Fear of a Black Planet, The Chronic, and Check Your Head. The last one was always on at parties when I was in college. I am most likely to dust off the first two, though.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned License to Ill. Maybe the board's not old enough, or I'm too old. But when I was in junior high in the suburbs, and this album dropped, it's all we had (all we knew, really). By sheer number of listens in my life, this LP would probably take the top spot.
I just happen to know that Noz (who's tastes I'm usually relatively in line with) HATES this record.
Dammit Noz, I want to be the dude that people associate with hating that zilchfuck of an album.
I never heard this until I met Raj/delay/otisfunkmeier a couple years back. We were driving somewhere & this was playing in the car. It sounded good enough for me to be surprised that I slept on it. why the hatt?
Fear of a Black Planet, The Chronic, and Check Your Head. The last one was always on at parties when I was in college. I am most likely to dust off the first two, though.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned License to Ill. Maybe the board's not old enough, or I'm too old. But when I was in junior high in the suburbs, and this album dropped, it's all we had (all we knew, really). By sheer number of listens in my life, this LP would probably take the top spot.
Yeah when this and the Run DMC joint dropped thats all anybody was listening to in my part of the world. I suppose I have the whole RUN DMC shit memorized, now that I think about it.
I was thinking about this this very morning! (probably forgetting a couple) but these are my favorites
wolf in sheep's clothing, runaway slave, low end theory, resurrection, street level, enter 36 chamber, liscensed to ill, nation of millions, raising hell, bizarre ryde to the pharcyde, cypress hill's 1st, goin off, buhloon mindstate,dela is dead are all VERY close behind]
I waited in line to get my CD signed. It was like me - the middle aged lady, and tons of moms with their 12-year-old kids. I was prolly older than a lot of the Moms.
I'm not so sure this was such a great album. Or, if it was the right album at the right time. Was feeling particularly mental at the time. You know how music really "talks" to you when you're feeling a little loopy?
I'm not so sure this was such a great album. Or, if it was the right album at the right time. Was feeling particularly mental at the time. You know how music really "talks" to you when you're feeling a little loopy?
I found that this record is one of those raer breeds that only gets better with time. I prolly listen to it more now than I did when it first dropped.
Realistically, the best de la soul album to most people is the album that dropped when they were 19, whenever that was.
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haha this is the one w/ baby phat on it right? perhaps this explains yr breathless enthusiasm for the boring new devin album :-O
IF YOU ARE, IN FACT, NOZ YEARS OLD THEN, BY THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF THE CANONICAL THEOREM YOU MUST ALSO CONSIDER THIS TO BE THE BEST DE LA SOUL ALBUM.
low end theory ...was the only tape i ever wore out. nations of millions 36 chambers ... holy shit, i will never forget seeing the video for Method Man on The Box at my grandparent's cable late night while the family slept. that was a seminal moment, no ayo.
buhloone mindstate, death certificate, & ressurection are the three that keep getting play for me- they have grown old with me.
Others that got played to death (and still get rotation) :
And yes I really do spin the Yaggfu a lot. I think those guys had mad talent and creativity.
In the last few years with so few releases coming out that I personally enjoy, I find now that when I find an album I really connect to I play it to death to the point where I know all the words and shit.
So it's a bit like going back to when I was young and I constantly pumped Criminal Minded/On Fire/Licence to ill, because back then there just weren?'t a great number of LP???s being released so anything we had we played to death.
So things I really dig now are getting played like a shit load times end to end and I kind of prefer this to the point when there were so many good albums I often only skimmed the surface of them.
Run DMC-S/T LL Cool J-Radio UTFO-Skeezer Pleezer Beastie Boys- the 1st Three ATCQ-the first Three Eric B and Rakim-Paid In Full EPMD-Strictly Business Schooly D-Saturday Night Gang Star-Hard to Earn BDP-Criminal Minded/By Any Means... Wu Tang- 36 Chambers Common Sense-Resurrection Pete Rock and Cl Smooth-The Main Ingredient Eazy E-EZ Duz It NWA-Straight Outta Compton Ice T-Power Ice Cube-1st three De La-first four PE-1st Three Main Source-Breaking Atoms Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride Mantronix-1st 2 Just Ice-Cold Gettin Dumg Big Daddy Kane-1st 2
Damn I used to listen to some rapppers rappity rap rap!
