Picking it up where I left it on the subject of ‘Listening’,

 There are 3 kind of music I like:

   -GOOD MUSIC. 

 Anything good when coming at the right moment. I’m at home, chilling, and ‘Crazy World’ by YOUNG JEEZY plays on the radio. Or in a car riding with the crew and So-Me plays ‘Evil Woman’ by the ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA. Or even in the club when A-Trak drops his new DUCK SAUCE ‘You’re Nasty’ or this TODD EDWARDS remix I forgot about. The instant matches the mood, the music is good, I like it, I sing, I dance. Sometimes it brings back memories, or just make me plain happy. It’s good music!

   -Then there’s PERFECT MUSIC.

 I touched this topic here already, there is such thing as perfection in music, sometimes so perfectly executed that you almost forgot SOMEBODY ACTUALLY HAD TO WRITE IT, PLAY IT and PRODUCE IT. Like the whole Thriller, What’s Going On, Songs In The Key Of Life, Catch A Fire, Revolver, After The Gold Rush, Maggot Brain albums, etc… The words match the melody-perfect. The sound matches the meaning-perfect. The anywhere-anytime 5 star selection in your iTunes library-perfection. James fucking Brown.

   -And then, of course, there’s music that is just TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

 The kind that strikes you straight when you weren’t even really listening, forcing you to just drop whatever you were doing because you can’t believe what you hearing. The kind you have to take a nap after consumption. The kind you hardly understand how. A good portion of NAS Illmatic is that level, as well as OUTKAST’s Aquemini or JIMI’s ‘Along The Watchtower’. Hear what I mean??

  Sure you do.

 The ELECTROMA movie soundtrack is just full of those. As a little shout out to the big boys I’d love to share this one with you peeps: If You Were My Man by LINDA PERHACS.

       And the sun is out today in Paris-it has its importance.

         Mehdi.