<p>I've discovered this band I really like from a movie trailer to Sin City...The Servant.</p>
<p>I love these songs:</p>
<p>Cells, Liquefy, Body, Orchestra</p>
<p>Listening to anything good?</p>
<p>postal service is still amazing....</p>
<p>jimmy eat world - futures is amazing as well =P</p>
<p>I like electronic and whatnot I've never been a fan of postal service though</p>
<p>shrek, do you like Jet?
"Look what you've done" has that postal service feel. </p>
<p>My favorite postal service song is Against All Odds.</p>
<p>Lotsa Wicked, Herbie Hancock, and other random smooth jazz artists. A few orchestra CDs. No radio, finally. Thank God.</p>
<p>long live fiona apple!</p>
<p>zanty - i relaly like jet as well, i love basically anything....except real hardcore rap. my fav postal service song is nothing better</p>
<p>phil - WICKED is quite amazing =P have we ever talked about it?!</p>
<p>Seriously guys</p>
<p>YOU HAVE to download the servant</p>
<p>a cappella songs sungs by the groups at colleges I'm applying to</p>
<p>omg yes! I love a collegiate a capella. I really like the Harvard Din and Tonics, even though I didn't apply there. They came to my school once and I just thought they were so cute and good singers.</p>
<p>jimmy eat world - clarity</p>
<p>BEST.CD.EVER.IMO</p>
<p>2pac - All Eyez on Me
2pac - 2pacalypse
Talib Kweli - Quality and The Beautiful Struggle
Kanye West - College Dropout
2pac - Loyal to the Game
2pac - Greatest Hits
NAS - Street's disciple
Murray Perahia - Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2 (playing this)
Richard Goode - Sonata op. 53 (Waldstein) (played this)
Gilels - Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto (I could play this... in my dreams)
Ashkenazy - Mozart Piano Concerto no. 20,26,27
Michael Collins - Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death</p>
<p>These are all albums or long pieces by the way.... if i have more, ill come back later.</p>
<p>Favorite Songs ever (this is my rap list...) -
2pac - Hail Mary
2pac - Life Goes On
2pac - I Ain't Mad atcha
Eminem - Till I Collapse
Eminem - How Come
Kanye West - Two words
Kanye West - We Don't Care
Talib Kweli - Ghetto Show
Nas ft. Quan - Just a Moment
Notorious BIG - Mo Money Mo Problems</p>
<p>I'm going through this whole 'Beatles' revival thing right now...they're really addictive.</p>
<p>I LOVE the Beatles and oldies in general</p>
<p>irock1ice seems like my kind of guy. i only like 2pac's Still Baalin' and Thug Mansion, but i've been fallinaway from mainstream rap... i mean come on, you know that country rap song with whatshisface Nelly and that hick. man... whats going on? its terrible i tell ya.
but kanye west is aight. and Mace. I couldnt care for Eminem though</p>
<p>to truly understand 2pac, one needs to actually take his background into consideration. He grew up poor and most of his early songs (pre-death row) are very socially aware and address and question many of the issues dealing with race and poverty. For example, I Ain't Madatcha is talking about a homeboy from his past who got out of the hood and is a changed man, and pac is just giving the man some credit and re-assurance that everyone in the ghetto wants out. "Life Goes On" is essentially a testament on the brutal life of those who live in the ghettos of America. People lose their friends and family continously and have to keep life moving forward.
Most of all, although I am not African-American, I grew up in the West Oakland/West Berkeley borders and actually have encountered lots of folks I used to know who ended up in jail and in my H.S. lockerroom, we still have memorials of guys who were murdered on the streets. </p>
<p>Eminem - hes been fading recently, but "Till I Collapse" is my war song for football games. And by "Mace", I think you mean "Ma$e" who just recently made a comeback.... I like him, but his affiliation with "P.Diddy" or wtvr that idiot calls himself nowadays makes me lose some respect for him.<br>
Kanye West, however, resembles some kind of hope for the future of rap music. He blends social awareness into a beat and rhythm that the idiotic mainstream pop culture can keep up with. "We Don't Care" is probably his best song, and it talks about kids who survived past 25 and is selling drugs on the streets.
Talib Kweli is great as well, as I loved his Blackstar combo with Mos Def.</p>
<p>"Drug dealin' just to get by, stack your money till it gets sky high, we weren't supposed to make it past twenty-five, jokes on you, we're still alive." - Kanye
...
"I say f*** the police, that how i treat em. We buy our way outta jail, but can't buy freedom,We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em,Things we buy to cover up what's inside,Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth,That's why shortys hollering "where the ballas' at?"
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack
And a white man get paid off of all of that" - Kanye</p>
<p>how come my man 50 isn't getting any love on this thread? The Massacre is doing just as the title claims, massacring the competition. Check out "Get in My Car" and "God Gave me Style"</p>
<p>but i have to disagree with u irock1ce, Eminem has been doing nothing but maturing with every album... his message, his voice, and his flow have all developed from album to album. The Marshall Mathers LP used to be my fav Em album, but Encore is far and away my fav right now....</p>
<p>irock1ce, if you like the message that Kanye West and Talib Kweli are sending out, i dunno why you're not giving any daps to Nas and my personal fav, Jadakiss...lyrically, Kiss is the best rapper out there right now- he'll tear apart anyone...50 has the dre beats and a crew unseen since Wu-Tang, but he doesn't get into the social issues...he has great talent and tells it like it is, but I think his talents could be better used doing good for the game. (no pun intended)</p>
<p>but as both hobbes and irock1ce have done, i must pay homage to my man 2pac. Kanye West, Nas, and even Mase all have religious messages to an extent, but nobody mixed religion and rap as beautifully as 2pac...i don't care what you say, Biggie can't touch 2pac lyrically or with the message he sent out...Pac was, and even to this day, is the realest MC out there...and he has multi-platinum albums drop every single year (even though he's DEAD).</p>
<p>...happy to see that there will be other like minded ppl i can chill with at Princeton (IF i get in ofcourse, hehe) ;)</p>
<p>sempitern555 : I agree. Oldies rock!</p>