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Came out 2008, right? So 16? 17?

Taking the last few days of my break to try and organize all the leaks I missed in the past ~24 months...do we have production/co-write info (or even years) for the following? What the Hell X-Ray Specs Bottles Duke (besides MNEK, right?) / 2010?

1. Eternal Sunlight of the Spotless Mind 2. Fight Club 3. Interstellar 4. Kill Bill 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas

reading thru this thread like a mf & wondering about "evangelion," that's such a gr8 title

Just listening to "After Coachella"...pretty sure Cashmere Cat played it live at his show at Terminal 5 last month! At least the "You'll never be mine" line--maybe it's used somewhere else, though? His album really needs to drop. Wait the album leaked?? I guess it isn't out officially, but I just found links...cool.

But what if she's gonna do some three day, "Super Ultra" shit like she did on tour with Coldplay? Obviously I hope the PC Music stuff would be part of it, but if her past two types are indicative that approach is just as likely.

SOPHIE played a song that sounded like "Tuesday" (that is a title, right?) last night. I think there was another one of the new ones, and he closed the set with "Vroom Vroom."

TBT to the album notes for "Pure Heroine" where she talked about the possibility of hating it a few years down the road.

Wonder if "Half Light" will ever see the day, pretty sure it was produced by Justin Parker. Does anyone have a compilation of their non EP or album stuff? I know they have at least a couple soundtrack appearances, but I don't even know where to start looking...Spotify hasn't been helpful either. :/

@@YUNGATA i know i barely appear but you guys are such quality people and it warms my heart that at least some of y'all are still around from the OLD DAYS and seriously this forum has impacted my life v. much and i think about it & you all probably daily. <3

omg

Every time i think of his passing i get more and more sad. I still can barely believe it, and it's been weeks.

Thank you for this. It's a really special song & it's a side of all three artists that isn't usually seen tbqh. It's grown on me so much since it came out, tbqh.

Do people think Angry All the Time is an album outtake? I thought a long time ago, we established that that song (like many of the others registered around that time) was one of the many she did with all those random producers, when her label was having her write with people from all over the place just to find something that clicked. That's where the song(s) with Kool Kojack, MachoPsycho, and Matt Squire (along with many others) came from. That must've been a weird time for her, writing dozens and dozens of songs she didn't actually like that much. Pssh, those Rick Nowels songs might've even been done around this time. does anyone still have a screen cap of the tweets where she went off about them leaking? She said quite clearly that they were written solely for the purpose of being sold, i.i.r.c. Any way, Supernova was registered with Matt Squire as well, so it is most likely recorded in that weird limbo period between her MySpace days and all those crazy punk performances and her meeting Ariel Rechtshaid. Does anyone else remember that interview wherein she said that when they met, she basically wrote Stay Away in one take, and from that moment just knew they clicked? And that that was the first song (i guess excepting Feel My Pain) she wrote for the album?

Those are awfully similar to some lyrics from Fiona Apple's "Dull Tool." Think they're exactly the same, actually. Not saying that means anything (even though Sky has referenced Fiona's influence on her before and has worked with Jon Brion, who produced "Dull Tool"), but it's an interesting coincidence.

man, i've always wanted to listen to her ('cuz i know she's been around forever, and she's friends with Mos Def / the Roots / etc.), i've just never got around to it before. most underground rap is beyond me, but she sounds like Noname Gypsy. i like it.

no shade!1!11 i think it's interesting that both Azealia Banks and Angel Haze, while rappers with distinct flows and indisputable ability, take their primary influence from outside the realm of hip hop. Azealia seems to breathe more Interpol and The Strokes than Biggie or Jay; Angel Haze talks about Sia and works with Markus Dravs. Azealia knows about house music - so interesting to me. i know absolutely nothing of it, and i can't help but feel that's what contributes to the truly original feel of her music. she also has the brain of talib kweli or q-tip in the body of a 20-something, foul-mouthed Harlemite, which is an awesome mix. I don't even know how to classify Angel. maybe pop rap that isn't really popular? the album was unbearably generic, but her mixtapes show a kind of genuine soul that transcends cheesy. she's special, maybe. another thing on those two - both are doing something very unique as far as their careers as women in the world of hip hop. look back at the last twenty years of female rappers - if any of them achieved fame, however fleeting, they always had a male figure right next to, if not directly overseeing, them. i don't even think it's arguable. (note: this is not an attack on the ability of any of the following artists, or the quality of their art. it's merely a list cataloguing my observations of how the industry tends to work. please don't hear me saying something i'm not.) examples: missy elliott (billboard hits, six platinum albums) had timbaland producing and collaborating with her on far more material than she did without him. lil kim had diddy, biggie, and everyone else in junior m.a.f.i.a. when she started getting big in the early 2000s. without biggie, especially, she probably never would have even signed a deal, a fact she has been keen to remind everyone (especially biggie's widow) since. da brat had jermaine dupri, a driving force for her first one-hit wonder status and the so so def deal which carried her relevancy through the early 2000s. trina had trick daddy and / or ludacris eve had the ruff ryders (particularly swizz beatz) and dr. dre on board from the breakthrough success of 'scorpion' foxy brown had jay-z (and nas, among others) along with her on her first (and only) hit 'i'll be' in 1996, and has had very little impact since. rah digga had busta rhymes and "flipmode squad" for the brief period she was relevant in the early 2000s. if we have to name the un-nameable, a certain australian rapstress owes almost all her success in the industry to t.i. i have a feeling she's by far his most profitable investment since his hits dominated the radio in 2008. nicki minaj's relationship with safaree samuels is not something i have the tools or knowledge to evaluate, but it's definitely something to ponder here. if not safaree, her relationship with weezy will suffice for the sake of this article just fine. lauryn hill is a bit of an enigma to this concept, but nonetheless started losing popularity and interest in music altogether after the split with wyclef and pras after the fugees were to reunite in '05. then again, both 'clef and pras have mentioned at points that she is totally crazy, and some of her blog posts and recent interviews lend themselves quite well to this theory. she and erykah badu should do a record together.

