ITT: /mu/ in 2007
GIRL SHAKE DAT LAFFY TAFFY
Welp I guess it's time for President Hillary in 2 years.
WHATEVER DOESN'T KILL MECAN ONLY MAKE ME STRONGER
SUPERMAN THAT HOE
>>128326689the beatles suck
HEY THERE DELILAH
Vista is a fucking broken piece of crap fuck you Mikro$hit.
Just put up my house for sale lol
PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR
THIS IS WHY I'M HOTTHIS IS WHY I'M HOT
SMACK DAT UP ON THE FLAWGIMME SOME MAW
YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU(SOULJA BOY TELL EM)HEY I GOT THIS NEW DANCE FOR Y'ALL CALLED THE SOULJA BOYYOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYOU GOTTA PUNCH, THEN CRANK BACK THREE TIMES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HEYAY I WANNA BE A ROCK STAR
i don't even care if she's really punk or not (as if) i just wish she'd act like it ("Girlfriend", "When You're Gone") *
>>128326689I'm at Virginia Tech in class right now and I hear loud banging and screaming I'm getting scared
WE FLY HIGHNO LIEYOU KNOW DISBALLIN'
Mom won't pay the cable bill, I can't watch the VMAs :c
GONNA CATCH ME RIDIN' DIRTYGONNA CATCH ME RIDIN' DIRTY
A BAY BAYA BAY BAYA BAY BAY
a special happy birthday wishes to our favorite Aussie ingenue, who is turning 40 and can somehow still sing ("2 Hearts", "Speakerphone") *
I swear I'm not being perverse--she's such a sad case it took me a week to get up the guts to play this. But she's sure put some benwa balls into a slut act only wankers took literally, and now the balls have beats. From "Gimme More"'s "It's Britney bitch" hiya to "Piece of Me"'s single-of-the-year sonics, from "Ooh Ooh Baby"'s "feel you deep inside" to "Perfect Lover"'s "touch me there," this album is pure, juicy, plastic get-naked. When she closes by dissing Kevvy Kev, it's like she's spoiling the concept with a protest song. B+
so much terrible pop rap, so little time
>>128326817I distinctly remember gossiping about this the morning after at school. Our usual teacher was a prudish old lady who wouldn’t have let us talking about mass murder but that day we happened to have a young sub who didn’t give a fuck.
Rank this minor success with hooky background music like 50 Cent's The Massacre--no deeper than Coldplay when you pull out the measuring stick, but a lot smarter. Compared to 50's, the hooks are pretty pricey. Yeezy loves designer labels and procures for himself the finest fromage--Elton John to Steely Dan to Daft Punk softening us up for gay cult hero Labi Siffre, like that. He self-indulges throughout--not just by expanding at length on his skimpily rationalized fascination with his own fame, but with little stuff like his failure to convert "this"-"crib"-"shit"-"live"-"serious" into a rhyme or "at bay at a distance" into an idiom. Nevertheless, every single track offers up its momentary pleasures--choruses that make you say yeah on songs you've already found wanting, confessional details and emotional aperçus on an album that still reduces to quality product when they're over. A-
>>128326702>>128326739>>128326780>>128326788>>128326798>>128326801>>128326832>>128326852>>128326859WE NEED TO KILL RINGTONE RAP NOW!
>>128326920>not just by expanding at length on his skimpily rationalized fascination with his own fameIf only he knew just how bad it would actually get.
That would be 58, since he brought it up. Geezer's seven months to the good side of Robert Plant, who you'd never know was showing more savoir faire from the way bloggerati who weren't alive when "Marie Prevost" was written fawn over this labour of louche. Reborn as a crooner because he can't rev up the rock anymore, he can't rev up the croon either. Wit: Shot. Insouciance: Shot. Romantic prospects: On this evidence, shot. If you're worried about aging gracefully, maybe it's back to Elvis C. after all. C
CHOCOLATE RAINSOME STAY DRY AND OTHERS FEEL THE PAIN
>the smell of things to comeMaybe even your grandma wasn't alive in September 1929 but you can experience it yourself shortly.
