Steve Steve: An MP3 Blog

Yo, yo he got his stones from Greece

2007-01-10T21:52:00.000-08:00

Yea.....that's right
Hardy Boys shit...uh huh
Smoke a Winston to this shit nigga
Word up bout to fuckin' throw ya head up, Yea

Yo, yo he got his stones from Greece
In mouth he had like thirty plus karats
Big ratchets, smoke cigars like a Bogart classic
Told niggaz if he dies he want a glass casket
Parents died when he was five years old
Made his way inside the US with Columbian Gold
A fake name and a passport
Benetton luggage, one sister, pretty thing, light skin
Niggaz will body over her like fuck it
With a scar by her left eye
Her brother Alex was extremely close, he sold coats and minks
Had trays put in toilets and sinks
Loved to roller skate, ninety nine did time up in Rahway
Came home blown, the thorough kings and soldiers
Never gave a fuck about that MC beef in Queens
Alex, he was a rich nigga
He had close to ten bodies under his belt
His man did the last one and got murdered himself
Took him a while to get his head together
Alex one day out in LA, made a call in New York
Told his man Oc, God it's goin' down, fly the whole team in for support
Remember that Ray shit that Jamie Foxx played? That was my shit
I never got paid, they got rich off a stolen script
In ninety eight I seen Charles on the Cali strip
Showed him the copyrights, his life in the real flick
In Braille, he read it in no time
Hit me with his math, said I'll give you some more lines
Real talk, stand up dude
Said how you like Jamie Foxx to replay you? He said yea that's cool
But under one circumstance, you think he can bow my walk, flip my talk and my hands?
I said sure why not, he can imitate anything trust me this young boy hot
Shook his hand then I bounced in the limo
Grabbed my cell, bit my cigar and then rolled down the window
Contacted Stony Brook and Roberts
Told them we got it in ten ?, yo Ray Ray signed it
Now we can move on and shoot this live shit
With mad options, Paramount and DreamWorks we shop it
Or Mandalay and New Line cop it
I go and get ten mil' and blow it on the independent market
But anyway down in PF Chains, I had a meeting with this rich investor
Said they'll throw twenty million on the kid's film only if he chose the cast
He was drunk, he was talkin' real fast
So I test his mouth, laid back then I put him on blast
Where exactly we gon' get this cash?
I gotta ill Gotti Gigante connect
Wise guys that kill Bulotti, catching bodies, earnin' respect
The waiter came in a dropped off the shrimp fried rice he ordered
I said thanks as he poured my water
Then out came the veggie rolls, sesame chicken and mint tea
Rice wine had me wanting to pee
Said excuse me I'll be right back, pardon me
Grabbed his glass and he nodded to me
Skated off to take a piss, the shit felt like a nut
Got back the dude vanished, briefcase, script, and all
Ask the waiter where he go, the motherfucker spoke Spanish

I am the first post of 2007

2007-01-05T01:21:00.000-08:00

Dannity Kane "Twinkle Twinkle 2K7" (featuring Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg and Ne-Yo)

I am the last post of 2007, too.

Elvis Smith Watches Trini TV

2006-10-23T19:50:00.000-07:00

In response to Eli's post of a few weeks ago , I've found a contemporary copy of the songs discussed:

Brent's TV - Trinidad (or maybe it's the other way around)

I first heard this song on a mixtape my brother made in highschool. Coincidentally, he had it on his walkman while we were vacationing in Vietnam and I listened to the song over and over, as that summer, in Saigon, I fell in love with the girl who lived behind my Aunt's house.

Plantman

2006-10-01T15:26:00.000-07:00

"Plantman" by Gary Young was one of my favorite videos in high school. If you think about it, this song has many layers of meaning. This is his second biggest hit, after "Antman."

Happy birthday Vijay, Vijay it's your birthday!

2006-09-26T09:49:00.000-07:00

Hello

2006-09-24T20:27:00.000-07:00

Watch the whole video. I promise you won't regret it.

Bonnie "Prince" Tyler

2006-09-19T10:48:00.000-07:00

Jocko Homo

2006-09-19T10:45:00.000-07:00

Weird and awesome DEVO video.

The King lives

2006-08-30T16:03:00.000-07:00

Continuing Keith's "songs you've heard before" theme, Elvis Presley - "Marie's The Name (His Latest Flame)" reminds me of some other song that I can't recall. The Smiths cover it: "Rusholme Ruffians". Can someone think of a contemporary copy of this song?*

BONUS: You're going to hate me for this song when the chorus gets stuck in your head and haunts your dreams - Hot Chip - "The Warning"... hot chip will break your legs/ snap off your head...

