There are a number of noise/drone albums that work as one-track albums as it were. Marcus Schmickler's Sator Rotas is a wonderful example of this (it's basically one long piece, though the CD does break it up into different tracks). Also, Mike Shiflet's Ichinomiya 5.3.6, Keiji Haino's I Said This Is The Son Of…

Just wondering if I should rebuy this. It seems to be the same length as the Tee Pee version, so I'm assuming it's probably the same session, just with a new mix.

Hey, maybe someone can answer this for me. Is this Southern Lord version of Dopesmoker an alternate take from the Tee Pee version? Or is it the same session, just remastered?

I think Brass Monkey can be many things. I always heard it was orange juice + beer + malt liquor, which sounds just as horrible.

Hello Nasty is still supremely underrated. So many great songs/albums. Huge R.I.P. Yauch.

It's a little of both. They were definitely taking the piss, but again, it's the age-old connundrum of where the joke ends and begins and blurs that line with reality. So while they were probably definitely not all that sincere with all the stupid shit they said/did back then, they definitely didn't seem to have the…

DO NOT ignore Monster Movie. Severely underrated. Same with Soundtracks, which is worth it just for "Mother Sky" if anything.

I want to be nice about this and be respectful of dissenting opinions, but fuck it, I just have to say it: all you anti-Staples Singers posters (especially you anti-Mavis folks) are deluded and full of crap. She owns that song. Seriously. She takes it to church. How is what she does excessive? You're all acting…

Somebody mentioned the Clerks: Animated Series, but there was also a live-action pilot filmed in 1995 starring….Jim Breuer?

I also fail to see how Jandek is a "damaged man-child." His music may be "damaged" for lack of a better word, but there's hardly anything innocent about it.

Yup! Dawes are threatened by Bumpy and Premo's realness.

Man, nothing sadder than Solar apologists. They should join up with the Benzino fan club and have a huge loser-thon.

Solar, is that you?

"I push these lyrics through any MC and make it burn/So the niggas who be rhymin' next will miss a turn"

I remember when Foxxx dissed Noreaga on Industry Shakedown. Nore was later asked to respond, and his response was pretty much to avoid the subject.

Considering "D'Lah" is a b-side from 2001, I seriously doubt he was referring to Drake. But as it goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Right, I think that could be easily argued, and that's pretty much the stance I take. License To Ill ended up selling 9 million copies. I wonder how many it had sold by the time Hammer and Ice hit? Because the latter two's sales numbers might not be as shocking as we make them out to be depending.

And like most children of my generation, I was a Hammer and Vanilla Ice fan, but I don't consider them necessarily to be my gateways to the genre. I think they were so ubiquitous that it was hard to escape both of them unless you lived under a rock, but it was definitely records like Midnight Marauders a couple…

Right,  their sales are perhaps an important part of the story of hip-hop, but I don't think anyone should be shocked that there's not much written about the content of the actual albums. I was just saying that while it's necessary to mention the commercial influence they held in the bigger picture, it's not necessary…

"As a rapper, Hammer had very little to say, and an unimaginative way of saying it. His rhymes don’t exactly sink to 'My name is MC Hammer and I’m here to say…'-level wackness, but it’s not far off. Many songs, most egregiously the title track, grab the chorus by the lapels and pound it out over and over like it’s Joe…