Giuseppe Zangara

Let's not get carried away.

What I meant to say is I bet he sits at his computer, staring at the music folder, and thinks of new variants on the "_____ of 2004" theme. He thinks very hard, I bet.

He's an eager one, I'll give him that.

No need for the name calling.

why I never

Oh man, I had a Whataburger with everything on it today. Holy shit, you dudes don't know fast food burgers if you've never had Whataburger.

Bazooka Tooth was so dense and seemingly impenetrable that, after repeated listens, I found the end result wasn't worth the trouble. For all the obscure references Aesop Rock put into his lyrics, very little of it meant anything. I still like the first two albums, though, and BT's "No Jumper Cables" is one of his best moments.

OH GOD STOP MAKING THREADS

Vote for Agent of Oblivion; don't stand between him and his destiny.

You dudes can vote for me out of spite all you want, but I'm not kidding around when I say I can't stand most of you.

I want no part of this.

I think I've expressed my dislike for Del on this board in the past.

So, I going to the Slint reunion show in Chicacgo on Match 25th. I might go to the one the next night at a different venue (same city), too.

Enter the 36 Chambers, definitely. If you like Aesop Rock, you should check out Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein.

Neil Young albums that you can listen with your mom: Everyone Knows This is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest Neil Young albums you'd be better off listening to alone, in a darkened room: On the Beach Tonight's the Night

I hope you're not expecting it to be too warm; it often gets around 40-50 degrees in the winter here.

I'll one up you. I'm driving to Florida over New Years to avoid what will surely be a snowy Indiana hell, between New Years Eve and the following Monday. Plus I've never been to that state, which is mostly why I'm going. Okay, but I'm assuming Chicago's more interesting than Jacksonville.

Agent, you should come to Chicago when I'm there in March.

I never would've clicked on this thread had the title not been in all caps!

IDRM, what do you think of David Banner. I really liked Mississippi: The Album, but I haven't checked out anything else.

What I meant to say was no one likes godthedog.

He's older than I thought.

The writer did call the Flavor Flav influence, so he got that right. He also wrote about how ODB was a tragicomic figure—which I was fine with—but he was attempting, unsuccessfully, to tie it into his theory that ODB's hijincks made rap more mainstream. Wu Tang did well in sales and whatnot early in their career, but by the time Enter the 36 Chambers was released, rap was already dominating MTV. ODB taking a limo to collect his welfare check had a negligible impact on the popular music demographic of the time.

Shortly after Ol' Dirty Bastard's death, there was a column in the local alternative weekly about how ODB made hip hop more accessible to the mainstream, and how ODB influenced rappers like Kool Keith and Li'l Jon. I sent the dude an email detailing how everything he said was wrong, but he never responded, nor did my letter get printed in the letter's page of the following week's issue. They did print a letter praising the writer for his "intelligent" insights into the world of rap music.

That's cause it's college. Somebody could have recorded themselves taking a shit and it would have been number 1 if they said they were shitting on Bush. I'd say there's only one guy at the station who unequivocally likes anything anti-Bush. Otherwise, the people who voted for the album genuinely liked it. I've no opinion on the album itself, as the only song I heard from it was the one that uses the fucking Carmina Burana sample. Which is terrible.