tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10696772249504799982024-03-12T16:48:29.844-07:004x4=12Sharing & StuffDaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-58172935225041879662010-11-20T09:31:00.000-08:002010-11-20T10:01:42.885-08:00My top 10 albums of 2010<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was planning on doing this at the end of the year but I couldn't wait that long.<br />
It was hard to pick this, and I'll of probs missed out on a few, the selection is from albums I've downloaded and listened to this year, if I haven't heard of it I'm not counting it, so it will be bias. So here is my completely amateurism attempt to try be professional and write a top 10 album review.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10. byob - Everything In Moderation</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.images.juno.co.uk/full/CS1643998-02A-BIG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://cdn.images.juno.co.uk/full/CS1643998-02A-BIG.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The debut album from the young English producer/MC byob (bring your own bottle, real name Ashley) is a fuse of electronic beats, drum and bass sounds and a hint of dubstep, with some nice samples of classic tracks from the past. Being relatively unknown at this early stage of his career, I find that his first album is laced with hits and bangers </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that would make anyone nod along to the sounds. byob definitely has a future ahead of him if he continues the way he is now. (I must admit I don't actually have the album but I have most of the singles)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A long awaited album for me at least, Sac and Pip came back after a great first album (fuck Pitchfork's opinion) to release The Logic Of Chance. Le Sac's amazing production skills mixed with Pip's vocal and lyrical genius makes this album a complete must have. It goes from poetry to rap to dubstep to electronic to trip hop. Every track is a story being told by Pip excellently. The duo honestly in my eyes should have a lot more acclaim as the music they make is real and better than 99% of the radio played muck. With vocals from Kid A on Cauliflower makes it a joy to listen to, with entertaining videos for the tracks too. I honestly hope this isn't the last thing we see from them, these men are legends.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ex Bloc Party frontman went solo with this debut album, and it is much different to his old Bloc Party days type of music, this album is much more electronic/synthpop with the smallest bit of indie (I'm guessing) thrown into one. His risky choice releasing a solo album paid off and has a string of hits on it. With some catchy beats, sickening drops, and nice breakbeat tunes all on the one album this is a must listen for anyone really.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/gorillaz-plastic-beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/gorillaz-plastic-beach.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The long awaited third album from British band Gorillaz released earlier in the year to critical acclaim, although one or two reviews were rated it poorly. Everyone's favorite animated band returned after much doubt to release Plastic Beach, an album with a range of music from operatic to 'post dubstep' (so to say) to mellow rap. With star studded features from musicians such as Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Mos Def, Bobby Womack, Lou Reed and Little Dragon on the album there is something for everyone on it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Big Boi who is one half of the rap group Outkast, released his debut album in the middle of 2010, which to surprise gained a lot of general acclaim from critics and listeners alike. This long delayed album has feelings of Outkast all over it, and the ATL rap scene definitely influences some beats and lyrics, with features from fellow Atlanta rappers such as B.o.B, Sleepy Brown and Gucci Mane. The Dungeon Crew member drops some ridiculous lyrics and beats on most tracks. In my eyes this is the Atlanta based album of the year.</span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</b></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Magnetic Man is the self entitled debut album from English trio Benga, Skream and Artwork, who all alone reached relative success, but coming together to release an album a highly acclaimed album. The three artists are mainly linked with dubstep music, but in truth the album is anything but dubstep (okay maybe one or two parts might be but still) With vocals on two tracks from the talented singer Katy B, and other features from Ms. Dynamite and John Legend, this album is a must listen to for any who likes electronic beats and hypnotizing lyrics.</span></span></b></span></b></div><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Cleveland native released his second album earlier this month after a big debut album, and this album may not be as good but still shows Cudi has a lot to offer. After trouble in his life since his first release with drugs, police and family, Cudi somehow had time to record tracks for this follow up album. Probably the most hipster ridden man in the world, Mr.Rager has much more rock influences on this album, and much more darkness. Yet still manages to make appealing songs which with more listens grows tremendously on the listener. Although some people say that lead single Erase Me feels out of place, overall the album fuses nicely as it goes on, telling Cudi's story about his life and troubles. What a guy.</span></span></b></span></b></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Omg that was harder than I thought it would be aswell as taking longer, and trying to bullshit little blurbs (so to say) about the album without repeating myself and trying to sound professional and intellectual. You're better off just listening to the albums and judging for yourself.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As for albums coming soon that I'm looking forward to, some include Dr.Dre's long long long awaited Detox said to be Feb '11, Eminem also said to be adding 7 new songs to a special edition of Recovery, Deadmau5's next album (app it's an album, not sure though) 4x4=12 (which I have a leak of but it's not full/quality so I left it out), Lupe Fiasco's Lasers, The Game's long delayed R.E.D (which I feel may flop), and a possible new album from Example, among others. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ps. I hate the fucking fonts and spaces on this thing changing by themselves all the time. Also what's funny I don't actually own any of these albums on an actual CD lol.</span></div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-248732037744935032010-11-18T03:29:00.000-08:002010-11-18T03:29:45.477-08:00The best of The Viper.<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qKZTR3d-pmg?fs=1" width="425"></iframe></div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-55697998866806978512010-11-15T09:55:00.000-08:002010-11-15T09:55:54.699-08:00My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I originally written something about Kanye's album but after listening to it more I changed my opinion and thought I'd write something better :) Mostly this is about how the reviewer is a bit gone in the head but still what an album.