Fantastic Damage (Hip Hop Album Club)
El-P Fantastic Damage http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../ElPFanDam.jpg "Fantastic Damage" – 3:22 "Squeegee Man Shooting" – 4:24 "Deep Space 9mm" – 3:47 "Tuned Mass Damper" – 4:05 "Dead Disnee" – 3:53 "Delorean" – 5:33 Featuring Aesop Rock and Ill Bill "Truancy" – 5:04 "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the ****" – 5:37 "Accidents Don't Happen" – 4:50 "Stepfather Factory" – 4:11 "T.O.J." – 4:32 "Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus" – 4:39 "Lazerfaces' Warning" – 4:36 "Innocent Leader" – 2:21 "Constellation Funk" – 4:58 "Blood" – 4:26 Anybody given this a listen yet? |
If you understand El-P word for word, the first time you hear it, without lyrics sheets, you are godly. For the rest of us, here's to read-along with!
"Fantastic Damage" – 3:22 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Squeegee Man Shooting" – 4:24 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Deep Space 9mm" – 3:47 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Tuned Mass Damper" – 4:05 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Dead Disnee" – 3:53 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Delorean" Featuring Aesop Rock and Ill Bill – 5:33 Spoiler for Lyrics:
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"Truancy" – 5:04
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"The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the ****" – 5:37 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Accidents Don't Happen" featuring Cage, Camu Tao – 4:50 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Stepfather Factory" – 4:11 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"T.O.J." – 4:32 Spoiler for Lyrics:
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"Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus" featuring Vast Aire – 4:39
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"Lazerfaces' Warning" – 4:36 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Innocent Leader" – 2:21 //instrumental// "Constellation Funk" – 4:58 Spoiler for Lyrics:
"Blood" featuring Mr. Lif, C-Rayz Walz – 4:26 Spoiler for Lyrics:
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A 5/5 album, great stuff. Stepfather Factory is my favourite track.
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My biggest fascination is Deep Space 9mm, followed by Accidents Don't Happen and Truancy. Accidents Don't Happen, is that a Super Mario Brothers Bowser's castle sample? I love that low, low, buzz. Deep Space is going to take a lot of time to go over. I'm gonna sleep for now, come back and really start breaking into el-p's lyrics, going over references, and pointing out samples. |
Stepfather factory is the only song i don't like, it's a little too sappy.
Everything else goes hard, My top 2 being lazerface and accidents don't happen, i love whoever does the 2nd verse on that song. |
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Stepfather Factory is an anthem for a lot of folks. It's got a strong message, too. And I think it's clever. Coming from the perspective of this dirty, rotten CEO type figure with zero conscience making things worse for the $$. There's a lot to this track, but that being said, it IS on the bottom end for me as well. But I still enjoy the song. Love that drum roll leadin into the hook too. I don't know why. Lazerfaces Warning is intense, and in my top half, but not my top 5. 1. Deep Space 9mm 2. Accidents Don't Happen 3. Truancy 4. Tuned Mass Damper 5. DeLorean |
i know you already posted it but the lyrics for constellation funk are pretty sweet
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At the beginning of Deep Space 9mm, he starts out "You're behind the walls of New Rome, you wanna buy the farm but the lands not yours to own." at the same time he also says/translates "you wanna kill yourself but your life's not yours to take". Just listen carefully. Now that he's started us off, we can go down the line and basically do that the rest of the song cuz the imagery is straight thick. Lots of 1984 references, and the video has the film Brazil written all over it. |
I always took el-p as a producer first, rapper 2nd, but he's kinda blowing me away.
It's inspired me to give ill sleep when your dead another play, and he says some pretty funny **** Quote:
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Preliminary di-section of Deep Space 9mm. Thoughts? Suggestions? Additions?
