MJ Cole - Cut To The Chase

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anyone heard the new MJ Cole album?
I haven't heard it all the way thru
but "Perfect Pitch" feat. Jill Scott, "Wondering Why" feat. Vula and "Ruff Like Me" feat. Rodney P
are good anchors for any album

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

...plus Elephant Man's on there!

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

every mj cole single i've heard recently has been fantastic, but that may be me pining for 99-era garridge.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

still, he's no agent x who seems to have found a way to make pop-garage even tinnier, wobblier and more candyfloss than ever.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

like if sfa's "flowers" is a krispy kreme then the agent x mix of "feel it boy" is a deep fried mars bar.

everyone should go download that mj cole/elephant man track "zoom zoom"...it's got nice creepy synth washes and elephant sez "shizzle my nizzle" at one point.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem is that, well, even if the singles (and record) are great (and fek they ARE), the man's a pompous arse. I can't forget the way he *worked* the crowd when I saw a few months back. I think my main problem with him is the fact his music is... too slick/well-constructed. Somehow it lacks *life.*

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 28 April 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I would trade it all for the rekkids he made with Ramsey & Fen, but I'd be happy to know that the second album improved on the first.

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 28 April 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the new mj cole stuff's just great. love the agent x/deep-fried mars bar analogy, jess! what about ed case? i'd say he's like that E-number-filled, flourescent, crackly, fizzy space dust stuff you used to be able to get as a kid... also probably of no interest but i managed to get elephant man to say shizzle my nizzle on tape when i interviewed him a couple of months ago... i used it as my answering service message for far too long!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

that "Better Late Than Never" track on the Ed Case album was criminally overlooked. One of my favorite tracks from last year.

My jury is out on the new MJ Cole album, but it sounds like the non-single tracks on his last album - i.e. icy-cold and not sure if that's good or bad yet.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Obv. describing 2-step in terms of confectionary is the best, nay, ONLY way to approach this stuff. But Dave you're forgetting that Ed Case's stuff definitely has peanuts in it.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

mj's overcomfort with where he is at the mo is maddening

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This is one album desperatly in need of a a fair few remixes. It's way too polite. The (new version of) Ruff Like Me is the only track with any fire in it. Lyrical L and Jill Scott also give good performances (as expected) so I like those tracks too. I'd rather hear Elephant Man on an Elephant Man record than here. It's a shame, really, because MJ Cole's remixes (Roni Size, Mariah Carey, Roots Manuva) have been really good over the past few years.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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