Oh boy. I love this idea...the concept of "classic" albums is one that will fascinate me till the day i die. from hours and hours of lurking on the Hip Hop Heads reddit, this is a slightly different list of albums from 1990 to the present that would fit as classics. Personally, I can vouch for the additional greatness of the Fugees' The Score, Jay-Z's The Black Album, The Roots' Things Fall Apart, and Mos Def's Black on Both Sides. Every Kanye record too, but that's almost a given. Kanye is to, well, everyone, what Azealia is to post-everything Tumblr-heads...here's looking at @@SitarHero + Ataraxia. I really want to listen more to Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, it's supposed to be great. Same for Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, and most of Biggie's discography. Recently, I've really been digging Future's Honest, Danny Brown's Old, and just about every OutKast album. I guess Aquemini is the one that should be on here, but Stankonia is mentioned almost as frequently and is slightly higher on MetaCritic. They're hard to compare.

i like this guy. anyone else remember how pissed Lorde was when P4k gave her a 7.3? That's not even a bad review - especially for a pop album that charted so well. but i remember Lorde distinctly voicing an opinion that they gave her something like a "pissing awful review", to the point where she didn't want to do an interview with them. i had so much respect for her after that - just as i did when she turned down touring with Katy Perry. thing is, Lorde came across as mature, logical, and practical in that instance. it was an easy "if, then" statement, but i'm pretty sure there was some provocation before she voiced her side of the incident. she didn't just randomly start tweeting the reviewer. as a pitchfork fan - albeit one who takes their opinions with plenty a grain of salt - i agree with them only about 2/3 of the time. just because they're my favourite critic site doesn't mean they have an infallible compass - and it also doesn't mean that my taste, my personal choices of "good" or "bad" music, are any better than theirs. (still shocked the infantile Fifth Harmony album got such a high score, though - that critic has done like three big pop album reviews recently, and she sucks. bring back Lindsay Zoladz.) my opinions are just that. mine. that's the beautifully subjective thing about listening to music in the first place. and, like any good critics, pitchfork occasionally changes their minds. just look at how they treated Lana initially, and how fond they are of her now. look at the first review of Andrew W,K.'s album, and the follow-up review a decade later. look at how harsh they were to Kanye's "808s and Heartbreak" in '08, and how much they've revered it in recent articles. all those thoughts to say that i'm really disappointed ryn is acting so idiotically. major turn-off. quite frankly, having not listened beyond the EP and single, i had hoped for an album of "Octahate"s, so perhaps i'm biased beyond relief anyway. i probably still would have wanted to listen to it after reading the review - it at least sounded interesting! but seeing her responses - and sheer volume of them - i feel a sense of disgust. that's not what being an artist is about, let alone an adult. the best response i've ever read to negative criticism is from Regina Spektor, and i'ma leave it at that.

bae. <3 i haven't - i know it for the sample "Take Care" came from, of course. i started it last week and remember being surprised that it opened with such an obvious "Flashing Lights" sample i couldn't find credited anywhere. aside from that, i remain interested, just have been too distracted to sit down and listen to it. hey, buddy. by the way, what are you guys' favourite xx songs? i'm trying to gauge opinions from all sorts of their listeners, and i know y'all are perfect sample listeners. and did you see that jamie played some unreleased twigs vocals for the pitchfork interviewer? add to queue of his unreleased collaborations. there are so many we've probably never even heard of yet it's nigh pointless to speculate. i mean, tech n9ne of all people wants to get with her on a track. if a completely indie, lowkey horror-core rapper wants to work with her, just imagine how many other artists have reached out to her.

has anyone else listened to In Colour yet? It's incredible. Jamie is a very interesting producer, and his stuff outside of the XX is lovely. "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" is up for my favorite song this year; "Loud Places" is everything i've always wanted from the XX and never got. etc., etc. anything he did with Lana would be very interesting.

had the same realization a few hours ago when i was running to it. i don't like across-the-board statements, so i think it might be "vroom vroom", but maybe that explains why that sounds like the best of the three we have. it reminds me of "woo hoo" by ke$ha because it sounds like at least three different songs spliced, but i really do enjoy it.

this is kinda aggravating. a random frank ocean cover that diplo felt the need to tell us about? i hope we get to hear it, i would love to hear more covers.

The fact that this guy is listed as the co-writer of "Diamonds" on Harry Fox makes this claim even more interesting. He's connected to Bloodshy & Avant / Miike Snow somehow, right? Isn't he a brother to one of those guys? I also didn't know she was friends with MDNR. I know I've seen that chick's name and picture before, but aside from a song i heard and promptly forgot (feel like it was called "Diamonds" too), she didn't seem interesting at all. But "whole narrative through it" sounds almost concept album ready. I think hearing Charli try to tell more stories in her music would be pretty cool.

sounds like Occam's Razor to me.