The prestige of this conjunction of pomo prog, alt-country, fantasy fiction and video-game narrativity is the silliest proof yet of how jaded indie's tastebuds have become, with candied cannabis and lark's wings in aspic impending. Because Tim Smith has a sweet voice and a decent heart and his formerly psychedelic bandmates can negotiate moderately complex arrangements without twisting their ankles, this unfathomable concept album about loneliness on some olde frontier is compared to "classic rock"--Fleetwood Mac especially. Putting that band's eponymous rhythm section aside, one wonders just which of these songs might entrance the common folk like, for instance, "Go Your Own Way." Perhaps the first and catchiest, in which Smith as Occupanther laments that he isn't named Roscoe. There's a sentiment all can share. Roscoe Smith. We'll have this fellow playing da blooze yet. C
Jam of a lifetime.
The real ageist scandal of this year's Grammys wasn't Herbie Hancock, who--unlike Natalie Cole and Tony Bennett in the long-lost '90s--won with the most artistically ambitious album nominee. It was this candid attempt to recapitulate Nirvana Mark II's 10-year-old triumph, The Colour and the Shape, a bonus-cutted reissue of which was released just two months before the Foos' ballyhooed reunion with producer Gil Norton, all of which can be read as the defiant professional credo of The Man Who Invented Nickelback. Kurt was a quitter, but Dave Grohl says he'll "never surrender," just like the download-combatting stalwarts who chose him over Daughtry and Bruce Springsteen. Sure, Grohl is hookier than Nickelback, which is saying something. But he's not as hooky as those bonus cuts, which include Prince and Killing Joke songs, or as intense as his 1997 self. And the well-rounded optimist will go along with the hooky up-and-at-'em of "Cheer Up, Boys" only till he or she notices the subtitle, which is: "(Your Make Up Is Running.") Those emo posers, how dare they? B
RIP 50s Kelly Clarkson.
>>128327129Giving that anything above a C was too high.
Unlike some of the other /mu/ in X year threads I haven't felt a single urge to listen to any of the albums or songs mentioned in here. Wonder why that could possibly be...
Good thing she sets off four firecrackers--pulls a gun on her big-fisted ex-boyfriend, belts two hard-headed sermons on small-town life, rips up the title tune--before wasting precious tracks proving she can also do mature. But she can--shortly after "Love Letters" waltzes with Nashville nostalgia, "More Like Her" sidles up to the complexity one values in mature types. Whereupon, the clinchers: the mature firecrackers "Down" and "Guilty in Here." Followed, for the alt-country contingent, by a Patty Griffin cover she ignites and a Carlene Carter cover she doesn't. A
The first giveaway is a lie no less bold-faced with his Connecticut mansion on the trading block: "I ain't fresh out the hood, I still in the hood." The second is a truth all too revealing of the lost urgency of his aesthetic motivation: "I ain't even gotta rap now, life is made." What the two boil down to is that a parvenu mastering pop music for money has turned into a made man running on vanity. I find that this renders his expert trivialization of murder and such rather less piquant, and I think he does too--that an audacious formal delight has become routine. And though his sex talk retains some charm, Eminem's gross-out cameo casts a pall. Is Slim trying to one-up R. Kelly or just his D12 doxy Bizarre? B
Developed in concert, hence more jammy, less songy and less Yorkey, which is good ("Jigsaw Falling Into Place," "Bodysnatchers"). **
Negotiating different power relations than heterosexual women, they have trouble getting out of themselves ("Back in Your Head," "Hop a Plane"). **
Pray her marriage lasts--she's observant, and it would broaden her perspective ("You Know I'm No Good," "Rehab"). **
>>128327408>Pray her marriage lasts--she's observant, andDid he just make an anti-Semitic joke there?
Except for the aspiring knuckleheads' guide to getting her high enough to freak, an OK guy for a sex-seeking simpleton ("Bartender," "Yo Stomach"). **
>>128327428He’s not in the tribe but he’s been mistaken enough times to get a pass.
