grizzleb
Well-known member
'I liked them before they went extinct'.
The sacred cows
Trevelyan
Member
Common always struck me as someone who managed to get it right just once, with that song, and spent his entire career trying and failing to replicate "H.E.R." I think I've judged his music based on his public image, though - he seems very sanctimonious and stodgy. Are there any full albums worth tracking down, or even any other decent songs?
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Not a huge fan, in response tot he question, but try The Food or The People (which are both actually done by Kanye, come to think of it)
Never seen this video before. Is Common meant to be Jesus in this one? Whatever, any tune that samples Gil Scott-Heron (closer to God) has gotta be good, right?
Never seen this video before. Is Common meant to be Jesus in this one? Whatever, any tune that samples Gil Scott-Heron (closer to God) has gotta be good, right?
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hint
party record with a siren
I walk through triple darkness with a child-proof lighter,
All your homeboys are biters, so what's up with that?
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At times, my going forward seems like retreat,
As I re-write rhyme after rhyme and throw away beats,
Growing into my britches, out-growing the streets
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All your homeboys are biters, so what's up with that?
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At times, my going forward seems like retreat,
As I re-write rhyme after rhyme and throw away beats,
Growing into my britches, out-growing the streets
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trevelyan, you an OK noob, and ima let you finish, but
Alfons
Way of the future
I like quite a few of tunes of Common's later albums altho they aren't too good albums as a whole. I think "the light" is a very good Dilla beat, 6th Sense is a nice Primo bit and "New Wave" is the only good track of Electric Circus. Might get flamed for this opinion on here though it seems 
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
chika-chika-I'm
chika-chika-On
chike-chika-my-my-my-shit
like an entrepeneur
that's stepped in manure...
I think 'Be' is a really good album too. Especially 'It's Your World'.
I find Common a bit hard to take sometimes, though, especially when he's talking about how he's going to seduce a woman by reading her jazz poetry before covering her body in wheatgrass so he can eat it off her.
chika-chika-On
chike-chika-my-my-my-shit
like an entrepeneur
that's stepped in manure...
I think 'Be' is a really good album too. Especially 'It's Your World'.
I find Common a bit hard to take sometimes, though, especially when he's talking about how he's going to seduce a woman by reading her jazz poetry before covering her body in wheatgrass so he can eat it off her.
i like a lot of the beats on electric circus, im just not sure he really flowed that well on them. basically, since then, i think hes been a bit confused/forced into pleasing his fanbase. he obv doesnt want to just keep doing trad 90s style stuff but he knows thats what people like best from him so he has been. well apart from that last album which was a bit embarassing, but was him trying to sound more clubby.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
What, you don't do this? Freak.
That Ice Cube diss is big - never looked for it before for some reason.
i still dont get the rolling stones. well i dont get their ballads and trad/blues country songs. musically i find them fine, if a little reverent (?) and meandering, but the vocals send the shitness over the edge. jaggers voice is just unbearably shite and weak on those ones. its why i still cant listen to more than about 3-4 songs on beggars banquet (ditto exile, theres that whole middle section of dirge like songs that i skip). the rockers and funkier material however i love.
Benny Bunter
Well-known member
Its all about the first Stones album if you ask me, much better than their later stuff when they were in their pomp.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I love a lot of stuff by the Rolling Stones but I saw the first five minutes or so of that documentary about the making of Exile on Main Street the other day and it was unbelievably cringeworthy. Singing the blues because you're getting taxed for being wealthy? Is that about the size of it?
ha. i saw that too. did think the whole drama of them being tax exiles was over emphasised. poor stones, kicked out of england and forced to import jam and tea to france cos they were earning too much! its not quite polanski-level.
scorcese fucked up too, saying they made it in rome, which was surprising as hes meant to be such a big fan.
scorcese fucked up too, saying they made it in rome, which was surprising as hes meant to be such a big fan.
I mean fair enough, I was never a huge Stones fan but that is classically one of those albums that's a big sprawling mess that can start to make sense. And whatever their situation it doesn't stop them from being human beings who might have something to play you can relate to.