Comments on: Tonight We’re Going to Party Like It’s the Winter of 2003-2004

By: nick

nick — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:33:18 +0000

I'm way more into the King Gheedorah record that MF Doom released in 2003, but Vaudeville Villain is pretty dope. Why did so many critics vote for that Outkast double record? Warm feelings left over from Stankonia? 'Cuz I listened to it the other day and it's pretty inconsistent/forgettable.

By: Joe Warminsky

Joe Warminsky — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:31:15 +0000

Matt Damon:

"The only way to judge a movie is 10 years down the line. I think they should do the Oscars that way. I wish this year we were voting on 1997."

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20049809,00.html

By: Brent Burton

Brent Burton — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:22:03 +0000

That link didn't come out, so here it is pasted...

It was the EG Records logo on the spine that drew me to that used Killing Joke cassette all those years ago. It was 1987, and I was already the proud owner of several Brian Eno and King Crimson tapes on the same label. Should sound just like 'em, right? Well, not really. Nevertheless, I ended up becoming a fan of the first two albums despite the fact that there was really nothing progressive about the British band at all. There wasn't anything regressive, either. The band just seemed to exist in its own hermetically sealed world, where metal sounded like punk and punk was pissed off at something so nonspecific as to be all-inclusive. Fast-forward to 2003: Killing Joke seems to be slouching towards nü-metal (chugging a lot) and has gotten way too lyrically obvious (railing against Bush, banks, and pumpkin pie), but at least that tribal throb is still intact. Killing Joke plays with Amen at 8:30 p.m. on the Black Cat's Mainstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $15. (202) 667-7960. (Brent Burton)

By: Brent Burton

Brent Burton — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:20:47 +0000

That "Killing Joke" is a real grower.

I didn't like it much when I picked it:

https://secure.washingtoncitypaper.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=q:\DocRoot/2003/031017/pix17h&search=&SearchString=&AuthorLastName=burton&IssueDate=mm%2Fdd%2Fyyyy&SelectYear=All&next.x=-1&next.y=-1

(How's that for a passive lede?)

But I kept coming back to it from 2004-2007.

It's my favorite after the first two.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:42:03 +0000

"Killing Joke" (2003) is probably one of the best non metal, metal albums of many, many years. When I'm pissed off on the way home, which happens with increasing frequency, "Asteroid" gets the ol' heart rate up to the appropriate level: Code Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh.

By: Joe Warminsky

Joe Warminsky — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:46:16 +0000

Nah, T-Coates is probably the reason I heard the album in the first place. I don't remember for sure. That album has one of my favorite stoopid lines of all time: "The way he rep on the mic/It's like the weapon from Krull."

By: Brent Burton

Brent Burton — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:27:30 +0000

OK, I should've said that Coates AND WARMINSKY were on this record right away.

Better?

By: Joe Warminsky

Joe Warminsky — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:17:16 +0000

Dude:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/special/arts2003/hiphop.html