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Game Theory

2006-09-13T12:56:00.000-07:00

M. says:
The way ?uestlove keeps telling it, that initial meeting with new boss Jay-Z sounds like a fully-hocked saliva rocket in the eye of every asshole who tried to force the Roots to compromise their status as studied hip-hop altar boys in pursuit of the bottom line. Like the tough-ass principal with a heart of platinum, it seems Mr. Def Jam was full of charity, spewing quotables like,
M. says:
"Don't come to me playing a whole bunch of Clear Channel songs thinking I'm gonna be cool with it," and, my personal favorite, "If y'all come here with snap music, I'm snapping y'all the fuck out of my audience."

So the Roots were sent off to make a Roots album...you know, that "artsy shit."

sh says:
HAHAHAHAHAHA
sh says:
well
sh says:
SHIT
M. says:
ha ha ha
M. says:
pitchfork of all places
M. says:
so ive been thinking a lot about the album
sh says:
yes
sh says:
speak
M. says:
it has an urgency that the last couple dont have
M. says:
its like listening to a clash album
M. says:
theres no meandering (which is their one big fault)
sh says:
indeed
M. says:
and
M. says:
this is the album that should have been called 'tipping point'
sh says:
no
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maybe
M. says:
ha
sh says:
ha
sh says:
can i just say
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you know what's really beautiful is the lush intro
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because
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so many artists
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rap AND hip hop especially
sh says:
feel it necessary to punch you right at the beginning. and for me, king of subtle (sometimes until i am almost inert), i love that

Albert Ayler

2006-09-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

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D. says:
i always loved this melody
h. says:
i remember when i was just turning twenty i used to listen to Chet Baker with a friend of mine on an old dusty record player. We would just sit there in the mornings and listen. I asked him if you could hear the heroin coming through the playing. Sometimes I wonder if I can hear Ayler's brain being sucked through the saxophone.
D. says:
heh
D. says:
id say yeah- im a big believer of that- things coming out in ones playing
D. says:
seems like its especially true of horn players but maybe thats just where i can hear it closest
h. says:
yeah
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you have an insider's view
D. says:
an outsider insider
h. says:
you are an inside man
h. says:
heh
h. says:
they used to call chet baker the white miles davis
h. says:
so weird
D. says:
yeah they both have that super low key thing going
D. says:
smooth

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number 1

2006-09-06T08:24:00.000-07:00

s says:
your email confuses me
s says:
put in laymens terms
h says:
IM conversations
s says:
on your blog site?
h says:
not my blog site per say
h says:
but a public blog site
h says:
so people can post
s says:
so like a private chat room?
h says:
well no
h says:
just post already chatted conversations
s says:
like a court stenographer?
h says:
yeah
h says:
in a way
h says:
can i post this one?
h says:
anonymously
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?
s says:
surely