The Roots didn't make Mojo's top 50 list, ?uestlove bummed out :-(

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― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

They didn't make my Top 50 list either.

Pretty poor, considering they came third in my 2003 list.

Solution: start making decent records again!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

game theory is their best since things fall apart

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

even if it was just a cd single with peedi's verse from long time on it itd be better than phrenology

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Unfortunately your answer is incorrect.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, he's in Bristol and he's sitting around wah-wahing about some fucking music magazine instead of going to Shake King? ?uestlove = man with fucked up priorities.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Game Theory is great, ?uestlove OTM.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Ethan OTM

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://www.sheepmagazine.com/issues/05_06_06a.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hold up carlin do you even fuck with rap music?? who the fuck knighted you to name what rap shit deserves a spot on your blog-only list of 80s hasbeens and wack teenpop?

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Phil!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever dude. TFA is still one of my favorite records ever, and I'd be really surprised if I listened to Phrenology more than five times. Never did hear the Tipping Point.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

dude was jocking electric circus & the love below too

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

If someone could translate all of this into English I'd be most grateful - Babelfish isn't too helpful.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Game Theory is one of their best albums yet, no question. found all the tributes to Dilla really moving and non-mawkish, too. really bummed i missed them last night at Brixton.

― stevie (stevie2), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

by english i assume you mean overwritten namedrops & pussified limey snob e-thuggin right

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't stay dead for long, did you?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

what the fuck are you talking about

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

oh right, for a second i thought buttez was back but actually it's just ethan faffing about again

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe get babelfish to help translate you getting a fucking clue

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm pretty sure the roots were high up on angus batey's 'urban' year end list.

― stevie (stevie2), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Is he any relation to Mr & Mrs presenter Derek Batey?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i would wager not.

― stevie (stevie2), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX - "Be nice to each other."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello's 2006 list 50 - 31
http://cookham.blogspot.com/

marcello's top 30 prediction game - the 40 mostly likely candidates - how many am i missing for the final 30? or to put it another way, how many are in the 30?

i reckon at least 20 of these will be in the top 30, but there is bound to be some esoteric choices [e.g jazz, pop, canadian types] that i am overlooking

not in order:

Plan B
Skream
Bat for Lashes
Scott Walker
Burial
Breakage
TV on the Radio
Grizzly Bear
Espers
M. Ward

Beirut
The Knife
Pet Shop Boys
Scritti Politti
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
Boxcutter
Triosk
Benoît Pioulard
iliketrains
Subtle

Barbara Morgenstern
Joan As Police Woman
Nathan Fake
Cortney Tidwell
Nina Nastasia
Trentemøller
Lindsey Buckingham
Justin Timberlake
Tunng
Clark

Ellen Allien & Apparat
Sibylle Baier
Phoenix
Don Fagen
Matmos
Ornette Coleman
Ali Farka Touré
Sparks
Various Production

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^ now thats gangsta

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

nice ego boost for him there

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice of you to highlight it, DJM, but really it should be on the year-end list thread...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Leave this thread to discussion of the Roots' underwhelming recent oeuvre kthnxbye.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

39. KID KOALA: Your Mom’s Favorite DJ
His Carpal Tunnel Syndrome debut I will always associate with the late spring Monday morning in Abingdon when I bought it – it made me laugh as so much earnest post-Shadow DJ cybernetics were singularly failing to yield any humour (has there ever been a deader end in music than UNKLE’s Psyence Fiction?). However, the Montreal maestro’s bona fide debut, the Scratchcratchratchatch mixtape which he only ever intended as a demo, is reportedly his masterpiece – two fifteen-minute long sides of scratching and sampling antics which have never been given a formal release. Your Mom’s Favorite DJ is an attempt to recapture and update that record’s jouissance, deploying the same format, and it’s fantastic; an aural slippage of fragments, beats and, in the various “Slew Test” takes, startlingly avant-garde, like the Red Krayola smooching the Antipop Consortium (and better than either). However, the general mood is one of zippy, nippy playfulness; and I note from the CD booklet that Kid Koala is willing to provide mixtapes for weddings free of charge. I wonder if he would be interested in doing a mix for ours…?

