Dynamite Hack - Boy-N-The Hood

Released: 2000
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One of the standout tracks from "Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap".

Dynamite Hack take Eazy-E and Ice Cube's slice of NWA ghetto life and turn it into a delicate folk song, complete with soft vocals and lilting acoustic-play.

Fucken classic.

8/10

Ghostface - Tush (feat Missy Elliott)

Released: 2004
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Ghostface Killah channels the lyrical content of Fiddy and wants to push push push in Missy's bush bush bush.

Was wu-tang ever this ghey? Ah who cares, it's catchy.

6/10

Ayumi Hamasaki - Humming 7/4

Released: 2004
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Japanese pop number with a bit of crunch.

So-so intro, kind of heavy for pop but still blandish.

This thankfully gives way to a great hook that pogoes along. I think shes singing in english for the chorus, but in the end it doesn't really matter.

7/10

Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme

Released: 1987
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Continuing my worship of all things 80's, here's an unforgettable slice of synth-glitz from the award-winning Jan, extracted from the classic miami vice soundtracks.



8/10

ps - what the fuck is this

Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Kimi to iu Hana

Released: 2003
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This song will blow your cock off.

8/10

Bizarre - Rockstar

Released: 2005
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Watch the video

Oh. my. god.

Someone has gone and given this guy an album contract.

He's even got his own website.

Album cover:


Apparently, there's gonna be a "clean version". How the fuck are they gonna manage that?

6/10 (5 + 1 for the vid)

The Mountain Goats - Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod

Delegated Review (Delegated by Dylan)
Released: 2005
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Voice reminds me of Paul Mcdermott's, but less annoying. Or maybe even an actual goat. Eccentric title that doesn't offend me. Acoustic based, the doom doom drums give it a feeling of building up all the way through. What can I say? It didn't give me wood, but it didn't make me want jam knitting needles into my ears either.

6/10

Yen Town Band - Sunday Park

Released: 1996
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Cloying girlish voice, acoustic based song. From a made up japanese band singing in english in a movie with a made up language.

7/10

Isolee - My Hi-matic

Released: 2005
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Nice warm kraftwerkian bleep-bleeping doop-dooping from Deutschland (where else?). Just don't call it IDM.

6/10

G-Force (Battle Of The Planets) Theme

Released: 1979
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Princess


makes me wanna


jack off until I bleed


8/10

Mos Def - Life Is Real

Released: 2004
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Most critics were bewildered and disappointed by the genre-shifting New Danger, but I liked all of it. Including this track.

However, what on earth was Mos doing playing Ford Prefect in the (atrocious) Hitchhikers Movie?



6/10

The New Amsterdams - I Won't Run Away

Released: 2000
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Jogja - Morning

Everythings a fucken cliche. What I just said is a fucken cliche.
Pull these strings from my chest then, wrap them around my neck and pluck a song for me.
Who are YOU to tell me to stop playing this song.

Are you happy now?

Fuck off.

8/10

2 Pac f/Bone Thugs n Harmony - Thug Love

Released: 1997
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I'm down with any track which features a gun cocking and shooting as it's central musical motif.

7/10

Sheena Ringo - Shuukyou

Track Review
Released: 2003
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0:00 - Epic Strings
0:11 - Spooky
0:35 - Bombastic
1:00 - Floating pop
1:39 - Drum machine staccato pop
2:02 - Bombastic
2:27 - Floating lilting strings
2:54 - Bombastic + Floating pop
3:31 - Drum machined, treated vox
4:38 - Pop and treated vox harmonies

Now in the band Tokyo Jihen, Sheena Ringo (Shena Rinngo, Shiina Ringo, and Shéna Ringö) mixes all that shit up. Are you into it? Can you dig it? I sure can.

7/10

Girls Aloud - The Show (Flip & Fill Remix)

Track Review
Released: 2004
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My fave slice of chav pop's been ambushed by a couple of gurning gatecrasher-ised trance-lite twits.

Flip and Fill, indeed.

5/10

Plastikman - Hypokondriak

Delegated Review (Gareth)
Released: 1998
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I really tried to get into this track, I hate being pigeonholed or backed into a corner, so when someone comes along and says "this'll really get to you" or "you'll really hate / love this" I immediately try to open my mind so that I don't automatically just agree with whatever they said I would do.

But gareth was right. This track is just fucked. 2 minutes into it I slipped into a sort of fugue state much like when I had attempted to watch 2001 : A Space Odyssey all the way through. I came to half an hour later staring at a photo of a pig.

2/10

Team Sleep - Delorian

Track Review
Released: 2005
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It's cold, freezing. The world's different shades of blue, thick and thin, over under, in and out. Dying for a cigarette, I don't smoke.

I hate her, but I hate myself more.

I don't want to get up.

7/10

Chrisye - Jika Surga Dan Neraka Tak Pernah Ada

Track Review
Released: 2004
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From Chrisye's album, Senyawa, a collaborative effort with different contemporary indonesian artists, comes this slow burner that creeps along like a black cat.

Strings fill out this solid track. You'll be humming the melody before too long.

Fuck you and your pidgeons.

7/10

John Barry - We Have All The Time In The World

Track Review
Released: 1969
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Lovely instrumental goodness from the king of soundtracks, John Barry.

The official version of this actually has Louis Armstrong crooning over the top of it, but I prefer it sans-vocals.

8/10

BBC Radio - Adolf Hitler Is Dead - Newsflash 01/05/1945

Soundbyte Review
Year of Origin: 1945
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Rarity from ww2 for you all.

Here it is, after 6 years of engagement in the biggest war ever know to mankind, the first on-air announcement to the residents of Blighty that the one-testicled kraut has carked it.

Actually, it's fascinating to observe the restraint of the announcer. This was 60 years ago - and back then people working for bbc radio had to enunciate everything in received pronunciation, ie the "queens english".

The effect it has on the modern-day listener is extremely jarring - it sounds like the most important announcement of the century is being delivered with all the gusto of a weather report.

Two world wars and one world cup, doo da, doo da.

10/10

Ada Band - Yang Terbaik Bagimu (Jangan Lupakan Ayah) Ft. Erwin Gutawa

Track Review
Released: 2004
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Beautiful song. Strolls along while you cook dinner, seduce that hot receptionist or beat off while crying in the dark.

Who the fuck drives a red BMW anyway?

Just fuck off and leave me alone.

6/10

Bloc Party - Pioneers (M83 Remix)

Track Review
Released: 2005
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French purveyors of vangelis-style synth-noise M83 take an average bloc party track and make it better.

6/10

DJ Doc Feat. Lea Kokoa, Big Mama - Street Life

Track Review
Released: 2005
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Classic. Korean hip-hop disco. Take this track and shove it up your fucken rectum.

5/10

Jikustik - Kawan Aku Pulang

Track Review
Released: 2004
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Banjos. Soft Rock. Non offensive. If you don't understand Indonesian it sounds like a gibberish Travis. There's worse things in the world, like cancer of the cock.

6/10