Getting set in his ways--"Online," ugh--but still smarter than the Nashville norm ("Ticks," "Letter to Me"). **
>>128327408this junkie was so overrated it wasn't even funny
Jay-Z, that's a brand name, like Pepsi, that's a brand name--he stands behind it, he guarantees it, even if you don't know him any more than you know the chairman of Universal Music ("Blue Magic," "Say Hello"). *
I was on /mu/ in 2007, mostly people were into the same shit as now, the canon was established early
>>128327555naw back then it was mostly like Dragonforce worship and ITAOS hadn't become /mu/ core yet
>>128327016mine was and she died that fall
Reformation: Post TLC [Narnack, 2007]This does get weird, quiet and slack second half, although, really, why shouldn't his wife sing "The Wright Stuff"? In any case, the first half regales and/or lacerates with the mad purity and/or skeptical hilarity Mark E. Smith was put on the planet to take to his grave. Recorded with Los Angeles pickup musicians, although now I guess we just call them the Fall, immediately after his band of seven years ditched him in Phoenix, it states its business out of the box: "I think it's over now I think it's ending/I think it's over now I think it's beginning." Then it does its business with "Insult Song," a six-minute shaggy groove story about being stuck with ree-tards from the Los Angel-eeze district. A-
Best record of the year
>>128327624Guess Fantasia ended up not going too many places, lol.
>>128327624This was mostly a comp album but with 3 newly recorded cuts featuring the aforementioned literallywho, John Legend, and Mary J. Blige. Among the older cuts was a highly unfortunate 90s duet with a dying Sinatra.
DONT HIDE THAT PUSSYDIVIDE THAT PUSSY
it's a potato
>>128327459what was with buttrock/country albums of this period and roads?
Holy shit
>>128327360>Eminem's gross-out cameo casts a pall. Is Slim trying to one-up R. Kelly or just his D12 doxy Bizarre?This was wacked-out late 00s pillhead Eminem so you figure it out.
>>128326920the Kardashians just totally broke this man's brain
>>128327147>Jay-Z money laundering slop
>>128327690I only wish the Annie Lennox one had been airbrushed from history.
>>128326878Deserved a C.
>>128327722back when they were somewhat of an actual rock band
>>128328687Given geopolitical events next year I think this album title was more prophetic than they meant it to.
>>128328687>>128326813>after the record label had made their shekels from them and told them they were free to do whatever they wanted now>turns out they were retarded as fuck without professional song doctors to guide them
IM NOT GONNA WRITE YOU A LOVE SONGCAUSE YOU ASKED FOR ITCAUSE YOU NEED ONEYOU SEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>128327380what is this? i don't recognize the album art or any of the songs? hail to the thief was only a couple of years ago, whats going on here?
>>128326813>unironically listening to avril lavignedid you get lost on your way to gaia online?
>>128328687that song they played at the end of the transformers was one of the biggest pieces of shit i've ever heard. fuck these sell outs
>>128328841>what is this? i don't recognize the album art or any of the songs? hail to the thief was only a couple of years ago, whats going on here?caveat. the US release was in 2008.
>>128326878>>128327061>>128327090>>128327147>>128327217friendly reminder there are no girls on the internet
>>128328687why is there a song on here that is just With or Without You
>>128327722>>128326813Hayley and Avril were both passed around like dishrags on their early tours.
>>128327176>Brewer, who rose to fame with her biggest hit "Music, Music, Music" in 1950 and had numerous other hits over the decade, passed away October 17 at her New Rochelle, New York home surrounded by her four daughters. She was 76 and had been suffering from complications of supranuclear palsy, a disorder of the frontal lobe of the brain that results in paralysis. Her daughters said that she had "not been the same" since the death of her husband, music producer Bob Thiele, eleven years ago.
