Thee Review

Thursday

S.A.S. - Streets All Salute

More violence! More Gunplay! More street stories we’ve all heard before, only this time the voices are London accented. Unfortunately, for me this trip through UK Dipsetville was rather unenthused and wore thin very quickly. The album is long, seems like it will never end and I my friend am not even convinced that these boys are from the land of tea sipping. I assumed I’d be welcomed to the home town of these glassy narrators with a little bit of the native lingo and mentions of hood haunts I could visit when in the area. But no, what my ears witnessed was more so an almost soulless choreography produced by bird gang ghost writers. The most outstanding performance on SAS actually comes from Dipset’s always charmingly confident young star Juelz Santana speaking some of the realest words you’ll hear on this album. They say you shouldn’t fight for colors on a rag/ well we shouldn’t like we shouldn’t fight for colors on a flag/ America open yah eyes to the fact/ it’s a war goin on and it’s not in Iraq…

This album is not in my personal rotation. It will never be. It only spun long enough for me to absorb it so I could regurgitate this short review. On another note I must say that I am rather impressed by the energy that is behind the Dipset movement that has reached the far reaches of the globe. Too bad the freshman release of S.A.S. is not as strong as the movement behind it.

Cheerio

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Friday

Wilson Pickett: 1941-2006

You know I don't even want to get into it. Another singing soul has made his journey in physical form and left us for his next mission. Over at Soulshower Blog of course the good people have posted a tribute. I feel it necessary to syndicate that post.

Wilson "Wicked" Pickett
Singer/Songwriter
(1941-2006)

Less than two weeks after the death of Lou Rawls, soul music has lost another legend. Wilson Pickett died of a heart attack today, he was 64. Pickett started out with a group called the Falcons and moved on to have an extremely successful solo career in soul music. His first solo hit was "In The Midnight Hour," a song Pickett co-wrote with Steve Cropper. "The Wicked Pickett" was more raw than many of his popular contemporaries and his hits were almost uptempo, danceable tunes. He recorded and toured for years after his prime, including 1999's critically acclaimed album It's Harder Now. Pickett is survived by a fiance and four children. The man's music will live on forever, no tribute is great enough to remember this man and a half.

Wednesday

Where is the Love ?

Les-tor Manchestor is looking for songs that shout valentine's day flowers and showers of tears from love so potent that it could crush diamonds. I'm looking for suggestions. Please send me links so I can achieve that loving feeling asap!