#393: M.I.A. - Kala

M.I.A. - Kala

August 8, 2007, Interscope

1. "Bamboo Banga" - 4:58

2. "Bird Flu" - 3:24

3. "Boyz" - 3:27

4. "Jimmy" - 3:29

5. "Hussel" (featuring Afrikan Boy) - 4:25

6. "Mango Pickle Down River" (with The Wilcannia Mob) - 3:53

7. "20 Dollar" - 4:34

8. "World Town" - 3:52

9. "The Turn" - 3:52

10. "XR2" - 4:20

11. "Paper Planes" - 3:24

12. "Come Around" (featuring Timbaland) - 3:53

RESULTS

Rate: 9.5/10

Best Song: Paper Planes

Worst Song: The Turn

Comments

ALL I WANNA DO IS

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AND TAKE YOUR MONEY

Love the song, and my first experience with this Album was really good. It's dance music that takes some of it's parts from different cultures, like India and South Africa. The diverse and expressive cultures definitely solidify the foundations of the electronic and rap, making it very unique.

It got weird sometimes, but it was for sure a good weird.

Plus, the immortaly nostalgic "Paper Planes".

M.I.A. rocks.

#394: Randy Newman - Good Old Boys

Randy Newman - Good Old Boys

September 10, 1974, Reprise

1. "Rednecks" - 3:07

2. "Birmingham" - 2:45

3. "Marie" - 3:07

4. "Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)" - 2:45

5. "Guilty" - 2:30

6. "Louisiana 1927" - 2:54

7. "Every Man a King" (Originally by Huey P. Long, Castro Carazo) - 1:02

8. "Kingfish" - 2:42

9. "Naked Man" - 3:06

10. "Wedding in Cherokee County" - 3:07

11. "Back on My Feet Again" - 3:30

12. "Rollin'" - 2:53

RESULTS

Rate: 9/10

Best Song: Rednecks

Worst Song: Lousiana 1927

Comments

Well, this Albu- WAIT A SECOND

THIS IS THE DUDE FROM TOY STORY

That's right, my childhood soundtrack singer! Let's hear all of the groovy upbeat songs about friendship, love, compassion, shari-

"They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around

Keepin' the niggers down

We're rednecks, we're rednecks

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground"

Jesus Christ.

It's always hard when someone you've always admired for their friendliness and happiness hits you hard with reality.

I write this article in the midst of the Ferguson trials/riots, in the wake of the death of Mike Brown.

If this is still remembered of the time you are reading this, you will understand the full chaos and the state that America is in right now. It's all circling around one big subject. One gaping subject that people either abuse to their power, or ignore completely. No, it's not "Should we teach our officers to handle situations as non-lethally as possible?",

It's Racism.

This entire Album challenges the hypocrisy and bigoted minds of racism. It challenges Southern culture, and retorts North culture. Newman wrote the songs from a position of a man named "Johnny Cutler", a southern everyday man who sees the racist world he lives in. In the beginning, after seeing TV make fun of the South's racism, he judges how bigoted the North is, pointing out black ghettos and how they're treated, such as the Bronx. By the end of the Album, the miserable Cutler just accepts the fact that racism is all around him, and it always will be.

This isn't an Album, it's a whole goddamn story.

The music is still the same Randy Newman, but the subject and concept behind it is pretty amazing, so, yeah, I really liked it.