Comments on: the slack album

the slack album

mcsweetie — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:39:39 -0800

The Slack Album The Slack Album is the latest (for the next ten minutes) in a slew of Jay-Z Black Album remixes and mash-ups. In this case, the Black Album is melded track-for-track with samples taken from Pavement's 1991 lo-fi / indie classic Slanted and Enchanted.

By: bitpart

bitpart — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:42:19 -0800

Quality, not quantity.

By: clango

clango — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:37:17 -0800

there are some true gems on this one. i've been loving it for a few days now.

By: thecaddy

thecaddy — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:22:43 -0800

My roommate downloaded this earlier today. And it just came on randomly, and when I heard Jay-Z rapping instead of Stephen Malkmus, I nearly spit out my coke. This strikes me as about ten times better than the Grey Album, by the way. The beats just seem to match up better.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:34:45 -0800

This strikes me as about ten times better than the Grey Album, by the way. The beats just seem to match up better. indeed! I think track 4 is the reason why mash-ups were invented in the first place.

By: matteo

matteo — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:52:43 -0800

oustanding, sir.

By: glenwood

glenwood — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 05:58:44 -0800

man this is seriously fucking GOOD.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:48:13 -0800

Wow, this shit floooows!

By: yeahyeahyeahwhoo

yeahyeahyeahwhoo — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:08:06 -0800

i'll have to agree this is pretty good, though damn, i think some awesome stuff mightve been done with pavement's crooked rain

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:18:24 -0800

I'll give it a try but I'm already Once Bitten by how bad the Grey Album was and really Jay-Z might be someone's cup of tea but he just ain't mine.

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:25:41 -0800

Amazing how adding Jay-Z to anything makes it suck...

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:45:58 -0800

This is really good. From the faq, the anonymous guy says he's got a MA in music composition and it sounds like it. Sounds a lot cleaner than the Grey Album too.

By: matteo

matteo — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:19:00 -0800

yeah, but wait until you hear my Jay-Z/BetaBand remix *resumes work on Dry the Rain with his Black Album a cappella kit*

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:39:11 -0800

i like this way better than the grey album. maybe because i like pavement way better than the beatles!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:02:25 -0800

I listened to the sample and was like, Um Yeah, sounds like two recordings being played together at the same time. Maybe its just me but Jay-Z pretty much sucks balls.

By: Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah — Sat, 01 May 2004 11:38:14 -0800

I never thought we could less musically-talented than your typical electronica -- a glorified metronome for E-tards to tap their seratonin-loaded feet to -- until I discovered the "mash up" trend. We've gone from remxing everything; taking great songs and stripping their heart and soul out, in favour of 808s and samples. Now we're just taking two random songs and combining them to create one big monolith of crap. Maybe I'm expecting too much when I want music to contain at least a fraction of original thought... (And no, "hey these two songs would sound great layered over each other" doesn't count.) IMO, if all you can do is combine two other previously-exisiting songs into a mongrel bastard child of a track, that's not creative, talented, or even worth listening to. I tried to get into this whole "mash up" thing, but it just smacks of creative stagnation at best, and pathetic coat-tail riding at worst. My loss, I s'pose.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sat, 01 May 2004 22:29:50 -0800

I don't think anyone is trying to change the face of music or anything. it's just something cool to listen to for a while.