*thanks to Eve Tushnet's mix-cd for the elvis and smiths songs.

Some Songs You've Heard Before.

2006-08-25T11:44:00.000-07:00

Radiohead "Creep"

The Flaming Lips "Fight Test"

The White Stripes "Fell in Love with a Girl"

Nirvana "Come As You Are"

Kylie Minogue "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

Okkervil River

2006-08-17T17:32:00.000-07:00

Okkervil River are an awesome band that Cuc told me about a year ago but that I haven't really listened until recently - maybe i had to grow into the right frame of mind to appreciate them. They're indie-country storytellers, sorta like bright eyes with the singer's slight lisp and passionate vocals, but less annoying. Listen to For Real and Black off of their album black sheep boy (all of their albums have rad artwork).

Best songs/manatees of the week

2006-08-09T23:58:00.000-07:00

Oh no! Oh my! - i love you all the time!. I dedicate this song is to Steve Woods and Tappie the manatee, true romantics.

400 Blows - the bards must drink and junket. I heard this song on radio K (the best college radio on the web) a couple days ago, and it reminded me of Vijay, who likes junkets, and who lent me 400 Blows' cd last week.

Spank Rock - Rick Rubin. Big ups to my old friends from the Baltimore and Philly hiphop scene! Jecca thinks these guys are cute. Check out "put that pussy on me" on their myspace page.

Ghislain Poirier, minimalist DJ

2006-08-04T22:01:00.000-07:00

I saw Ghis at pitchforkfest, and maybe I just appreciated the raw honesty of his beats in contrast to all the indie rock emo schlock, but his performance blew me away, with such songs as pampa pimp. From his webpage , listen to these stripped down and blipped up versions of Jay-Z's dirt off your shoulder and Busta Rhymes' light your ass on fire.

Introducing: What I Did During College

2006-08-03T20:08:00.000-07:00

This will make you crazy (and not in that good sense). Like the Milgram experiment, which showed that ordinary citizens of New Haven could administer deadly electric shocks to total strangers, my experiment in slicing and splicing hundreds of soundbites of popular music together into themed songs shows that ordinary humans cannot endure the flood of memories that are triggered by the abrupt succession of highly familiar sound clips. These "songs" (if they even deserve the term) will seem novel and thrilling—but this feeling quickly turns into one of wanting to stop the music.

In the summer of 2003, I made this "album" (the word isn't quite right) out of all my music on my Itunes. Armed with Quicktime and the ability to cut and past bits of music together, as well as a lot of free time on nights and weekends, I organized hundres of bits of music into some coherent order, lyrics-wise and beat-wise. The "songs" represent more a feat of organization than my skill at being a DJ.

I offer here a taste of the 19-song "album" which runs over an hour. Here is the first song, the "Introduction." If you can't handle the introduction, don't even think about listening to this one: - "Sex". And here is a large medley, which I call "Medley 1" (there are two other large medleys). Again, this (unfortunately) turned out to be a successful experiment in what drives people crazy (or, alternatively, what can amuse stoners). I have to apologize in advance, because I doubt anyone will like this. But it's original (sort of) and it's making its public appearance here for the first time.

Hegel was such a handsome man, eh?

2006-08-02T20:29:00.000-07:00

Been wondering what the hell Eli is talking about? Want to truly understand Hegel and Marx? Really like socialist hippie musicals?

Dialectics 4 Kids!

Featuring the crazy hit song We're in a Spiral Spin

As a sidenote, the son of the guy who makes this website is a NYU film grad who just made a movie called Half Nelson, which is about a middle school teacher who teaches dialectics, but can’t kick his crack habit. (Keith, do you know this guy?)

Gnarls

2006-07-29T16:10:00.000-07:00

I'm probably behind the curve on this, but;

listen.

from a spaghetti western: "Preparati La Bara!"

Cell Phone's Dead

2006-07-27T04:14:00.000-07:00

Beyond suicide bombers... they're zombie terrorists!

2006-07-25T20:24:00.000-07:00

Party's over for these 'zombies'
Six Minneapolis revelers jailed on suspicion of carrying fake bombs
- from St. Paul Pioneer Press 07/25/2006
"Zombies" lurching along a downtown street tend to cause a stir. When the living dead carry duffel bags and backpacks with what look like wires sticking out, the cops step in.

This horror show unfolded Saturday evening in Minneapolis, where officers arrested six ghoulish revelers in thick makeup who police said were staggering along like zombies near Sixth Street and Hennepin Avenue.

