ripe /rīp/ (n.) -S : a show candidate that has no chance of winning, as in a totalitarian state's rigged election


Why I Love The Boy From Bethnal
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 8:31 pm
Filed under: Music

There’s nothing I can say about Kissy Sell Out’s masterful new bootleg of R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming,” off 1992′s Automatic for the People, that would do the tune justice. Its a stomping, pounding slab of piano-driven ghostfunk. Whether Nightswimming is really about latent homosexual tendencies or AIDS or just a skinny dip in Athens GA, the whole package of evocative memes makes your skin crawl with joy. I’m not sure about the Bmore label, but it doesn’t really matter anyway. Call it Bmore, call it achey-breaky Pop, call it the best way to confuse a floor full of hipsters and elate a bunch of dorks; I can’t freaking wait to play it out.
R.E.M.

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