>>128328999absolutely based
This is good, but it feels like something is missing. 07 is lackluster anyway so its album of the year. Hopefully music doesn't get any worse, and Trent doesn't do anything retarded like make an ambient album
>>128329041that's a rare and rather nasty condition. btw i remember October 07 well for assorted and rather unfortunate personal reasons i needn't get into but i will add that the weather that month was very hot for that time of year with many days in the 70s and even some 80s.
>>128329084>07 is lackluster anyway soGlobal economy starting to come apart was why.
>>128329108many of those Parkinson's type diseases have no obvious cause they're likely just stuff breaking down in the nervous system as you age
>>128329108>btw i remember October 07 well for assorted and rather unfortunate personal reasons i needn't get intowhy, you can tell us it's completely anonymous after all
The high point of ringtone rap, the Billboard this year was truly ghastly.
>>128328907in 07 yes women were unheard of online except the occasional nursing/child care message board, MySpace, and porn/camwhore sites
>>128329189"there are no women on the internet" is an old meme my tryhard zoomer retard
>>128329163oh look it's latter day self-indulgent crud SP
>>128326689Around 1998 I worked in an LS Ayres store. Shit advanced as this played on some monitors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRP9HvIcgq4&list=RDMM&index=25
>>128326798Eminem saved this thing.
>>128328729Avril let off her leash proved to have an IQ of about 75. at least LP were able to simulate a political protest song for award b8.
PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD
>my favorite song is moonchildwhat type of person do you imagine?
anyone wanna play halo 3?
>>128327626This.
>>128326689Catchy stuff
>>128329531this album wasnt released in 2007 yet dont ruin the thread anon
>>128329491>release date Nov 13 2001...
>HYPMATIZE YOU ARE HYPMATIZE>HYPMATIZE YOU ARE HYPMATIZE>NOW I COMMAND YOU NIGGAS TO GET MONEY>NOW I COMMAND YOU NIGGAS TO GET MONEY
>>128329531TAKE THAT DOWN NOW!!!
it's hard to believe now, but in 2007, the most popular genre on /mu/ was metal by far.
>>128333868I know. The time of "Dragonforce is the hardest metal known to man" memes.
Gee, I sure do love listening to music, playing video games, and being alive!
>>128327380I think they wanted a more straight ahead album because they knew it was going to get a lot of coverage for being pay what you want
>>128328865>gaia onlineFunnily enough. The music forum on that website around 2006-2013 was packed of full-blown autistic snobs and elitist dickheads. It was like early /mu/, but way too elitist. They all called themselves the "regs" or regulars. Lots of noise, harsh noise, post-punk, post-hardcore, emo/skramz, alt rock, jazz, hip-hop, all forms of metal and classical music talk there. Most of the regs either died/killed themselves or went on with their lives.
To remind us that anxiety is in his bones, Win Butler refurbishes the 2003 plaint "No Cars Go" as a football cheer about the safe place just before sleep. But everywhere else he emerges from his precious privacy and names the things he has to be afraid of, things he shares with all of us--religions run amok, rising tides, the surveillance state, a cowboy-in-chief with so little to lose he could start World War III on a dare. He doesn't tame his fears by naming them, or hint that they can be overcome, although in "The Well and the Lighthouse," he advises the lighthouse: "If you leave, them ships are gonna wreck." But he and his large band of unarty art-rockers rock so hard and so beautiful they can propel anyone who listens past the end of the record. They thud rather than thunder. But what a loud and joyous thud it is. A+
>>128336220>things he has to be afraid of, things he shares with all of us--religions run amok, rising tides, the surveillance state, a cowboy-in-chief with so little to lose he could start World War III on a dareAll the protesting about this stuff magically stopped on January 20, 2009 although the stuff they were protesting didn't.
I hate kindergarten. I love Metallica
fuck preppies. fuck cRap. only REAL musicheads will agree. \m/-_-\m/
Hi /mu/, got an appointment for breast reduction surgery today. Feeling a bit nervous. Music recs to keep the nerves at bay?
just got this mixtape Room for Improvementit's by the wheelchair guy from the DeGrassi show. actually pretty good but i can't see a Canadian teen actor making it in rap.no future for this guy.
