Downtown SF

sweet new intro part
Travis Erickson & Santa Cruz
lossa sick spots (DT SF).

music is dope too.
always a plus.

The Genrationals - "When They Fight, They Fight"

heres the juicy part....
(2009)!?!

once again (see prev. post)
heres a group with a perfect example of a time-capsule sound
nostalgic '60 pop/soul track
well done/not too heavy handed on the retro production
totally thought it was some old school pop hit i never heard

dl here:
The Genrationals - "When They Fight, They Fight" (2009)

enough of the immitation/retro/neo/whatevers
here's some real sounds from the '60s.

1966 Michigan garage rock classic
"Farmer John" by the Tidal Waves
(if you like this check out the AWESOME comp Michigan Nuggets via Ratboy'69)

sounds almost identical to the black lips!

(or vice versa?)

dl here (320 kbps!) :
"Farmer John" by the Tidal Waves (1966)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010)

if you don't already know Ariel Pink this video serves as a pretty fitting intro:
(and he makes out with half the front row @2:30 so thats pretty rock n roll)

the 'time capsule' sound is almost immediately endearing and reminds me of '68 underwater.
never serious and always sexy (or at least faux-sexy) and full of unabashed pop licks that never sound poppy.
definitely not for everyone but most definitely loved by many!

"Before Today" is Ariel Pink's 'indy-major' label debut for 4AD after numerous self releases and a few through Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label.

Just over a year old but feels like a 'classic' album after the first listen.

tl;dr... sexy, dirty, bedroom pop.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010)

1. "Hot Body Rub" - 2:26
2. "Bright Lit Blue Skies" - 2:25
3. "L'estat (Acc. to the Widow's Maid)" - 4:26
4. "Fright Night (Nevermore)" - 3:35
5. "Round and Round" - 5:08
6. "Beverly Kills" - 3:56
7. "Butt-House Blondies" - 3:27
8. "Little Wig" - 5:46
9. "Can't Hear My Eyes" - 3:19   (**warningworstrack**IMOofcourse)
10. "Reminiscences" - 2:34
11. "Menopause Man" - 4:00
12. "Revolution's a Lie" - 3:49

highly recommended if you like:
lo-fi, 60s garage, black lips...

The Return

end of hiatus.

things to be on weakshit2.0:
-album reviews (new/old[mostly old])
-DJ mixes/podcasts
-links to awesome vids/.gifs/.jpgs
-etc\\

yay!

NEW REKKIDS July 3rd 2009 @ Goodwill on 19th

Animal Collective - Fireworks

i listened to this like 6x in a row. today.

Top 5 MCs

Andre 3000
edit:: Old Dirty Bastard
Guru
Nas
MF DOOM

honorable mention:
Devin the Dude

Clutchy Hopkins - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins (2006)

Man, oh man. This album is sweet. And Its all live Gs. Made by the mysterious Clutchy Hopkins featuring funky drums, bass, rhodes keys, a couple types of flutes, oh yeah and can't forget the guitar. This album rocks, knocks, and thumps so hard all there is to do is bump it over and over.

The man who is known as Clutchy has a dubious but entertaining back-story floating around the webosphere (just look around this website ) and is now supposedly residing in the Mojave desert in some cave. there also exist a few theories on his true ID that can be found as well. To suit his mysterious and such nature, the track titles are all numbers. somewhat close to the duration of each song. my personal favs right now gotta be:

Track 2:
If you were wondering why I was calling this album funky, well here is a perfect answer for you. Love the live loops. I just got say, listen to that flute.



Track 4:
Smooth and classy is what i would call this song. I can picture ghostface tearin this track a new one. damn. so gangsta, groovin, and then sudenly Hopkins unleashes a radiohead esque guitar riff. complex at first but consistent. sounds like someone knows their hip-hop... oh yeah, how about a nifty bongo groove breakdown to fade out....



Track 5:
If you thought that was good well don't bust one yet, cuz this next one is a heater. Funky bass lines all up in it but then! thats right we gotta chill out again. so much grooves in here.



Track 10:
This one brings a funk that is distinct from the preciously mentioned tracks. This is like some deltron ass beat. funky but twisted. groovin but not with that james brown/parliament funk. these kinda of combos are what keep this album fresh.



Overall i think this is a stellar album. Don't sleep on it. Clutchy also mashed some of his instrumentals over MF DOOM acapellas if you wanna go look for that.

btw i CAN'T STAND the last song. is it just me or does this track blow 37672978379201.23882382999999 more times than anything else on this album? it reminds of some crappy modest mouse song on off sad sappy sucker.


anyway enough of that...



Clutchy Hopkins - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins (2006)

or support the artist and:

buy it here

1 3:06
2 3:02
3 4:08
4 3:25
5 2:15
6 3:11
7 2:07
8 3:26
9 3:34
10 3:05
11 3:14
12 3:24