Thursday, 30 October 2025

Generic list post: October 2025

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when YouTube kept recommending me Panda Chop interviews with Copywrite talking about getting beat up by Camu Tao and Icon The Mic King. Will Panda Chop be the person who tracks down Will High and interviews him about the Vordul and El-P incident?

People Under The Stairs ft. Murs - Pulp Fiction (1997/2000)
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.

Movies I watched and liked:
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) *

TV shows I watched and liked:
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)

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Even though Sandman kinda fell off recently, good to see Aesop making good music

Anonymous said...

The Cable Guy is a perfect example of a movie ahead of its time.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Cable Guy Hive

Spartan said...

The Curse of the Werewolf is such a great Hammer flick.

Kermode did a brief review of The Descent yesterday and made me even more gutted it's not being screened at my local cinema.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

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!

Yohan said...

Unrelated, but FOMO took over and I ordered tickets to the Wu Tang farewell tour, which got me thinking.

1. 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

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

1. Yes. Word salad which isn't even good word salad like Camp Lo, Scaramanga etc.

2. 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.

Yohan said...

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.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Ghostface was the only Wu-Tang member I was paying attention to during that period. I did like the Method Man & Redman album too tho.

D said...

Ah 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

The 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

D said...

Iron Flag is also better than Wu Tang Forever lol idc

Ben said...

Rae’s Vatican mixtapes and Masta Killas no said date were both good as far as early 00s Wu goes.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

ODB had a few joints I liked in the 2000s during his Dirt McGirt era:

The O.G solo version of Lift Ya Skirt
Pop Shit from that Neptunes compilation
High In The Clouds w/ Black Rob

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Can't Go To Sleep alone is better than Wu Tang Forever.

Spartan said...

Ideally, that Kermode book ought to have an entire chapter on Morricone's scores.

Unpopular opinion: I prefer Hell on Earth over The Infamous.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

It does. My favourite thing about the book is that he has a page on The Wanderers and the music it uses,

D said...

Hmmm 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.

I 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

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Solja Rags and Super Tight definitely.

First Digable Planets
Buhloone Mind State
Stone Crazy
The New Testament (The Truth)

3 November 2025 at 21:37


D said...

1000% on stone crazy.

Do 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

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I do.

Bigger And Deffer
Uncle Sam's Curse

D said...

Allergic to Bullshit + Don't Fight The Pimpin >>>> a fulfilling career n happy family life

Tougher 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

D said...

Ridin 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

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Tougher Than Leather is a stretch, m8 😄 Agree on the rest tho.

Yohan said...

Love Super Tight but it’s hard to pick it over an album which contains that 4 song stretch from One Day to Diamonds.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Personally, I'm not saying it's necessarily better. Rather it's also a masterpiece which gets overlooked due to Ridin' Dirty's status.