Big Hongry - Early One Morning (2020)
KenTheMan - Not My N*gga (extended version) (2023)
KenTheMan - First (2024)
Monaleo - Sexy Soulaan (2025)
Monaleo - Spare Change (2025)
Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud - Boss Up (2025)
Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud - Eye Owe You (2025)
Aesop Rock - Full House Pinball (2025)
Aesop Rock - Call Home (2025)
DJ Megadon - Do It Mega (2025)
Nine & Dex - Postman Pat (2025)
Real Lies - Let The Lips Fall Where They May (2025)
The Cramps - Weekend On Mars (live) (1983)
Bonus bloggin: 1nce again I'm gonna use my monthly wrap-up post to keep track of the best movies and TV shows I've been watching. * indicates rewatches dunnit.
The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
Allegro non troppo (1976) *
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
The Cable Guy (1996) *
The Descent (2005) *
Neighbours (new episodes) (2025)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (series 8) (2025)
Mastermind (new episodes) (2025)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2025)
Crystal Palace vs. AFC Bournemouth (2025)
Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid (2025)
Real Madrid vs. Barcelona (2025)
Brentford vs. Liverpool (2025)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2025)
Even though Sandman kinda fell off recently, good to see Aesop making good music
ReplyDeleteThe Cable Guy is a perfect example of a movie ahead of its time.
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DeleteThe Curse of the Werewolf is such a great Hammer flick.
ReplyDeleteKermode did a brief review of The Descent yesterday and made me even more gutted it's not being screened at my local cinema.
Speaking of whom, I got Kermode's new book about movie music for my birthday and it inspired me to watch Dougal and the Blue Cat last night. Bloody hell!
DeleteUnrelated, but FOMO took over and I ordered tickets to the Wu Tang farewell tour, which got me thinking.
ReplyDelete1. Is Deck’s verse on Triumph the single most overrated verse in rap history?
2. I never listen to Wu Tang Forever even though I don’t hate it. Started listening to Wu Tang after Iron Flag. How was that album received at the time?
3. Fav 3 joints off that tape? Reunited and Impossible (I think that’s the one with the great Ghost storytelling verse right?) rank up there for me
1. Yes. Word salad which isn't even good word salad like Camp Lo, Scaramanga etc.
Delete2. How was Wu-Tang Forever received? Huge disappointment to me and my friends, altho I remember it getting some good reviews. I've never heard Iron Flag beyond Uzi (Pinky Ring) and I don't remember how that was received.
3. I haven't listened to Wu Tang Forever since it was released and I don't like the songs I can remember.
I remember Gravel Pit being on The Box and that weird ass video made sure I didn’t listen to more Wu Tang until years later until I heard some random early 2000s Wu Tang songs in some Limewire downloaded compilation.
ReplyDeleteGhostface was the only Wu-Tang member I was paying attention to during that period. I did like the Method Man & Redman album too tho.
DeleteAh finally a safe space to say Wu Tang Forever kinda sucks, it's like their Hell On Earth - amazing rapping but the productions so dreary n monotonous you never wanna listen to it. Most the few songs that still get burn aren't even rza ones - MGM, older gods
ReplyDeleteThe W is my shit though, top 5 wu album. Not to torpedo my credibility here but I have never understood the gravel pit hate, rza n ghost have some of their greatest verses on there. Careful Click Click and Can't Go To Sleep are truly bananas singles (and videos). It's like rza was saving up all his cool + weird ideas for this album. Masta killa has a solo song on it!
Also ofc masta killa>>> deck
Can't Go To Sleep alone is better than Wu Tang Forever.
DeleteIron Flag is also better than Wu Tang Forever lol idc
ReplyDeleteRae’s Vatican mixtapes and Masta Killas no said date were both good as far as early 00s Wu goes.
ReplyDeleteODB had a few joints I liked in the 2000s during his Dirt McGirt era:
ReplyDeleteThe O.G solo version of Lift Ya Skirt
Pop Shit from that Neptunes compilation
High In The Clouds w/ Black Rob
Ideally, that Kermode book ought to have an entire chapter on Morricone's scores.
ReplyDeleteUnpopular opinion: I prefer Hell on Earth over The Infamous.
It does. My favourite thing about the book is that he has a page on The Wanderers and the music it uses,
DeleteHmmm uh well Hell on Earths def wayyyy better than Wu Tang Forever at least lol. God pt 3, title track, apostles warning etc are some of the hardest shit of all time.
DeleteI wanna hear a case from someone who thinks murda muziks their best album though
Overshined masterpieces imho - Super tight, The Untouchable, Bulletproof Wallets og, it's a big daddy thing, jays Vol 3, Da Art Of Storytelling, 2-3 jeezy albums following tm101 lol, same goes for TI, like 5 e-40 albums that aren't in a major way, like father like son, solja rags
Solja Rags and Super Tight definitely.
ReplyDeleteFirst Digable Planets
Buhloone Mind State
Stone Crazy
The New Testament (The Truth)
3 November 2025 at 21:37
1000% on stone crazy.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean suga frees new testament? Such a good album man
Snoop - the last meal(or a v close second at least)
8ball mjg on top of the world
Doomsday
Cam come home with me
Life after death
I do.
DeleteBigger And Deffer
Uncle Sam's Curse
Allergic to Bullshit + Don't Fight The Pimpin >>>> a fulfilling career n happy family life
ReplyDeleteTougher Than Leather
People's Instinctive Travels
Am I Black Enough For You
Road To The Riches
Return of The Boom bap/Sex & Violence
third EPMD album
Don't Sweat The Technique
Ok I'm gonna stop turns out I've got too many spicy opinions
Tougher Than Leather is a stretch, m8 😄 Agree on the rest tho.
DeleteRidin Dirty vs super tight is a good case for restraint, sometimes bun needed someone to reign in some of that supercalifragilistic shit and make him count bars. Super Tight is NO joe n pimps country rap tunes masterpiece tho regardless
ReplyDeleteLove Super Tight but it’s hard to pick it over an album which contains that 4 song stretch from One Day to Diamonds.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm not saying it's necessarily better. Rather it's also a masterpiece which gets overlooked due to Ridin' Dirty's status.
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