 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 (nobody)...and 612 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2614121 Today 0 Topics 127542 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Awesome album, anyone into hip hop I recommend this to with total confidence. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
YES! I love it, and you get THREE guesses as to who I'm seeing live TONIGHT! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
the track called Be is one of the best if not the best one on this album! I love that synth and the way it works with the bass! btw: did you notice the references throughout that he kind of thinks Electric Circus wasn't too good an album? I can't remember the song, but somewhere he rhymes something about this being his second resurrection.. the first is obviously the album Resurrection, and for this to be his second, he has to think he's been doing something wrong, I guess... Anyway, I loved electric circus too... and the rest of his albums. Common is always good... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
well, I'm off. I'll report back on the concert (it's on isle of mtv, so they may send it on mtv some time). I was to his last concert when it was electric circus, and it was amazing! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i'll see him on july the 8th in berlin! be is shining, yes. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Excellent. I would love to see him live. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i like it alright, yeah. but in the world of hiphop i'm only waiting for one thing right now. the dangerdoom album. mmmmmmm. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Good LP My favorite tracks: The Corner Chi-City Go |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
meh. This is as good as the best that Doom has ever put out (and I really really like Doom), Danger Doom should be good but I'm not overly excited about hearing it, not when there is quality like this available. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hmmm funny you mention this Mr. Braindance, my friend just literally loaned this to me...ill listen to this now |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Enjoy, I think you will like it a lot :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i heard a car pumping one of the tracks from this (all i know from it is there's a sample saying "Before you lock my love away") right by my house this perplexed me because it wasnt gangster or top40 "hiphop" shit which is all you hear in this neighborhood |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
one of my mates just recommended this to me as well... must be worth a listen :) can't stop listening to 'quasimoto - the unseen' at the moment tho |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I'm back! It was lovely, as expected! He's got a way with the crowd and - I remember him doing this slightly the last time I saw him - but it's still amazing how he weaves in things about the place he's playing in. He did a whole freestyle part about Bergen, Norway, Isle of MTV and the norwegian "krone" (the money), and he quite often exchanged stuff in his songs to fit in with that! He did some from the new, but also put in the classics like the light and that one the name of which escapes me right now, but I'm drunk and very very happy! YAY! There was also a very funny bit where he was going to get a chick on stage (as the custom is), but the two first he got up were too drunk to stand straight (the first one fell kind of bad over the fence when she was going up and the second one had no rhythm/was drugged or something), so he spent some time joking with them and it was a really good time! Only bad thing I can say about the concert is that mtv are scum and common didn't get to do an extra song or two. However, he guested Razhel later (they did "on the corner," and Razhel had also done the beat on one track in commons concert). Also: if Razhel ever happens to play near you.. just GO! See him! That's damned near the most fucking amazing thing I've seen! All in all, I'd say that even if you don't like hip-hop, it should be possible to enjoy common (at least live, but his albums are also lovely!), but I haven't gotten any soberer since I started writing this post so... <3!!! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
damn really really nice music, im glad i listened to it, definitely picking up this album for myself |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I thiught this was going to be about jedi chris... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah pretty prete |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ok, listening to "Be" now. still not too keen on the obligatory kanye west 'chipmunk' female vocal samples. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
the vinyl finally arrived today, and I picked it up! yay! now my friend can have his cd back! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i've concluded that i hate rap music |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
excellent choice. this is great i believe |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
what makes you like it so much? it hasn't grabbed me that much yet. maybe after a few listens. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It's just an awesome album! I may also be hyping it a bit due to the fact that I also love one day it will all make sense, resurrection, electric circus and like water for chocolate, but I'm still loving it! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
what do you think about kanye west? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
good producer, bad rapper. he's stuck on his style, though... btw: I'm more of a lyrics guy, but unforunately that is paired with a bad memory, so I kind of only remember the lyrics when I'm actually hearing the song...) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Rahzel is coming here Aug. 7th. I'll try and make it to that one. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
west has a very slick style would you say? that's what this album would suggest, with (modern) r'n'b influences. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, that's definately recommended! also, make sure you're all the way up front and have a list of stuff you want to hear beatboxed ready! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, he's found some great stuff, and he sticks to it and he knows it'll make him hits, but I also think he's just doing what he feels he should (only with a little hint of money-making in the mix).. I'd rather call him smooth, I think... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, and that "money-making" incentive is raised in quite a bit of common's lyrics... seems a bit hypocritical. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
drunken mastah, can you please tell me whats the set up on his gigs like, i was just thinking if i should go, but since im bored with 95% of all the hip hop shows i see, i was just wandering if he has some musicians there, or hes just rapping on top of a dj playing instrumentals? give me some details please |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
well.. the last time I saw him he had a fulll band. this time it was only him, a dj and a guy on keys.. he still rocked the crowd, though, and it's also possible that mtv wanted it like that for some reason (even though the beats on be are harder to do for a band if you compare it to electric circus)... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
someone played this album at work, I had two issues with it 1.in one of the tracks he compared himself to Jesus, what sort of twat does that? 2.the last track, with all those kids on it, made me want to vomit, it's like one of those cheesy mobile phone ads Other than that I'm sure it's brilliant |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
1.in one of the tracks he compared himself to Jesus, what sort of twat does that? which one? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
dunno, cos I was just listening at work, didn't see a track list or anything lyrics went something like "I'm like Jesus because I something, something something" |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
or it could have been "and just like Jesus I something, something, something" but you get the idea |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
some say my life's comparable to christ .. the way i - blah - and resurrectd twice something like that |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
that's it, it's all coming back, it's worse than I gave it credit for |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ah. I listened through the album again, and took special notice when I heard christ stuff. that's probably the thing about the second resurrection you're talking about. the line goes they say my life is comparable to christ / the way I sacrificed and resurrected twice (or something.. couldn't be bothered to write it down as it went on). the song's called "they say" and rhymes start with "they say," as it's all things "they" say (and as I said in the second post I made here, it seems to me that "electric circus" wasn't as much of a success as he'd have hoped, and people apparently meant it was bad or something), and not something common says. anyway, it's more of an analogy than a compare. also "chi-city" starts off with something like "I rap with the passion of christ," which I remember laughing at the first time, as I thought to be a wordplay on that movie "the passion of the christ" |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I guess it's a rap ego thing, didn't tupac also compare himself to JC?,I read the sleevenotes to his latest DVD box set, pretentious ain't the word. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I don't know about tupac, but I still don't think common is comparing himself to jesus. he's just using things that happened to jesus analogically (ok, I have NO idea how I should conjugate or whatever that word, but hopefully you get what I mean) to things that happened to him to describe stuff. it's like going "you know how that guy in the movie got a pin in his eye? that happened to me too once," which doesn't really imply that I'm comparing myself to the guy in the movie, but the incidents are analogue to each other. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I get what you mean, he says "some say" rather than "I say" too, so maybe he's not such a twat after all, I only heard it in passing though and thus took it at face value. that last track does suck though, even the common fans that put it on thought so. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
*puts last track on* |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, the entire text of "they say" is some kind of "comeback" I think.. a reply to all those who said "electric circus was crap, man! you're loosing it!" and stuff like that... like the first line in the song "they say a nigga lost his mind / but in the scheme of things I never lost a rhyme" |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
those kids' voices (or at least what they're saying, and what is implied) are a bit of a regular occurrence in hip-hop albums of this type, yes, but nothing that puts me off the track. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
