4 posts tagged “gnarls barkley”
Easy method
- Release a great melodic widely-styled hip-hop album that everyone absolutely loves.
- Release a new album that's more consistent but still totally awesome.
- Get mentioned on one of my favorite "stuff" blogs.
- Don't have your album on Emusic. (Being on a major helps.)
- Have your album available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
Hard method
- Release a totally awesome rock album several years ago.
- Be mentioned often enough over the course of a couple years by people I consider hip that I'm naturally wary of you.
- Have one of my favorite "stuff" blogs say your album is "one of the top 5 albums to come out since Nirvana's Nevermind," which I don't actually read because of (2).
- Have one of your songs be included in a musical sequence in a movie I really liked, which I remember now because it's out on DVD soon.
- Have a song in the hottest hit music video game around, which I start playing.
- Be on the mp3 CD my friend's wife left in the car when he drove me someplace.
- Don't make your album available on Emusic. (Being on a major helps.)
- Be available on a coworker's iTunes share.
- When I'm almost done listening to your album for the twelfth time in two days, have my coworker leave for the day.
- Have your album available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
Anti-method
- Release an epic hip-hop album I like enough to even get the remix album (albeit on Emusic).
- Release a new album in which you reportedly take "a giant leap forward in song craft, incorporating elements such as pop, reggaeton, and R&B."
- Don't make it available on Emusic.
- Don't make it available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
- When I look to write this post, even after Amazon started claiming to be selling the CD, have delayed the release of the album by a month.
I wrote that I hadn't heard an album as rich and fantastic as Mr. Bungle's California until St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley. Little did I know that Mike Patton had been busy not only with Fantômas (which I haven't gotten into), but put out a self-titled album only four months ago as Peeping Tom. It is terribly awesome.
Thanks to Tul for pointing out this video exists!
What went right? What went wrong?
Was it the story or was it the song?
Was it overnight or did it take you long?
Was it knowing your weakness that made you strong?
