[ducatirider]

That's some record rack for twelve and a half.

[TONEPUB]

Too rich for my blood, but it really is gorgeous...

Im more of a Todd the Vinyl Junkie record crate guy!

[vinyl anachronist]

For $400, I had a carpenter make me a custom LP rack using 1.5" thick wood on all sides.  It's beautifully finished in a fruitwood stain and will hold 3000 LPs. Unlike those Ikea Lack shelves, it will be on this earth long after I've gone.

But yes, that other rack is absolutely stunning.

[kenreau]

"A Colbert Christmas has zoomed to the top of my favorite holiday album playlist.  Kanye West isn’t fit to lick Colbert’s snow shoes! "

Hee Hee.  Amen brother.  I really don't get Kanye Wests popularity.  The end of the world must be near...

[TONEPUB]

Hah, me neither.

I really like hip hop music (you know that from when we were blasting Snoop Dogg at my house!)
but KW's new record is really weak.

It wouldn't be so bad, but when interviewed, he's always such an egotistical jerk, claiming he's
so much more talented than everyone else.

UGH.

Give me Colbert any day!

[kenreau]

Hah, me neither.

I really like hip hop music (you know that from when we were blasting Snoop Dogg at my house!)
but KW's new record is really weak.

It wouldn't be so bad, but when interviewed, he's always such an egotistical jerk, claiming he's
so much more talented than everyone else.

UGH.

Give me Colbert any day!

Yes sir, Colbert & Snoop have the gift of entertainment.

Listening to Doggy Style was a real ear opener (and ringer...).   I had no idea it sounded that good.  Music content and sound quality.  That is some real funky grooves that get your toes a tappin.  Gin and Juice is a real slice of life I really dig.  Reminds me a little of the song writing skills of Lynyrd Skynyrd where they tell such a great story you don't need a video.



Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way
There's too much coke and too much smoke
Look what's going on inside you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Angel of darkness is upon you
Stuck a needle in your arm
So take another toke, have a blow for your nose
One more drink fool, will drown you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Now they call you Prince Charming
Can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes
Say you'll be all right come tomorrow
But tomorrow might not be here for you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Hey, you're a fool you
Stick them needles in your arm
I know I been there before

One little problem that confronts you
Got a monkey on your back
Just one more fix, Lord might do the trick
One hell of a price for you to get your kicks
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Sorry for the tangent, but that is what 98% of the current music scene lacks.  I guess I could have posted the lyrics to Gin and Juice.

[kenreau]

"A Colbert Christmas has zoomed to the top of my favorite holiday album playlist.  Kanye West isn’t fit to lick Colbert’s snow shoes! "

Hee Hee.  Amen brother.  I really don't get Kanye Wests popularity.  The end of the world must be near...

Further proof....Kanye West Caught Lip-Synching?
Posted Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:35pm PST by Blender Magazine in The Blender Burner

Kanye West is well-known for two things: his awesome rapping and his arrogance. The guy's music is so intensely good it (almost) justifies his God complex. Every time the rapper gets onstage at some awards show and accepts one statue by claiming he should have won another one, we usually have to agree. West has encouraged us to expect such a superhuman level of perfection from him, it was inevitable he would one day not be able to meet it. 

That day was last Saturday, when West performed on Saturday Night Live. Dude did not sound good. He was more American Idol blooper reel than Grammy-winning polished performer. So what was the problem? Well, it had something to do with the Auto-Tune feature--you know the part of "Love Lockdown" where he sings about a system overload and losing control? Well, he was living it! And it was also pretty clear that when he got to the high notes, he pulled away from the mic and let an offstage singer handle the tough stuff. The bottom line is that we saw behind the curtain of Kanye West's seemingly impenetrable awesomeness. So was it satisfying to witness the world's most egocentric rapper all exposed on national television? No, no it was not. People were outraged. How dare he...sound so bad!
 
The outrage was so intense that it morphed into a bizarre lip-synching accusation. Instead of blaming Kanye West for putting on a sub-par performance, people attacked him for revealing that all those robotic tweaks in his songs are not, you know, organically produced. (Um, guys, there's no Santa Claus, either).

We say the scandal is not that Kanye lip-synched through a live TV performance, but that he failed to lip-synch through a live TV performance. If he'd had all the right bells and whistles on board, we would have been all like, "Wow, this rules," rather than all like, "Wow, this hurts our ears." Just sayin'

[TONEPUB]

As I said, he's not fit to lick Colbert's boots.

I love hip hop/rap and have since back in the early days of the
scene.  But as ICE-T used to say "Weak minds make weak rhymes".

I especially found the earliest rap artists to be very clever and
very creative. But so much of it the last five years or so has just
been a bunch of guys bragging about how awesome they are
and putting out mediocre material at best.

Kanye West is the biggest perpetrator of this....

UGH.