Bran van 3000 - C/D?

$4.99 and you didn't buy it? Your loss...

Why? I got the only song I woulda wanted (the one with Curtis Mayfield) for free from Grand Royal.

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.

Discosis is one of the great 'lost' albums. It was so good but never really properly released in the USA.

"Drinking in LA" is great.

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

Sorry I never got this to you! I still don't think I have a proper CD. The cover is sexy.

i think i found it on slsk awhile back haha. or i got it somehow. maybe you did send it to me!

please do not remind me of these guys.

if we ban you it will take care of itself!

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.

Discosis remains one of my absolute favorite albums of the decade.

They put out an album last year! It wasn't very good! "Discosis" is a record that virtually saved my life, though.

Seconded. The two characters in "Drinking In LA" = me in 2001.

Rubbish.

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

i fucking love this band

we did nothing, absolutely nothing, that day

ok whoa had no idea there was a third album

wait waht

gonna listen to this right now