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Reply #105 on: July 01, 2011, 11:17:43 AM
I don't think she's putting on an African accent for that line at all.  I think you're choosing to hear that based on what you already know and the things you've decided about her.

That said.... I find this music very fake and forced.  The video makes me a little sick, it seems very 90s arthouse and it's not fresh at all... it sounds like Bobby McFerrin.

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Reply #106 on: July 05, 2011, 04:21:45 PM
Thanks to breaking bad I discovered this:

Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow

song features in S03E02.

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Reply #107 on: July 05, 2011, 04:56:00 PM

Timber Timbre - "Demon Host"

This is another Timber Timbre song from that same album, and it happens to be my favorite.
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Reply #108 on: July 05, 2011, 05:01:13 PM
They have a good sound, but call me when they write some choruses.
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Reply #109 on: July 05, 2011, 05:30:21 PM
Quote from: RegularKarate on July 01, 2011, 11:17:43 AM
I don't think she's putting on an African accent for that line at all.  I think you're choosing to hear that based on what you already know and the things you've decided about her.

That said.... I find this music very fake and forced.  The video makes me a little sick, it seems very 90s arthouse and it's not fresh at all... it sounds like Bobby McFerrin.

Sorry, missed this. I agree about not quite hearing the African influence on the vocals, JB (except for maybe that, what - we might associate the sound 'way', or '-we', with African languages?).

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Reply #110 on: July 05, 2011, 06:55:37 PM
The African "accent" on certain vowels is nitpicking and isolated and kind of subtle, so I'm not pushing that. However, the "African influence on the vocals" is not imaginary... it's her thing. Again, from the interview:

"When I give my influences, I give who they really are: I took this yodeling style from Central Africa, and I took this chordal harmonic sense from Hukwe Zawose in Tanzania. It seems like a tightrope walk of sorts, because one could accuse me of political correctness in the same breath as thievery of African musical traditions."
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Reply #111 on: July 13, 2011, 04:57:10 PM


THIS is a really really good song.

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Reply #112 on: July 17, 2011, 04:39:50 PM
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Reply #113 on: August 04, 2011, 02:52:27 PM
“The myth by no means finds its adequate objectification in the spoken word. The structure of the scenes and the visible imagery reveal a deeper wisdom than the poet himself is able to put into words and concepts” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Reply #114 on: August 23, 2011, 11:14:56 PM
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Reply #115 on: September 03, 2011, 01:51:51 PM
does having this stuck in my head all week make it a good song? I think Yes!


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Reply #116 on: September 03, 2011, 10:05:15 PM
oh man that fucking song, i put it on at parties and at the bar.
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Reply #117 on: September 04, 2011, 12:47:39 AM
Sorry... annoying.
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Reply #118 on: October 15, 2011, 04:04:22 AM
I just made THIS at 4am two nights ago. I played it at a club tonight and it kicked ass.


it kinda sucks....

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Reply #119 on: January 30, 2012, 01:14:12 PM
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on August 15, 2009, 09:32:12 PM
Musee Mecanique - "Sleeping In Our Clothes"

I mostly love the intro, about 0:00-1:50. But what a mesmerizing and masterful intro it is.

So I was browsing iTunes to see if Musee Mecanique has made another album, and this happened:

- I see a playlist on the left called 20 Underappreciated Masterpieces
- "Oh, that sounds interesting..."
- "Wow... 'Glass' by Bat For Lashes? I love that song!"
- "Number 2 is 'She Purred, While I Grrred?' That song is a masterpiece! And totally underappreciated!"
- [looking further down the list]
- "Oh my God, this is freaking spot on! Creepy!"
- [processing]
- "Oh... right. I made this playlist."

In any case, here it is. Plenty of "really good songs."

http://c.itunes.apple.com/us/imix/20-underappreciated-masterpieces/id386512074

I'm not sure what the 2 songs are that have since fallen off iTunes, because they were originally there. But I'm sure they were amazing.
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