My main issue with rap albums is the tendency to go overboard on skits.  Also, the tendency to make albums that are way too long.  There are dozens of albums that I love, or at least love several tracks off of, but aren't really favorites.  Not only is Illmatic an excellent record, it also should serve as a template for the ideal rap record:  No skits, an intro you can actually listen to, no outro, and clocking in well under 45 minutes.

[Mite]

I need to go back and check out a lot of stuff from before I started listening to rap (which would be basically all of it). I missed out on nearly all of pre-crunk commercial hip-hop. And here that's all you get on the radio now, which is a damn shame. I really can't stand Lil John or TI or Dem Franchize Boyz or D4L or any of them. Well, except for Ludacris, whom I adore.

[pmcd9]

Let It Be
Abbey Road
Ram
There Goes Rhymin Simon
Bad Co.
Houses of the Holy

This is an impossible list to make of course and some of these albums wouldn't rate that high (Bad Co.) if it weren't based on the "changed your life" qualification.  These are five albums that harken back to my early childhood that made a strong impact on my musical appreciation. 

Let it Be/Abbey Road could also include McCartney's first album which were all contained on a single reel to reel tape that I listened to inscentaly as a young boy.

Ram isn't my all time favorite McCartney album, but the whole family was into it and we sang along together.  I could also include the Beach Boys here, but we mostly sang along to In Concert which I haven't listened to in 25  years.

My mother bought this album when it was new in 1973 and I have been in love with Paul Simon's music ever since.  I was surprised to see that Pitchfork reviewed his latest album.  I wasn't surprised to see that they didn't like it much.  Oh well, I probably will. 

Bad Co is a great album, but I don't listen to it that much anymore.  You can only squeeze so much entertainment value out of 7 songs.  But it was this album that really turned me on to hard rock in a major way. 

Houses of the Holy was given to me by my Aunt for Christmas when it came out in 1973.  It was a mistake as I really wanted II.  I had heard Whole Lot of Love on the Radio and thought the apocalypse was upon us.  But I soon came to love this album and all heavy rock.  Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Deep Purple I got into later.  I could probably list Let There Be Rock here as well as it really kicked my ass in '76, but I was already into hard rock so I just became a super fan.  Whole Lot of Somebody nice still kicks 9 kinds of ass.  Corpulent female ass, I love it.

~Paul

PS- OMG, A Night At The Opera.