Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

I still like "Run This Town" a lot btw

Euler, you can click on the video and hear it. I love it, but then I'm not from New York. It sounds big and anthemic and a lot of fun.

"Run This Town" is v. underrated, "Empire" overrated.

xpost

yeah I know; I guess b/c it placed here I ought to bother. Basically all I hear about the song is "boo, this is boring, lame latter-day Jay-Z" and you know, attention is limited.

"run this town" and "empire state of mind" both suck, at least we're done with jay

Jay's comeback ranked (according to me): American Gangster >>>>>>>>>>>> Blueprint 3 >>> Kingdom Come

Jay's career ranked (according to me): every album before 2004 >>>>>>>>> every album after

otm

I just love the hell out of the American Gangster album, sorry guyz.

There have been very very few British entries on here so far. I count only Florence and Basement Jaxx (although I don't know where a lot of the dance tracks originate)

darkstar, fuzzy logik & egypt, crazy cousinz and guido are all UK too

AG is aight, things about the vox/production bother me but it holds together better than the other 2 (although I'd rank even Kingdom Come over BP3). Still I'm not convinced anything he's done the last few years even meets the low bar set by the Blueprint 2. (xpost)

Jay's comeback ranked (according to me): American Gangster >>>>>>>>>>>> Blueprint 3 >>> Kingdom Come

^ This is accurate, American Gangster is a hell of an album and I'd place it in my top 4-5 of Jay's.

should i even pick the fight of asking what pre-retirement albums you prefer it to? i'm thinking i shouldn't.

For my money, American Gangster is Jay-Z's best album since Reasonable Doubt. I like it even better than the Blueprint and the Black Album.

This is some crazy talk.

better than the blueprint!!!!???

O_O

For my money, American Gangster is Jay-Z's best album since Reasonable Doubt. I like it even better than the Blueprint and the Black Album.

co-sign

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1. Reasonable Doubt
2. American Gangster
3. The Blueprint
4. Vol. 1
5. The Black Album
6. Vol. 3
7. Vol. 2
8. Roc La Familia*
9. Kingdom Come*
10. Blueprint 2
11. Blueprint 3*

Though these are probably due for some re-appraisal.

one thing I have learned is not to talk to anyone on ILM about Jay-Z

better than the blueprint!!!!???

Yeah. Ignoring the historical significance, that is. There's a lot more depth of emotion and thought on American Gangster, whereas on The Blueprint he's more like a sociopath faking emotion. (Which is doubly funny because AG is the one where he's supposedly role-playing.) Plus, AG has ballsier production and just plain better songs--"Ignorant Shit," "No Hook," "Success," "American Dreamin'," "Blue Magic."

*supposedly = supposed to be

::throws up hands::

::waves them, doesn't care, exits conversation::

I mean, I could go on... ;)

well at least you agree BP3 sucks. moving on please, less crazy talk, more good songs

yeah what's 19!?!?!

1. The Black Album
2. The Blueprint
3. Reasonable Doubt
4. Vol. 3
5. American Gangster
7. Vol. 2
6. Vol. 1
8. Blueprint 3
9. Roc La Familia
10. Kingdom Come
11. Blueprint 2

stop stop

let's talk some more about how fucking wretched GIRLS is

Blueprint 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Girls

not really, lol

19 -- Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea (10 votes, 147 points, 3 #1 vote/s) (301 in P&J, 98 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmNy50dHzA

"Lust For Life" would be somewhere in the middle of a spectrum below "Real As It Gets" but above "Venus Vs. Mars" (xpost)

okay Future Of The Left is putting a big fucking ginormous smile on my face

awesome

WORD

Yes!

My #1

Had you not heard them before, Dan? They're Mclusky 2.0 (can't remember how many members made the move).

Heard of them, never heard them; was really only tangentially aware of McClusky via Joel Veitch Rathergood.com.

It sounds like My Chemical Romance meets Mclusky! Awesome!

that youtube is live and not that great, here's the video, non-embed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTvISL53HQ

let's flail togethahhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH

The real video is awesome.

I love the line "caught in the switch of the flow," on that FotL song. So great, especially with that full-throttle delivery. The climax of that song has so much more drama, for want of a better word, than it has any right to. Shit just sounds huge and important. Fucking brilliant.

COME ON RICK

EVERYBODY