08/14/05
01. V.I.N.CENT model kit
What the hell is The Black Hole and why hadn't I heard of it until very recently? It's Disney - it had to have been promoted heavily, right? Did I actually see it when I was younger and forget about it? Was it a cinematic disaster and that's why no one ever mentions it? These are the questions that keep me up at night. At any rate, V.I.N.CENT (I refuse to put a period after the "T") was 95 cents at Thrift City. How could I refuse his cherubo-robotic charms?
02. 2 scratchy LPs
These were 79 cents (I think) a piece at Thrift City. Both are scratchy as fuck, but still very listenable...
01. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (Columbia - 1973) Funked-out fusion jazz with an abundance of hard-ass beats and wacky synthesizers put to good use. Album opener "The Chameleon", for instance, uses a New Orleans marching band beat, a funk-laden Moog bass line, and chickenscratch guitars to ass-shaking effect before abruptly mutating into a more traditionally jazzy electric piano and drum workout, then back again. Even with a thick layer of scratches and pops coating everything, it's very easy to recognize that this album is, in fact, "The Shit".
02. Shotgun - III (MCA - 1979) I should've known by the date of this one that it would steer a little too close to lame disco for my tastes. It's not bad, really... just boring. And cheezy. What would this seemingly quite capable funk band have sounded like were it not for the insane popularity of disco music at the time?
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