ITT: /mu/ in 2009
i love crystal castles
>>131217296OPEN UP YOUR
The Beatles are gay and suck
>>131217368how could that mean bully Kanye possibly do that to that innocent white girl? ffs
>>131217391I agree. Animal Collective is better
>>131217368If we knew then what we know now, we'd have cheered him on.
>>131217296music's been dead for 20 years
FUCK BLACK EYED PEAS
>>131217368Dude no one will care who Kanye or Taylor Swift are in like 5 years max. Stop posting this shit
LETS GET RETARDED IN HERE
Start with the first album, as you would for any other artist.
Hayley, girl, it's ok to rock out, it's ok to agonize sometimes, but you really don't have to scream so much ("Careful", "Ignorance") *
*saves music*
>>131217566back when she was actually fuckable and not a blown out hag
JAM OF A LIFETIME
>>131217566>as if they ever actually rocked
Goodnight sweet princess.
>>131217296LUNGFISHBLACKFISHALLIGATORICEFISH
>>131217352
I tried, I swear. Played it over and over so the music would sink in before I assessed a concept unlikely to prove profound. That way I could give it up to individual tracks whatever the state of Billie Joe Armstrong's geopolitical acumen. But all this did was convince me that I disliked the tunes I remembered even more than those I didn't--especially the slow ones that set up the fast ones within the same song, a hotcha-gotcha device with which the Broadway-bound ex-punk is deeply smitten. I don't like right-wing Christianists either. But as every oppressed teen in the right-wing orbit knows full well, they're not as garbled and simplistic as Armstrong's anthems insist. C
JUSTASYCAMOREIN MYBEDDDDDD
>>131217745They ended with Nimrod. Everything after that is a parody of Green Day written by Weird Al Yankovic.
For me, it's Two Weeks
>>131217296Saw a bunch of ABB shows that year. Including both Clapton shows. 8th row. killer shit.>40th Anniversary>62 guests over 15 nights>Claptons sits in 2 nights for a set each>Gregg healthy and killing it>killer tour2009 was the best year for the Warren and Derek era- they were straight fire.https://youtu.be/pb22MYqdugE?si=KW3sibOvDYKJ9eHX&t=14
How dare people call this wondrous album--actual quotes, now--"insipid," "saccharine," "clumsy"? Only I don't mean people--I mean journalists professional and self-appointed, from rockist sourpusses to keepers of the hip-hop flame. Just plain people love it--love it so much that various of its tracks topped the pop charts nonstop for the entire summer. "Party All the Time" is no more a recipe for living than is instant Wi-Fi for all, the message of the supposedly "political" "Now Generation." But in a party anthem it's the definition of intelligence. Sampling classic rap rapaciously and as cool with Auto-Tune as with getting their drunk on, they party beginning to end, which as it happens is a far rarer achievement than signifying beginning to end. Maybe this album is dumb on the surface, though not as much as fools claim. But sure as showbiz it isn't dumb underneath. A
>>131217890Ding a ling a ling ling, ding a ling a ling lingDing a ling a ling ling, ding a lingJanga janga dang a lang
>>131217890Correct grade: C minus at highest, D more likely.
>>131217874The Derek Trucks Band also released their best album that year...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrB-tTKxY6w
>>131217296hey guys I like everything /mu/ liked in 2009 and think everything else is shit and also I am a special snowflake
As he told "XXL": "I wanted to go back to Proof's idea of, 'Let's just say the most f*cked up sh*t we can say.'" In other words, this great artist's big concept for his first album since 2004 is a D12 homage. Having slyly categorized it as horrorcore early on, and riding Dr. Dre's most bombastic beats ever, he unrolls the offensive work of art bluenoses have always insisted was there: misogyny up the wazoo, lesbians-only homophobia, libels for a stepdad, murders unnumbered, sexual humiliations previously unknown to hip-hop and more dropped names than Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who's funnier--and also, uh-oh, more boyish. In a socially redeeming denouement, all of this and more is blamed on the drugs we hope he's kicked, we really do. There's even an inspirational number no more boring than the one about offing Lindsay Lohan. But for the first time in his career Eminem settles for sensationalism straight up, and, worse still, makes you wonder whether he ever truly knew the difference. Em, this is not a Slim Shady album. Slim Shady had a lightness about him. B-
>>131218116would that he'd died in a plane crash in 2003
>>131218010hes now in Hell lol
>>131217890Die die die die die die die!!!
