What are you listening to, right now................
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So as is tradition in the MN5 household a mate of mine pops round for a fry up. Sangas, bacon, hash browns, beans. THe whole works. Anyway hes busy cooking as I come downstairs, he's having issues<br />
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"Fark dude you're smoking the place out !" I say. Naturally once it clears I find myself drawn to this smooth tune on youtube and we pump it up and act as Gangster as a couple of white boys can.....<br />
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Seeing the GZA next tuesday night at San Fran in wellington. Can't wait to hear some Wu getting dropped!!<br />
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[quote name='Paekakboyz']Seeing the GZA next tuesday night at San Fran in wellington. Can't wait to hear some Wu getting dropped!!<br />
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Strangely I was never a huge fan of Gza even though he was probably the cleanest on the mic of all the clan. <br />
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I was a Ghostface and Meth fan. Raekwon and ODB to a lesser extent. Always thought Rza was good with words but his flow is not my thing, trying to fit too many words in.<br />
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Inspectah Deck was average. And then the part timers, in their thousands, were often crap. <br />
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Yeah I'm an ODB fanboy for sure. I love Liquid swords and Beneath the Surface - fav Method man album was blackout with Redman. Ghostface is very sharp too - he was amazing in his Akld gig earlier this year (or late last year). The Wu were all about chemistry and the fact they were fresh and had good skills. Most have at least one solo album of note but a lot of the more recent material has been average.<br />
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The RZA has been the most successful outside of rap - acting and writing the score for several movies - even got some material on Kill Bill.<br />
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[quote name='Gibbit']Pere Ubu.. y'know I'd never actually heard him before. I used to flat with a dude that had some albums of his in the CD rack... he never played them though. Thanks for that, Mr Ubu is an interesting fellow[/QUOTE]<br />
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I believe Pere Ubu was a title of a piece of art by Man Ray and a character in a French play. The singer's name is David Thomas. The Modern Dance is one of the greatest punk albums, and it's difficult to imagine either Talking Heads or Devo without the P.U. influence and inspiration. I've seen them play about 6-7 times over the past 30 years, and they are always brilliant, and best of all, they usually don't ask for more than $15 tickets. <br />
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I discovered them by Chrysalis Records f-up accident. Side 2 of my vinyl pressing of Jethro Tull's "Stormwatch" was not Tull, it was a strange unknown band. My friends and I used to drop acid and listen, it was avant garde insanity, and the mystery was a big reason, then we actually fell in love with the record, and eventually discovered it was Pere Ubu. <br />
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You can dance to this one:<br />
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Ray Davies live at Glastonbury 2011. Man is an absolute genius.<br />
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Little Feat live at Columbia. -
[quote name='Victor Meldrew']Little Feat live at Columbia.[/QUOTE]<br />
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The coolest Wellingtonian I've ever met, Dean Wareham. -
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He left there when he was very young, yes? But Luna did include bassist Justin Harwood, ex-Chills, who is a genuine Kiwi. (I met Wareham several times, Galaxie 500 and Luna, and did a cover story interview for an arts rag with him for that first Luna record. Nice, down-to-earth guy.) -
I was pretty sure he told me he was 12. From memory, I didn't detect an accent, other than a soft northeastern American accent.
