The Weather

Busdriver | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mush
• ASIN: B000083MGJ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,107 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #65 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Electronic > Computer

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have for Those That Consider Themsleves Hip-Hop Heads, June 5, 2003

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"sinistrfunkhous" (Princeton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Weather (Audio CD)

Like asking a Sasquatch to taste your Gazpacho. That's a nice watch, bro. Bought it from Costco. God, I like pasta. God is a monster. Monsters are modern. Inventions forgotten. Potatoe-au-gratin. Cradle your thoughts in a stable of oxen, thick ankles for socks and...I'll strangle your Datsun with a Subaru Walkman.
-radioinactive
--The whole album is like this, irreverant, complex, and often illogical lyrics mixed impeccably with well-produced yet odd beats. Its a great experimental, intelligent, humorous, hiphop album that may well point into the direction of a future for this subgenre within california hiphop.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best hip hop album I've ever heard, September 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Weather (Audio CD)

This is simply the best hip hop album I've heard - great
production, amazing rhymes, off the wall humour... A must
have.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Busdriver does it again, March 6, 2003

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taogoat (the mothership) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Weather (Audio CD)

As with all Busdriver releases, this album is an immediate classic. If you've never heard Busdriver, I'm afraid you don't know what hiphop is about these days. Busdriver stands alongside Mikah-9 and Aceyalone and a few others as one of the most stylistically advanced MCs of all time. All of his albums are must-haves: "This Machine Kills Fascists," "Memoirs of the Elephant Man," and "Temporary Forever," along with numerous cameo appearances with CVE, 2mex, Fat Jack, and other Project Blowedians and Afterlifers. Busdriver flows jazz-inspired lightning-quick delivery with a voice as unique and inimitable as Bootsy Collins' and rhymes as intelligent as Paul Barman's.

But then again, I'm a fan. Perhaps his style is not for everyone. Some people think John Coltrane "sounds weird." Such people need to stick to their pop music.

Enough about Busdriver... This is a band, so to speak -- The Weather -- filled out by the gifted MC Radioinactive and producer Daedelus. Radioinactive (the goat in Beneath the Surface's "Farmer's Market of the Beast") is a perfect match for Busdriver, with a comparable and complementary delivery and quirky intelligence. In short, they are a perfect team. I can't wait to cop Radioinactive's "Pyramidi." Daedelus provides the childlike, bizarre backdrop for all of this beautiful verbal madness. These three guys were made for each other, the whole album is slick as heck. Also check out Busdriver's other work with Daedelus.

You can tell these guys listen to a lot of They Might Be Giants. (This isn't conjecture; Busdriver has admitted it in interviews.) This hiphop is so good that it doesn't have to brag about itself. This hiphop can act dorky and still serve you up on a platter like no problem. It is humorous, insightful, poetic, and above all, madly skilled.

If you are unfamiliar with these guys and youre not sure that you like artsy hiphop, first start off with Busdriver's "Memoirs" & "Temporary Forever," which adhere a little more strictly to the classic hiphop formula. But if you want some mind-blowing experimental 2003 hiphop, check out the Weather.