Her whole family is pretty impressive. Alfie's her brother ( Theon Greyjoy - Game Of Thrones), her dad is Keith Allen (he was in a London punk band called The Atoms, which opened for The Clash. Hes more well known for his acting), her mum is Alison Owen (producer for films including Shawn Of The Dead) and her uncle is Kevin Allen (British film director, producer and actor).
Bamboo Banga is one of my favourite starts to an album ever! I think I can only name a few starts to an album I prefer more - Daft Punk's One More Time comes to mind! I just how instrumentally layered Bamboo Banga is! The shuffling, skipping, pulsating, fist-pumping rhythm and energy of that song is untouchable! It's got this marching, futuristic tribal, fashion-forward, stealthy aesthetic - like it's something else! Even the car racing sounds and M.I.A's ad-libs add such a thrill to the track! One of the best cardio workout songs ever in my opinion!I thought this might be one you liked @NathanRicaud
I streamed it again this morning and its just such an uplifiting album, really energetic!
! It's my favourite album of 2007! That's right, I prefer the album more than Britney Spears' Blackout, Burial's Untrue, Radioheads' In Rainbows, Kanye West's Graduation, LCD Soundsystem's Sound Of Silver and Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam! Kala is my 4th favourite album of the 2000's (Kanye West's Graduation, D'Angelo's Voodoo & Madvillainy's Madvillain are the 3 albums I prefer more from the 2000's)!
Alfie also killed John Wick’s dog which makes him directly responsible for 299 on screen deaths and counting.
Im loving all the love for M.I.A.
M.I.A is definitely popular! But I guess she would have a very diverse listening audience, like you know what I mean? Dirty Projectors is currently releasing music and their current monthly listeners at the moment is 700,000 - they were the January Essentials ROTM! Then The Roots is at 2,700,000 current monthly listeners. M.I.A is at 4,700,000 current monthly listeners!
I mentioned Stone Roses in my first post a while back. That is one of my all time fav's.
Wow, I didnt hear about that. Just had a quick search though and it appears she cleared up her stance by stating it was aimed towards the pharmaceutical companies that profit on it. Either way, I can see that being enough to stop her being chosen. I've spent the afternoon jamming to her albums and they're just killer, hopefully one day they get reissued.
Yeah, I also can’t imagine VMP doing an M.I.A. ROTM because she’s too controversial in general! Like politically, she’s controversial and that Born Free videoclip is super controversial. I feel like VMP would perceive M.I.A. as someone that’s a bit too ‘full on/extreme’ in that sense! M.I.A. has strong views.
I felt the same way back when people started rumors they were gonna do JPEGMAFIA AOTM/exclusive. I love Peggy but he is very unflinching when it comes to his political stances and I just don't think that a good chunk of the VMP crowd, given their typical output, would be down to buy an album by a guy who named a song "I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies"
The Charlatans are my favourites of that period (although they can't touch the Stone Roses in 89-90). I'd recommend checking out this album first and the two either side of it are excellent as well. I love all their albums up to Wonderland, they then went off the boil a bit, but their last two have been solid as well.
Yeah, true! “I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Does” is one hell of a controversial title!
John Mayer? Yeah.....it absolutely sucks that VMP would be happy to do John Mayer, but not someone like M.I.A.
