Here i.. review stuff i randomly heard i guess.. It'll be good. It'll attempt to be good anyway. March 17, 2001 Debbie Deb - Look Out Weekend Dear christ. I can tell you one song i'd dance to if i was on alot of cocaine and lived in 1982. This is the type of song i've been searching for a long time to find, and i thank alexis for technically finding this really. I'm not gonna rate stuff anymore because there's really no point. But if i did, i'd rate this a pair of neon green vinyl pants. Josie & The Pussycats - Three Small Words "I'm a punk rock prom queen/brown paper magazine" It's that sort of anti-genius that only a song sang by female cats would need to have to be good. and gosh darn it, this has it. I've never actually seen the original show, and from what I figure, neither have 75% of the people who talk about it. But, when i heard this momentarily in the preview for the movie it became lodged in me head. I dunno if this is really what's her name singing, or if it's Letters To Cleo. But i'd have to say... something. Le Tigre - Get Off The Internet Some people may see their new EP as a, well...let down, and a sign as the band weakening. Of course, most open-minded folk are the most close-minded people you're ever going to meet. This is why few people fully grasped The Marshall Mathers LP. This is why most of them will not fully grasp From The Desk Of Mr. Lady. Anything involving being contrary and/or, i really hate saying this, ironic, is easily funny or though-provoking if you're coming from a stance most of the population already has. But if it has anything to do with going against or making people usually on the laughing-at side of pop culture the joke, nobody's really left to laugh at it. This is how an obvious song completely set-up to be bullshit even DURING the song is still taken at face-value and quoted in every news program everywhere as hateful on Eminem's album. And this is how something like "get off the internet/destroy the right-wing" is going to be taken as "damn, Kathleen Hanna's suuuure getting sloppy". If you've only got one wing on you, there's no way you're gonna fly anywhere, yo. February 15, 2001 Haven't updated this in a while..but...well, i should now shouldn't i. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar Y-chi wooooooooooooooooo..oooooo...ooooo..hoooo. So, so pretty. Aliens have sex to this song. 9.5/10 Radiohead - Pyramid Song Thom goes to hell in a rowboat. And draws a picture in his coloring book about it. The studio version's out now. But almost any live version will do for the same effect. 9.8/10 December 6, 2000 Lil' Kim - How Many Licks? Recently I've decided Lil' Kim is god. I think from the title of this you can guess what it's about, and I can't really argue with that. This could be the raunchiest Lil' Kim song ever just out-seating the album version of Not Tonight, and once again...I can't argue with this. Sample Lyric: Designer pussy/My shit comes in flavors/High class taste, niggaz got to spend papers/ Lick it right the first time, or you gotta do it over/Like it's a rehearsal for a Tootsie commercial It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And it makes you forget all about the Sisqo guest spot. 7.5/10 Le Tigre - My My Metrocard Think of the Go-Go's.. Now think of them Punk..Now think of them making Funk/Rap/60's Pop songs... And you have Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna's new band after Bikini Kill. This is a little ditty about riding the bus and being mad at new york for shutting down the strip bars. I couldn't decide on just one Le Tigre song to note because most all the ones i downloaded were too damn good to pick. And uh..yeah.. Le Tigre Rox. 8.7/10 Rage Against The Machine - Renegades Of Funk I shouldn't like this cover song. But I do...alot. I'm sorry but any song with a refrain of "dance sucka!" is ok in my book. This is what they created rap/rock for. Not that i'm saying this band is just a stereotypical rap/rock band but they sure get lumped there alot..and.. lord is this funky as hell. 9/10 Limp Bizkit - Rollin' Compared to the last song this one just doesn't seem as catchy anymore.. But..hell, i must have downloaded this for a reason..and that reason was at the time it was catchy as hell. It still is..but definitely not as much, especialy after i heard that other song. I think this song is good for a Plays Of The Week segment on Sportscenter, not so much as a song anymore. I'm sure there's a part of me that enjoys this song and that Orgy song..but..he only comes out when nobody's looking. Keep rollin rollin rollin rollin.. 6.5/10 Free Kitten - Scratch The DJ [1995] Sonic Youth+rapping=GENIUS. Thurston had his turn on Tuff Titty Rap, now it's time for Kim to rock the mic. 2 minutes of indie jiggyass godstuff. It even ends with "god damn...it was a good day" 8.5/10 Random Obscure SP Song Of The Moment - Bleed - Live 10.05.88 Previously this was only available in like a 30th generation cassete version where you could faintly make out the actual song. Now since to nice Billy putting it out himself on cd we can all bask in the glow of another late-80's SP gem. There's something about all these songs.. you can tell theres something wrong with them that must have made them never get released..but at the same time.. they're so damn good it just seems impossible they haven't. "Baby in your arms, much more than i can see/One plus Two is Three". Brilliant, or did Billy just give up with the lyrics? I can't decide. -- November 14, 2000 Nine Inch Nails - Metal Nine Inch Nails covering a Gary Numan song. I think i like this. If i was asked to elaborate, I'd have to say because after a while the same synth riff over the course of most of this 7 minute song really gets funky on your ass. Then the piano and guitars come in and give it that Fragile-y type sound. I heard about this a few years ago, so i wonder if the end was always in there,if so they must have been working on that album a longass time. If not..then.. the song just eventually grew into the Fragile type sound. What does this all mean you ask? I have no idea. But its good. 8/10 Blur - Music Is My Radar I first heard this song when they performed on Conan O'brian..and.. i found it extremely God. This song is some sorta mixture of funk, um.. fuzzy stuff.. and..christ i dunno, i'm bad with describing what i'm hearing. Anyway, it doesn't sound like much of anything. And is almost like some stuff on Kid A - just theory-wise, instead of having a really hard to find melody, this one has a mixture of many many simple ones and it all adds up too one jiggy ass fondue party of funk. 9/10 Pj Harvey ft. Thom Yorke - This Mess We're In Takes a few listens to really sink in, but after that its much more enjoyable. For some reason i'm not really into the spoken word part near the end..but it's certainly not bad. You can't really have a track guested by Thom Yorke and have it not turn out anything short of great, and this one isn't disapointing. It's just not hitting me very much at the moment. 7.5/10 80's Pick/80's Cover of the Moment - Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand/Sonic Youth Ca Plane Pour Moi is a bizarre french new wave/punk song from 1978. I first heard this in National Lampoon's European Vacation, but didn't know what it was until i heard the Sonic Youth cover version of it. I'd highly reccomend picking up the original if you enjoy new wave alot, then i'd recommend you get the Sonic Youth version, because Sonic Youth are god, and so is the cover.