Odds and Ends 007

and you can hear Xgau say "Not as many as you!".

I heard that and thought that might have been him. Priceless. Thanks Joe for the conformation. I haven't gone on another Snider binge yet but I can't wait to hear the new stuff live next month as well as the great stories sure to precede them.

In-fcuking-credible.​ Checking out the Wiley title Jimmy flagged, I discovered that on my advance the title I have is right. Then I went to Amazon and discovered that it had many more tracks than my advance (and also had Jimmy's title). Fortunately, Debelle on the same label looks identical. But in short order I will get Wiley outta there--I mean, I've only heard half of it--and replace it with an older hip-hop worthy I have in the can. I really hate this stuff--no way to keep track of it all.

The Snider kick xgau's got me on has me wishing that someone had suggested 'Alcohol and Pills' in the wake of Whitney Houston's death. I know little about her, and care only a little more for her music, but this song's even heavier than it normally is right now. Poor women. This post however is as much a celebration of Todd's prescience and compassion as it is about Houston's mistakes. Man, he's great. And someone's gonna have a hard time making a better album than Stoner Fables this year, I think. Three songs at least I'll want to hear for foreseeable future. The first track's good enough to be a counter-Bible verse, the second's the narrative of our fuct political climate, and the last makes me shake my αss in public. 

From my 2011 metacritic file, top-rated hip-hop not covered by EW (includes my ratings, where available, in right margin, although some of them look suspiciously generous at the moment):

Kendrick Lamar: Section.80 (Top Dawg Entertainment) {71} *
Tyler, the Creator: Goblin (XL) {66} *
ASAP Rocky: LiveLoveASAP (RCA/Polo Grounds Music) {58} ***
Death Grips: Exmilitary (Third Worlds) {35} *
The Weeknd: Thursday (self-released) {33}
Ghostpoet: Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam (Brownswood) {28} ***
Thundercat: The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder) {28}
Phonte: Charity Starts at Home (Foreign Exchange Music) {24} ***
DJ Quik: The Book of David (Mad Science) {23} **
Bad Meets Evil: Hell: The Sequel (Interscope) {19} **
Raekwon: Shaolin vs Wu-Tang (Ice H2O) {19}
The Cool Kids: When Fish Ride Bicycles (Green Label Sounds) {17} *
CunninLynguists: Oneirology (QN5 Music) {17} A-
Evidence: Cats and Dogs (Rhymesayers Entertainment) {17} **
G-Side: The One . . . Cohesive (Slow Motion Soundz) {17} ***
Random Axe: Random Axe (Duck Down Music) {17} **
Killer Mike: Pl3dge (SMC) {16} ***
The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence (mixtape) {16}
Currensy: Weekend at Burnie's (Warner Bros) {15}
Talib Kweli: Gutter Rainbows (Duck Down Music) {15} **
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter IV (Universal Motown/Cash Money) {15} *
Main Attrakionz: 808s and Dark Grapes II (Mishka) {15} **
Big Sean: Finally Famous (GOOD Music/Island Def Jam) {14}
The Game: The RED Album (DGC) {14} B
Wiz Khalifa: Rolling Papers (Atlantic) {14} *
Wale: Ambition (Warner Bros) {14}
13 and God: Own Your Ghost (Anticon) {13} **
Elzhi: Elmatic (mixtape) {13} A-
MellowHype: BlackenedWhite (Fat Possum) {13} *
Roots Manuva: 4everevolution (Banana Klan/Big Dada) {13} B
Tech N9ne: All 6's and 7's (Strange Music) {13} B-
Atmosphere: The Family Sign (Rhymesayers Entertainment) {12} ***
Dels: Gob (Big Dada) {12} **
Yelawolf: Radioactive (Interscope) {12} *
9th Wonder: The Wonder Years (Traffic Entertainment) {11} A-
Currensy: Covert Coup (Warner Bros) {11}
Spank Rock: Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a F---ing Liar (Bad Blood) {11} ***
Young Jeezy: TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition (Def Jam) {11}
Chris Brown: FAME (Jive) {10} B
Lil B: I'm Gay (I'm Happy) (BasedWorld) {10} **
Wiley: 100% Publishing (Big Dada) {10} **
Clams Casino: Rainforest (Tri Angle, EP) {9}
Mr Muthaf---in' eXquire: Lost in Translation (Mishka) {9} ***
Maybach Music Group: Self Made Vol 1 (Warner Bros) {9}
Plan B: The Defamation of Strickland Banks (679/Atlantic) {9} B
Schoolboy Q: Setbacks (Top Dawg) {9} **
Black Milk/Danny Brown: Black and Brown (Fat Beats, EP) {8} **
Doomtree: No Kings (Doomtree) {8} *
J-Rocc: Some Cold Rock Stuf (Stones Throw) {8} **
Astronautalis: This Is Our Science (Fake Four) {7} *
Blueprint: Adventures in Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers Entertainment) {7} **
Cities Aviv: Digital Lows (Fat Sandwich) {7}
Oddisee: Rock Creek Park (Mello Music Group) {7} B
Spaceghostpurrp: Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (1991) (mixtape) {6}
Stalley: Lincoln Way Nights: Intelligent Trunk Music (Mishka) {6} **
Apathy: Honkey Kong (Demigodz) {5}
Blitz the Ambassador: Native Sun (Embassy MVMT) {5}
Blu: No York (Sound Is Color) {5}
DaVinci: Feast or Famine (SWTBRDS, EP) {5} ***
Dessa: Castor, the Twin (Doomtree) {5} ***
Grieves: Together/Apart (Rhymesayers Entertainment) {5} **
G-Side: Island (Slow Motion Soundz) {5} A-
Hail Mary Mallon: Are You Gonna Eat That? (Rhymesayers Entertainment) {5} A-
Theophilus London: Timez Are Weird These Days (Reprise) {5} B
Roc Marciano/The Alchemist/Oh No (Gangrene): Greneberg (Decon, EP) {5}
Mac Miller: Blue Slide Park (Rostrum) {5} ***
Pac Div: The Div (RBC) {5}
Reks: Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme (Brick) {5}
Sims: Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree) {5} ***

Also related to accuracy, the Ornette live one is called Opening the Caravan of Dreams.

Indeed it is. Live at... is a James 'Blood' Ulmer rekkid, released the very same year, too, far as I can tell.

Just to be super accurate...the Wiley song is just called "Weirdo"

Chris reminded me it's Ornette Coleman's birthday today. Now can someone please release Live at the Caravan of Dreams on CD?

PPU VII-Co znamena vesti kone (aka Leading Horses).  Studio album from 1981.  Part five of seven.  Volume six in the series, which I don't own, is called Jak bude po smrti.  No idea what's on it.

 

I'll be unable to post the next part for a couple of weeks.  Apologies for the delay.  If there's any problemq with this one let me know.  (However, I won't be available for about a week and a half from this afternoon, so I may not be able to fix it until later if there is a problem.)

 

PPU VII-http://tinyurl.c​om/7bf4oot