a tribe called quest reunion

"Left My Wallet in El Segundo" is nice. it's good overall, but I feel like it's a mega leap from that to LET which is why it gets forgotten.

"Bonita Applebum" also classic

"There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement "

Great EP I'd say

"Find My Way" bumps. The rest -- well, I've tried.

Nobody’s mentioned “Peoples instinctive travels” etc..

I have personal reasons for that one being my fav, and the best,etc.

Still though…..l

Yeah the first three albums are all great, and We Got It From Here too, that was miraculous. Low End is still my favorite of the four, and I'd probably place We Got It From Here second - it's the only one I got to know when it came out, and given that moment in time & history, it feels all the more powerful.

They even made the 2017 Grammys memorable (at least for their performance):

https://vimeo.com/302978618

LET has always been my favorite as well. I’ve always found it odd that people rank MM above it, which feels like thinking Stankonia is better than Aquemini or something

In my head the production on Low End is really sparse compared to Marauders, which makes me question why I like it more. But then I listen to it and am reminded. Marauders actually feels a little overproduced by comparison

It's splitting hairs for me but I prefer MM just because that's my peak era of hip hop production & engineering. LET set the bar and MM refined it. It's just a liiil more dense sonically yet still tight/focused. There's lil things popping into the mix or happening in the background which doesn't really happen in LET.

Also prob biased because "Scenario" was never my fav to begin with and it's v played out, never need to hear it again

'overproduced' is a criticism that usually means I'll like something, lol

LET has always been my favorite as well. I’ve always found it odd that people rank MM above it, which feels like thinking Stankonia is better than Aquemini or something

Hah, I think Low End is Tribe's best and would call Stankonia OutKast's best.

Song for song I’ll take MM, there is not a bad track imo. As for LET you have songs like Rap Promoter and ..show businesses. Perhaps LET has the higher highs

Not like we haven’t gone through this exercise countless times lol

re: beats, rhymes & life and the love movement—

i usually kind of think of br&l as even with midnight marauders. not because of anything other than i like them about the same. to me they're both 4.5-5 mic classics and i have never understood why br&l was considered disappointing. of course, i bought them at the same time (br&l's release date, to be exact) so i heard them both for first the time basically back to back. br&l was a smoother, slicker sound but to me it felt like the next logical step. i have always considered it classic, if for nothing else than it confirmed for me that dilla ("jay dee" / "the ummah" when working with q-tip at the time, of course) was THE guy to check for in the liner notes.

tlm was legitimately disappointing. songs with nore? really???? some solid beats, but yeah it felt like where the slickness of br&l was in line with the vibe, on tlm it was just . . . so *meh*. that said: "find a way", "like it like that", and "the love" are all top tier tribe and i would easily include them in a "best of" set. 3 mics, tops. and even that's generous. i never really counted the tracks after "rock rock ya'll" because they were all from older 12" singles, but they're all pretty much classic songs (except "money maker", which was just another disappointing new track).

trivia time:
tlm was released the same day as aquemini. talk about passing the torch. anyway, i've always just assumed andre's verse on "rosa parks" was about the br&l disappointment backlash (`kinda sour cause my favorite group ain't comin' widdit`). wonder what he thought of the love movement.

BR&L has too many mid tempo moments for me to embrace.

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There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement but that certainly isn't what we got

LET is my fav Tribe LP but Electric relaxation might be my fav Tribe jam. After Hours is the best jam off the debut.

2nd the love for the instrumental

haven't listened to TLM for such a long time, bought the fancy 3LP version the day it came out. I tried to love it but it never clicked outside of Find A Way (helped by the fact I already liked the Bebel/Towa Tei track it samples from). MM is my fav, that opening salvo of Biko and Award Tour never fails to make me smile.

The old lady saw us on the lawn with the Henny
Turn the pool party into the one from McKinney
Might've been racist like the waitresses up in Denny’s
Swore we had twelve gauges, automatics, and semis
Now they wanna condemn me for my freedom of speech
'Cause I see things in black and white like Lisa and Screech
Presidents get impeached and others fill in the throne
But veterans don’t get the benefit of feelin' at home

Was watching the Tribe doc again last night and had forgotten they'd done this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZrK39H5zp4

The “classical” cheese mellowed to the sounds of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The “rock” cheese listened to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” An ambient cheese listened to Yello’s “Monolith,” the hip-hop cheese was exposed to A Tribe Called Quest’s “Jazz (We’ve Got)” and the techno fromage raved to Vril’s “UV.” A control cheese aged in silence, while three other wheels were exposed to simple high, medium and low frequency tones.

According to a press release, the cheese was then examined by food technologists from the ZHAW Food Perception Research Group, which concluded that the cheese exposed to music had a milder flavor compared to the non-musical cheese. They also found that the hip-hop cheese had a stronger aroma and stronger flavor than other samples.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hip-hop-and-mozart-improve-flavor-swiss-cheese-180971721/

Boy this cheese really has a lot of flavor

back in the day when i was a teenager
before I had status and before I had a pager
You could find the Abstract
Nibbling on Samsø
My pops used to say it reminded him of Tybo

I said "now daddy don't you know that things go in cycles?"
way that Stilton cheese is just ampin like Stichel

Seems like a poorly designed experiment to have the hip hop cheese exposed to a song with prominent jazz samples but no separate jazz cheese.

not sure if this experiment makes me happy or angry. either way, wow that's really stupid.

rude

Cheese just there vibing on some tunes and you gotta call it stupid

Cheese (We've Got)

Shorty let me tell you about my only vice
It has to do with coagulated milk and it ain't nothing nice