One two you're behind the walls of new Roma, you wanna buy the farm (you wanna kill yourself) But the land's not yours to own (but your life's not yours to take) Who owns Police? Who holds fold green, sold sand to beach? (Look at who owns everything) Blood beach (Sell us what we don't need, we kill for it) Dance with the land sharks clutchin' heat, ugly (Dodgin' the other hustlers in the streets) monks hung, halo teach (this one gets me, but... they teach the halo, but kill the monk...) Hung by the math where the cables reach (I don't even know if this is accurate) [Hung by the map with a capo reach] A hundred and sixty-six channels lit They train that animal **** (TV is mental conditioning) Where the mind's eye redefines Where's God? Buy car, Kick tires (Idolize our possessions, our homes, gear, vehicles) Back in Eighty-Six I lived for the four-course artistry (the four pillars of hiphop: graffiti, bboy, prod., rap) In other words took turns showin' off colors and **** (showin' off what he could do) Like I invaded a mating dance ritual (and they weren't havin' it) Criminal now (outcast) Why the things we find beautiful undermine power? El Product flash vet text, mother****ers is like "Al, why haven't we lept yet?" dithering sine wave twang for youth and brain management truth Then vanish like "poof" You can't touch the Krush Groove I live on the lunch table Touched fables Ducked labels capitol one heat em live for the terrordome stables Signed to Rawkus? I'd rather be mouth ****ed by Nazis unconscious (He was with Rawkus with Company Flow; let's say they left on bad terms and he went on to make his own label, Definitive Jux) Callin' all bomb threats the Radio re-activated Koresh! (probably THE david K. of WACO religious cult incident) Under hellafied missle defense Fenced in, better blame it on... /feign ****ty grin (its our fault, and those before us, that we are in the spots we're in, feign a ****ty grin in the face of your accuser) Walk with a bag full of kittens Take me to the river and throw yourself in (do the world a favor) In about four seconds the ether will begin to leak [or release] Who wanna hold hands with this sicko malnutritionist Soaked in newspeak? [Love the 1984 references throughout] Dissolve into the syncopated fragments of vinyl splashed on loose leaf We can embrace on the business end of my face first Joe vs. the Volcano suicide leap [Sick] Dance with the vinyl monster Devil in blue sky flyin' with clean conscience [devil in heaven?] Save the gesture you can't save the children, we weren't worth the effort [apparently, that's how it's been goin'] I'm a Caveman Your modern ways frighten and confuse me I watch your spirit box with the blinking lights and think Are those little people trapped in that box? (No, Caveman) But I do know converted mic digital 8-bus Mackie Avalon compression Combined with 8-step perfected Dirty words paralyze crumbs and infect **** Infectious Insofar as the ineffectual beg for the lectures Development arrested Trapped in the Cuckoo's nest Looking for the nexus If it's wild like that child fire 'em infrared scope in the clutch of a tyrant New World lullaby, Sirens Stuck migrants, lust and blind violence It's all bad timing Getting murked on a Tram over Roosevelt Island You think that's spacey? Deep Space 9 millimeter, son, keep smiling This is for the fringes and such my generation just sit like ducks see the rubble glisten that what I trust tell the historians I'm right here holding my nuts Right here holdin' my nuts Right here holdin' my nuts Right here holdin' my nuts Right here holdin' my nuts (guardin' my own ****) Existence on the fringes and such My generation make friends with slugs Thank god for the drugs and drums!!! Tell history that I'll be right here hiding from guns right here hidin' from guns Right here hidin' from guns Right here hidin' from guns For the love of god, run |
Great album, although I will say I prefer his work with Company Flow and his production on The Cold Vein. Be that as it may, Fantastic Damage is a hugely enjoyable and satisfying listen.
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Love this album. It's one of my favorite pieces of hip-hop actually.
I wrote a review of it once. I also love the instrumental version. |
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El-P and the Blues series contiunuum
"High Watermark" he mixes jazz music. anyone listen to this? Its pretty sweet |
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Also, if you're into his production you should listen to Collecting the Kid which is a collection of some film score music he made and other instrumental work he did. Not great hip-hop but very interesting music. |
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I don't think anybody looks to El-P's music for an education on Jazz.
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That last comment was directed at matious.
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So yeah, can we get back to this? (not that I was here, but still...)
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Pick a part and make a statement. We'll either agree or disagree and conversation will commence. My favorite thing about this album is Deep Space 9mm and what I believe is a easily translatable cryptic message which I did my best to decipher... but no one cared or commented on it. If no one wants to disect lyrics, I dunno what else there is to say but
"Z0mg this album rox" |
I mean back to the album club, where we vote (I assume) and discuss albums. I think we did have one recent vote, and maybe even a discussion (another EL-P album I believe) but I would like it to be more regular.
Obviously people are busy, and I will be myself in the coming weeks, but I enjoyed reading this thread a whole lot, and it would be nice to engage in this type of chat. |
One of the biggest reasons why I personally don't get excited about the clubs is that when it comes to the discussion, well... lackluster is the word I'm looking for. Why pour hours into a post when hardly anyone ever comments on it, let alone has anything else to say. /disillusioned
The point of album clubs isn't to nominate and vote for your favorite record and then walk away, but that seems to be how they've been going the last year. The idea of an album club is amazing. The reality of it, at least lately, is less so. |
Alright, let's try it again for realz.
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