This is the thread where we anticipate and then flip out over how great M.I.A.'s 'Arular' is

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Got the promo. Holy shit, people. Just... holy shit.

"Galang" and "Sunshowers" are tacked on at the very end, so in order to to run across a familiar track you first have to go through a half hour or so of new-if-you-haven't-heard-Piracy Funds Terrorism material (and the Diplo thing doesn't even have the proper beats for it). That first half hour will quickly distract you from the fact that "Sunshowers" and "Galang" actually exist. This is because it is the best album of the last two years.

I'd like to convince you all this isn't just me being hyperbolic, but to do that you'd probably have to hear "Pull Up the People" and "Bingo" and "Bucky Done Gun" first.

To reiterate: holy shit.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

(well, OK, "Fire Fire" might be a familiar track, too. It's on there near the beginning.)

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

can't wait to hear this.

what does 'arular' mean anyway?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I think it's a play on her last name, but that's as much as I can understand.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

i wonder what the first single's gonna be.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

hurry up and leak arular.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

i like it, but i have yet to go ape-shit over it. i think i like piracy more. (i wrote a blog post about this a month or so ago.)

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

My expectations aren't very high so I could end up liking this.

― deej., Friday, 14 January 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

wait...

is 'China Girl' not on it then?

that's my favourite one :(

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Arular is her Tamil Tiger dad's moniker.

― Rich (Rich), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

this is really fucking good.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

i love that its under 40 minutes.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

wait so has it leaked?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn it, answer Hari's questions!
It's on XL, right? When's the street date?

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

It's AWFUL by the way.

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Just kidding.

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

14th of february.

in theory this should have leaked by now

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

If any of you have this, can you at least email me a copy of the album version of "URAQT"?

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

okay well i just got 'pull up the people'

this MUST have leaked if i can find single tracks.

also this song is fucking insane.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

'pull up the people' is the one that sold me. I wasn't too big on the diplo mix but I am suddenly looking forward to this album.

― (Jon L), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

someone 'yousendit' please?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

if i wasn't on 56k i'd yousendit that song

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

matthew, i hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but "uraqt" ain't on the record.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

GUTTED!

That's the most obvious hit!

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the world isn't ready for a song that sounds like it's a nonstop string of killer choruses. Maybe that's the reasoning.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

unless maybe i have a sampler or something? its possible i guess.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

1. ba-na-na skit
2. pull up the people
3. bucky done gone (this is white hot)
4. fire fire
5. freedom skit
6. amazon (another highlight)
7. bingo
8. hombre
9. one for the head skit
10. 10 dollar
11. sunshowers
12. galang
13. MIA

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

okay so they renamed 'china girl' 10 dollar (i pray)

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

bingo is pretty fucking great too.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

'china girl' has been renamed '10 dollar'.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

good news

though i prefer china girl as a title.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

How are the skits?

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

they're not actual skits, just little musical interludes. for example "one for the head" was the thing diplo mashed up with missy on pft.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

Now I'm wondering if the omission of "URAQT" will kinda wreck this album for me.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

matthew check your email.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

'YOUSENDIT' PLEEEEEZ

i'll love you forever

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Mark, did you send it to one of the gmail addresses listed on Fluxblog? This address that I have here isn't actually in use, I just made it up so that I can post here since registration ate up every real address that I have. fluxblog@gmail is the best for mp3s. Thanks!

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah so i'm here on soulseek...where is this thing?

― piscesboy, Saturday, 15 January 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

nedr@sbcglobal.net if nobody minds. :-) Thanks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

bingo and amazon are the highlights

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 15 January 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

"Pull Up the People"

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

If anyone wants to send this to colin.beckett42 at gmail dot com, I'd really appreaciate it.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

likewise for anephric @ gmail. com . .. thanks..

― adam west (adamwest), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

i know there's a thread for gmail requests but ... ahem ... jflynch at gmail

― lemin (lemin), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

since everybody else is asking:

lindseylohan@gmail.com

i leaked in my pants for this board, if somebody could leak to my inbox, it would make me a very happy man.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 15 January 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

hexenduction@gmail.com, just to get in on the fun.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

COUGHalexfack@gmail.comCOUGH love you forever x

― Alex in Doncaster, Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

me too!

lexusjeep at gmail dot com

xxxxx

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

i'll be content with the anticipating, i think. lots of great shit i'm excited about in the coming months.

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

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If the next album goes to plan, she could be as big as Day One.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

arular = still decent, piracy = still awesome last i heard it, both = have no need to play on my own anytime remotely soon since i heard them both waaay too much on radio, at clubs, parties, waiting in line at taco stand, etc. as is. cf. ANNIE ( - radio). outsold/outplayed the libertines so thank god for small miracles.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Libertines "Up the Bracket" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> M.I.A. "Arular"

― Michael Burble, Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

dizzee=still great
arular=still great
piracy=still overrated (how can it be better when it features an inferior version of her best track???)

haterz=still sad

― bucky, Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like M.I.A., but yeah, there's nothing sadder than searching for old ILM threads to be "contrarian" on.

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

When Diplo spun here the other night he started with a new MIA song. It was slower and more straightforward, like Do Ya, with an easy/forgettable chorus (in a good way) and an American rapper that I couldn't identify.

