Biting Dr. Dre's Idea For His Next Album After 'Detox'
"An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I have the ideas for it. I want to call it The Planets. I don't even know if I should be saying this, but fuck it. [Laughs.] It's just my interpretation of what each planet sounds like. I'm gonna go off on that. Just all instrumental. I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet. I've been doing this for about two years now just in my spare time so to speak. I wanna do it in surround sound. It'll have to be in surround sound for Saturn to work."
-Dr. Dre was right. He shouldn't have said anything about that. Because I am now going to steal his idea, and make my own album based on my interpretation of what each planet sounds like. Since I am not the greatest producer in the history of rap music, or even, any sort of musician at all, my version will have to be a mixtape made up of previously released material available on YouTube. But still, here it is.
Dre was born in 1965, so I know he still thinks there's nine planets.
Um. . . .?
http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/18/jimi-hendrix-valleys-of-neptune-video-premiere?icid=sphere_aol_spinner
But thanks for leaving out Wings.
If we're nominating Neptunes (not the Neptunes), I submit this.
God, what a space cadet.
Thanks. Fixed. My favorite Neptunes beat, added.
Didn't Gustav Holst already do this?
Yes, almost 100 years ago. That's exactly what I was coming here to post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets
What do I have to do to get you people to READ THE TAGS?
I know. And these guys are under a thousand, too. You'd think….
Tags are for the riff-raff over a thousand.
As usual with almost anything that can be done in music, classical did it first. Why? Because — and here's some technical analysis you can only get from a professional classical musician like me — classical music is OLD AS FUCK.
(Hey, I just came up with a great tag line! Millennials will be lining up to check us out now. Problem solved.)
Dude, not cool! Biting Holst was John Williams' idea!
"What do I have to do to get you people to READ THE TAGS?"
Make them appear in my RSS reader.
There is nothing that makes me happier than to see a know it all be proven to not. Nice Job!
Conspicuous absence.
Did you not pick 'Life On Mars' on purpose?
No! An (other) oversight. I'm sure there will be many I missed.
I thought "M/A/R/R/S" was fun. But, yeah: "Life on Mars." I love that song.
'Jupiter' by Earth Wind & Fire would have been better than that Train rubbish too.
I have to admit to really, really loving that train song. As rubbish as it is. A huge guilty pleasure of mine. The most godawful-worst lyrics ever written. Yet I love the melody so much, I can't help but sing along at the top of my lungs whenever it comes on the radio. (Which, you know, is every fifteen minutes or so. Never ride in a car with me, Lee. Or anybody else.)
Pictures at an exhibtion next, Dre.
Hey Jupiter, Tori Amos. (I know, I know… but it is a good one!)
Needs more Sun Ra!!
I thought Pluto was demoted and no longer a planet? And Bjork was no longer of interest? (The latter might just be me.)
I hope he decides to do his own "Zodiac Suite" next.
dave, you've got brilliant ideas of your own!!! no need to bite dr. dre. also, in addition to holst, i think kepler deserves some credit here!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcKiG-CuvtA