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Welcome to the Rhyme Cellar …

Navigating akashic record sound waves from the scope of a scribe songelier of sorts … the “Rhyme Cellar” flavor palette/palate profiles musical selections from the archive crates and/or contemporary currents … particular observations on first spins and/or fond recollections … herein is the alcove niche where said silo repertoire resides in designated concert — as always, enjoi

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Rhyme Cellar : Slow (2003)

Bit of a template shift … for the sake of why not … testing out the sea legs, navigating akashic record sound waves from the scope of a scribe songelier of sorts … the “Rhyme Cellar” flavor palette/palate profiles musical selections from the archive crates and/or contemporary currents … particular observations on first spins and/or fond recollections … first up: an unassumingly ironclad subpop canon signature … (and, as always, of the course: santé, salud, cheers — enjoi)

“Slow” — Kylie Minogue (Body Language, 2003)

Writers : Minogue, Dan Carey, Emiliana Torrini · · Producers : Carey, Torrini, Sunnyroads

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 2 : Time Party (2020)

Rhyme Cellar, Verse 2 :: “Time Party” … no pretense-pretense … just microdosing muse and grooves … linguistically speaking … cheers, salud, sante, and, of the course, without further ado …

“Time Party” — Hen Ogledd (Free Humans, 2020)

Writers : Hen Ogledd (Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson, Sally Pilkington) · · Producers : Hen Ogledd, Sam Grant

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 3 : Mack the Knife (1966)

Rhyme Cellar, Verse the Third … vive esprit, à votre santé — enjoi :

“Mack the Knife” — Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington (Ella & Duke at The Côte D’Azur, 1967)

Writers : Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill · · Producer : Norman Granz

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 4 : Moving On (2004)

Verse the foreword march, four score … and onward, vanguard, avanti, alee, skål, kanpai — enjoi

“Moving On” — Hird (Moving On, 2004)

Writers : Christoffer Berg · · Producers : Berg · · Vocals : Yukimi Nagano

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 5 : All The Man That I Need (1991)

Verse five . . . where we revisit paschal doctrine, and witness gospel paragon in the ambit of live-fidelity …

“All The Man That I Need” — Whitney Houston (Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston — Live in Concert , 1991)

Writers : Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford · · Producers : Narada Michael Walden

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 6 : Sugarcane (2013)

Verse the sixth … reveling in bittersweet sleigh bellery with the sugarcane brigade … vanguard, saúde, cheers — enjoi

“Sugarcane” — Sleigh Bells (Bitter Rivals, 2013)

Writers : Alexis Krauss, Derek Miller · · Producers : Miller

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 7 : Daydreamin’ (2006)

Cellar rhyme, verse the seventh … mind’s eyes and lenses wide for masterpiece theatre of a culture maestro’s midheaven … glasses up, raise a cup — enjoi :

“Daydreamin’” — Lupe Fiasco, Jill Scott (Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor, 2006)

Writers : Wasalu Jaco, Craig Kallman, Dave Mackay, Sylveer Van Holme, Raymond Vincent · · Producers : I Monster, Kallman

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 8 : “When I Grow Up” (2008)

Verse the eights on eights on eights … let’s level up, little ones … cheers to stellar metamorphoses and contempaughtpop chrysalis breaks …

“When I Grow Up” — Pussycat Dolls (Doll Domination, 2008)

Writers : Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith, Theron Thomas, Timothy Thomas · · Producers : Darkchild

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 9 : Pull up the Roots (1983)

A cellar in the rhyme of life lived in the lens of cloud nine … radiant root starseeds assemble into ascension … let’s get omnilinguistic … في صحتكم — enjoi

“Pull up the Roots” — Talking Heads (Speaking in Tongues, 1983)

Writers : David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth · · Producers : Talking Heads

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 10 : No Ordinary Love (2000)

On and on, ward ever upward … rhyme cellar, verse the ten-spin … into a most deft tonal cover of sade’s eminent homage to eccentric fidelity … ayọ ni o — enjoi

“No Ordinary Love” (Cover) — Deftones (Change [In The House Of Flies] — Single, 2000 ; B-Sides & Rarities, 2005)

Writers : Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman · · Producers : Sade

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 11 : Mischief of a Sleepwalker (2018)

And so, verse eleven … where we cellar rogue voyager rhyme, explore planes above the halo, and venture into a sound tribe’s nocturnal midheaven … a toast, to the moon — enjoi

“Mischief of a Sleepwalker” (Live, Encore) — Sound Tribe Sector 9 (Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, NV (2018.05.05), 2018)

Writers : Hunter Brown, Jeffree Lerner, David Murphy, David Phipps, Alana Rocklin, Zach Velmer · · Producers : ibid.

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 12 : Street Life (1979)

verse the twelfth flight … musing concrete crusades in the symphonic key of luminous Street Life … let’s cellar said protostellar rhyme — raise a glass, and enjoi …

“Street Life” — Crusaders (Street Life, 1979)

Writers : Will Jennings, Joe Sample · · Producers : Wilton Felder, Stix Hooper, Sample · · Vocals : Randy Crawford

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 13 : Sweet Road (2004)

verse the thirteenth … musing along sung tongs … roaming arhythmic with a fauna collective’s ode to rediscovery, in the scope of a homegrown nectarous road … buddy up, soundtrekkers: let’s cellar … and, of the course, as always: sláinte — enjoi

“Sweet Road” — Animal Collective (Sung Tongs, 2004)

Writers : Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Avey Tare · · Producers : Bear, Rusty “Saphire” Santos, Tare ·

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 14 : Extraordinary Machine (2005)

lucky doubled … rhyme the cellar, cellar the rhyme xiv … where we palatte a sprightly sinewy tune delivering resonant notes of cinematic elementary wrapped in a signature cider-style effervescence … şerefe – enjoi

“Extraordinary Machine” — Fiona Apple (Extraordinary Machine, 2005)

Writers : Fiona Apple · · Producers : Jon Brion

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Rhyme Cellar, v. 15 : Acapella (2010)

rhyming the cellar, cellaring the rhyme … semisweet chapter fifteen … where we muse upon verses in vellum tenor … a quinceañera in the lyrical lens of Acapella’s sapid scene … salud — enjoi

“Acapella” — Kelis (Flesh Tone, 2010)

Writers : Jean Baptiste · David Guetta · Kelis · Makeba Riddick · Frédéric Riesterer · · Producers : Guetta · Riesterer · ·

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