Though that might sound lukewarm the track was in fact motherfucking aces.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think that MIA track is her on E-40's 'tell me when to go'. diplo plays it on the most recent mad decent podcast.

― t_g, Friday, 28 April 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

at the taco stand? it's like, i live in london, i work with a girl mia's age from acton, and, well, even she barely knew who she was!

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Friday, 28 April 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but bcz you live in London you don't have a taco stand do you?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Substitute tacos for falafel then.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm English and I never heard it anywhere, except "Galang" once and that was in New York.

I've never heard it anywhere near falafel either, though as I may eat some tonight who knows?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

MIA's kinda like Monty Python in that just because it's this cultish thing in the States, yanks seem to think that it must be this huge cultural behemoth over here, when in fact nobody gives a shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

What is this "Monty Python"?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

ILM doesn't care about the next big thing, only the next good thing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

STEVEM FOR PRESIDENT

― Dan (ILM Tag Line Right There) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

ILM: Quality First

― gear (gear), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I heard MIA playing in a shop in Prague last year.

Isn't Timbaland supposed to be producing her new album? Or was that just a rumor?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

fuck that, he'll have used all his good new shit up on Furtado.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, she was going to work with Timbaland, but then this happened.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

pet turtel!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

keep the faith homeslices =)

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

LIVE! THIS FRIDAY!
MIA with Dizzee Rascal and Arctic Monkeys

― teelu, Friday, 28 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

[spam]

― Bullet-Proof-Servers, Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

this album was made on fucking mario paint

― Jeff Gordon, Friday, 19 May 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

And with that we had the 1337 post.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff is so OTM it's not even funny. Proof here.

― punis (punis), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

i'm poster number 1340 on this thread.

― Aditya (dan138zig), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

you and your bloody lists

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

The best record of the 3 next years, still.
-- snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:43 PM (1 year ago)

― gershy, Sunday, 8 July 2007 06:55 (seventeen years ago)

I knew the Beatles were just hype!

-- Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:35 PM

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 8 July 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago)

understatement of the century from SPIN (via metacritic):

Will likely be the best political album this year. [Mar 2005, p.88]

― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 8 July 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

<I>The best record of the 3 next years, still. </I>

what a ridiculous comment. regardless, i can't stand this album. it really does sound, as someone mentioned earlier, that it was made on mario paint. while that's fine-- many of my favorite albums were made on mario paint-- this album is very grating and makes me want to rip out my own eardrums to save me from the pain.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 2 August 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

many of my favorite albums were made on mario paint

YSI?????

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 2 August 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sure you can get all of Aphex Twin's stuff on sl*k.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPTuu0S6VhM

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

Mario Paint! YES! i think one of the main motivations for my mother sending me to a child therapist was because of the animations i showed her with mario's severed bloody head exploding out of a cannon, etc. i wonder if i could beat that fly swatter game, now.

― poortheatre, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, M.I.A.'s 'music' will bring back all your Mario Paint memories. Just bask in the cloying sounds of that super nintendo banging away at its cheesy robotic rhythms till you feel like decapitating people.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

meh. let's see if her next album features meows.

― poortheatre, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

or woofs.

― poortheatre, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

she says something about "dogging on a honda" or some shit. it would have made sense for her to put that 'woof' sound on it. at the very least she could have used that 'uh-oh' sound.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Friday, 3 August 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago)

stop ruining thread with your mario paint horseshit

― blueski, Friday, 3 August 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/blog/archive/mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_people_fought_and_died_so_our_generation_could_play_something_better

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

* Mario Paint was one of the first instances of Totaka's Song, and the first to be found.
* The Wii console's system interface screens use songs from Mario Paint.
* the doodle eraser in the wii photo channel is identical to the rocket eraser

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

stop ruining thread with your mario paint horseshit

I realize that it might upset you to know that such a rudimentary tool could have been used to make an album of this stature, but it is really worth investigating. you may like other mario paint artists.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Friday, 3 August 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

Snakes On A Plane!

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe the world isn't ready for a song that sounds like it's a nonstop string of killer choruses. Maybe that's the reasoning.
-- Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:19 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^This is the reason why someone needs to go back in time and kill Xenomania at birth.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

10 days left of the decade.

time to bump the classic threads.....

for me this is the definitive ILXor thread.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago)

apologies accepted

― Space Is The Place, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

so ten years!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/arular-10-years-later-m-i-a-reflects-on-globe-shaking-debut-20150320?page=5

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2015 17:51 (ten years ago)

What happened with Oprah? There was a picture of you two together, but then you kinda slammed her.

In 2009, Time nominated me for one of the most influential people of the 21st century or something and I met Oprah at that party. And I was like, "Hey, people are gonna fucking die in my country. Like, please pay attention." And she was like, "You're shit because you were rude to Lady Gaga and I'm not talking to you. And I'm gonna interview Tom Cruise jumping on my sofa, so fuck off."

Did she really react like that? That's crazy.

Yeah, she didn't talk to me. She shut me down. She took that photo of me, but she was just like, "I can't talk to you because you're crazy and you're a terrorist." And I'm like, "I'm not. I'm a Tamil and there are people dying in my country and you have to like look at it because you're fucking Oprah and every American told me you're going to save the world."

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2015 17:51 (ten years ago)

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