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

it's just a prediction of your list ! that other thread is for actual lists

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, do the maths !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly, how do you find the time?

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

day off today

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but this thread is for the Roots and we mustn't detour it any further.

(anyway, DJM, you got eight, and behave else there'll be more "DJ Punctum" posts...)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

8 out of 30 !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello is CLUELESS he should WAKE UP!

It's not 1982 anymore, old timer - immerse yourself in things happening now!

Why no blowwave, Munich ILM or schottische schaffel?

DJ Nexus traversed boundaries with his era-defining Tubaloop CD - where were you, MC - asleep?

― DJ Punctum (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

...

― strongo (temp.) (sandboxhulkington), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

wow

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

somebody just got owned but i dont think it was dj martian

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, you have to at least log out before doing horrible self-parody. I barely stop in here but ethan is sounding an order of magnitude more believable at the minute.

x-post

― mh (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Thing is I know who Ethan is. I don't know who you are.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

...

― strongo (temp.) (sandboxhulkington), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

martian parodies aren't funny unless done by gareth or ronan. it's annoying but we all just have to accept this and move on.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

This will be quasi-trolling on your part, correct?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm just offering you my advice as politely as i can.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

So how about that ?uestlove, huh?

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How big is his world that Mojo is its centre?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, I'll start a thread about you guys and maybe that will be about Mojo & ?uestlove after a while.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

can someone start a FAQ thread were old Ilxor names = Nu Ilxor names

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

It's pretty simple - The Roots have kept rolling on because of critical acclaim, ?uestlove is obsessive when it comes to musical canon, history, and details like lists. Same guy that writes a small novel to put in the liner notes of his band's albums. I can see where Mojo would be one of his favorites and why it'd be depressing.

― mh (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

martian parodies aren't funny unless done by gareth or ronan. it's annoying but we all just have to accept this and move on.
-- sede vacante (n...), December 12th, 2006. (later)

surely Matt DC as well...

― Cris (acrobat), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

boo-hoo

― arthritic hand golden fist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Boo-hoo what? Boo-hoo Martian or boo-hoo roots?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Game Theory is a good album, poor ?uestlove, lock thread.

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

BOO-HOO HUMANITY

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Boo-hoo what?

Sorry: Boo-hoo ?uestlove.

― arthritic hand golden fist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

BOO-URNS

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Mojo no longer a classic rock mag? I haven't looked at it in years.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Bo-ho Moojoo

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that Patrice Rushen is playing in the background.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Any chance ?uestlove could be kidding? I mean "if I'm honest with myself I make these records almost more for the critics than for the fans" is the opposite of what artists usually say in public.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently ?uesto is working on Al Green's next album.

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Friday, 15 December 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I both admire his honesty and giggle at his arrogance!

― Michael (Oakland Mike), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link

giggle at his arrogance

yeah... i mean, you can be proud of your album all you want, but expecting to win an award (and pouting when you don't) seems a tad hubristic. the MOJO poll is assembled from top tens submitted by all contributors. i loved Game Theory, but it wasn't on my list - there were at least ten better records this year, in my opinion, is all.

― stevie (stevie2), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

but expecting to win an award (and pouting when you don't) seems a tad hubristic.

http://images.43things.com/profile/00/01/20/73840s160.jpg

Kanye ?uest

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread is hilarious. Especially this line:

hold up carlin do you even fuck with rap music?? who the fuck knighted you to name what rap shit deserves a spot on your blog-only list of 80s hasbeens and wack teenpop?

Stop injecting expired steroids, dude.

BTW I think Game Theory was mediocre at best. But hey who am I to critize a record? I'm from Belgium and know fuck all about Rap (or Pop, or Rock, or...).

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

What's that supposed to mean? I'm from Belgium too and I know... oh wait, you're right.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, you're from the cool part. :-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

But that's the same part you're fr... Yeah, we are, aren't we! :-)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Belgium split up.

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That was just a joke. (much like Belgium itself, in fact)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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