Sirens sounded, they seemed astounded: THE ILM RAP MUSIC OF THE GODS ALL TIME 100 GREATEST ALBUMS OFFICIAL THREAD

ATLiens was my #3

it has elevators on it

it does have elevators on it

This album is responsible for my obsession with hip-hop.

Love that. Personal history plays such a big part.

xp I still think Love Below has more keepers than it gets credit for but the self-indulgence is so immense that I can't blame people for throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

ludacris's crib has an elevator in it iirc

why would a baby need an elevator

in the 90's we had outkast, wu tang, fugees, biggie, 2pac , bone thugs. Now we have soulja boy, wakka flakka , gucci mane. wtf happened
boricua6483 1 month ago

Top 3 times I listened to ATLiens:

3. The third time I bought the cd because it had been stolen twice: I was 16, had just gotten my driving license, and had my best friend (also big into Outkast) with me. We couldnt find it anywhere and after hours we finally found it at a local Wherehouse store. Paid $18 for it, steeeep. It had been a few months since it had been stolen so I hadnt listened for a while. Anyway, we drove in complete silence all the way to Monterey CA (about 30 minutes) and back without hitting skip once. Fell in love with the album all over again.

2. The night I graduated high school, after the all night party; the dudes and I rolled back to my friends house (about 7 am) where we had lounged pretty much every day for the last 12 years. We popped in ATLiens, put it on blast, and played another few hours of Golden Eye. Just laughing, being teenagers, having that feeling of 'will things be the same ever again.'

1. The first time I heard it when I was 14. Was at a friends house who had a proper stereo and was way into rap, which I loved, but wasn't fully obsessed with yet. He showed me the cd with the naked chick on it and said "you gotta hear this." He put it in the changer and played the title cut. That single listening experience shifted my music taste completely.

dope! should be higher

21. NWA - Straight Outta Compton [15 votes, 370 points, 1988]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CyuDAHUvZB8/TacTeYyfs0I/AAAAAAAAC8c/BKbDqr7Xz_s/s1600/1nwa-straight-outta-compton.jpg

atliens is fucking great. such a low key album in a way only the true greats can pull off imo.

nwa kinda sucks /challops

a hoy hoy are u gonna be doing these up to #1 from now on?

Please do, who has the time to check ILM out on a summer weekend?

The sheer rush i felt the first time i played 'Compton' and heard that opening track was probably the most intense reaction I'd had to any music up til that point in my life.

NWA does kinda suck, but was very important to tons of people, including me. Nothing like it had hit my tiny New Hampshire town when it dropped.

But because it does kinda suck, I had it at #46 on my ballot.

ATLiens is the OutKast record I never really liked until like five years ago, now it's probably my favorite. And yeah as an album Straight Outta Compton actually kinda sucks - the good stuff is pretty amazing but there's a lot of terrible shit on it.

no way i love this album

"she wants lobster?, huh i'm thinking burger king"

So patchy but the highs are stratospheric - likewise the cultural impact.

whoah that is WAY too low for SOC. now I am worried.

yes today is 25-1, get your comedy #1 fakeouts ready kids

Glad I didn't vote because there are SO MANY of these I haven't heard but mad kudos to whoever put the Spotify playlists up there.

Looking forward to the joek #1s. Don't fuck this up ILM.

SOC is one of those seminal works, so central to the genre - even if the first few tracks set the bar so high nothing else on the album can come close I still don't think there's very much out and out terrible on the album. even the lesser material is still really good, barring maybe a couple tracks.

xp

20. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle [15 votes, 389 points, 1993]

http://i11.tinypic.com/4mv64qt.jpg

is there a classic rap album with worse artwork?

lol probably

gah gotta pop out for an hour. don't rush them too quickly plz plz

xp

that one is pretty bad though, even for a half-assed Pedro Bell ripoff

btw digging this Black Moon album, thx for the headz up on that one

Doggystyle still sounds fresh. Doggy Dogg World is an all-time top 3 music video, my favorite track on there too.

Every track on this has had a spot as my favorite at some point in my life.

Doggystyle is my favorite Dre-related product.

For sure.

Doggystyle is my favorite Dre-related product.

lol it's not even in my top 3

Eazy-Duz It, SOC, and NO ONE CAN DO IT BETTER are all um ... better

and lol sometimes I think my all-time favorite Dre track is "We're All in the Same Gang"

So glad that ATLiens beat Stankonia.

19. Ice Cube - Death Certificate [13 votes, 1 #1 vote, 404 points, 1991]

http://escobar300.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/ice-cubedeath-certificate1.jpg

Nice.

BTW, "Deep Cover" is my absolutely favorite Dre cut.

NWA run

Doggystyle is way too low also the cover art is classic

these are all too low imho

for real! xpost

so I guess I can stop hoping for a surprise showing from The Predator

also I coulda sworn I voted SOC as my #1...?

re: Doggystyle, I remember really hating "What's My Name?" and actively avoiding any and everything related to the album when it first came out as a result, which meant that when a friend played the entire thing for me and I heard "Gin and Juice" for the first time several months later it was my first real "holy shit what the fuck was I thinking hating on this?" moment with an artist

18. Jay-Z - The Blueprint [17 votes, 427 points, 5 mics, 2001]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_C7pIh3y9TC8/TKACCzmkkII/AAAAAAAAAVk/uFCIlsDUoNU/s1600/Jay-Z+-+The+Blueprint.jpg

also I coulda sworn I voted SOC as my #1...?

― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:19 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was and the points were counted, i just forgot to write it in.

oh okay good

(thx for all the hard work btw!)