Didn't really like King's Disease, mainly because of the production. Really wish Nas would lock down a top tier producer from his era for a whole album instead of Hit Boy, but whatever. The tracklist still has me excited; a song called "Death Row East", and another song with EPMD & Eminem which should be interesting.
Oh dur dur ha ha ha, obviously I was talking about this:
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There's no doubt about that, RTL is my favorite album of theirs, but again, not as iconic nor has it permeated everything like "Enter Sandman". It's very likely one of the most widely recognizable guitar riffs of all time.
Okay, reading the headline made me cringe but it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Say what you want about The Black Album (personally, I think it's amazing), but that riff is as good as it fucking gets.
You're right, kind of apples and oranges at this point, especially after The Weeknd turned pop. As you said, I think his highs are nearly as high (although admittedly, not quite), but it's the volume that does it for me.
Sounds like they just removed the main vocals for the track and left the adlibs in the back for the teaser. Definitely sounds really good, excited to hear where this is going.
Given these two headlines pretty close to each other, just want to go ahead and say that The Weeknd > Frank Ocean.
This was a nonsense troll of blochead because he deserves it. You ever seen bloc's twitter? If so, you'd understand why my comment was completely justified and super necessary.
One of the best albums of all time in any genre.
Timeless. Classic. Legendary. Game changing. Epic. Monumental. Perfection.
It's very easily one of my desert island albums and always will be. All hail King Casablancas.
My grandparents built a roller skating rink in the 60s, and my parents bought it from them in the early 90s, so I spent every weekend for about 12 years there skating and working for my parents. Early on I took over the music duties since I've always loved music, and we had an "80s hits" CD with that song, "Sweet Dreams" by The Eurythmics, "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran, etc. which might explain the original comment I left.
On that topic, just a little fun fact about me, I used to compete different roller skating disciplines - speed skating, figure skating, hockey, so I am very likely one of the best roller skaters that any of you have crossed paths with. Betcha didn't see that shit coming.
I don't have the energy to really hash it out, so I sat there and listed the first 25 great albums that came to my mind in that span. A couple duplicates (Deafheaven, Radiohead) but oh well. I also had a lot of rap albums on mine.
The sounds and how he's harnessed them reminds me a lot of the industrial pots-and-pans-beating that Tom Waits does, it's just obviously a lot darker, heavier, and more menacing.
There’s a lot of misses or “meh” sounding stuff, but a few really good moments too. The last two songs were in the perfect spot, and the surprise Jay-Z feature was amazing.
I'm so fucking pumped about this. I couldn't give less of a shit about Lorde or her music but I enjoyed this so much. I can't wait for further installments. I would love one on Julian Casablancas and how he constructs his chord progressions and melodies.
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