classic Wu-Tang solo run poll

Listening to Ghostface, "Wildflower" just ended and I have spent the past 4 minutes like this: O_O

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

in less than 24 hours we will know the answer to this most important of all questions.

Is it the father-less style of ODB?

The mad methods of Johnny Blaze?

The mafia dream/nightmare of Raekwon?

The capitalist tour de force of Tony Starks?

The enigmatic world of the Genius?

The capitalist tour de force of Tony Starks?

wanna register an objection to this

do tell

For me it's GZA > Method Man > Ghostface Killah > ODB > Raekwon. Just never could get into Cuban Linx.

I mean given that Ghost is the guy who packs the most action into the most compact phrases "capitalist tour de force" is kinda missing the point imo...Ghostface is a damn poet imo

The capitalist tour de force ofthe Greatest MC of All Time, Tony Starks?

fixed

For me it's GZA > Method Man > Ghostface Killah > ODB > Raekwon. Just never could get into Cuban Linx.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, November 8, 2010 9:34 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sb

yeah wtf. cuban linx is the greatest hiphop album of all time.

been listening to liquid swords all week tho and wow this also amazing (and maybe up there with cuban linx/supreme as actually being better than 36 chambers?). First rule, anyone who schemes on the gold in Syria I want they small intestines ripped from the interior

I was also listening to Tical and... it really doesn't stand up to the other *classic* wu records. hell its not even as enjoyable as Tical 2000 which with heavy editing is dope as hell. You got all this mythology coming out and Tical just seems sooooooooooo unfocused compared. I'd personally put the first RZA or 'Uncontrolled Substance' - the most underrated Wu - over it.

btw anyone mentioned what 95-97 could have been like if RZA's studio didn't get flooded? Going to heaven has to be where those lost beats are found.

really? i was listening to tical today and was actually really into it.

I like the primitive griminess of Tical. It feels like demos, or like the closest the Wu ever got to something as perverse and subterranean and awesome as Sensational's Loaded With Power. My favorite song on Tical might be "Sub Crazy."

Nah, you have the Wu, why have Streetlife verses, plural? (Or whoever it was on PLO Style and another joint?) Stimulation, I Get My Thing, Sub Crazy... and its a short record so thats like a 1/3 of it I could live without. Also Meth just isn't interesting enough to hold down a whole album imo and once Raekwon outshines him, you kinda just wish Redman was there so only the best Noodles verses made it.

And yeah, GZA had the samuarai, Rae the gambino, RZA the Gravediggaz and then the blacksplotation, Ghost that crazy & emotional, loving & kinda sexy & yet vaguely threatening wildcard, ODB the actual wildcard - Meth and the others suffer from a lack of direction compared. All of Meth's records are kinda aimless and all the other Wu members would have had 100% better careers if they worked harder to build their own mythologies to have something to say.

Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version is haunting, haven't listened enough to Liquid Swords, Tical had some genuinely stoned shit in it (the title track), Raekwon had a "Pudge" Rodriguez build and a street dude mentality which somehow bore "ice cream" (my favorite description of the rapper's love of the female), Ghostface had it all--fast joints, mom shout outs, clever beats, energetic ghost, some good lines, but none of them had swag.

Wu 8 man group shots are amazing http://dstars.com/files/2009/10/wu_tang_clan_foto.jpg odb like the twin towers complexly missing from the skyline.

but none of them had swag.

actual sb here.

jk jk

there are 9 people in that picture!

Cap lurking in the back?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wtf

wow. Rae got robbed but Ghost got ROBBED!

yet again the lurkers win

Yay lurkers like me!

hahaha

http://cornyfied.com/pics/corny.gif

deej sadly, solidly otm

Yay lurkers like me!

lol no was referring to the 44 OTHER people who voted GZA without posting

Well, all my posts in this poll were useless asides. I didn't rep for it until after the results were in.

I just wanted to celebrate. I never win.

does all of the Ghost love around here go to Supreme Clientele? This Ironman rejection feels insane.

I love love love Ironman, rate it a little below SC, couldn't vote for it against ODB.

wow

does all of the Ghost love around here go to Supreme Clientele? This Ironman rejection feels insane.

sort of although I voted for Pretty Toney in this poll

Ironman losing to Cuban and Liquid Swords is in no way unexpected or ridiculous

def WAU at the massive lurker turnout for Gza tho!

crazy results

what I expected tbh

we should do this again with all solo wu imo.

eventual fishscale victory would be too depressing for me to bear

people picked one 10/10 all-time classic over another 10/10 all-time classic? how corny!

also apparently ppl are not aware of this but you can only vote for one album

I voted for Liquid Swords and I don't see what's wrong with that?

I've never managed to tolerate Ghostface's voice for the length of a whole solo album. I know he has some good lyrics, but that screechy, pauseless flow just irritates my ears. Meth, on the other hand, has one of the best voices in rap.

to me, the screechy, pauseless flow is what creates the Ghost magic.

obviously I was aware that LS will kill Ironman. I'm just shocked by the huge difference.

Ghost has the best voice in the Clan.

/challops.

I've never managed to tolerate Ghostface's voice for the length of a whole solo album. I know he has some good lyrics, but that screechy, pauseless flow just irritates my ears.

Solid 5-star SB post

I've never really understood this "SB someone who has a different opinion to mine" thing, can you explain it?

It's more of a feeling, tbh

soooooooometimes i feeeeeeeeel like a moooootherless chiiiild

I've never really understood this "SB someone who has a different opinion to mine" thing, can you explain it?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes, but prefer not to

Tuomas I think I can explain it. It's like, a few posts back, deej asserted that it was "corny" for one of the undisputed all-time classics of rap to have won this poll; the grounds on which he made this assertion suggest that he thinks people should think more about how their votes will make them look to others than which album they like best. I disagree with him, so I SB'd him with twelve different accounts.

Does that clarify the matter? If not, I can SB you a few times - in my experience, the old proverb "nothing persuades like SB" is still true