a tribe called quest reunion

if i had the mp3s i'd send em shakes

i'm actually not seeing any physical copies of this - cd or vinyl...does anyone know the plan for that?

next week

ah cool, wanna get this on vinyl

Shakey, how do I reach you?

I webmailed you my e-mail thx bro

Ha, he beat me to it.

matt:
http://atribecalledquest.shop.musictoday.com/store
site is a little shaky but i helped my local deli guy order his vinyl through here!

shakey check out this site its cool http://www.albumforest.co/

agree on greatness of this album

I was in tears from the second I heard the opening snare and Tip's first verse.

I can't get over how nostalgic yet of the moment this feels.

This shit right here gives me hope

^^^

It's so good

Are you reviewing it?

Yah

This album is what the nation needed

this is crazy good. was going to wait till I made it through the whole album to post but then "Mobius" ends up being built around "Two Oldtimers" by Dieter Moebius & Conny Plank & thank you

This album is what the nation needed

OTM

so i was talking with a young woman (let's say 25) this afternoon and i said, "hey have you heard the new tribe yet?" and she didn't know what i meant so i said "have you heard the new tribe called quest?" and she said "i've heard OF them" and okay so THIS is what being old feels like

LET'S MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN

Am liking what I hear so far, yay Spotify.

Really nice album

I like that it is genuinely new and modern rather than just trying to capture the old magic. It's also their most serious and politically-minded album.

Whoa damn

sounded better on each play yesterday, looking forward to listening to it more over the weekend

just want to live inside space program but everytime tip gets to "and the president's refined / in her wing she's confined / with about thirty percocets and five bottles of wine" i get aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

also wanna renege on my earlier negativity on "wall of sound"; it opened up in headphones... matt otm basically

i will cop to approaching the elton john/busta rhymes collabo with some prejudice; I'm pleased they proved me wrong!

Def makes me want to revisit the last two Tribe albums

Me too, but I still like their older stuff better.

Love Movement was a legit masterpiece. So is this one. Pretty awesome they went out with two great final albums that sound nothing alike.

I relistened to TLM yesterday morning as I do every couple years to learn whether my yawn needs rescinding. Nope.

Another thing to acknowledge, esp because he sounds so revitalized being back with Tribe, bug Busta is one of the godddamn forces of nature in the history of music

man Tip is one sexy motherfucker, always was.

Busta is one of the godddamn forces of nature in the history of music

that part in "mobius" where he's like "ohwaitwaitwaitwait i gotta do it again! i gotta do it again!"

Yeah in the article they talk about how they hung out in the studio kicking around ideas, instead of just emailing verses and beats like most albums now, parts like that you can really feel that, I think that's a big part of what makes this feel so good

Also s/o to Consequence who maybe isn't as distinctive as everyone else but drops some really cold verses that give the album a little more street feel in a couple of places that i think adds to it in a nice way

I don't hate The Love Movement the way I did when it was first released but it's to my ears a clear step down from BRL, which itself is a step down from the first three albums. The new one blows it away easily; I'd rank it with Low End and MM.

I think I agree with that.

I don't hate The Love Movement the way I did when it was first released but it's to my ears a clear step down from BRL, which itself is a step down from the first three albums. The new one blows it away easily; I'd rank it with Low End and MM.

yes this is where I'm at tbh

Love Movement is an acquired taste. BRL just isn't very good.

Agree the new one may be even better than Love Movement, though. It's just much more in line with what people want from a Tribe album.

Busta been one of the best rappers alive the last few years tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl_s-9TbO-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIrzbhEGvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cklwGaNKMCo

Don't get me wrong,"Start It Up" is fire; I think it's the album is a little monochromatic after that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDxKVYUHBdA

I don't know what the deal is with Ali Shaheed not being in that photo or on the album but still appearing in the performance?

Did he contribute a lot on their previous albums or is he mostly their live DJ?

Ha, props to Tip taking a moment to clown himself on "Ego".

I think "Lost Somebody" is the only song here I don't care for. Good intentions, obviously, but it doesn't really land, and it detracts from the illusion that the LP was completed before Phife died