(idm) DJ Shadow: sucking even more than most other hiphop
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mr. selfish wrote:
quoted 3 lines perhaps our definitions of r&b differ. let me just state that i believe> perhaps our definitions of r&b differ. let me just state that i believe
> that endtroducing is possibly the finest hiphop album out this year thus
> far.
Confirmed sightings of cheesy R&B on the "best hip-hop album of the
year":
1. Hammond organ vamping on "Changeling"
(actually not a bad track until the Kenny G. sax solo sinks it)
2. "Midnight in a Perfect World"
(The whole track is embarrassing. If he's going to stoop this low, why
not find someone who can sing in key?)
3. "What does your soul look like pt. 1"
(Dig that soulful sax, man!)
Elsewhere we find soap-opera timpani & oboe themes and Van Cliburn
crescendoes. This record is a tour through bad daytime television
maudlin melodrama. The few decent tracks here are essentially loops of
fairly dull breaks. I should have taken his sampling of U2 earlier as a
warning and left this disk on the shelf?
The last good hip-hop record I heard was Krs-One's album from last year,
but I'm hardly an expert.
quoted 2 lines of course, with miles clearly baiting the medium with a pointed remark about> of course, with miles clearly baiting the medium with a pointed remark about
> ninja, salt his "review" to taste.
Or it could just be that I'm bored with their sanitized, unimaginative
forgeries? They've got the technique Shadow is so desperately in need
of, but they're laughably
out of touch with the edge and energy that made hip-hop interesting and
important in
the first place.