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">When Kanye West sings about "jerk-offs that’ll never take work off," you’d best believe he means himself. Being crazy is this guy’s job, and judging from the sound of his music, business is booming.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><em style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">is his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus. Yeezy goes for the grandeur of stadium rock, the all-devouring sonics of hip-hop, the erotic gloss of disco, and he goes for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><em style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">all</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">of it, all the time. Nobody halfway sane could have made this album. "</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wouldn't say he is "crazy" to an extent, the person who wrote this review appears more crazy than Kanye. I wonder what drug the reviewer is on, talks more about Kanye being crazy than music.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-74649536809890529472010-11-15T08:39:00.000-08:002010-11-15T08:39:26.469-08:00Jay Electronica signs to Roc Nation!<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rapper Jay Electronica signed to Roc Nation over the weekend. The 34 year old New Orleans native penned the paper to Jay-Z's label which has caused controversy with friend and fellow rapper P.Diddy who was rumoured wanting to sign Jay Elec. Words were said on their personal Twitters which included </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Erykah Badu (female rapper who Elec has a baby with) tweeting Diddy saying "sorry". But they have spoken to each other and have made up with Diddy saying "all I want to do is see you win"<br />
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Now with all that fancy writing I've attempted real talk time. I've been bumping Jay for over a year now since hearing Exhibit A. He may be 34 year old which I would consider old for a new break through rapper, but damn he is dope and speaks the truth. Lyrically he can't be touched and with dope producers such as Just Blaze working along side him the next few years look bright for Jay.<br />
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Apart from that Jay-Z has struck gold with signing him to Roc. Elec will be joining a star studded roster including J.Cole (another lyrically dope, young and talented rapper), Rihanna, Wale (who I don't like), Willow Smith (hatehatehate) Alexis Jordan (hate ALOT) and a few other less significant people. Jay-Z will be raking in the money in the next few years.<br />
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But yeah this is app big news in America and I like rap so I thought I'd post it, I would say I liked Jay Elec before he got big, if I remember I had around 100 of his songs on my old iTunes before it died. And according to last.fm I first scrobbled him on the 14th of Nov 2009, which was yesterday :D</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Exhibit C</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-lrVO3pPDP4?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-lrVO3pPDP4?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-78635543816346854832010-11-13T16:24:00.000-08:002010-11-13T16:24:47.912-08:00Robert Allenby pelts spectator at Australian Masters 2010<object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/nAG6bUK1m8A/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nAG6bUK1m8A?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nAG6bUK1m8A?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-81762131885191223982010-11-12T15:10:00.000-08:002010-11-12T15:19:23.219-08:00Last.fm Top Albums<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to Last.fm my top 10 most played albums are...</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This top 10 does not come close to showing my real taste at all :( </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And how do I get rid of those stupid little boxes, it's making me mad ¬¬</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-90898137466282199262010-11-12T11:17:00.000-08:002010-11-15T09:25:37.711-08:00The Legend of Mr. Rager<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rolling Stone magazine review on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.<br />
I need to address something with this review.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"As Drake and Kanye West have demonstrated, there's room in hip-hop for melancholic MCs who upend the self-congratulation that dominates the genre."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">First off Cudi was around before Drake, being Jimmy doesn't count. People need to get off Drake.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The problem with Kid Cudi is that, since his hypnotic breakout single, "Day 'N' Nite," he's grown rote in his self-pity and flat as a singer: "These worries are heavy, they rest on my shoulders," he repeats in his hypomelodic baritone on "These Worries." "The darkness, yeah, I'd like to marry it," goes a line from "Maniac." His second album features dramatic, breathtakingly stark production by Emile and Plain Pat ("Wild'n Cuz I'm Young," riddled with sonar-style beeps, kills), but where Cudi fancies himself a deep downer, too often he's kind of a bore."</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Must of been listening to the Crooker's version to of said that about Day 'N' Nite, he hasn't gone in self pity, he has gone on the cocaine, hell of a drug. Plain Pat what up. Writing a 1 paragraph review on the album and giving it a 2.5/5 review really shows how stupid Rolling Stone is, just like Pitchfork for that matter. Written by</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Johan Weiner</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who I'm pretty sure doesn't belong in music reviews, the community gives it a 4.5/5 review.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Personally as Cudi fan I'd give it a 4, he is far from his best and the days of A Kid Named Cudi, but the album has a few solid songs. Also not as good as his previous album, but still worth a listen.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-28013063930613169092010-11-11T18:39:00.001-08:002010-11-11T18:39:43.541-08:00Beach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/5167799201_61be13072b_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/5167799201_61be13072b_b.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-27239153366739632382010-11-11T18:37:00.001-08:002010-11-11T18:39:11.271-08:00River<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4948841291_a4e34e5d03_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4948841291_a4e34e5d03_b.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-41479633222181041192010-11-11T18:35:00.001-08:002010-11-11T18:35:43.607-08:00Skyview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4450694121_f0db4128e1_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4450694121_f0db4128e1_b.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069677224950479998.post-84748237093188926802010-11-11T18:33:00.000-08:002010-11-11T18:33:58.596-08:00Road<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/4266413923_4d03fbd04d_z.jpg?zz=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/4266413923_4d03fbd04d_z.jpg?zz=1" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just uploading old Flickr pictures to make it look less empty :(</span></div>Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09377409613181820818noreply@blogger.com0