Yet I thought Drinking in LA was a bit... rubbish. Thoughts?
― Mr Swygart, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
$4.99 and you didn't buy it? Your loss...
― dyson, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Why? I got the only song I woulda wanted (the one with Curtis Mayfield) for free from Grand Royal.
― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― cuba libre that alcoholick sub kid (nathalie), Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
On a side-note, I've always felt that BV3 is what Beck should be - witty, large record collection, and most importantly fun. Listening to Beck I've always felt that there's the "Look Ma, no hands" attitude that showcases his cleverness but feels forced to me.
Beck probably has better ideas than BV3, but they at least privilige pleasure over posturing, which goes a long way in my book.
― H, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)
Discosis is one of the great 'lost' albums. It was so good but never really properly released in the USA.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)
― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)
"Drinking in LA" is great.
― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)
so's that MJ Cole remix Spencer was talking about
what the hell am I doing drinking in LA at 26
LA LA L-L-A LA
― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)
Sorry I never got this to you! I still don't think I have a proper CD. The cover is sexy.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 15 February 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)
i think i found it on slsk awhile back haha. or i got it somehow. maybe you did send it to me!
― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 23:02 (seventeen years ago)
please do not remind me of these guys.
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 February 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)
if we ban you it will take care of itself!
― deej, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)
ban slocki
submitted 6/30/04 aka why i've never considered writing for a living: I can't help feeling I've outgrown what was once a revelatory blast of eclecticism, and based on this album I also can't help but to compare BV(somewhat unfavorably) to Digital Underground, who threw a similarly spirited and willfully eclectic "world party" over several albums using P-funk as their rudder for exploring a number of genres. BV seems to work without a guiding template, no home base so to speak, making the album play like a record label mixtape, with the attendant lack of musical coherence(forgivable in and of itself) and serious quality control issues(less so). BV is rare in that what becomes them most is their dilettantism, especially as it pertains to the hip-hop that suffuses the record; things truly go to seed when they stop embracing their ineptitude in certain areas and enlist a raft of decidedly wack MCs(to take the DU comparison further, it's safe to say there's no budding Tupacs in this bunch) to carry their musical message in earnest. Reverence is cool, but I think this is one case where a good old balls out whiteboy pisstake might have bore more musical fruit. That said, the wonder is that the whole mess does remain listenable by force of sheer enthusiasm, flashes of brilliance and, well, gleeful moments of funmongering like the goofy Sugar Hill discorap of "Old School", for instance. Several other high points: "Drinking in L.A.", a Beck-ish riff on futile nightlife with a wonderfully sardonic R&B diva chorus, the dubby folk of "Willard", the sweet pop of "Everywhere". Basically, the few cuts that are of a piece and don't show signs of "song by committee" like too many here unfortunately do.
i still like 'drinking' ok.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:17 (seventeen years ago)
Discosis remains one of my absolute favorite albums of the decade.
― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 16 February 2008 07:14 (seventeen years ago)
They put out an album last year! It wasn't very good! "Discosis" is a record that virtually saved my life, though.
― edwardo, Saturday, 16 February 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)
Seconded. The two characters in "Drinking In LA" = me in 2001.
― snoball, Saturday, 16 February 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)
Rubbish.
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)
YEAH WE GOT THREE TICKETS TO THE BRAN VAN CONCERT HAPPENING THIS MONDAY NIGHT AT THE PACIFIC PALISADES, YOU CAN CALL IN IF YOU UH WANT TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS, UH MAYBE LIKE, WHAT IS TODD'S FAVORITE CHEESE? JACKIE JUST CALLED UP AND SAID IT WAS A FORM OF ROQUEFORT, WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT, GIVE US A RING DING DING, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
― del griffith, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago)
i fucking love this band
― AESTHOLE (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago)
we did nothing, absolutely nothing, that day
― just sayin, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)
ok whoa had no idea there was a third album
― AESTHOLE (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)
wait waht
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago)
gonna listen to this right now
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago)