Things Fall Apart as a studio album, but i listen to Come Alive more often.
― myndbloom, Thursday, 6 March 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Went with Phrenology.
― DavidM, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i think black thought is dope as fuck
voted illadelph halflife
i love dice raw too
anyway i think the roots are one of those bands that's both overrated and underrated at the same time. if that makes sense.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF WITH THAT DUDE WHO IS ALWAYS CHOMPING ON A PHILLY BLUNT IN PICTURES SMOKING IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU
― sanskrit, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
like overrated by certain indie types that see them as "real musicians" playing hip hop
and underrated by whiney because of above said indie types.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
roots is a band that i will jam out but never admit to liking in a room full of herby college kids
― max, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
not even cause i hate the college kids or think im better than them, just because they tend to be people i dont want to talk about music with
― max, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Hard to peep this, deep shit, shows I eat with Contaminated thoughts I walk the street with I bayonette cassettes and chop beats with this olympic lyricism you can't compete with
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
man that black sheep album from a year or two ago is amazing
― deej, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
THERE'S NO WAY ONE MAN COULD SMOKE THAT MANY CIGARILLOS
― sanskrit, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sams247.com/images/ab%20chew%20stick_sm.jpg
― jhøshea, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
OHHHH SHIT THX REALLY THAT'S BOTHERED ME 4 YEARS CAN YOU HELP HERE? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING IN PHAROAH SANDERS MOUTH?
― sanskrit, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ARGHHAHAHA I completely forgot about Things Fall Apart.
Dice RAW is great...I've never even heard his solo album(s?)!
― nickalicious, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
TFA: their best (and most $$$) sounding album (seriously, it sounds so lush even compared to that crop of voodoo/like water for chocolate/mama's gun/etc.), tons of great malik b + dice raw verses, not a lame beat in the bunch, and it doesn't sound yet like they're trying too hard for some kind of crossover hit.
― Jordan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's an old-school toothbrush?
― Jordan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I HAVEN'T LISTENED TO THIS SHIT IN TEN YEARS BUT IIRC QUESTIONMARK LOVE CAN GET A LITTLE PREACHY
― sanskrit, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
with his drumming?
― Jordan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
not sure whats in pharoah sanders mouth there - good thread tho
― jhøshea, Thursday, 6 March 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
okay i think it is a "chewstick"
― Jordan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
so i basically realized somewhere over the last four or five years that the roots are probably one of my favorite bands. i'm more interested in anything they might be up to sonically/musically than, say, what radiohead is up to. i feel like they're consistently surprising, fascinating, fuse a whole bunch of disparate elements into one insane, riveting whole and are the rare band whose new record is always better than the one that came before it.
i'm also wondering if they're approaching a phase in their career where they've been so consistently celebrated that they're now almost underrated -- like, "oh, another roots record, i'm sure it's good, i'll pass." there are downsides to being consistent.
but, yeah, i'm incredibly excited to hear what the next record sounds like, and get this way every time i hear there's a new roots record on the way.
live, though, i think they fall apart. no pun intended.
― smash your phonograph in half, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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-- Jordan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 17:59
looooooool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
phrenology, tho 'you got me' is one of my favourite songs of all time - the 'dave chappelle's block party' version is INSANE.
― stevie, Thursday, 6 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I went with Phrenology; the Jay-Z Unplugged's not too shabby either.
― Euler, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i have still never heard it, would like to though
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
unplugged is great.
― Jordan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
rly hoos?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it's really fucking great
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
rly rly!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
that was an xp
Would have gone with Game Theory
― Andy K, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
^ i have stored this guy's records in my apartment
obv nobody was curious to hear hoos get all STORIES4U
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
When I saw them on the TFA tour they had Common and Jill Scott with them...their "You Got Me" that night had the audience in ridiculous white people tears.
― nickalicious, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Sad no one voted for Organix. It's lo-fi and demo-y as hell but it has some freaking great songs. PASS THE WAHT PASS THE POPCORN.
― nickalicious, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
good, i thought ilx was crazy. illadelph should have been #2, though.
― Jordan, Friday, 7 March 2008 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
phrenology's not that good. are there a bunch of people cody chesnutt fans in here or something?
― deej, Friday, 7 March 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i never even heard Phrenology. but yeah Illadelph shoulda been higher, i still consider that the platonic definition of a Roots album.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
lol AK HOOS the POALWANTER GOOD LOOKIN QUESTLUV ;'[-OP0'[[' '/
― teresa, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
75 BARS IS ILLEST LIKE 3 TRAX OFFF THEIR LIVE ALBUM IS ILLEST ILLDELPH /2LIFE SISSORTA WEAK BLACK THOT IS ONNA TH LYRICAL
― teresa, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I MEAN BLACK THOT IS DOPE DONT GET HATERPLAYED OUT OF IT D
― teresa, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
HES GAY SOMETIMES EXCEPT HE'S REAL LYRICAL; DON'T BE BIASED
― teresa, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link
HE'S SICK
CURED
PSYCHOLOGIKLY
― teresa, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
'[[=]
^ awesome
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't remember if I voted here or not, but if I did I'm sure it was for Game Theory. I pulled out Things Fall Apart a couple months ago, and I can't really listen to it anymore. It's so fluffy now. It feels very 90's, and not just for nostalgic reasons -- it's almost unreasonably upbeat, considering a lot of its (purported) subject matter. It's a party album for down white folx circa ten years ago, and I can't hear past that anymore.
If we had to depend on white music fans to eat, we would starve to death.
― kenan, Sunday, 6 April 2008 07:41 (sixteen years ago) link
lol do u want more is such genuinely awful music u guys so silly should just blink yrselfs away
omg otm. I had this p.o.s. on my hard drive forever and one day I put it on again and got almost angry and just deleted the thing. No reason to own it. It's like a parody of the early 90's "rap n' jazz!" trend. And holy shit, live drums? DID YOU FUCKING SAY RAP MUSIC WITH LIVE DRUMS????!!!!?!??!! Get me some undies, I just had such a fit of dumb-ass out-of-step rockism-where-it-couldn't-belong-less that I shit my form-fitting pre-faded jeans and I think it's running into my Chucks.
But then, Game Theory is so so good, you guys. I'm shocked at how many people came here and admitted they haven't heard it. It's so good.
― kenan, Sunday, 6 April 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
how is phrenology better than illadelph?!
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 6 April 2008 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
As much as I don't really care for the Roots, blaming them for some of their fans' shortcomings = dud
― The Reverend, Sunday, 6 April 2008 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^OTM.
"It's like a parody of the early 90's "rap n' jazz!" trend."
WTfuckingF.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 6 April 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link