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Monday, April 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
DEEP CUTS - N*E*R*D: YOU KNOW WHAT
In an attempt to inject some consistency into this blog (in posting frequency, not content. Topics broached here will continue to be the assorted grab-bag of items that lack focus and thesis), I'm trying to develop some recurring themes. If history tells us anything about this blog, most if not all of these will fall by the wayside, with a quick abandonment of the concept altogether. But for now, let's be optimistic!
Today, the Sock unveils the first new segment: Deep Cuts.
In case you're unfamiliar with the terminology, here is how Wikipedia defines a deep cut:
Today's Deep Cut: N*E*R*D's "You Know What"
I'm not going to get up on my soapbox and start preaching the efforts of N*E*R*D, mainly because I have terrible balance and am afraid of heights. But I do like this band, for better or worse. Many would define everything following 2002's In Search Of... as the latter.
I'm also not going to deny that In Search Of... is most certainly their best album, nor that I listened to it incessantly and might have spontaneously began singing it at my 21st birthday party. I can't say I had the same experience with either Fly Or Die or Seeing Sounds, but it's hard to turn 21 more than once, or any age for that matter. But I digress...
In any event, I had my mp3 player (which will go as unbranded until a certain fruit-named company wants to start paying me for advertising) on shuffle this morning - as I'm loathe to engage in any sort of decision making process that early - and as luck would have it, just as I was climbing the 53rd street subway steps into Manhattan, "You Know What" came on. On my first trip through this album, I somehow missed this track. I have a feeling I never made it past "Love Bomb." But you know what? "You Know What" might be one of the best tracks on this album. Take from that what you will. Just don't ask me to sing it.
Today, the Sock unveils the first new segment: Deep Cuts.
In case you're unfamiliar with the terminology, here is how Wikipedia defines a deep cut:
In radio programming, a deep cut or deep track is a song which commercial radio stations rarely broadcast. It is taken from the fact that on vinyl albums, the hit singles promoted by record companies are usually found early on in the record, with the other, less known songs buried "deep" into the record.I'm not a radio programmer, and I don't have vinyl albums (save for The Beastie Boys Root Down EP and Ratatat's LP3), so for the purpose of this blog, let's just say a deep cut is a late-in-the-album song that I enjoy.
Today's Deep Cut: N*E*R*D's "You Know What"
I'm not going to get up on my soapbox and start preaching the efforts of N*E*R*D, mainly because I have terrible balance and am afraid of heights. But I do like this band, for better or worse. Many would define everything following 2002's In Search Of... as the latter.
I'm also not going to deny that In Search Of... is most certainly their best album, nor that I listened to it incessantly and might have spontaneously began singing it at my 21st birthday party. I can't say I had the same experience with either Fly Or Die or Seeing Sounds, but it's hard to turn 21 more than once, or any age for that matter. But I digress...
In any event, I had my mp3 player (which will go as unbranded until a certain fruit-named company wants to start paying me for advertising) on shuffle this morning - as I'm loathe to engage in any sort of decision making process that early - and as luck would have it, just as I was climbing the 53rd street subway steps into Manhattan, "You Know What" came on. On my first trip through this album, I somehow missed this track. I have a feeling I never made it past "Love Bomb." But you know what? "You Know What" might be one of the best tracks on this album. Take from that what you will. Just don't ask me to sing it.
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