Goodie Mob - Age Against the Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkAFQBQSjto
i'm unrealistically excited about this

like enough so that I feel like bumping this thread to the top of new answers every five minutes
seriously though, this sounds GREAT

funny, I was just wondering what was goin on with their "reunion" - agree this is surprisingly good

listening to mostly metal the past year, no surprise I missed this news, but I just saw they're doing a show in my area in September. Um, snapping tix up asap.

seriously had been lobbying for a G.M. reunion the last two years, so stoked.

wow, "Special Education" is surprisingly good after the disaster of "Fight To Win"

right?

I'm not a big hip-hop listener but somehow I always loved this band. This sounds very good.

just got my tix to see the Mob in Sept!

New video, posting as I'm watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVECmNx-wfU

uh, there's a good song in there somewhere. wtf is up with that video tho.

also, nyc play:
http://www.brooklynbowl.com/event/334743-goodie-mob-ceelo-green-big-brooklyn/

oh, i see. you get the song free if you preorder the video so they're trying to make it impossible to enjoy it in the video so you gotta buy.

i don't watch videos but i just watched that one all the way through. might even watch it again.

huh, this shit is like eight months old!
http://rapradar.com/2012/12/13/new-music-goodie-mob-im-set/

STREAMING
http://www.amazon.com/Goodie-Mob/e/B000AR8N4I/ref=sr_1_2_acs_ent_artist?qid=1376999512&sr=8-2-acs
LISTENING

SEEING
http://www.brooklynbowl.com/event/334743-goodie-mob-ceelo-green-big-brooklyn/
HYPED

I'm Set without video hijinx is even better than i thought

just need to get a non-radio edit and I'm, er, set.

also: http://www.npr.org/2013/08/20/213531470/goodie-mob-on-hip-hop-made-by-and-for-adults

SO GOOD
http://www.complex.com/music/2013/08/goodie-mob-ti-pinstripes

especially at higher bitrate

So one day of listening later there are what feels like five or six classic GMob tracks on this:
I'm Set
Valleujah
Special Education
Understanding
Father Time

and then there's a bunch of tracks that are pure mega-corny Cee-Lo projects like Ghosts of Gloria Goodchild, Come As You Are, Nexperience and (woo boy at this last one, it's a total disaster) Amy. All of these have deeply diminishing returns.

Then there's a handful of other tracks that are strange mishmoshes of interesting production and/or rapping that either slip somewhere or just too minor to go one way or the other, like U Don't Know What U Got /State of Emergency (very "Hair"), Kolors ("Music is color/a range of hues/BB King sang the blues" sounds like a Lonely Island line), State of the Art (sounds a lot like a lost Isaac Hayes track but muddy) and Power (Cee-Lo chants "white power" over a guitar line here which sounds like a joke but isn't).

So 5 I'll listen to for the rest of the year easy, 4 I don't really need to hear anymore at all, 3 I feel like I need to listen to more and a handful of skits/shorts that are good, bad and indifferent. I can't complain. I just wish that the half of this that sounds like a hip-hop musical would calm down. Curious to see how this hits old heads/young kids who might try them for the sake of monae.

there's a lot of moments where the mob seems to have decided that one monkey might stop no show but that monkey got fucking RICH and FAMOUS so lets try it his way

but goddamn, the highs. Special Education, I'm Set, Father Time and Pinstripes (did I leave that off somehow?) is as good as anything they've ever done.

just me? Neanderthal, you got opinions?

I'll get around to this soon.

Enthusiasm noted.

Big Rube intro is great

State of the Art is kind of a mess. at least its quick

damn, Power had potential, then the hook. this album is way too loooooooud and busy so far. ease up

IM SET. now we're talking. eh those horns, coulda done without, seems like Ceelo is like MAKE IT THEATRICAL and just throws in something over the top just cos.

Valleujah is dope but why the hook? Coulda been a low key banger. Hook kinda bugs, too loud, too much. damn you cee-lo you ruiner

Pinstripes still great.
Special Ed hook is kinda cheeze but she sounds good, at least its a break from c lo. His verse is cool tho.
Kolors is ok. horns at the end are nice.
lol Come as you are.
Nexperience is good, C lo goes in kinda hard.

Amy is kinda good bad haha

Understanding is cool, like something youd hear on one of their old albums.

Father Time yeah, low key good. Kinda wish theyd just stick to the simpler sounds. Ceelo sprinked this whole thing with his pop juice and it suffers big time. def some keepers tho.

It's not so much pop juice as it is grandiose Broadway mythology of a sort but i don't think it ruins the album. Just a weird direction, like somebody let Ringo drive.

yeah the theatrical thing is too much

was anyone else at the nyc show tonight? it was not good.

in any case, this is up on spotify now so lemme hear some feedback

I got the album but I went out of state shortly after and haven't had a chance to listen.

their entire tour, sans a handful of shows in Atlanta and LA, got cancelled. so looks like I won't be seeing them. what was so bad about the show you saw?

started two hours late but whatever
terrible model dj with no skills and no engagement
whole thing felt like Cee-Lo presents The Goodie Mob
this "V" protege is terrible and she got about as much stage time as T-Mo
at one point, cee-lo did a full rendition of Dont'cha with her which is like, what the fuck am i at a gmob show for to hear you do that
the rapping and most of the song selection was excellent (Cell Therapy! Grillz!) but the songs were badly mixed and often unrecognizable
$50 ticket for a show that pulled what looked like 300 people in a 2000 person room

ahh. that's the problem with rap shows. I've never felt like there's much quality control, half of them I've seen are great, half atrocious, little middle ground.

I'm guessing the attendance is why they cancelled the tour. oh well. as far as starting two hours late that's not surprising. Mobb Deep came on like two hours late too, Wu-Tang 90 minutes when I saw them :).

yeah I can imagine the rest of Goodie Mob is not happy about the overemphasized Cee-Lo angle but apparently the reunion has been so weakly received it's been necessary.

yeah, late shows are nothing new. but it's the attendance that's been hitting them hard up north. People who love goodie mob will come in from out of state but they're unlikely to get any new fans at this stage in the game and they've just never had real fan penetration north of the mason/dixon

lol just realizing I have this cd still sealed and I still have never played it. guess it's time?

New album coming out soon? Two new singles with Organized Noize in the past two weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URKmc3gLDcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDi01hZEPI

Chuck D collabo is not blowing me away but I like Frontline!