Buck 65: The Beatific (WEA, 2007)This is rather nice. I've never been much taken with ol' 65's book-learning hip hop before, but this tale of Beat Poetry and general boho behaviour is a wee bit good. The new album is - oh yes - a sort of concept affair about how amazing 1957 was. And a quick glance here only seems to confirm that. My favourite 1957 factoid: It was the year that "the Africanized bee was accidentally released in Brazil." What's yours?
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Praps the untimely death of Humphrey Bogart, in no way connected to his weekly consumption of a Windermere of booze drinks and a Sherwood Forest of fags.
57 was the year that Sid Vicous was born too. My Vintage year would be 1977 though - Punk at it's peak. Disco Inferno with Saturday Night Fever. Space Disco a go-go with Donna Summer/Georgio Moroder, Rah Band - The Crunch, Space - Magic Fly and the coolest James Bond Car ever (the underwater one). Even 'Pulsar' style digital watches at Argos.
There were some howlers too, but the highs outweigh the lows
i don't know nothing - but i shall be using 'book learning hip hop' often from now on
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