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned License to Ill. Maybe the board's not old enough, or I'm too old. But when I was in junior high in the suburbs, and this album dropped, it's all we had (all we knew, really). By sheer number of listens in my life, this LP would probably take the top spot.
I never heard this until I met Raj/delay/otisfunkmeier a couple years back. We were driving somewhere & this was playing in the car. It sounded good enough for me to be surprised that I slept on it. why the hatt?
Yeah when this and the Run DMC joint dropped thats all anybody was listening to in my part of the world. I suppose I have the whole RUN DMC shit memorized, now that I think about it.
but these are my favorites
wolf in sheep's clothing, runaway slave, low end theory, resurrection, street level, enter 36 chamber, liscensed to ill, nation of millions, raising hell, bizarre ryde to the pharcyde, cypress hill's 1st, goin off, buhloon mindstate,dela is dead are all VERY close behind]
#1 is prolly diamond d
L.I. Groove - Hard 2 obtain
show some pictures or you're soft taco
i wore out my tape of this.. down to where the writing was completely gone.. both my LPs are VG--..
i.e. last week.
haha, just a figure of speech
^^^ never liked rapp till she met me.
stop shammin'
I want the shot of you next to a mural of miles Davis with some incense smoke rising up from the jewlery box where you keep your bamboo necklaces
I waited in line to get my CD signed. It was like me - the middle aged lady, and tons of moms with their 12-year-old kids. I was prolly older than a lot of the Moms.
I'm not so sure this was such a great album. Or, if it was the right album at the right time. Was feeling particularly mental at the time. You know how music really "talks" to you when you're feeling a little loopy?
I found that this record is one of those raer breeds that only gets better with time. I prolly listen to it more now than I did when it first dropped.
easily
me too, i believe.
Strictly Business
Paid In Full
Nation of Millions
Straight Out the Jungle
Critical Beatdown
Liquid Swordz
36 Chambers
Chronic
IF YOU ARE, IN FACT, NOZ YEARS OLD THEN, BY THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF THE CANONICAL THEOREM YOU MUST ALSO CONSIDER THIS TO BE THE BEST DE LA SOUL ALBUM.
straight outta compton...
liscensed to ill about a bazillion times
nations of millions
36 chambers ... holy shit, i will never forget seeing the video for Method Man on The Box at my grandparent's cable late night while the family slept. that was a seminal moment, no ayo.
buhloone mindstate, death certificate, & ressurection are the three that keep getting play for me- they have grown old with me.
good thread.
Others that got played to death (and still get rotation) :
And yes I really do spin the Yaggfu a lot. I think those guys had mad talent and creativity.
In the last few years with so few releases coming out that I personally enjoy, I find now that when I find an album I really connect to I play it to death to the point where I know all the words and shit.
So it's a bit like going back to when I was young and I constantly pumped Criminal Minded/On Fire/Licence to ill, because back then there just weren?'t a great number of LP???s being released so anything we had we played to death.
So things I really dig now are getting played like a shit load times end to end and I kind of prefer this to the point when there were so many good albums I often only skimmed the surface of them.
LL Cool J-Radio
UTFO-Skeezer Pleezer
Beastie Boys- the 1st Three
ATCQ-the first Three
Eric B and Rakim-Paid In Full
EPMD-Strictly Business
Schooly D-Saturday Night
Gang Star-Hard to Earn
BDP-Criminal Minded/By Any Means...
Wu Tang- 36 Chambers
Common Sense-Resurrection
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth-The Main Ingredient
Eazy E-EZ Duz It
NWA-Straight Outta Compton
Ice T-Power
Ice Cube-1st three
De La-first four
PE-1st Three
Main Source-Breaking Atoms
Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride
Mantronix-1st 2
Just Ice-Cold Gettin Dumg
Big Daddy Kane-1st 2
Damn I used to listen to some rapppers rappity rap rap!