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Nothing big today, but as always there’s good stuff to be had…
Hatcham Social, You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hid the Soil – These guys’ Orange Juicy EP was a big hit with us last year, and this is their full-length. I haven’t listened to this before right this minute. This guy still sounds like Edwyn Collins, to the point of absurdity. Songs are just right, though; brittle emotions sweetly sung, diffidently shuffling tempos, and earwormy bass lines.
Big Star, #1 Record/Radio City – We already have this album on the site! We have it! Again! Now it’s unnecessarily on one disc! Except, it already was (?) I don’t get this reissue at all! “Thirteen” is still on this album, though! It’s still good!
Move Merchants, Move Merchants – Very throwbacky (like 1988 throwback, not 1994) hip hop, with good rhyming and GREAT scratching. Fun stuff.
Juicy J, Hustle Till I Die – Socially irresponsible Southern rap from Three 6 Mafia that assuredly no one here will like except me.
Spinal Tap, Back From the Dead The version of “Short and Sweet” here ft. John Mayer and Steve Vai. Is it “ironic” guitar soloing? A cursory listen proves impossible to discern. These are weird, Sunday-morning-NPR-blues rerecords of the originals, apparently to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original. It’s WTF Rerelease Day on eMusic!
Andre Previn, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, After Hours – Though this cover surely wins some sad award for sheer awfulness, the record itself is breezy, classy, and fun. Not necessarily my thing, but worth it for the intrigued.
Oscar Peterson, Last Call At the Blue Note – One of a bunch of classic Oscar Peterson records we got in today.
Anything else catch people’s ears?
I really dig the Hatcham social, fwiw!
“Socially irresponsible Southern rap from Three 6 Mafia that assuredly no one here will like except me.”
Well, I kind of like a song by Lil Jon (also available on eMusic).
Builders and the Butchers have a new one out today. Think a more Southern Gothic Decemberists. From what I’ve heard, this second album sounds pretty similar to the first – which is a good thing…
I don’t get the Big Star reissue either except Condord is re-re-reissuing the Prestige catalog so why not everything else as well? As someone explained to me once, even if an album has been in print for years, an official reissue causes stores that other wise wouldn’t stock an album to do so. That’s all I can figure.
Daniel,
Which song?
Get Low.
eMusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/Lil-Jon-And-The-East-Side-Boyz-Kings-Of-Crunk-MP3-Download/11369055.html
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl8X7fqOUQo
That is a great, great song.
I still can’t really tell you what “crunk” is, mind you. But I kinda dig this song.
Jayson, what is crunk?
Daniel, your lawyers ears probably don’t want to hear what “the crunk” meant when I was in Ohio 6 years before Lil John Made it
lol. Google search results 1 — 10 of about 338,000 for “Ohio crunk”
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS225US225&q=Ohio crunk
Jayson, I’m looking for the following album, which was released 09 June 2009:
Artist: Gregg Kowalsky
Album: Tape Chants
Label: Kranky
Any info is appreciated. Thank you!
c.
I know the Big Star reissue did include a 180Gram vinyl release. I’m not sure if it was already available before then.
The one difference in this version of the Big Star release is the added “single” version of “In The Street”. In the day, record companies often relegated separate mixes for singles with the goal of radio play. (The notion of “In The Street” getting top 40 radio play in ‘74 is quite a thrill!) The tracks were mastered “hotter” and sometines sped up slightly from the album verson.
But in this case, the take was reported to be llive in the studio. Big Star fans of yore would stumble upon this only by picking it up in flea markets and record swaps. I’ll leave it to you to figure out which one is the single version.
Ray-
Thanks for the tip! The track 3 version, the one I’m familiar with (I”m gonna go ahead and guess that this is the “hotter” one) does sound a little more canned next to the other. Alex Chilton’s voice also sounds a little lower and less, uh, piercing on the live take.
Any news on the June 9 release from Gregg Kowalsky ‘Tape Chants’? Like his previous release it’s on the Kranky label.
If you like to shake your ass mildly…
Two Spectral Sound/Ghostly singles:
Audion – “Look at the Moon”
http://www.emusic.com/album/Audion-Look-At-The-Moon-MP3-Download/11468164.html
Lusine – “Two Dots”
http://www.emusic.com/album/Lusine-Two-Dots-MP3-Download/11468441.html
Can’t vouch for it yet, but this — http://www.emusic.com/album/Major-Lazer-Guns-Don-t-Kill-People-Lazers-Do-MP3-Download/11476355.html — looks interesting.
Reviews are generally positive:
Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/14/major-lazer-guns-don-t-kill-people-lazers-do
Spin: http://www.spin.com/reviews/major-lazer-guns-don’t-kill-peoplelazers-do-downtown (which does make the important point that a lot of the vocalists have an ugly history of violent, anti-gay lyrics in their (mostly dancehall) songs)
Paste Mag: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/06/major-lazerguns-dont-kill-people-lazers-do.html
xlr8r: http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/major-lazer/guns-dont-kill-people-lazers-do
AMG: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3nfuxzr0ldae
Christopher -
I don’t know the story offhand about the Gregg Kowalsky, but I’ll try and find out tomorrow…
how did i not know ‘Get Low’ was on here? that pretty much made my day.
i was kinda hoping the new Cooly G single on Hyperdub would be here…. it’s okay, i’ll wait.
I’m really unsure how no one else has mentioned this but there is a new Mos Def album.
http://www.emusic.com/album/Mos-Def-The-Ecstatic-MP3-Download/11469553.html
Maybe it’s only in Canada. Or maybe it has something to do with how Mos is currently number one on the artist charts but doesn’t have an album anywhere near the top of the album charts…
Not sure how there hasn’t been a mention of this yet but Mos def has a new album out.
http://www.emusic.com/album/Mos-Def-The-Ecstatic-MP3-Download/11469553.html
“i was kinda hoping the new Cooly G single on Hyperdub would be here…. it’s okay, i’ll wait.”
Everything I’ve heard from this label is worthwhile. These days if it’s a new release on Hyperdub, I’m almost sure to download it.
Hello!? New Rock Plaza Central? 3 or 4 Albums in and still criminally ignored!?
Thanks for the tip, Chris! I think I’ll have to kind of get over the vocals, but overall Builders and the Butchers sounds right up my alley.
I also just foud out Office’s latest, Mecca, is on eMusic for like six weeks going.
New Mos Def album is alarmingly great.
Any word on ‘Tape Chants’?
Any word on when the new Sonic Youth will be released in the U.S. on eMusic?
any word on when emusic will regain its dignity?
OH MY F”ing God how did I miss “Guns don’t kill people. . . ” Daniel you are a genius even if you are an alien!!!!! It was todays free song so I took a chance and (Not only did these guys do thed Prod on MIA’s Paper Planes) the song features Santogold :O I might use my last downloads (of the Month) for more of this
Thanks Krisana from Austin for telling me this is Diplo No wonder I like it (at little too reggae for me at times but I am a cafeteria Emuser so I just skip them tracks)
Christopher -
We are getting Tape Chants. We’re getting it redelivered….should be up next week sometime.
Jayson,
Thanks for finding the info; it’s appreciated.