Showing posts with label albums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label albums. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 January 2012

BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS OF ALL TIME




EASY RIDER
One of the greatest independent films of all time. I first saw it on VHS in the late 80's while ripped on MDA. I had no idea what the hell was going on but when I saw Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson  dancing like birds I knew I was seeing something special. At the end when they go to Mardi Gras it felt like I did more acid than them (MDA was pretty hallucinagenic back then).....This is a definite desert island selection....all of these songs are timeless classics except Born To Be Wild which is the cheesiest most overplayed bullshit track in the history of bullshit. Just skip past that one.

Steppenwolf –The Pusher
Steppenwolf –Born To Be Wild
Smith  –The Weight
Byrds - Wasn't Born To Follow
Holy Modal Rounders -If You Want To Be A Bird
Fraternity Of Man –Don't Bogart Me (AKA Don't Bogart That Joint)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - If Six Was Nine
Electric Prunes - Kyrie Eleison/Mardi Gras (When The Saints)
Roger McGuinn –It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Roger McGuinn –Ballad Of Easy Rider

http://www.mediafire.com/?61wttm15rxendqv



THE HARDER THEY COME
This is a fairly enjoyable film. Typical story but Jimmy Cliff is convincing as a gangster musician. The soundtrack is a collection of some of the best Jamaican songs ever. My first ever paying DJ job was playing reggae. I just lied to get it and said I was an experienced reggae dj. In reality I had only ever heard maybe one Bob Marley record and some Linton Kwesi Johnson. I was completely ignorant to the fact that djing was invented in Jamaica. A friend lent me a small collection of ska, rocksteady and reggae records and this record was one of them. I think I played pretty much every song on the album every Saturday night for about 2 years.....


1. You Can Get It If You Really Want-Jimmy Cliff
2. Draw Your Brakes-Scotty
3. Rivers Of Babylon-The Melodians
4. Many Rivers To Cross-Jimmy Cliff
5. Sweet And Dandy-The Maytals
6. The Harder They Come-Jimmy Cliff
7. Johnny Too Bad-The Slickers
8. Shanty Town-Desmond Dekker
9. Pressure Drop-Maytals
10. Sitting In Limbo-
Jimmy Cliff
11. You Can Get It If You Really Want-
Jimmy Cliff
12. The Harder They Come-
Jimmy Cliff



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Thursday, 7 July 2011

3 GREAT HIP HOP RECORDS

SLICK RICK: THE ART OF STORYTELLING
A few years after his release from prison Slick Rick dropped this gem. Almost perfect from start to finish, he covers every style, every topic, collaborates with some of the best rappers and producers in the game,  One of the few albums I can listen start to finish. Every song still sounds timeless, I play 'MEMORIES' almost every party I play. Right out the gate he just starts flowing on 'em:
"Hoes ass kiss cause I'm like Jason, vision
Releasin' me a basket case from prison - Pissed
Blood feenin', the villain like 'Wassup ya'll'
Deep down schemin' how to kill 'em
Misleadin' a bit, although proceedin' a hit
I made 'em feel I'd never jeopardise my freedom for shit

Played the empty headed part,
Though the moment they dreaded start, neat
Back of the head and took the credit card
Seen properly decease,
Made it look like an everyday robbery to police
And I's out
Police believed a thief pop for sureity, a jerky
Alert the rest to beef up security
And not to get flashy, although another blast occurred
Another brother deservin' to get massacred
Pleasure in poppin' that flea
Should a heard mister tough guy coppin' mad pleas
Not insane, nor am I biased
Though feels good to watch a motherfucker die before
my fly ass
Ain't nuttin' to blast, fuck it
Then I put some crack vials in the ass pocket and was off
Police said a thug awaited, since I didn't leave no evidence
A drug related incident"



PRINCE PAUL: A PRINCE AMONG THIEVES
http://www.mediafire.com/?vh3yyav0tmu
Not the first rap opera, but by far the best. Epic. A simple story: boy still lives at home, needs money for a demo tape cuz he has a meeting with RZA. His job at the chicken shack ain't cuttin it, so his hustler buddy hooks him up with a job slanging yay on the corner. 
Lots of guest appearances including heavy hitters like Kool Keith, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Chubb Rock, Sadat X, and Everlast. The lead is played by relative unknown Breezely Bruin (MC Breeze of Juggaknotz) who is a very talented wordsmith with quite the lyrical flow. His nemesis is played by Big Sha.....
This is worth seeking out on vinyl, nice packaging and artwork. It's a joy to flip each side over to get to the finale, and then start all over again.

BUSHWICK BILL: LITTLE BIG MAN
I love Geto Boys, but most of all I love Bushwick. He did a rap opera too, but before that was his first solo outing, LITTLE BIG MAN. He tells the story of how his eye got shot out, tells everyone to fuck off for calling him short and talks about killing motherfuckers and bangin' ho's. What could be better. The samples used are classic, the lyrics are hype, the skits are hilarious.
"Back to Juanita, the peter eater
This bitch swallowed my sperm by the 2-liter
She said that my dick tasted much sweeter yeah
Baby who knows her pose, bend over touch your toes
And close your mouth fore a minute
Before I end up stickin my dick in it
And you can't handle that, it's too massive
Girl I fuck around and block your wind passage
Bang bang, I was doin my thang
And the way I swang that bitch couldn't hang
I, made the bitch do, yoga
I, rocked the boat, tipped the boat over
Fired up a cig, grabbed the gin, took a swig
Stuck my dick in, and I dug, can you dig?
I was runnin through that ass like an 18-wheeler rig
I let them hoes know they don't come too big, check it"

Monday, 2 May 2011

3 OF THE BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

OL DIRTY BASTARD:NIGGA PLEASE
This album sounds like the Neptunes finished up all the beats and then they put down plastic over everything, brought in a kilo of cocaine and case of Hennessy and just locked ODB in the room. You feel like you are a part of something special when you listen to this. As great as James Brown or The Rolling Stones.
R.I.P. Russel Tyrone Jones.
"I'm immune to all viruses
I get the cocaine it cleans out my sinuses
Just for slinging *nuh* I get a quarter a mil
I'll have it raining ice drops the size of automobiles
Kill all the government microchips in my body
I'm the paranoid nigga at your party
I kill all my enemies at birth!
Shut the fuck up!
Bitch and let my slide my hands up your skirt
Nigga please!"


GETO BOYS: TIL DEATH DO US PART
I know this doesn't have their classics on here but the album as whole is super strong. 'Bring It On' has the whole Rap-A-Lot Family on there including Too Low, the Odd Squad(Devin the Dudes first group) and the Fifth ward Boys. Epic. Although Willie D had quit the group at this point, Big Mike brings a more serious gangster quality to this outing. The samples are soulful, the raps are thuggin but smooth......a more modern and mature Geto Boys emerge. I had this on cassette and played it every damn day for years. I can sing along to most of it.

"Seven years old,I'm lookin' up to the ganstas in the hood,

'cause to me and my cousins yeah they represented good,
Even when we played cops and robbers on the block,
nobody wanted to play the cop yeah,
'cause the cop was a pussy-ass bitch,
and if you played the cop, nigga you got your ass kicked!"



 KOOL KEITH: SEX STYLE
So genius. So out there. So dirty. Best rapper alive. This album changed my life.
 "Your moms at my hotel, her bra is real cute, Dressed in G-strings, she's scopin me, 
eatin fruit. She licked my balls, I came like Niagara Falls....."