"They were arrested for behavior that was suspicious and disturbing," said Lt. Gregory Reinhardt, a police spokesman.

All six were booked into the Hennepin County jail under a post-9/11 Minnesota statute making it a felony to "simulate weapons of mass destruction."

Dressing up like characters from the movie "Night of the Living Dead" might have been OK, but toting bags with what police said appeared to be protruding wires apparently crossed a line.

A friend of the group said the arrests were overkill and that the suspicious devices were homemade stereos.

"This was just kids trying to have some fun," said Helen Hicks, who said she has attended similar "zombie" gatherings in the past." """
A similar story, 'Zombie dancers' spend their weekend in lockup, appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, along with a follow-up, 'Zombies' want apology from Minneapolis police...
""" "They [the police] instructed us they'd shoot us in the head," said 'zombie,' Ralphi Rechitsky.

And Jamie Jones also wants police assurance that they aren't going to shoot members of the group.

"We want a written apology. Our constitutional rights were taken away," she said.
...
Rechitsky said: "Police are supposed to be public servants. They shouldn't be terrorizing people." """

...that's the zombies' job! (or at least it is according to the stereotype!) All they wanna do is dance. Zombie rights! These zombies were lucky they weren't from the Middle East. In honor of these oppressed, undead, so-called 'terrorists,' listen to their theme songs: The Misfits - "Astro Zombies" and The Zombies - "Time of the Season".

Protest music for hipsters

2006-07-23T22:42:00.000-07:00

Here are some of my favorite songs that have helped keep me distracted from politics lately:

The Silver Jews - "The Frontier Index". David Berman is a fucking poet...
"When I was younger I was a cobra
in every case I wanted to be cool
Now that I'm older and sub-space is colder
I just want to say something true."

The National are a solid rock band whose songs remind me of high school and of college in LA. They bring up strong emotions in me, but in a nostalgic way, where I remember having those feelings and wish I could still feel that sort of passion without critically distancing myself from it. But at the same time feeling distanced from that wish, since I see through the superficial intensity of those feelings. So, for nostalgia's sake, try... The National - "Abel", "Mr. November", and "Karen".

This song is a real pick-me-up (in the vein of Hayden): "I wish there was a place where I could go, where I don't feel like an animal... to you... and yours." - The Standard - "Unicorns and Chemicals".

It may take you a few listens to begin to appreciate these songs by Why?, since the singer's voice is annoying at first and the lyrics are surreal. But I recommend giving it a try, since it's one of only a few discs from last year that I still listen to regularly. Why? is working along the lines of what Outkast gestured towards with 'Hey Ya' (and The Roots with 'Seed 2.0'), an integration of hip-hop and indie/folk rock, but more whiney and poetic. Why? - "Gemini (birthday song)" and "Whispers into the other".

Probably the most important statement on Arab-Israeli situation is the song "Smash Your Head" from Girl Talk's "Night Ripper". The mash-up of Elton John and Biggie is totally a metaphor for Israel and Hezbollah (and the Smashing Pumpkins/Three-Six Mafia mash-up represents Israel and Hamas (since the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh's, is well known for his propensity for sip-sippin' on sizzurp)).

what day is it today, bitches?

2006-07-20T11:03:00.000-07:00

i just heard this song at a goth club. what a great feeling. i've been listening to the album quite a bit but in the moment i couldn't quite place it. for a minute there i really thought it was some kind of late 80s/early 90s blast from the past. it's not, but it almost fooled me. it's just that nice. and also i had been drinking. just sayin. ps: it's fun to dance to, crackers. so dance, seksu, dance!

Keepin it crusty!

2006-07-20T02:47:00.000-07:00

Capitalist Causalties are on tour. If you live in any of these cities, you'd better fucking let them stay at your mom's house. They will cook vegan food for her and modify her bike.
Tell your mom to learn the lyrics to these songs: losers and shut the fuck up.

