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What really blew my mind about this list is the discovery that "What I Got" and the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" are in fact the same song, and it took a Rockabye Baby version for me to realize this.
I guess I was (am?) at the right age for these guys. OF was huge for me. Like shaping so many of my late teens, early college memories. I was obsessed with the Yonkers video (I showed my dad for chrissakes), went on to know every word on Goblin. I remember being on a balcony at a party arguing with two guys I didn't know about favorite members. Hanging out in my friend's basement waiting for the premiere of the adult swim show. Calling up every friend when Frank dropped his Tumblr note before Channel Orange, blowing our minds collectively. Blasting that album all the way through for the first time on a late night summer drive with my best friend. Getting those guys together from the balcony, who later become some great friends, and had a Wolf listening party. Watching those weird fucking videos over and over with my girlfriend. Some of my best moments of those two years were centered around Odd Future. It certainly meant the world to us. I just watched the Oldie video and felt kind of emotional, but more nostalgia from my own life and how attached it was to this group for a short time. I don't even really talk to those guys I met anymore. I miss that shit a lot. Writing this kinda feels like writing an obituary. Like, those times were fun, but there's other great stuff going on and great stuff to listen to. I wish OF would evolve the same way, if that makes sense, but yeah. Coming from someone who owes a lot to their music, who really felt it, whom it really meant a lot to, I don't personally feel like I need them anymore.
Same. And the Roots tackling that production is a dream come true.
Parodies are protected by the First Am. Weird Al and his music would be fine
Homeboy Sandman to me seems to build his persona on self-aware corniness, but it always comes across as some of the most real stuff in hip-hop. Corny works in rap, I think. And with KISS.
Is it just me or does that look like Shawshank-era Tim Robbins?
The show is great though, and yeah he left out a ton of important musicians, but HBO could stretch any one of these episodes into a whole 8-episode miniseries just set in one city. That's not what it is, though. Dave Grohl just didn't make it clear enough that he was only focusing on artists that directly influenced him. Not every important musician from that town, ever. That's a marketing mistake, and the show itself shouldn't have to suffer for it. That said, I was really looking forward to the album. Loved Wasting Light 'cause it was kind of a career-capper, they even released a career-spanning documentary around that time. Like what do you do after that, retire? It's still an ambitious idea and I'm just glad the Foo did it and not U2 or something.
*ahem* (TVOTR leaked)
PS is he still doing the wrestling thing?
Trying to listen to it open-minded, I like it. As a Smashing Pumpkins song, ehh. I like Billy Corgan's sweater in that pic.
Y'all talk about Steve Albini like he's your uncle's friend's cousin.
I agree. I loved 12 Reasons to Die (plus the vinyl is clear and "blood-spattered"). But Return to the 36 Chambers isn't even in your top 3?! That is bold.
I thought we stopped giving a shit what Patrick Carney says? Every time he's in the news the Black Keys' music is "devalued."
same here. just those six piano hits even. but nothing more than when I recognized that secret track as "Lovely Day," like bizarro James Franco trapped in a space canyon.
Let's hope Andre's acting career hasn't peaked already....
undun is definitely more cohesive, and had more actual verses. But the arrangements on this new one are some of the best stuff they've ever done. And "Tomorrow?" I love it.