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The Rolling Stone top 500 albums

Dec 04, 2003 18:10

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I don't imagine my Friends list would be interested, so I'll post it here cwx December 5 2003, 16:10:52 UTC

If you could explain to me the virtue of Stankonia, which I know everybody loves, then I would be much obliged. I want to like OutKast, them being the only good mainstream hip-hop act at the moment, but I kept getting annoyed by the guest rappers on that one, as well as the several songs where Andre sings at the end, both of which I understand occur with much more frequency on their new one ( ... )

Re: I don't imagine my Friends list would be interested, so I'll post it here dherblay December 5 2003, 16:21:02 UTC

I absolutely cannot explain the virtue of Stankonia. I mean, I love "B.O.B.," and think the other singles are pretty good, but that album was so self-indulgent and over-long that I was concocting theories that there would never be another great rap album until technology somehow reversed its progress and reverted to a top length of about 45 minutes.

My response to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below has been to love Speakerboxxx straight through and skip to the stand out tracks ("Hey Ya!" of course, and "Roses," maybe) on The Love Below.

I like your tastes, as demonstrated here, but I'm very surprised that other than the sold Stankonia, we don't share any titles on the list! Why don't I have The Low End Theory, anyway?

Re: I don't imagine my Friends list would be interested, so I'll post it here cwx December 5 2003, 21:40:55 UTC

You should get Low End Theory. Although, considering the MP3s of that album are SO much quieter than every other ripped album I have, I wonder if you shouldn't wait for the eventual remastered version. They remaster everything nowadays, right?

Speakerboxxx is better than The Love Below huh? I guess music-critic wise, experimental is supposed to be better. However, my reaction to Radiohead and some others has convinced me that I don't like purely "experimental" and I don't have to feel bad for not liking it. Just like I've tried to get down with jazz (I feel a little more bad for failing at this) but I like song structure dammit! Slave to the 3-5 minute song, hook included, yeah that's me. With important exceptions of course, don't hold me to that.

But isn't Speakerboxxx sorta plagued by that same curse of the posse cut? Sometimes I think that hip-hop has even worse levels of nepotism than corporate America. :P ( ... )

Re: I don't imagine my Friends list would be interested, so I'll post it here dherblay December 5 2003, 22:54:58 UTC

I'm not sure The Love Below is any more experimental than Speakerboxxx, actually. More eccentric, sure, but Big Boi is the one who plays with techno and gospel and Parliament and Prince; Dre mostly just does skits. The Love Below is also more misogynistic than Speakerboxxx, which threw all sorts of music-critic expectations out of whack. Speakerboxxx does have quite a few guest appearances on it. Mostly, they work -- "Last Call," with a cast of thousands, is one of my favorites -- and though the least memorable tracks are definitely some of the collaborations, the album doesn't really suffer from them. Of course, I would be remiss not to point out that I don't buy a lot of current records (the only hiphop albums over the last ten years I've bought new near their releases were OutKast albums), so I may not be the best judge. I may just think Speakerboxxx is a great album because I don't know anything better ( ... )

Then again... cwx December 6 2003, 00:35:27 UTC

I bought plenty of albums in the 1990s, and they were all albums of the 90s. The problem is, they mostly sucked. In 2000 I bought Common's Like Water for Chocolate, a new album, but from there I started on my mad quest to relive the 90s the "right" way. I bought Sublime, but mostly I lost all faith in "rock," whatever that is, and turned completely towards hip-hop instead. Low End Theory is another album I bought in 2000, since I was only 10 when it came out, but more importantly, when I did start listening to music, I followed the radio WAY too much. I think the radio has gotten worse, but I've also become cynical after all the crap I bought ( ... )

Re: Then again... dherblay December 7 2003, 11:27:59 UTC

Unfortunately, while I have plenty of hard drive space, I'm still on dial-up.

Re: Then again... cwx December 7 2003, 11:31:21 UTC

Oooh, ouch! Then again, when I have to pay for the Internet myself and not along with 4 roommates, I'll be on dial-up too! D'oh.

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