a tribe called quest reunion

http://themartorialist.blogspot.be/2016/12/generic-list-post-stop-lyin-edition_5.html

that guy a) has the most enormous chip on his shoulder and b) is British and a probable DiS poster

AOTY this

"Bonita Applebum," which I included on a 100-favorite-songs list one, is brilliant. It and De La Soul's "Eye Know" and P.M. Dawn's "Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine" are as surpassingly beautiful today as they were 25 years ago. And the photo of Michelle Obama holding the Tribe album when Phife Dawg died was pretty much the only thing that moved me in the thriving celebrity-obituary industry.

Found the new album for $8 today. Love "Black Spasmodic" (even though, if I'm hearing it right, it's about fake rappers, a subject that seems a little dated--lyrics don't matter much to me if a song sounds great). A couple of other songs caught my ear, and that's about it. Don't like "We the People" at all. Hope it will grow on me, but that doesn't often happen.

Did this album survive beyond the initial praise period? Nary a mention online after so many "Hosannas".

it's getting a lot of end of year love. it's in my top ten for sure.

Album of the year for me

in my top five and holding strong

are we not online????

yeah safe to say it wasn't just initial hype; this album is going to be remembered

My favorite album of the year, too.

They blood pressure high?
Why? They don't play no more
Probably

I meant outside iLXville, of course

This album is brilliant. We The People is only going to get better/more powerful/more poignant as the year goes on. That chorus is dark as shit.

The past 2 months would have felt very different to me without this album. Will it survive? I guess we'll find out, but as of now I see nothing suggesting otherwise.

Very strange that this album that was released to hype in November and spent most of December showing up in the top 10 of nearly every music site's 2016 list has completely fallen off the internet on Dec 30.

this album is -- how you say -- fucking incredible.

yeah it's super dense and rich and awesome through and through, keep coming back to it

finally listening to this and wow yes this bangs

Vinyl for this is nice. Lyric sheet! And some stuff in the credis i didnt recognize (like the Sabbath sample)

this album is -- how you say -- fucking incredible.

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i've been reading this post in a russian accent

yes this is incredible

there's a line on this album that phife has where he says "talking bout my work ethic" that i originally misheard as "got that obama work ethic" and i kinda want to get that tattooed somewhere

I've been looking forward to a summer with this album. Why not start today?

yes!

shit bangs

WE GOT TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER

This album is a goddamn miracle

^^^

Yes.

https://vimeo.com/201470063

been listening to this album again for the first time in awhile and goddam it holds up

Same! Even some of the tracks I'd usually skip are decent.

https://img.discogs.com/P9aedSoLvJdpgKeRt1KPBVM0MgM=/fit-in/600x584/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9577362-1494735428-6791.png.jpg

5 years ago today. one of the most timely releases in my life! this shit hit just right

This won “Best international album” at the Brits, that year.

It was somewhat glossed over on the tv coverage. To be fair, there were some unassailable reasons for that, but a bit more detail and some music from it would have been nice.

What were the reasons?

it's still scarcely believable how good this turned out

in the context of a comeback, not in context of how good they were before

"We Got It from Here..." is easily in their top three best albums, and I will die on this hill.

Low End > Midnight > We Got It

Checks out.

Low End is so clearly inferior to the other two, as a relative newcomer, imo

Hard disagree, as someone who grew up on them!

I'm giving We Got It From Here another listen and yes it's fantastic.

I'm not sure why I haven't listened to it more. Maybe when it came out the vocals felt low in the mix to me or something?

Low End is the best one wtf xxpost

"Scenario", "Excursions", "Buggin' Out".....

NOT NO PARKAY, NOT NO MARJARINE
STRICTLY BUTTER BABY, STRICTLY BUTTER

Low End is the best one

otm

it's impossible to overrate.

the reunion album, while i do agree it was an inspiring miracle that it happened, was solidly decent and nothing more. if it was reviewed in the source magazine in 1995, it would have received four mics and i would have agreed with that.

now, midnight marauders on the other hand, that fucking album is overrated without merit. it's still good, and a hiphop classic, but it's not even the group's best album.

midnight marauders and low end are very close, i prefer marauders but don’t really get worked up if someone prefers low end theory.

we got it from here is a five mic-er in my mind, but then again the source gave project pat’s ghetto green 2.5 mics so what do they know

now, keep in mind, i'm time traveling with my source magazine ratings to a period when their ratings a) were fairly accurate and b) weren't reacting against anything except how they felt about the album being reviewed.

i think there's two firm tribe opinions that we can all agree on: 1) they were fucking rad and 2) that was a shame about the love movement, wasn't it?

haha OTM

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

that's the only one I haven't heard to date.

I even like Beats, Rhymes, and Life a lot. doesn't quite hit the highs of the previous two, but it has "Stressed Out" on it, and "Phony Rappers".

also Consequence!