So this review idea, it’s popular, with me.
I’m enjoying doing it, I will be bored of it shortly, my aim is just to write a lot. I am back to work in a couple of weeks and am also back into education so hopefully I will keep up my one post a week thing, but it will be a bit more highbrow.
If you are an actual person who read this, these are me writing live. Listen along. I will post the YouTube and then you can read is kind of as I type it and imagine my sexy voice in your ear.
Very quick intro. Saturnz Returnz was Goldie’z second album. Inner City Life was this amazing achievement. Actually I should have done that or Maxinequaye by Tricky which are just completely legit, like I have not listened to either of them for about a year, but I want a challenge.
This album got a lot of hate. It’s an epic, it’s two discs. He was the guy for this new Drum n Bass music. It was a thing at the time, like it was rave music, but then Goldie made this album with Timecode that was like a piece of art. I’ll do that.
This is the follow up. The first disc is him and David Bowie making this weird song about wombs and stuff and it goes on for 40 minutes. I should listen again it’s probably great. But the second disc is the one that I am doing.
He was on top of the world and got everyone cool at the time to come on his album, it’s this big mishmash, and I had just moved into a house with my friends, we had it on repeat for a bit.
Let’s review
So it starts off with a song with then important guy Noel Gallagher. I think it’s at the beginning so you can skip it. It’s like the warm up, this is shit.
It’s Goldie shouting and Noel playing a guitar. I really have very little to say about this. Like it’s the cool bits that you put in a DnB track, the runs and cuts, but there is main course, rubbish.
This used to happen a lot when I was a kid and you bought records because it was how you got that music. Like they would have these really cool ideas and it sounded great to them, but then the record,
KRS One comes on the next song, and this was before rap and DnB was a thing, this was a big get for Goldie. Nice break and lyrics, it’s one of those things, like it sounds like a day at work, like swimmers, it looks easy. But then you are in the water and it’s just not.
This song had way too much influence on me, Goldie is just using all of the samples from the KRizzle songs and Chris is on form.
Hmmm. This is very old lol. I am having doubts I will finish this album.
Ok this is a production flex track 3, man I am going to do it again aren’t I? This is not great
He does have that cleanness to his sound combined with the special effects. But it’s all loops. And this is arrogant as shit, but but there is this space that shouldn’t be there on this track.
This is pure nerd shit, I’m just writing to stay alive lol. I produce music and it really is what you spend hours and hours on your computer doing and very rarely achieve, like there is space you want
Ok next song, this is a kind of Morcheeba coffee table song, it’s very nice in a way, Jesus Fucking Christ, I am writing a blog post about this shit in 2024, not 2004. It’s a Sade song with Diane Charlemagne singing. Fuck off Nick
I gave up. It made me sad
I’m going to talk about my favourite songs from that era
This is just so sparse and tight and nasty. Like the space is in all of the right places. Cosmic horror and earthly dread. It’s relentless and evil creeping horror. It’s DJ skill it’s not intellectual, he’s got the best bit, he found that sound and it’s just the elements.
If I made a film, it would have this.
It’s very weird, like DnB at the time was kind of an intellectual thing, like people still like DnB and it’s much better done now, but this was all invented. I remember my friend brought the CD round cos we had a nice stereo and when that bass sound appeared we were all like ‘OOOOOOH!!!’
ok. It is also really well constructed. I’m going to learn to make that sound, it is not super complicated, but I want it
Ok to be honest I got bored of the whole thing, I put on Michelle Obama. That is fucking terrifying
I’m going to watch Obama Obama as well afterwards, I love it. They are rock stars, but it’s fascistic.
Like they are playing the hits, they are those people, I’m sat here smoking a vape and typing into a blog. I’ve met these people, they are just healthier and more motivated, fine, you won.
But you do these speeches, you talk about being good people, you are rich and you earned it. But we can smell your toilet, don’t you know there’s a genocide on?
It’s just amazing. Like that famous ‘first they came for the Communists, and I didn’t care….’ it’s literally that.
Ok, let me find something I do like. I kind of imagine TangerineBreem actually reading all of this and enjoying it. Hi Matt!
I you are not him and you are reading all of this. Fuck off, you’ve had your pound of flesh. Are you not entertained?
An undeniable song. The Bossa beat, the amazing singing. The percussion is just ridiculous, like I listened to this song twice and it that shaker, it’s just something that I would never think of, he’s playing it like a guitar.
It’s one of those songs, one of those things, like I didn’t even realise that there was a guitar in it, it’s everything to everyone.
Brazil had a moment at that time. Cidade de Deus, Seu Jorge, DJ Patife, Gilberta Gil.
I’ll write about that tomorrow
I have to go to work soon, although it’s not work so much as Woke nowadays. I’ll probably be sacked for not being a muslim
Anyway, please join us tomorrow. We have Rodney Dangerfield, Kate Nash, Malcolm Macdowell, and Faye Wong
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