oh really now: "The Slack Album"

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Who dares listen?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

gack

― rgeary (rgeary), Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hands up, everyone who instinctually knew this was going to be S&E.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually thought it was gonna be Superchunk.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandatory shout-out to jayzconstructionset.com (I would love to see someone do the same thing with the Smiths)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://hipsterdetritus.blogspot.com/regalspaz.JPG

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Not awful. Obnoxious, but not awful.

― Xii (Xii), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking to myself a couple weeks back that someone should do some sort of Jay-Z meets mid '90s breakbeat techno thing and drop the Chemicals' "Lost in the K-Hole" under "Change Clothes and Go" and maybe put "3 Kilos" under "Encore", but this has kinda worn me out on Hova boots for a while.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the dangermouse/beatles thing seems to have been interpreted as a green light to match jay with every cheesy white people touchstone

― rgeary (rgeary), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"99 Problems Here" isn't half-bad, tho' mellower than any of the remix of that song I've yet heard.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

So bad.

Bring on the Pavement hate, I know its coming.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I saw the ep of "Beavis and Butt-head" where they watch a Pavement video and remark that at least Jesus Lizard rocked while sucking and that Pavement were just "lazy". (Of course now I'm starting to really like some of their songs, esp. "Range Life", so now would be an opportune time to start hating them. Rediscovering critical darlings I never used to like kinda works that way with me.)

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My gosh, why the Jay-Z remixing frenzy? I mean, yeah, these
verses are great but must we hear them 50,302 more times? Why not
remix Del, Mr. Lif or Pharoah Monche, or better yet, hire a rapper
to spit some new verses.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really really hoping that this was Jay Z's beats with Ivan Stang ranting over the top. Alas.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"yeah, the dangermouse/beatles thing seems to have been interpreted as a green light to match jay with every cheesy white people touchstone "

you could combine jay with desmond dekker and have the "black and dekker" album

*cough*

― don, Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I saw the ep of "Beavis and Butt-head" where they watch a Pavement video

Yes! That was my introduction to the band. "Cut Your Hair" was on mtv occasionally. I think I like them because I am lazy and I suck.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. This is actually pretty damn good. Better than
"The Grey Album" which was mostly very dissapointing.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, let me change my statement.
These tracks are pretty damn good:

What More Can I Singe
Trigger 4th
Zurich Your Shoulder
99 Problems Here

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This is awful. I mean, you can't even appreciate the novelty of it, because he brought in outside drum sounds and edited the Vocals, and beside all that it's just a HUGE hackjob. In the first song he just awkwardly added the black album vocals on top of Malkmus's vocals, and at the end of the song kind of slowwed it down. I literally could have done this all using Microsoft Sound Recorder.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ding!

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This is not as horrible as I expected it to be

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

These endless mash-ups are making me the tiniest bit sick of the rapping on the black album

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I've never heard the Black Album or any of it's numerous remixes, but I can definetly say that this was kind of a painful listening experience. Even where this guy seems to succeed ("Zurich Your Shoulder" and "In The Mouth An Encore") it just doesn't mesh that well. I'm not going to knock his mixing skills, but he should definetly avoid using anything with Malkmus's vocals still in it, because it just clashes way too much.

― Ayres (Z_Ayres), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"99 Problems Here" is pretty damn good!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to see a mash-up of "4'33" with the Black Album.

― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to see people stop making "4'33" jokes.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ok on further listen this really is as bad as i thought it would be.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I heard "Zurich Your Shoulder" first and thought it was pretty good, but every subsequent song I've listened to is worse. "99 Problems Here" is all right, too, but I don't hear enough Pavement in it for it to be successful as a mash-up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

4' 33" jokes are ALWAYS funny

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(actually listens) oh God, that's horrible

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Trigger 4th" isn't too bad, actually

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Sunday, 11 April 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not going to knock his mixing skills

I will. Everyone whos ripped this is OTM.

4' 33" jokes are ALWAYS funny

Can't we at least mix in some Pootie Tang ones to keep it fresh?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 11 April 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it's finished now. & also hits pitchfork this morning.

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I scooped Pitchfork! Fuck yeah!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

also new of interest, 'dj n-wee' also breaks the construction down track by track.

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit. This is terrible. This ***** Album madness has got to stop.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Right. (xpost)

I have the Trout Mask backing tracks here, or some of them.

Where are the Black Album acapellas?

I shall do a rub mix of both and post a link later.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

mark, i've had a million requests to share the acapellas to the point where it's on my faq. but if you are really going to do it, i will so set you up personally.

― dj n-wee, Friday, 23 April 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if I am...
I can't d/l Mp3's here anyway, so not to worry. I'm sure I could find them if nec. Ta anyhow.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

AT LAST! Somebody has mixed one of my favourite bands with rap!

Oh, wait... no, I don't care. Is it ironic?

― John Cei Douglas (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe someone should put those vocals through a high-pitched vocoder and stick them onto some 50/60s easy listening music and call it the The Angry Chipmunk Album!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I KNOW! Let's mix Jay-Z acapella over some Herb Alpert. That would be so GREAT and ORIGINAL. Black Cream & Other Z-Lights!

/oh someone, make this all stop, please.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I think all of these would be more interesting with the music and lyrics switched, so in this case the music from "The Black Album" and the isolated vocals from "S&E."

― billstevejim, Friday, 23 April 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD WHY CAN I NOT STOP LISTENING TO THIS (AND ENJOYING MOST OF IT)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

"zurich your shoulder" is really really good. don't hate.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago)

gygax is right. out of all the jay-z hacks, i think the slack album is my favorite.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Can dance producer John Robie sue?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

"zurich your shoulder" is unbelievably great!!! tell me one better mashup in 2004!?!?!?!?!?!

"99 problems here" is the runner-up.... a few lengths back at that.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

GYGAX

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Right, I have now got this and will listen later.

Someone really should make the "trout" album.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

I just checked out the 'trailer' 2 min excerpts track. Pretty good. Will report later.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Right. Am I the only one that thinks this works as a whole, much better than the Grey album? A few individual tracks are better on the Grey, but the Slack 1) works with and serves the rap better 2) Does not overpower the vocals 3) Uses more of the album anyway?

Yeah, "99 probs" is better with Helter Skelter (better than the original original original) even, but Grey is a collection of tracks, Slack is an album.

I know, I'm way out of date.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

mark, i agree with you.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Excellent!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

where can one find this little thing, eh?

― eedd, Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

It's still available on that link up top. There's a bit torrent, but if you dig further, there's a page for them...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I guess I should get started on "The Wack Album" (Jay-Z + Gene Autry).

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

What the hell:

The Smack Album (Jay-Z + Iggy/Bowie)
The Crack Album (Jay-Z + Sir Mix-a-Lot)
The Hack Album (Jay-Z + Mark Knopfler)
The Plaque Album (Jay-Z + Summer Teeth)
The Shaq Album (Jay-Z + Kazaam O/S/T)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

The Trout Black Replica album (Jay-Z vs Beefheart)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 January 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

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