Music Mondays – Moby feat Skylar Grey – “The Last Day”

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2013, acid house, alternative rock, ambient, bass guitar, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Connecticut, Darien, DJ, downtempo, drums, EDM, Electronic rock, Electronica, Elektra, experimental music, Folk rock, guitar, hardcore punk, Harlem, Holly Brook, Holly Brook Hafermann, Innocents, Instinct, Interscope, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, iTunes, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, KIDinaKORNER, Little Idiot, Machine Shop, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mazomanie, Moby, music, Music Mondays, musician, Mute, New York, Outer Rhythm, Photographer, piano, pop, Richard Melville Hall, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Skylar Grey, songwriter, techno, The Last Day, Turntables, U.S., United States, V2/BMG, Virgin/EMI, Vocals, Wisconsin, XL

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – Björk – “Unravel”

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1997, Actress, Alternative, alternative dance, alternative rock, ambient, anarcho-punk, Atlantic, avant-garde, Björk, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, brief flashes of hope, Dirty Projectors, drums, El Cortijo Studios, electronic, Electronica, Elektra, ethereal wave, experimental, fashion model, flute, Gling-Glo, Guy Sigsworth, harmonica, harp, Homogenic, Howie B, Iceland, Industrial, Jazz, keyboards, KUKL, lamenting love, LynnFox, Mark Bell, Markus Dravs, Málaga, music composer, musician, Nonesuch, oboe, One Little Indian, piano, piccolo, Polydor, Producer, rave, Reykjavík, songwriter, Spain, Tappi Tíkarrass, The Sugarcubes, Third, Thom Yorke, Timbaland, trip hop, Universal, Unravel, Vocals, Warner Bros.

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Lords Of The Underground – “Chief Rocka”

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1993, Alvin Cash, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Born To Be Blue, Cassette, CD, Chief Rocka, DJ Lord Jazz, DoItAll, East Coast Hip-Hop, Elektra, G.I. Joe, golden age of hip hop, hardcore rap, Here Come the Lords, High School, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, House of Pain, I die for the funk, I live for the funk, Jack Bruce, Jersey Kidz Records, K-Def, Key Yemaya Walker, L.O.T.U.G., Lords of the Underground, Machine Gun Funk, Marley Marl, Mr. Funke, music, New Jersey, Newark, Pendulum, Pendulum Records, Pendulum/Elektra, Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G., Twine Time, Underground hip hop, vinyl

Verse One: Mr. Funke

Boom shaka laka yo here comes the Chief Rocka
Rock it down so jump up off the tip you’re not my nucca
For sharper type to battle make the people say ooh ahh
Think I won’t curse I’ll break down and say puta
Now fam a lam I’ll be damned, slam jams the weak
Could it be the skunk weed that makes us oh so funky?
Now hold it let me choose, couldn’t be the booze
No it’s the shoes (the shoes?) It’s gotta be the shoes!
Cause girlies, they clock, they stand around and jock
so I say boom shaka lak, grab the microphone then rock
To think I’m the troop, when on the mic?
I’ll say it, it ain’t the shows kid?
Like drunk and a grump and sound over some uhhhh!?
The Cat in the Hat and the mouse ran up the stairs
“That doesn’t make no sense!” C’mon who cares?
See even without the gift there’s yours so don’t be tryin to knock me
I say what I want to say, as long it sounds funky
Some MC’s wanted to buy me, so they try to take stands
But they don’t understand, I’m the motherfuckin man
I amaze and astound, rhythm up and down
Smack a group of them around, let them know who wears the crown
Who’s-the-tip-of-the-top, the-cream-of-the-crop, the-best-under-the-sun?
I’m the Lord Chief Rocka, number one, Mr. Funke, uhh

*Lord Jazz cuts ‘The Lord Chief Rocka, number one, Chief Rocka’ 8X*

Cover Sundays – Paolo Nutini – “Natural Blues” Moby Cover

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1999, 2000, alternative rock, ambient, Andy Green, bass guitar, Blue eyed soul, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, blues, BMG, Connecticut, Cover, Cover Song, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, Covers, Darien, David LaChapelle, downtempo, drums, Easy Listening, Electronic rock, Electronica, Elektra, Festival Edition Disc 2, Folk, guitar, Harlem, Instinct, Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight Festival 2007, Jim Duguid, Ken Nelson, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Little Idiot, Moby, music, musician, Mute, Natural Blues, New York, Outer Rhythm, Paisley, Paolo Giovanni Nutini, Paolo Nutini, Play, Pop rock, recorded live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2007, Richard Melville Hall, Scotland, Singer-songwriter, techno, These Streets, Tom Elmhirst, trip hop, Troubled So Hard, Troubled So Hard (Natural Blues), Turntables, U.S., United States, V2, Vera Hall, Virgin/EMI, Vocals, XL

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.