Where the genius loops a dying Dilla strung together on Donuts are a kind of chain necklace, Pete Rock weaves these legacy beats into something more ropelike--a lanyard, say. Since both records are more abstract than their cheering sections understand, the many voices Rock enlists make a difference. From Doom and Black Thought down to Phat Kat and Frank Nitty, they ground Dilla's beats where, for instance, the finished singles collected on Rapster's Dillanthology comp put them in the background where any pro knows they belong. The result is less a mixtape than a hip-hop version of a good Augustus Pablo album--more varied, jocular, and disquieting because that's how hip-hop is, but still a single organism. B+
>>131217296isn't this pointless when it's a year where /mu/ already existed?
>>131218307Nobody cares about J. Dilla anymore.
With their first album like you would with any other artist
>>131217560>forgetting the Tourist's trip
>>131218466i don't think thats the correct trip code
>>131218498yes it is, 4chan fucked around with its tripcode algorithm after the sharty hack last year
*inhales*WRONG
>>131218534oh, that explains it. glad i don't have alzheimers or something.
>>131218381Another hack that /mu/ used to think was AOTD because P4k told them she was.
Modern Religion is the jam of a lifetime
ADOBE SLABSBROSPORT IS THE JAM OF A LIFETIME
I liked the 14-track 2008 version of this album, augmented in this two-CD set by an eight-song EP of comparable quality. But only after being overwhelmed by the sheer visibility of her warp-speed relaunch did I realize how enjoyable and inescapable her hooks and snatches had turned out to be. Even if you consider her videos and such overelaborate, as I do, her songs are streamlined pop machines. Some are more efficient than others--I prefer the "Poker Face" hook as jacked by Kid Cudi and Lil Wayne to Gaga's sandbagging original. But even the slower ones have a way of taking off, in part because she writes lyrics like a paper gangster. The tell is "Money Honey," an apparent descent into ever crasser materialism that instead revives a short-lived slang usage of "money." His Jag, enjoyable. His kisses, money. A-
Any emo kids here? Been jamming this all night, can't wait to see them at warped tour with my friends xD
>>131217352in 2009 no one was talking about CC here
>>131219849you're wrong
>>131219979yes, no, maybe so
>>131217296
>>131217296Man, I guess power metal and black metal finally clicked for me after ten years of being into heavy music.
>>131217840HOLY BASEDhttps://youtu.be/yXZs80DRy2c?t=64
Thank you Hal Willner. She's so much more powerful here than on her Polly Jean Harvey-Nick Cave flub of 2005--in part because the old songs outweigh the Meloy-Neko-Espers numbers included to prove the old bat is still hip to the jive, but also because detailed orchestration as well as dramatic commitment renew even the filthy Bessie Smith title tune, done classic blues style but with Lenny Pickett's sarrusophone providing a sprightly bass groan. It seems crazy to say that her "Down From Dover" equals Dolly Parton's or her "In My Solitude" Billie Holiday's--they're great singers and she's not. But working together, Faithfull and Willner convert them into pop artsongs that make their own kind of sense in the company of other very different pop artsongs, including Brian Eno and Judee Sill compositions previously beloved only by their mutually exclusive cults. Not the Espers one, though. Eclecticism has its limits. A
>>131221007That took a lot of shooping to make her 63 year old mug look 28 again. Not that she looked that bad for having spent years as a mentally ill drug addict.
THEYYYY WILLLL NOT FORRRRCEE USSSSSSS
Though I wish I believed McKay would have discovered Day if the 87-year-old box office queen hadn't devoted half her adult life to animal rights, the spritz, groove, sweetness and delight of this project not only raise Day from the shallow grave of the camp canon but give McKay a chance to grow up without going all sententious or stodgy. If by some mischance she's contracted the writer's block that can afflict kids who've spent years unable to staunch the river of new songs within--the only original is one of the few forgettables--then McKay has a future as an interpreter. At first the jazzy lightness of her arrangements seems like a distortion. But when you compare Day's "Crazy Rhythm" or "Do Do Do"--even the radio transcription of "Sentimental Journey" or a "Wonderful Guy" so much less brassy than Mary Martin's--you remember that like every Cincinnati girl of her era Day grew up with swing and probably resented the orchestral overkill she was saddled with. McKay's covers are jazzier and kookier than anything Day would have dared, or wanted. But to borrow language she's used for Day, they're "uncluttered, sensual and free, driven by an irrepressible will to live." A
>>131221160>Though I wish I believed McKay would have discovered Day if the 87-year-old box office queen hadn't devoted half her adult life to animal rightsthis is interesting because her age is stated correctly here while most other sources report that she was always claimed to be two years younger than her true and and this wasn't clarified until a few years before her death in 2019
>>131220381this band sucks
>>131217703not a lot of notable musician deaths this year