a scanner darkly

2006-07-20T02:27:00.000-07:00

This movie is rad. Here's the trailer. Some reviewers have called it disjointed and lacking a coherent narrative, but they were either too high (which might be fun) or weren't paying close enough attention (which is understandable, since the dialogue is very fast and often crazy, especially that goofball Robert Downey Jr.). Much like Waking Life, this movie is chocked full of philosophic ideas, complemented with the rotoscopic animation technique. The main characters in the movie are all using a drug called Substance D, which impairs their perceptual abilities and causes wierd hallucinations - lots of big bugs. The way the film is animated allows the audience to experience the characters' perceptual adventures. Not only the shots from the characters' perspectives but the whole movie is animated this way, which causes you to feel as if you are also on Substance D and blurs your perceptions of the distinction between the movie and reality. You might be thinking, 'woah dude, red pill or blue pill?' and yes, this movie picks up on The Matrix's critique of the façades of modern culture, but unlike The Matrix, this science fiction forgoes the pseudo-religious bullshit and and self-conscious computers. This dystopia is very similar to contemporary Orange County, except for a couple futuristic gizmos that Phillip K. Dick probably thought up on his own adventures with 'Substance D' (such as a coat that constantly shifts Keanu's appearance between a million different patchworked facial and bodily identities). And even these gizmos are not so futuristic if you interpret them metaphorically. I have one hint that gives nothing away but may enhance your understanding of the movie: as you're watching, reflect on the meaning of the title, 'a scanner darkly,' in relation to the characters' perceptions of the world, each other, and themselves - constant suspicion, desiring to 'scan clearly' behind the appearances.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche.
"My mind's playin' tricks on me." - The Geto Boys
The movie ends with a Thom Yorke song in which he says "fuck" a lot (in homage to the sidesplittaz' "i'm not a father, I just fuck a lot"): black swan - Thom Yorke.

I need cute fun summer songs!

2006-06-30T10:06:00.000-07:00

for this commercial thingamajig. Upbeat, silly, cutesy; even cloying. Organic instruments, nothing heavily programmed. Songs like Lily Allen "LDN" or Belle & Sebastian "We Are the Sleepyheads" or The Pipettes "Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me" or Saturday Looks Good to Me "Lift Me Up."

Post ideas in the comments. Please! Otherwise we're gonna get stuck corny techno song!

dance, dance, dance, and go crazy

2006-06-26T22:11:00.000-07:00

Brother Daniel told me that if anyone acts like a sourpuss, ask them 'did I step on your trumpet?' It's this summer's hot catch phrase. In case you haven't heard Modest Mouse's summer party anthem, this summer we're all partying like we're waiting for year the 2000. Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love. Listening to the sound of distant carnival drums and spanish guitars - oh the memories come a streamin, when i'm walkin round here dreamin, it's a sweet summer's night on hammer hill.

"bogmatch" - a song scrabble entry

2006-06-24T10:46:00.000-07:00

Beatles - Octopus's Garden
Massive Attack - Teardrop
the Cure - Homesick

Unscrabbled bonus songs: last night we saw José González play a powerful show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, including a cover of Massive Attack's Teardrop and my favorite, Heartbeats. Also, to go with the octopus's garden theme: Damian Marley's Pimpass Paradise.

XLimp WristX

2006-06-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

In honor of Pride Week here in the Twin Cities, I'm posting about Limp Wrist, my favorite gay straight edge hardcore punk band. They "put the ‘core’ back in homocore." You may know their lead singer, Martin Sorrondeguy, from his former band, Los Crudos. We (Jecca, Chris, and I) saw Limp Wrist play at the Triple Rock last weekend, and they cock-slapped our minds. It was heartwarming to see mohawked, spiked leather jacket-wearing kids moshing in a circle pit with a giant inflatable penis, while Martin, wearing only a jockstrap, sang about how he "likes hardcore boys" as well as "boys hardcore" (see picture). I'm glad that punk kids are less homophobic these days, much thanks to bands like Limp Wrist for raising consciousness that sexual equality and anti-discrimination should be part of the punk and straight edge ethos. Listen to Limp Wrist on their my space page.

iTunes + Scrabble = New 3 Song Challenge

2006-06-21T01:14:00.000-07:00

Spell a word using the artist and song titles as acronyms.

My Entry:

"God Laura, death makes me horny."

2006-06-14T01:37:00.000-07:00

Just before this picture was taken, George said, "Hey Kofi Annan, watch while I slip Laura my forked tongue. Seeing the pope dead is giving me a major boner. I'm too drunk to fuck now, but tonight I'll give it to the wife while ass-clenching my popemobile buttplug and imagining all the black people like you whom I hate." The theme of this picture is "president death fucker." And I'll put that theme to music in a stepped-up version of the 3-song challenge:
Napalm Death - "divine death"
Death - "evil dead"
Dead Presidents - "bigger than hip hop"
Biggie Smalls - "dead wrong"
Dead Kennedys - "too drunk to fuck"

3 song challenge - 3rd entry: the Beethoven skank

2006-06-12T14:39:00.000-07:00

Beethoven would have liked ska. After all, he did spend most of his life in Auskaria.

