The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #1 Method Man and Redman ft UGK – City Lights

DONE OVER FINISH.

Fuck me. ILB returns to regular programming tomorrow.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #2 DJ Quik and Kurupt – Hey Playa (Moroccan Blues)

I suppose there is some humour to be had in what is, basically, a weed paean being laced by Kurupt, who quite clearly goes through crackpipes like most of us go through cans of original flavour Relentless.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #3 Jackie Chain – Diamonds and Cadillacs

Why on earth does Dominik Diamond now look like Gary Glitter does now? Nagl.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #4 Tanya Morgan ft Blu – Morgan Blu

“Like the Klan, leavin’ niggaz hanging is my favorite pasttime/’Cuz most of them are wacker than my last line”

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #5 Napoleon – I Try To Despise The Ugly People (But The Beautiful Ones Keep Turning Me Down)

It’s kinda appropriate that Napoleon and Playboy Tre are side-by-side in this most useless of year-end countdowns (I’ll get it done today and be back zinging tomorrow, I promise), because they were, as hinted above, the kind of albums I’d be foghorning about if I cared about music anymore. Tre representing the hip-hop side of things, Napoleon on the pause tip.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #6 Playboy Tre – Movin’ Dem Keys

Part of this “disinterested” rundown is effectively me trying to purge myself of that “write about everything in 200 words and make the first 150 of those a series of gags about the recording artiste in question’s facial features” style of script. I wanna get back to full-scale reviews in 2010 so, unless I decide to remove 3/4 of my cerebral cortex in order to enable me to write for Popmatters, expect more longform ish on ILB in the next 365.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #7 3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me

Originally, we were going to have our number seven as “STARSTRUKK”. I think that song is more interesting to talk about, especially if you consider it like… you know when you see photos of your town centre that were taken in the 1910s and 1920s? And you sort of spend five minutes staring at it trying to work your bearings out and going “So if that’s where Gamestation is nowadays, then that butchers would be where Reflex: The 80s Bar is now?” Enough time has passed to make what is literally exactly the same place hard to identify. I think that “STARSTRUKK” is your high street and “Whistle While You Twurk” is the photo of it from 1912 with the open-top busride for the county cricket team riding down it.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #8 Raekwon ft Ghostface Killah and Method Man – Nu Wu

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #9 Marco Polo and Torae – But Wait

I don’t really buy into all this “MONOCULTURE IS DEAD, WHAT’S THE POINT OF DOING YEAR-END LISTS ANYMORE” talking point shit.

The disinterested ILB end of year rundown: #10 Camera Obscura – French Navy

I never mentioned this at the time because it felt like the kind of “hey, look at me everyone, I left the house and managed to talk to a girl” kinda of sprawl that most indie MP3 bloggers come up with whenever they try and write about what is “hot” “in” “the” “clubs”, but the weekend after Steven Wells tapped out, I was at this house party in Highbury, getting fucked up on Jaegermeister (it was the 2000s, they were different times) and screaming along to “Earth Song”.