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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Caribbeans Be Burnin' Holes In My Ears Quick: please name favorite songs EVER utilizing that sexy percussion from the islands, the steel drum. EVER.  top three, of the top of my head: Prince -- "New Position" (Parade) I LOVE this bitch. Parade, from '86 is by far my favorite Prince album, as it does a nice job touching on all the various poses Prince did best and turning them into one forty minute long expression of his greatness (with segues to emphasize his "inclusiveness!"). "New Position" is the "Little Help from My Friends" following the "Lonely Hearts Club Band" of opener "Christopher Tracy's Parade." Opening with the sweet sounds of tinny steel magic, you realize immediately how Prince's andro-sheeeet was born to preen behind such exotica. There is no question whatsoever that, in 1986, this man was a genius on top of the world. (download mp3) 50 Cent -- "P.I.M.P." (Get Rich of Die Tryin') The obvious choice. "P.I.M.P" is easily the best or second best song 50 has ever done, and is certainly my favorite. I tend to hate 50's uberthug schtick, as it's both creepy and samey, but here it works brilliantly--probably because the automatic "teh ghey" of the steel drum meters 50's powerdude-ism in the sort of brilliant compromised way to bring any ole academialeptic postmodernist fuckwad to cumgasm. I, for one, am one of those 'wads AND I LOVE IT. (download mp3) Clipse -- "I'm Not You" (Lord Willin') No, my three favorite steel drum mantras do not include anything as performed by The White Man (though I suppose don't automatically rule such compositions out). However, it should come as no surprise that one of the most stellar steel drum trax EVER would come from Teh Ghey Captain Pharell. For, as "Superthug" Noreaga once put it, "Neptunes is homo. You won't hear another Neptunes track again on Noreaga again in your life. I didn't know that they hand was broken. [makes limp-wristed gesture]." This BEEFCAKElovewonder came to me in 2003 courtesy of one H. Doorknobs, helping to provide a friend late on the scene with a clue to the hottest rap game on the planet (Clipse, who are are all men and no chubb). This track, featuring 50-competing clobberthug (tho not uberthug) Jadakiss, kills me at the heart in way different from the other two in that it stays simple and within itself (as the best of Clipse often does--which reminds me that a treatise on Hell Hath's "Nightmares" is long overdue)--confident is as confident does, they say. (download mp3)  So that's mine. What are yours? Hit me up with your steel love, if you have any. -JB Labels: loved sounds, random lists, small giants posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 10/31/2007 09:13:00 AM 4 comments |
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good call on "I'm Not You," better than HHNF's steel-drum beat, "Wamp Wamp," which has the misfortune of being called "Wamp Wamp."
Post your treatise on "Nightmares" so I can talk shit about it. :)
As soon as I saw the subheader I was thinkin' "I'm Not You"!! Nothing else even comes to mind, honestly.
"pass this on." the knife.
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