Walter Murphy: A Fifth of Beethoven.
Camper Van Beethoven: Take the Skinheads Bowling.
Let's Go Bowling: Spy Market.

3 Song Challenge - 2nd entry: Chicago Park Hotel

2006-06-11T19:30:00.000-07:00

I heard that down in Chicago, "they had cigarettes where there's supposed to be eyes!"
The Hold Steady "Chicago Looked Tired Last Night"
Chicago "Saturday in the Park"
Maximo Park "The Coast is Always Changing"

3 Song Challenge - 1st entry: Saturday Sleeping

2006-06-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

... did anyone else notice the banner in the link on Vijay's last post?

Okay here's my entry into the 3 song challenge:

2006-06-11T00:40:00.000-07:00

Django

To add to vijay's insights into the wonder of books on cd and even more advanced tech. Django Reinhardt playing with his only good fingers.

The Audible Constitution

2006-06-09T16:04:00.000-07:00

When the tech gods figured out how to digitally compress a book and render it in audio, you knew it was only a matter of time before they figured out how to compress other print and electronic documents (notes, email, international treaties). Well, the geeks at the University of Chicago took a substantial digital leap today. They somehow managed to compress the entire United States Constitution into a single audio file. They also compressed david currie, the great orator and constitutional historian, onto the same audio. I'm not sure how they did this, but I'm confident the particle accelerator at Fermi labs was involved. Enjoy!
United States Constitution
The Bill of Rights

Bonus: Patriotic MIDI Tunes

the casserole tastes good

2006-06-09T09:10:00.000-07:00

highschool was stupid and painful. or was it?

Fog (pneumonia) tells it like it is.

Summer Songs

2006-06-08T00:12:00.000-07:00

My recipe for how to start the summer right: find yourself an axe and an ipod and a joint, mosey on over to your local park, cut down a tree, break it down into reasonably-sized logs, build a little cabin, light it on fire and crank up your ipod - watch it burn while listening to:
These Days by Nico (please do not confront Nico with her failures, she has not forgotten them - light up that joint when she stops her rambling), Big Drop by Black Dice (you'll want to keep your eyes glued on the fire for about 16 minutes of this song, but do not walk into the fire), and Will to Love by Neil Young (sit down and be one with your spirit animal - your high should have mellowed out by now - take off your clothes and burn them - yeah, you've got the will to love).

More Hate and Drone

2006-06-06T16:03:00.000-07:00

Kenose III - Deathspell Omega
Raiford (The Felon Wind) - EARTH
I'll post Earth songs as I find links to them. I won't, however, post any Earth Crisis songs.

6/6/6

2006-06-06T07:29:00.000-07:00

Here's a track in honor of June 6th, 2006 courtesy of Cory Arcangel.

Eastern Youth

2006-06-05T22:33:00.000-07:00

This Japanese punk band puts the scream back in screamo.

Muyohnosuke

NOFX and Jesus in my local bar

2006-06-05T20:02:00.000-07:00

Along with Paddy of Dillinger Four, you can see Jecca's sister, Sheela "Mad Dog" Namakkal, and brother-in-law, Ben "1-2-Go Crew" Durban, play punk nuns in this video.
Seeing Double at the Triple Rock

Das Oath

2006-06-05T17:45:00.000-07:00

Ex-Charles Bronson and some dudes from the Netherlands. This song is pretty amazing. Unfortunatley, they're on that wretched disco label DIM MAK.
You Will Never Know Me

Akron/Family

2006-06-04T16:17:00.000-07:00

These songs may be hard to appreciate out of the context of Akron/Family's opera-like concerts, which ebb and flow from quiet folk ballads to foot-stomping rock to twenty minutes of sheer body-rattling noise, leaving us in a dehumanized pit of despair, only to pull us out finally with a sing-along about love and truth, with the whole crowd belting it out like a gospel choir.

I'll be on the water, Running, Returning from Akron/Family

Field Music

2006-06-04T15:22:00.000-07:00

These dudes represent the quieter side of the Newcastle scene (Maximo Park, Futureheads). Their sound is akin to a British version of The Shins, in the complex-emo genre, but with more buttery, falsetto-topped harmonies.

You Can Decide, You're So Pretty, Shorter Shorter from Field Music

sunn O))))))))))))))) . . .

2006-06-03T13:16:00.000-07:00

. . . is scary.

It Took the Night To Believe From Black One

BORIS

2006-06-03T10:35:00.001-07:00

Boris Rocks!

Farewell From Pink
Intro From Akuma No Uta