| Various Artists / Amoeba Music Vol 4 |
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| Album: | Amoeba Music Vol 4 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | May 2003 | |
| Label: | Hip Hop Slam | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-07-07 | Pull Date: | 2003-09-08 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 7 | Aug 31 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 20 | Jul 13 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 19, 2011: | Music Casserole Hangover | 4. | Aug 31, 2003: | Oh Messy Life Hangover | |
| 2. | Jul 10, 2010: | Music Casserole Earthcrusher | 5. | Aug 28, 2003: | Baptism of Solitude Earthcrusher | |
| 3. | Sep 05, 2003: | Stirling's Approximation Space Monkey | 6. | Aug 25, 2003: | Radio Red Wall Sorry Wrong # |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2003-06-26 | ||
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Local variety-pack (though "local" now includes L.A. since Amoeba opened in Hollywood). Mixed bag of styles but generally high level of quality. Many of the bands have members with day jobs at Amoeba. FCC indecency/obscenity issues: CD1: tracks 2, 8, 9, 10, 16 CD2: tracks 7, 10 CD1 1. Dyspeptic industrial rhythms and sour guitar shards; good; the owner plays in this band so it has to be the lead track, right? 2. Underground hip-hop; sparse beats and climax of a bunch of intense fellows shouting "gotta get a bus to the house of God!" 3. Drawling cowboy blues 4. Cool funk and tweaky electronics and scratching 5. Jazz-sample based funk 6. Lo-fi, low rent funk and mumbling 7. "Art-hop"? Scratch-sample-riff 8. Silly rap 9. Lif brings the antidote to silly rap, with a serious-as-nuclear-war rap 10. Yeah, bring the funky bass and the smooth flow 11. Blippy electro-pop you could make too 12. Swoopy synths and professional vocals mark this alterna-pop effort 13. Pretty acoustic guitar solo tune - melodic, mellow, yummy 14. Down home-y rap, singing/reciting about the virtues of the Arkansas red dirt; very compelling and heartfelt 15. Squeaky, windy, spinning soundscape 16. Unremarkable hip-hop 17. Hip-hop breaks and folk-y guitar, with a bit of goth ooohh-ahhhhhhh vox tossed in 18. Sub-cacophonous drone CD2 tracks reviewed inside CD2 1. Plain good fresh pop 2. Innocent, clear-voiced, good-natured pop 3. Despite the stupid song title and the stated objective of "destroy[ing] all music", this is actually a pleasant if unexceptional, mellow rock instrumental - maybe Appliance-like 4. Keening teen rock - as featured on Dawson's Creek (well, maybe another song of theirs); vocals a dead ringer for Rose of the Heartthrobs 5. Acoustic ska is the pigeonhole; empty but sweet calories 6. 60s-sophisticate sample-jazz 7. Conscious feminist hip-hop, brilliant follow-up to Sarah Jones' magnum opus, but too many nasty words for pre-10 pm airing; check out the human beat box too! 8. Joyously explosive pop-rock 9. Three-chords adequately power this rant against a selfish person 10. Messy lo-fi acoustic punk 11. Smart surf-pop with clever, lefty lyrics 12. Acoustic blues with a bit of snotty attitude 13. One-man band plays and sings a folksy ditty 14. Earnest folk music 15. SF's version of Yo La Tengo; off-kilter mello-pop with a touch of Farfisa 16. Childlike vocals singing suggestive lyrics over silly samples 17. Spacey folk or folksy space music 18. Swoosh and bass trance music; chill 19. One-man band playing black metal; true! 20. Headbangers finally have their say; metal with a groove; too bad about the bogus vocals 21. Ambient drone with the occasional muffled thrash; ho-hum | ||
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