Last Splash

Saturday, 12 November 2005

So, I haven't let anyone know what I thought of Kanye's CD, but that's because I have to listen to a CD numerous times before I'm ready with a verdict, and since I've been listening to David Gray's entire album like, every other day, I've only had time for Foo Fighter's once (although it's a double disc, cut me some slack) and I finally listened to Late Registration a third time. Here's the verdict:

It's kind of hit or miss, actually. Gold Digger is honestly the best song on there, although the whole Ray Charles/Jamie Foxx thing actually gets a little irksome after say, the fifteenth time you've heard it. Kanye's lyrics, however, are the shit. I was disappointed to see a collaboration with Adam Levine, because some of my old Raleigh band scene friends highly recommended the Maroon 5 album and I quickly found out that they had lost all of their musical talent and resorted to an over-synthesized thirty-year-old-boy-band sound, but I was impressed by that track on the Kanye album. Most of the other songs were fairly boring and un-original, with the exception maybe of "Drive Slow" and "Gone". Unless you're just a big Kanye fan (which, if you're reading my blog, is probably not likely) then I'd just download Golddigger to your Ipod (if you're cool enough to have one instead of kicking it old style like me) and be done with it, whitey.

At the same time, though, my friend bought Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business and I have to say, I am totally turned on to that band. See, I've had this long-standing grudge with the Pea's because of the whole "let's totally change our band and hire this skinny white bitch to dance in front of us and it'll be dope" thing, but I'm reformed. I'll admit it. It's one of the best albums I've heard this year. It's got a lot of good fusion sounds, but still remains true to what the Peas' were doing three years ago (just not what they were doing six years ago when I bought the BEP album that apparently no one else has ever heard of). And yes, I'm even cool with Fergie now, because I found out what a dork-ass name she has (Stacy Ferguson) and that she did, in fact, help write some of the songs. So, I highly recommend that album to anyone and feel guilty that I let my friend burn me a copy instead of buying it myself. Please don't arrest me.