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"The Book of Human Language", Aceyalone

Good goddamn do I love this album.  "The Guidelines" stands as one of my primary examples of the power of lyricism.  Aceyalone came out of the Freestyle Fellowship on the West coast.  He stood as their champion, he also stood as the symbol of the freestyle glass ceiling.  Those guys are still struggling, in ( Read more... )

You want the truth?  I'm afraid of Jonny Greenwood and what he might do to me.  Much more precisely, what his album "Bodysong" might do to me, and how I will judge that doing-to me.

So, in an effort to swallow this most likely  cyanide sweet pill, I am going to liveblog it.   So, I will sit, and give my impressions as they come.  Fun for me!

"Moon ( Read more... )

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"Bitches Brew", Miles Davis

It's an exercise in retroactive ignorance when it comes to listening to Bitches Brew.  I mean, it's still a very singular jazz album, but so many of it's artistic contributions have become common place; I find myself having to constantly re-calibrate back to 1970 listening.  That's when the heard-this-before feeling ( Read more... )

My cement shoes are custom built ( Read more... )

Approached the other side today ( Read more... )

Well, crap!

I had written a whole "Triumphant Return of The iPodyssey" entry, then deleted it.

I hate to repeat myself, so here we go!

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Having already covered The Beatles "White" album, I'll leave that alone.
I started to listen to my "Best of" section when it dawned on me; this sucks.  The "Best of" album runs counter to everything the iPodyssey set ( Read more... )

The pillow fight didn't stop
They made it onto the raft
The survivor  dragged off
He covered his face afloat
Now they're asleep and fed
The longest day was the first
It started as a game now dire
The introduction was incomplete
A festival erupted none-the-less
Nights and days were spent
Pockets emptied to be filled
Construction sites undone
Temples held and ( Read more... )

From this vantage I claw ( Read more... )

My hair got out the way ( Read more... )

Too much going on at once ( Read more... )