MF Doom on the Wire cover...

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i dunno... i just think it's an awesome cover.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUCKIN A MAN

That Doom is so hot right now!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

give that man a bong!

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.noripcord.com/features/mfdoom2.jpg
DOOMSDAY
EVER SINCE THE WOMB 'TIL I'M BACK WHERE MY BROTHER WENT
THAT'S WHAT MY TOMB'LL SAY

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

> give that man a bong!

and a beer.

He gives good (M)Face it has to be said, though the rust is a bit gross...

― james porter (james porter), Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a mask like that when i was a kid. i bet his mates takes the piss out of him.

remember, kids: "all caps when you spell the man name".

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The unedited web transcript for those interested

― I Paid Money to Evolve, Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, I wish you couldn't see his bald head on top. that kind of takes away from it. couldn't they have taken the pic from a more direct angle?

What's the word on the collaboration with Ghostface?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

brilliant! doom on the wire cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

that is a tremendous cover. the vandermark "invisible jukebox" intrigues me, too.

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

all respect to doom and to hua for the article but this is the part where i ask why the wire hasn't deigned to put an overground MC on the cover. if the mag is in fact 'serious about music' (and just music), then i'm thinking it shouldn't matter what company's name is on the spine of an MC's cd. funny, too, that this sort of mentality only seems to apply to hip-hop. they've no problem putting say, bjork and radiohead on the cover, so why not an overground MC?

(sorry if maybe i should have posted this on some other thread.)

― Martin Turenne, Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I just heard Vaudeville Villain this weekend for the first time. Very good record. Caught me in a way Madvillainy hadn't.

― (Jon L), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

what overground mc do you propose fits their ethos? i cant think of many.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

he wasn't on the cover but the article they ran on timbaland was good.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ill have to search for it.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what 'ethos' are you referring to?

― Martin Turenne, Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tonicnyc.com/

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Gang Starr was on the cover in '98, which is (right) quite a while back but maybe that counts.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

they've no problem putting say, bjork and radiohead on the cover, so why not an overground MC?

same thing's kind of niggled me i have to say, though i don' have any great suggestions.

At least a part of the editorial decision must have been that he looks class as much as anything else, and he makes an interesting popcult flipside to Anthony Braxton the previous month as well in a way...

― james porter (james porter), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

dizzee should have been on the cover of course

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"niggled"

dizzee gets enough press, fags.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Dizzee is popular, why would Wire cover music people like?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Its the Wire, they're not gonna be putting T.I. on the cover or something, and thats the way they roll. I don't hate, they do their thang. Doom deserves coverage.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.vibe.com/images/vibe/Jan05_TI_Cover.jpg

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Thom phoned me excitedly saying:"guess who's on the cover and who I am listening to right this minute! mf doom's on the wire cover!"

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah dizzee should have been on there. timbaland too. maybe wiley also.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

didnt they already have a timbaland feature a few years ago? i think so.

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, by Simon Reynolds.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

it was by Sasha Frere Jones (unless they've done two)

― a, Friday, 25 February 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

classic: mf doom's favourite comic was Alpha Flight.

― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

classic: mf doom's favourite comic was Alpha Flight.

i know!! WTF?

It seems a shame they haven't had any Grime on the cover - they are based in East London and all... but bless 'em - they try.

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

XXP

That was NYT, last year. SR article was in 1998 I think.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The drum production on Rubberband Man is crazy. If I was Aphex Twin I'd be jealous.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

nah the sfj in wire thing was 1998. he wrote one for the nyt too. http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/interviews/timbaland.html

― a, Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a great feature because, unusually for the Wire, the music itself is described in detail, as is some of the studio activity. That is GOLD because as a producer the first thing you tend to think when listening to Timbaland is, 'how are these songs actually made'?

― moley (moley), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If I was Aphex Twin I'd be jealous.

Aphex is too fat and lazy to be jealous of anybody nowadays. I'm not criticising, I'm fat and lazy too.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The drum production on Rubberband Man is crazy. If I was Aphex Twin I'd be jealous.

then put David Banner on it, not T.I.

― LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

David Banner's got (one) of the covers for Fader this month. It's got some great pictures, too.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

this article by hsu is fantastic. the whole story about KMD's Black Bastards never coming out because a Billboard columnist saw the cover with Sambo being hanged and responded with a piece accusing the record label of racism, leading to KMD getting dropped from Elektra... that is some truly fucked up history to be aware of

I am way into Vaudeville Villain now. I admit a lot of this is just as much due to the concrete production, but I have a bit more listening to do and should probably check out Madvillainy again...

― (Jon L), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

that bit where he says "everybody else is wack" sort of rings false. i mean, he's put out a 2cd set of blends with people like the lox and MOP and big pun (and lots of nas and wu-tang, yes) on it. and the blends are really really good, so it's not like he just threw it together ...

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the cackle at the end of that bit ring false?

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that's a good point. you have better close reading skills than me.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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