Rap Snitch Knishes is the peak for me. Just a top tier song. Though Hoe Cakes is right there behind it! EDIT: Darn it, Potholderz is so good as well. Throw it in the top 3.
Dirge for November is one of the most powerful Opeth songs for me, it always raises hairs on my neck.. and the lyrics are so deep and sad, about suicide (when the leper kills himself to join his liver who passed - the theme of the album). Don't listen to this if your depressed!
It's one of my favourite genres, especially as someone who's favourite thing is Thrash, love Hardcore and Death Metal (not into Crust and Grind etc stuff)... but one of the complains is little stuff there is, apparently now it's either pure Hardcore and most modern Thrash is just something like Pizza Thrash or Fun Thrash or Blackened Thrash... Crossover needs a revival
Great reaction! I also discovered them this year and like you I got obsessed with Bleed and went deeper from there. I couldn't listen to any other music for months :) And I've never listened to any metal before (and pretty much still don't apart from Meshuggah). There are so many good tracks (although many of them need a couple of listens, obviously) Best albums IMO: ObZen, Nothing, Immutable and Catch 33. Happy rabbit hole spelunking!
Why not listen from the start? The Leper Affinity is actually in context a great transition from the track before, and should be listened too in a reaction that way, in order.
If we talk about amazing outros, you need to listen to Dancers To A Discordant System. Meshuggah is probably my favourite band and Dancers is my favourite song made by them, it's also album closer.
"über alles" ist german and means in Trump speech "America First". The first verse (today not used!) of the german national anthem is "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt". That means for a german like me, that the Dead Kennedys had been a intelligent and history knowleged band. Trump voters believe that the world is 4000 years ols and Alaska belongs to Russia. Another great Band of Yello Biafra is LARD. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l3bDYhOYPDg.html For me "Religious Vomit" is missing here, another fast and important DK song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Rrye5BEMe4.html
Thanks for the shoutout at the beginning! Helmet is just fantastic, so glad you're getting into their music as well. Their drummer John Stanier is incredible, he always brings amazing energy to his playing, and I love the jazz influence as well that they have. Strap It On is a great start for them but they really come into form on Meantime, their next album. It is a must listen in my opinion, a 10/10 album! I also just listened to their third record Betty which introduces some really atmospheric elements into their music, a bit less of the punk style. Anyway, glad you've also fallen down the Helmet rabbit hole and I look forward to seeing what you'll think of their next two albums.
The rhyme style is called multi-syllable rhyming when you rhyme multiple syllables throughout the bars beyond the last few syllables of each bar like a basic rapper Also DOOM is as much of a producer as he is an MC so he has lots of tracks on his albums where he doesn't rap on.
It’s interesting watching people listen to Mm Food for the first time. It’s so good people usually enjoy it but it takes a while of getting used to the aesthetic to realize how incredible it is. Some feel that immediately but usually it takes time but still so good.
You pronounce "knish" very correctly! Knishes are (well, to me, anyway) a Jewish deli. food (probably a street food or quick "carry along" type of thing). Basically: (flavored) mashed potatoes, wrapped in a dough and fried. Often square (but, I guess, in an older tradition (maybe🤷): ball-shaped 🤷) Often eaten with mustard (That's the N.Y.C. tradition ...and since that's around where M.F. Doom is from, I am going to purport that: that's how he knows it and does it, as well.😛). 👍
Danger Doom-the Mouse and The Mask! His album with Danger mouse, my personal favorite. It was comissioned bt Adult Swim so a lot of it references their classic shows, some of which he was even in here and there
The piano line you, so, liked in "Kon-Karne" [a "false spelling"/altered spelling of the Spanish term: com carne {with meat} In case you weren't aware. ...] is, actually, from Sade's "Is It A Crime" [played by her keyboard player: Andrew Hale]. I feel as if that is M.F. Doom's best use of a sample ...maybe, ever. (🤷🤷👍....)
That chorus/melody is a sample of the Whodini track "Friends" [from: 1984]. [on the album: Escape (which, also, features the other hits: "Freaks Come Out At Night" and "Five Minutes Of Funk")]. 🤘🤘 (Classic hip-hop)
"V8" (as someone else, here, mentioned, already) is: the most famous brand of vegetable juice (I want to say "the ONLY brand" [which is, probably, not 100% true], at least in the 1960s and 1970s), at least in North America. Of course, the lyrical allusion?inference which is supposed to be impressed upon a listener is that: while he refers to "V8" vegetable juice in the first line of the bar, the next one refers to a "Ford F-150"-which is a type of vehicle (much newer than the juice brand is, b.t.w.). The V8 engine is, also, a famed, powerful and well-recognized type of "muscle car" engine (from the 1970s, also) ...so: he is, indirectly, tying one in with the other [V8 juice with the V8 engine. - Note Mad Max, if you need a reminder: "Last of the V8 Interceptors" (a reference to the car that Max acquires and drives (prior to the primary driving event of the film -Not the INITIAL vehicle you see him in, first.-Just a "f'r instance," there. 🤷). Calling it by the engine that it uses/contains.]. A "dual reference."
A large number [possibly: all of them🤷🤷] of the dialogue samples (which, also, mention Doom/use the name Doom) are from Fantastic Four (and other Marvel characters, as well) animated shows (from the '60s). The character Dr. Doom is a major villain and important sidereal/interleaved character in the mythos of the Fantastic Four (superhero team) and often appeared in that comic book series (as well as plenty of others, over the decades -after he was invented and introduced in F.F.). M. F. Doom's "M.C. character" (particularly, the "metal mask") are: tributes to/appropriations from the Dr. Doom character [created by the GREAT: Jack Kirby (and Stan Lee)]. ...so: the use of these dialogue bits/sample blurbs is, simply: a natural extension (and a "paying of tribute" -which is a common practice in hip-hop, as well) of this. [But, also, pays additional dividends when the listener can/does recognize them.👍]
The beatbox is a sample from JJ Fad’s SuperSonic - a part where she purposely drops a wack beatbox for a punchline - Doom flips it to make an epic track
