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!
game theory is their best since things fall apart
even if it was just a cd single with peedi’s verse from long time on it itd be better than phrenology
Unfortunately your answer is incorrect.
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.
Game Theory is great, ?uestlove OTM.
Ethan OTM
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?
Hi Phil!
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.
dude was jocking electric circus & the love below too
If someone could translate all of this into English I’d be most grateful—Babelfish isn’t too helpful.
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.
by english i assume you mean overwritten namedrops & pussified limey snob e-thuggin right
Didn’t stay dead for long, did you?
what the fuck are you talking about
oh right, for a second i thought buttez was back but actually it’s just ethan faffing about again
maybe get babelfish to help translate you getting a fucking clue
i’m pretty sure the roots were high up on angus batey’s ‘urban’ year end list.
Is he any relation to Mr & Mrs presenter Derek Batey?
i would wager not.
ILX—“Be nice to each other.”
Marcello’s 2006 list 50—31
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
^^^ now thats gangsta
nice ego boost for him there
Nice of you to highlight it, DJM, but really it should be on the year-end list thread...
Leave this thread to discussion of the Roots’ underwhelming recent oeuvre kthnxbye.
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…?
it’s just a prediction of your list ! that other thread is for actual lists
anyway, do the maths !
srsly, how do you find the time?
day off today
ha ha
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...)
8 out of 30 !
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?
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wow
somebody just got owned but i dont think it was dj martian
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
Thing is I know who Ethan is. I don’t know who you are.
...
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.
This will be quasi-trolling on your part, correct?
i’m just offering you my advice as politely as i can.
So how about that ?uestlove, huh?
How big is his world that Mojo is its centre?
Wait, I’ll start a thread about you guys and maybe that will be about Mojo & ?uestlove after a while.
can someone start a FAQ thread were old Ilxor names = Nu Ilxor names
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.
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...
boo-hoo
Boo-hoo what? Boo-hoo Martian or boo-hoo roots?
Game Theory is a good album, poor ?uestlove, lock thread.
BOO-HOO HUMANITY
Boo-hoo what?
Sorry: Boo-hoo ?uestlove.
BOO-URNS
Is Mojo no longer a classic rock mag? I haven’t looked at it in years.
Bo-ho Moojoo
I like that Patrice Rushen is playing in the background.
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.
Apparently ?uesto is working on Al Green’s next album.
I both admire his honesty and giggle at his arrogance!
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.
but expecting to win an award (and pouting when you don’t) seems a tad hubristic.
Kanye ?uest
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...).
What’s that supposed to mean? I’m from Belgium too and I know... oh wait, you’re right.
Dude, you’re from the cool part. :-)
But that’s the same part you’re fr... Yeah, we are, aren’t we! :-)
I thought Belgium split up.
That was just a joke. (much like Belgium itself, in fact)