MattThoughts 2

Category: Music

  • Most Acrobatic Rappers would be an interesting list to have. While poets often (or always, I guess) strive for a magical cadence or at least something solid, some rappers seem to be able to take on different shapes in the air, by themselves. Black Thought comes to mind. I first saw him transform on “X-Ecutioner…

  • Aesop Rock has just been the most accomplished painter of pictures, the other version of Eminem’s, “Y’all ain’t even impressed no more.” And while it can be easy to forget just how incredible Eminem is because we are, indeed, “Used to it,” with Aesop Rock it felt like he never got thin and rarely even…

  • Aesop Rock. It became trendy for a couple of years there to focus on Aesop Rock, or perhaps it was just the one Lupe Fiasco video about appreciating him, but this guy deserves all the recognition he can. What a career, full of at first very abstract, almost zoomed-back rap like diagrams and postmodern poetry,…

  • Amon Amarth Album Ranking.

    Okay, so we’re finally here. I have finally listened to all of the Amon Amarth albums. (The ones that aren’t B-sides or covers or other things, but just main, studio ones.) As the band that I have pictured on my work profile, which is pretty good, I guess, meaning a large percentage of my profile…

  • A Matter of Iron and Maiden.

    I am listening to A Matter of Life and Death, maybe the biggest comeback Iron Maiden album in my estimations, ever. It is the story of a guy who, in the first song, says that he doesn’t want to be where he is, he’s just looking for something to care about, he’s just kind of…