grandmaster_owl
10-30-2003, 04:14 PM
I got the Gorillaz CD first. I got it almost a week after I saw the video for Clint Eastwood, and just like any album I've ever bought on impulse, I was a little reserved. But when I heard it, it knocked my socks off. I wanted to know who the actual artists were, I wanted to know who collaborated to make this brainchild known as Gorillaz, but to no avail.
A little while later, I bought Wanna Buy A Monkey? for 15 smackaroos from a Sam Goody after seing a comercial for it and seing that there was the original version of Que Pasa Contigo on there. The album is excellent, and it led me to buy many others produced by Dan the Automator, including the X-Ecutioners. I learned about one of the greatest white MCs of all time, (No, not Eminem, you poseurs,) MC Paul Barman, and I learned about Handsome Boy Modelling school. Then, after hearing some songs from Del Tha Funky Homosapien, I went out and picked up Deltron 3030 ("Way past the millenium, check it out now!") I was not dissapointed. Dan the Automator, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, the X-Ecutioners, DJ Shadow, MC Paul Barman, and that awesome vocalist from Blur, Damon Albarn are part of a megasphere of hip-hop and rap that can't be stopped, a virtual network of musicians, MCs, DJs, producers, and other artists that can't be stopped.
So, on a somewhat unrelated topic, I picked up SpeakerBoxxx/The Love Below because I heard Hey Yah and The Way You Move and liked them both. Unfortunately, there's not much else I liked about this double album. But I pop in Deltron 3030 and am instantly gratified with nice beats and better rhymes.
Compare these chorus':
"I like the way you move, I like the way you move, I like the way you move, I like the way, ooh, I like the way..." - Big Boi, The Way You Move
Terrible and Repetitive. But now Del's contribution:
"I wanna create a virus to bring dire straights to your enviroments, crush all corporations with a mild touch, trash a whole computer system and revert you to papyrus..." - Deltron 3030, Virus
Never gets old.
What do you guys think about the Automator Universe? Or even about buying an album and feeling like your getting gyped?
A little while later, I bought Wanna Buy A Monkey? for 15 smackaroos from a Sam Goody after seing a comercial for it and seing that there was the original version of Que Pasa Contigo on there. The album is excellent, and it led me to buy many others produced by Dan the Automator, including the X-Ecutioners. I learned about one of the greatest white MCs of all time, (No, not Eminem, you poseurs,) MC Paul Barman, and I learned about Handsome Boy Modelling school. Then, after hearing some songs from Del Tha Funky Homosapien, I went out and picked up Deltron 3030 ("Way past the millenium, check it out now!") I was not dissapointed. Dan the Automator, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, the X-Ecutioners, DJ Shadow, MC Paul Barman, and that awesome vocalist from Blur, Damon Albarn are part of a megasphere of hip-hop and rap that can't be stopped, a virtual network of musicians, MCs, DJs, producers, and other artists that can't be stopped.
So, on a somewhat unrelated topic, I picked up SpeakerBoxxx/The Love Below because I heard Hey Yah and The Way You Move and liked them both. Unfortunately, there's not much else I liked about this double album. But I pop in Deltron 3030 and am instantly gratified with nice beats and better rhymes.
Compare these chorus':
"I like the way you move, I like the way you move, I like the way you move, I like the way, ooh, I like the way..." - Big Boi, The Way You Move
Terrible and Repetitive. But now Del's contribution:
"I wanna create a virus to bring dire straights to your enviroments, crush all corporations with a mild touch, trash a whole computer system and revert you to papyrus..." - Deltron 3030, Virus
Never gets old.
What do you guys think about the Automator Universe? Or even about buying an album and feeling like your getting gyped?