I'm not a stranger to music reviews. In fact, I've reviewed loads of pop music CDs for the Daily 49er at Cal State Long Beach. I'm a big aficianado of indie rock and rap music.
So anyhow, look forward to reading blog reviews of whatever music I can scrounge up with my meager allowance.
Just to give you a sense of what I like, here's a list of my five favorite albums, in no particular order:
1. Beastie Boys - Paul's BoutiqueThis is a masterpiece, by every definition of the word. Everything in this album sounds like a trip through the Twilight Zone, from the random samples to the hard-hitting rhymes. I'm still waiting for the Dust Brothers to produce another Beastie Boys album to top this one.
Radiohead morphed the entire alternative rock landscape with technological sounds that challenge the limits of popular rock. I can't stop listening to "Kid A," a marvelous blend of keyboards, subtle electronic sounds and vague lyrics about emotional instability.
If Radiohead is the British band of the new millennium, Wilco serves as a wonderful American alternative to Radiohead. This album proved that it's okay to blend American folk rock with the technological malaise of abstract techno.
I'd never even heard of this French band until the television commercials kept playing the band's single, "1901." This peppy band somehow manages to blend the catchiest pop rock with complex lyrics about their personal frustration with the economic recession.
Although M.I.A.'s second album made her into a household name, Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam truly took over indie radio with her first album. In "Arular," M.I.A. samples loads of infectious dance beats and sound effects to musically express her opposition against ethnic cleansing and poverty around the world.
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