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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Top 15 for 2k6 |
| Date | Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:45:58 -0600 |
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I'd actually go a bit further, and say that the album is not as inspired
musically as the first two Streets albums. There are some good tracks, but
it's not nearly as good.
However, Sam, you say that you don't know enough about hip-hop to comment
intelligently about it, but then go ahead and say that critics fawn over
(basicallly) rappers who aren't coherent and/or articulate. This is a
pretty broad generalization. Yes, there is a lot of crap out there that
sells -- but basing views on rap on the lowest common denominator thugs
would be like basing views on rock music on Nickleback. If anything, a lot
of the most critically acclaimed rap of recent years has been music that has
been very expressive -- The Roots, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, and many others.
Mike Bennett
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>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Top 15 for 2k6
>Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:35:03 -0500
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Smith" <sam@lullabypit.com>
>>13: The Streets – The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living: I don't
>>know enough about hip-hop to comment intelligently, but this is unusual
>>in its intelligence. Frankly, there's too much damned critical fawning
>>over rap artists who aren't smart enough to craft a coherent thought, so
>>I'm always appreciative when I trip across a hip-hopper with something
>>useful to say.
>
>If you haven't heard them already, you really must check out the two
>previous Streets albums, ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL and A GRAND DON'T COME
>FOR FREE. Suffice to say, this album is jostling with Calexico's GARDEN
>RUIN for the less than coveted top slot on my "biggest disappointments"
>list: musically, it's fine, but lyrically, it's not a patch on the earlier
>albums. Skinner's original persona was obviously a contrust, but that
>persona was definitely a lot more interesting than his lyrics here, which
>are nothing more than yet another iteration of "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
>Being rich and famous and successful is SOOOOOOOOOOO stressful and
>annoying!" Did the world really need grime's answer to RUNNING ON EMPTY?
>
>S
>
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