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For Alby.
Alt cover of a Jay-Z song
Alt cover of a Jay-Z song
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"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. " -
Marcia Ball - Just Kiss Me
Live @ the Granada Theater in Dallas 12-15-07
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
[Brandon Roderick? You mean Brock's Toadie?][Hanged from Yggdrasil]Comment
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i think (in fact i'm fairly sure) that i posted this track back in the last music, along with some other 2 door cinema club stuff. but yeah, good choice, even though both their albums are very different from each other, i like them both.Originally posted by Asher View Post
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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here's something interesting. gil scott-heron released a new album (i'm new here), which i remember albie plugging heavily. now jamie from the xx has remixed the album (released as we're new here), the results are fantastic. here's a couple of tracks from it.
gil scott-heron & jamie xx - my cloud
gil scott-heron & jamie xx - new york is killing me"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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and something a little bit different, the owiny sigoma band, i know very little about them but they came recommended by a friend, enjoy.
owiny sigoma band - jalako onyoono paka
owiny sigoma band - wires"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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I did NOT plug Gil Scott Heron heavily. I posted his latest single with Nas. Years of substance abuse have destroyed that man and his vocal chords. He is not the same Winter in America Gil Scott Heron by any stretch of the imagination.
And that **** was terrible, Cockney. Holy **** way for a producer/dj to completely overpower the man's vocals with their stupid beat
And since it was this hollow ghost of Gil Scott Heron ('pieces of a man' so to speak 
), it is even worse.
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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REAL Gil Scott Heron... in his prime before the drugs...
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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He did drugs...so you think he's a rocker, da?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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You tell me:Originally posted by Asher View Post
Genres Soul, jazz poetry, spoken word soul, jazz-funk, proto-rap
Occupations Poet, singer, songwriter, author
Instruments Vocals, electric piano, guitar"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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But he did drugs! Only rockers do drugs...
BTW, you see my Jay-Z cover? That's 100x better than the "original" (which still lifted heavily from others, including Ice T)"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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And no, I don't think he actually smoked crack in his prime. He became an old crackhead into his later years. I could be wrong though. Who knows with the 1970's."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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13 albums between 1970 and 1982... two albums since 1982. I think it's apparent when Scott-Heron became a crackhead. He was an 80's crackhead like the rest of his generation in the Black community.
However, he was never arrested for it til 2001 so it's possibly he may have became a crackhead much more recently.
Regardless, his creative height and relevancy was when he wasn't a crackhead."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Anyway, another just to demonstrate how much crack has destroyed this man musically.
It gets forgotten in his legacy to rap that he was as much a soul singer as anything else and had the voice
This is why I find those remixes borderline offensive... Scott-Heron's production was minimalistic and quiet; just an accompaniment to his singing, rapping, and spoken word. Those remixes destroy the relationship between the man and his music with their overpowering. ****. The second one? What the hell? It was like they sampled him for a stand-alone beat, not making the beat to fit him!
Listen to this:
See how HE overpowers the congas. That is Scott-Heron.
**** that Jamie XX *******.
I can tell right now that dude is not a hip hop producer.Last edited by Al B. Sure!; March 1, 2011, 23:45."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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This is how a remix album is ****ing done.
There was a Nat King Cole album called Re:Generations which remixed and 'hip hopified' Nat King Cole songs. Nat King Cole. We're talking 60 year old vinyl jazz era recordings. Remixed by will.i.am, ?uestlove, Just Blaze, Cee-Lo, and others with guest appearances from all over the map. There were some misses and it wasn't always perfect but Nat King Cole recordings aren't exactly conducive to this so the results are impressive regardless.
Check it:
That's how the **** it's done.
With his daughter:
And for you Cockney, a little Brazilian flavor:
That's how you make a remix album and remixing Nat King Cole in hip hop/r&b has got to be harder than a Gil Scott Heron album that came out last year
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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