Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

wasn't me, although i do occasionally love myself some emperor.



how dare someone (elph) rec me a goddamn compilation. at least whoever it was (elph) rec'd me a pretty darn good one.

right from the jump it's clear this is the embodiment of hardcore punk, it's actually crazy to think this is from the late 70s. from the sloppy guitar work to indistinguishably slurred and mumbled vocals, this thing screams "we don't give a ****."

i can't say i have a ton more to say about it because at the end of the day it's the straight forward approach that makes it work and overcomplicating that would kinda just ruin the appeal wouldn't it.

strong 3.5/5

if it isn't elph i honestly don't know who it could be. maybe Nea as a darkhorse?

nah nah it's gotta be elph

i almost forget to mention how awesome the crowd interactions are. from telling off the audience, slamming the workers at the venue, and hearing fans scream insults from the crowd, it just adds a lot of fun to the overall experience.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

i really liked it but it was kind of a safe pick cuz you knew i'd like it, i thought maybe it was someone else cause that just seemed too obvious. i otherwise would've expected some weird post-punk **** from you.

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MicShazam

I got through an ICP album almost 4 ½ times. Can't be that difficult?

The Batlord

Elph's a phony music fan who just likes us all to know how much he likes punk and post-punk.

And that wasn't an ICP album. I'll have more to say on that later when I get to responding to that post, but it actually wasn't one, even if Violent J is the more important half of ICP. It was really just an extension of one single ICP album, because they've never really released the same album twice... up till the ICP album after that, because after that they kind of just fell off and started milking that sound.

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MicShazam

He's in a monogamous relationship with punk and post-punk. It's kind of adorable.

I suspected that conflating the two wasn't going to fly. I got away with it thus far at least.

MicShazam

I believe you. Not going to drill you on that.
I've got my musical blind sides too. Trying to poke them with a stick occasionally and see if anything's changed.
This week's album club was special for me, since it was a hip hop album and I actually kind of liked it.

Frownland

Glad you like. I almost recommended it to you in an earlier discussion as an example of how probably different hip hop is from your perceptions, but decided to hold off for the club.

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Frownland

You wish you could be a hipster.

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The Batlord

It's really more of a Psychopathic Records all-stars release (Psychopathic being ICP's personal label). Violent J is the main ICP member, with the other, Shaggy, being the Wizard, with the other three (the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion) being other artists on Psychopathic Records. But they would have been all huge personalities for the fanbase so that album would have been an event, ICP or not.

Honestly the reason I thought you might be a good person to rec this to rather than just a fun troll. ICP if nothing else have something odd going on, even if at this point they'd lost their best songwriter in their producer, Mike E. Clark, but he'd built such a sound at this point that they still managed to come up with gold without him. But Mike was still the best actual musical thing about the group. If I'd been more serious about this rec I'd have probably given you an earlier ICP album with him on it. Mike E. Clark is legit one of the more interesting producers you'll hear and he's helped to build ICP's empire with a unique and bizarre sound.

But even so the performances on this album are still odd enough that I was curious what you would think. And you gotta admit, "Homies 2 Smoke With" had one of the more amusing hooks you've heard in a while. Still one of my fav juggalo albums, just an album you should probably hear after a few more juggalo albums under your belt.


But yeah, hell yeah. The upfront nature of the album is one of the more fun aspects. It doesn't try to be revolutionary in any sense, but it just tries to have fun while also being something you just don't generally hear. I guess if there's anything truly inventive about this it's probably cribbed from the preceding ICP album Shangri-La, which this is very much in line with and intentionally as it was sort of an era for the juggalo community. I think this album is just better and more consistent.

Shrug. Kind of hard to figure out what rapper is faking it tbh. I mean all these guys are from **** town Detroit, so they're at least respectably po', but how much they're faking it I don't know. But they're obviously playing their voices up, cause that's just what they do.

An honest opinion not informed by internet bully posts is refreshing.

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MicShazam

I hope most of my post managed to be that and not just that final jab at the end. But as a group, their reputation very much precedes them, so it's tough to just listen.