Because the Internet - Childish Gambino

This past tuesday, Childish Gambino released his second studio album entitled "Because the Internet." I think I've blogged previously about how I'm a big fan of Childish and I was looking forward to this album. I really liked his first album and I'd been a fan of his mixtapes before he blew up as a rapper, and so I was really expecting a lot out of this album.

And I thought that he delivered. I really enjoyed listening to the album and I thought that he had some quality tracks. He did a lot of singing and not too much rapping, which I didn't favor, but he still made it work. I really liked the songs that had a combination of singing and rapping and I thought that the album as a whole had great production. Also, I think that he did a great job with his lyrics in this album and it seemed like a lot of time was spent.

Below I posted a couple of my favorite tracks from the album.

The White Album / Abbey Road

This past week in class, we listened to segments of two of the later albums in the late period of The Beatles career: The White Album and Abbey Road. Personally, I favored the White Album more so than Abbey Road. 

I enjoy albums that are diverse and interesting and that almost defines the White Album. In the white album The Beatles were practically all over the place. Every song almost sounded like it was coming from a different band. I think that having this quality really makes the Beatles unique and its really separated and put them in a different category from bands of their time, and even bands today. 

Abbey Road had a different feel to me than The White Album. First off, it's almost half the length of The White Album. The White Album was around 93 minutes and Abbey Road was just 47 minutes. Also, a lot of the songs in Abbey Road seemed really short and no longer then about two minutes. Also, Abbey Road had a tone of sorrow and it just didn't feel the same as most of the other records that the Beatles had produced. After hearing the issues that they had towards the end of their career, its makes it clear why this is the case.

Led Zeppelin

On wednesday we listed to Led Zeppelin's debut album entitled " Led Zeppelin." I've never really listened to any Led Zeppelin in the past but I'm a little familiar with them as they are a world famous band. But even though the music was a little new to me, I really enjoyed the music. I thought that the guitar play was really good though and really enjoyed some the hooks and riffs that were played. I was hoping to be able to listen to "Led Zeppelin II" but I had to miss class due to a basketball tournament. I hope to listen to more related music in the near future.