Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Edan
Primitive Plus
(Lewis Recordings, 2002)
Maryland rap weirdo shouts out to "DJ Nazi Caligula" and drinkers of soy milk.
With this refreshing instalment of laugh-out-loud lyrical strangeness, Edan (pronounced Ee-don) Portnoy began a generic controversy in hip hop circles. Is he "indie rap", "geek rap" or - most bizarrely, "backpacker rap"? Certainly Primitive Plus boasts lo-fi, DIY beats and a barmy rapping style built on a massive vocabulary, old school rap references and a satirical funny bone. Like Rakim if he'd been on Ninja Tune, or a more self-aware Eminem crossed with a more consistent Kool Keith (Ultra '88 is a hilarious Ultramagnetic MCs pastiche), Edan berates net nerds and "thug MCs" and favours bathos ("Silver surfer on the cerebellum / MCs rhyme at the zoo and when they're wack the parrots tell 'em") over quick-change, weed-warped rock, jazz and classical samples. One for the lapsed hip-hop fan turned off by the endlessly interchangeable waves of bling and crunk and no interest in rappers called Lil’ anything.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:48 AM GMT 04/08/2008
Further Listening
Handsome Boy Modelling School - So... How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy, 1999)
DC Basehead – Play With Toys (Imago, 1992)
Edan – Beauty & The Beat (Lewis Recordings, 2005)
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Earl Brutus - Larky
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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