Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

"V Vaughn, the travellin' vaudeville villain." MF Doom is here. With his best persona ever. In this album, his lyrics are much the same as what you'd find on any other doom album: Dope as fuck. But with this album, it's all about how he delivers it. His character this time around is Viktor Vaughn, a scientist with a jacked up face. Pretty much a staple as far as "rap-personas" go. But, his voice is off the fucking charts. He delivers lines so powerfully. It's pretty sick.
As far as the beats go, none of them are from people you've heard of (except maybe RJD2). The tracks are produced by Heat Sensor, King Honey, Max Bill (all of the Sound-Ink record label) and RJD2 ("Saliva"). So they're not madlib or self produced. It's a nice and fresh change. It's good to hear doom go over something that's not his usual style. Nonetheless, they're still great and kicking. Saliva is one of my favorites. It's so good.
If you're a doom fan: here you go, prepare to cum. If you're a rap fan: check this shit out.

"A lotta groups seem to act like a violent mob, when they really just need to shut the fuck up like silent bob."

AAAAAND we're back

2011. Let's make this a good one.

Foetus - Hide

J.G. Thirlwell does everything in his power to defy self-imposed genre constrictions with his latest release, Hide, following somewhat in the footsteps of the preceding albums Love and Flow. Only two or three tracks ring true of his industrial origins, the rest sprouting from orchestral landscapes and electronic ballads, thriving on feelings of mourning and abandonment speckled with almost outrageous extravagance. Perhaps Foetus' most cohesive record in years, Hide's fifty-minute runtime is a sonic breeze.

Ride the wild winds of destruction.


STANDOUT TRACKS:

Cosmetics
Oilfields
The Ballad of Sisyphus T. Jones
You're Trying to Break Me

Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask

Yeah, it's not Christmas but fuck that. This album is sick. Dangermouse is a great producer, as evidenced by some of his earlier work as a producer of remixes and with certain artists. Doom is a great rapper and in fact, he's my favorite. This album is just incredibly awesome. It's produced by Adult Swim, and a handful of the songs relate to the Adult Swim show line. Want to hear Doom rap about Space Ghost and ATHF? This is your album. I don't even watch those shows and it's still awesome.

PEEP THIS STEEZ

The Murder City Devils- Christmas songs

Oh? Still nobody posting anything? Christmas still on the way? I'll just leave these here.





The Murder City Devils is one of my favorite bands ever. The first song is about Santa Claus and how he gets drunk all year waiting for Christmas. The second song is a cover of a Hanoi Rocks song. I like these songs and i like them extra more when i play them around Christmas time.
Lead singer Spencer Moody looks like young Santa.
Isn't he the cutest?

N'SYNC- Home for Christmas/Holiday lull

This album has a lot of things going for it.
Foremost, THE GAYEST ALBUM ART OF ALL TIME. As a secondary, it's chock full of disposable, catchy Christmas-pop originals and covers that are sure to put you in a good mood.
Merry Christmas Happy Holidays is THE BEST christmas-pop song ever written (right next to Mariah Carey's obnoxiously fun "all I want for xmas is you".

The whole cd is meaningless christmas shit. what more do you want for the holidays?
It's fun.


ALSO
December is chock full of shit. Finals, Christmas, New Years, Hannukah, Registration for new classes etc. etc. so we've had a small holiday lull. Come 2011 we're back in full swing.

I'm dedicated.

Low - Christmas

I was supposed to see this band last tuesday, but some shitty shit happened and i ended up missing it. It was a major bummer, they're one of my favorite bands and they were going to be playing Christmas songs along with their original stuff. I wanted to wait until after the show to post this so i could have more to talk about, but hey there's always next year. This is a really beautiful and really haunting Christmas album. Their cover of 'Blue Christmas' somehow makes the song even more lonely sounding. If you're having a lonely Christmas, i think this one is for you. It's not depressing lonely though, it's like simple lonely, Charlie Brown lonely. And again, really beautiful. 'Just Like Christmas' isn't really lonely though, it's actually a pretty fun song. The original stuff on here is really great too, 'Long Way Around the Sea' might be my favorite. I think only a band of true believers can be so inspired by the holiday to make songs of their own.

Christmas is a weird holiday for me. I've never even touched a bible but i still really enjoy this time of year. It might just be nostalgia but i still really enjoy waking up in the morning and opening presents and handing them out and drinking hot chocolate. On top of this i just plain love winter. It just makes me feel good in ways i don't really understand. Christmas songs are a part of this good feeling.

The members of Low are Mormon so the covered songs on here actually mean something to them i assume, and they've probably heard them their whole lives. I've heard them my whole life as well, but i most likely associate them with different things than they do. Maybe some of the things overlap.


"If you were born today
We'd kill you by age eight"

I wish it snowed here.