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DOOM – Born Like This

One can imagine that if it hadn’t been 3 years since the now MF-less DOOM’s last release, Born Like This would be more satisfying, but his style of hook-less, stream of consciousness rhymes (“smack the thin grin off the chin for crack smokin’ / DDT the first bar leave the track backbroken / chrome grown men doin’ business with Anglo-Saxan men / lackin’ swing but that banjo so relaxin’ as the wax spin”) and unconventional beats (“That’s That” features a wonderfully corny violin sample) hasn’t changed much in that time, besides a newly strengthened sense of social awareness (the album takes it’s title from a grim Charles Bukowski poem sampled at the beginning of “Cellz”); still, the man is a better MC than most out there and the same old DOOM is better than no DOOM at all.

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Radiohead – Kid A

Radiohead – Kid A

October 2, 2000
Parlophone/Capitol
Rating: 5 / 5

The Music Rag One Sentence Review: This is Radiohead’s masterpiece and the album that they’ll be remembered for, a dark, unsettling, atmospheric, and prophetic work and the modern day Dark Side of the Moon. (Only infinitely better than anything Pink Floyd did.)

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