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So is the aesop album the bore I predict it to be?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

Incidently i liked float and portions of labor days.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, I haven't heard the record, but since there's a picture of Ace Rock and some chick I feel like my psychic powers have been heightened.

Tune in next week, when I pick the Power Ball numbers after seeing a web site with a picture of Brother Ali and that weather lady from KARE.

― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

I heard him do the title cut live and quite liked it.
But I like all his stuff, 'cept the bazooka tooth album.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

I hope he went back to having other people produce. I like a lot of Float and Labor Days, but his self-produced Bazooka Tooth tracks were all crap.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

agreed. Labor Days is classic, but almost everything he performed the last time i saw him live was shite. does anyone else think he looks like Brendan Frasier?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't mean to be on some "his old stuff is better" but seriously...i think maybe his old stuff is better? float sounded so dirty to me and very new york and i liked how you could smell the cigarette smoke coming out his mouth, and labor days had his best songs although it was more uneven. I like him for all his stream of consciousness weirdness but also his dirty new york voice. It wasn't like he was stringing words together for the cafe set, like on some beatnik shit, there was no 'poetic' phraseology going on, just like he wanted to hear himself speak so he could test his voice box and make sure it still worked after the pack-a-day habit he picked up, biting ghostface killah's steez and rapping about nyc. I donno after the 30th time i hear him mention "peasants" though it gets kinda tired.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

Who saw the def jux dvd? I love the way vast aire talks.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

it's his friskiest, most freewheeling album (well, EP). quite good though more for sustained mood (not hard over five songs) than individual standouts.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 21 February 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

I think I am finding this particular cross-promotion fairly depressing.

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Monday, 21 February 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping it'd be called 'Suicide Girls' and have them all over the art

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 February 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Basically he's shit without Blockhead. But Blockhead's on the new one, right?

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― Creamed Corn Chum, Monday, 21 February 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

his new album is a continued evolution....bazooka tooth was hard to digest with its production, but contains a few gems and overall, it really wasn't such a drop in quality...I agree that Blockhead's production does push him forward, though to say he's "shit without blockhead" is lazy and innacurate...Blockhead IS on the new one, and Aesop continues to dazzle lyrically in a way that Ghostface forgot to do on Pretty Tony

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

White text on a light pink background is so cutting edge.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Okay, let me rephrase...I have next to zero interest in listening to him without Blockhead's beats. I listened to Bazooka Tooth a fair amount after it came out, convinced myself it was pretty good because I really wanted to like it, and haven't listened to it since. I still listen to Labor Days all the time though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Aesop continues to dazzle lyrically in a way that Ghostface forgot to do on Pretty Tony

buzzzzzzzzz wrong answer. ;)

seriously wtf?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Pretty Toney had plenty hooks, and beautiful soul...but he's gotten lazy from the abstract musing of Supreme Clientele...Aesop Rock continues to explore complex word association and abnormal word-play...hence, my conclusion - Ghostface succeeds in keeping the party going with his soulful swagger, and Aesop continues to succeed in keeping his lyrical play challenging and introspective

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 21 February 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but Ghostface is great and Aesop Rock is shitty, so that kind of puts a spanner in that particular machinery.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 February 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

haha i wouldn't go that far but ghostface = great and aesop = merely good.

― deej., Monday, 21 February 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Aesop Rock continues to explore complex word association and abnormal word-play

This explains why Pretty Toney is my favorite Ghostface and you couldn't pay me to listen to Bazooka Tooth all the way through.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

slot me in with the "old aesop rock owns" contingent. i can't get into anything post-bazooka tooth at all at all at all.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

"anything post-bazooka tooth" = one 5-song EP (and maybe a guest slot or two)?

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Quote:

"Yeah, but Ghostface is great and Aesop Rock is shitty, so that kind of puts a spanner in that particular machinery."

COSIGN!!!!!

― pher (pher), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

88 pages of lyrics???

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

I picked this up and wrote a shoddy review (my writing is shoddy, not the album) of it tonight because I needed a last minute article.

It's pretty short--only thirty minutes, seven tracks. Both Blockhead and Aesop Rock contribute one stellar beat and two so-so ones, and the fuzzy lyrics from Bazooka Tooth are, thankfully, vanished.

It's solid, but I'm not sure how it will stand up to Labor Days in the end yet.

― brilliant young and angsty (thatguy), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

oh and the lyrics booklet is for everything from float onwards, which is handy. And it looks nice.

― brilliant young and angsty (thatguy), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

i heard 'our last goodbye' in wendys the other day.

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

my laptop is possesed
someone get the hose

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

Bazooka Tooth is his best album. His style was awkward and uncomfortable before that, he was stuck on the spoken word coffee shop steez. I actually like Float/Music For Earthworms/Appleseed for the most part, but maintain Bazooka Tooth as the sound that Aes should stick with. Labor Days has really boring beats and is the most overrated rap album of the decade so far.

I like most of the new EP, the title track and "Food, Clothes, Medicine" are among his best work.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Beats on Labor Days = gorgeous melody for days, they each have like 3 hooks, poppin' drums, and actual BASSLINES

Beats on Bazooka Tooth = sludgy mess and cardboard box drums, and not in a good way

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Rollie

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't like Labor Days as a whole, but its best moments are no where near as dull as Bazooka Tooth - the saving grace of which was "we're famous" and that was bcuz El-P was throwing bows. I guess dude stepped his game up w/r/t rapping but his songs weren't hitting and I don't think Float really sounded coffee shop at all.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

to each his own, of course.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

his or her.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

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