Saul Williams - Niggy Tardust: Twitter Review
Using hashtags.org tags I began reviewing Saul Williams’ latest album which was produced by Trent Reznor.
Using hashtags.org tags I began reviewing Saul Williams’ latest album, produced by Trent Reznor, called The Inevitable Rise & Liberation Of Niggy Tardust. Publishing my thoughts on Twitter, Hashtags indexes the posts here:
hashtags.org/tag/niggytardust/
Since Hashtags is running very slow at the moment, I’m posting the staggered review here in chronological order. Before downloading the album [legally] I posted this on Twitter:
- is this a joke? saul williams has talent, but what’s this about? ~ not a good start; plus the beat is rubbish #niggytardust
- #niggytardust ~ still shit.
- #niggytardust just entered in some next level kind of lame ~ saul williams singing sunday bloody sunday over trent reznor drums = epic lame.
- the first bit of something good came six tracks in with the title track ~ one chorus isn’t gonna save this tho #niggytardust
- #niggytardust isn’t so shit anymore, but it’s still boring. reznor can’t do this. the tracks would be more suited to el-p production. iffy.
- song 11 is actually good ~ this lp is very gradually getting unshit. wait, saul’s singing on 12. too much singing dude. gawd #niggytardust
- #niggytardust is rubbish ~ saul has never sucked this bad. where’s the depth? was there a theme? and give up the singing. so not worth it.
- and just to comment on trent reznor’s production on #niggytardust ~ very, very mediocre. boring, unimaginative and completely incongruous.
Reviews On Twitter
More exciting than this collaboration, I think, is using Twitter and Hashtags to collect thoughts and reviews. Here I simply posted a blow by blow review of what I was listening to - much like all the conference ‘live-blogging’ that’s been going on.
What happens now, since anyone can use the tags and appear on a Hashtags page, is not only can you see my review of Niggy Tardust but also anyone else’s. Anyone who was unfortunate enough to site through the thing.
Sounds like a forum, right?
Unfortunately, you can’t view updates querying multiple tags. If you could, we could also check #niggytardust reviews with #good and #bad reviews - so it would be easier to find a good review!
Tags: hashtags, Music, review, saul williams, Shorter, trent reznor
