finally listening to this and wow yes this bangs
― k3vin k., Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Vinyl for this is nice. Lyric sheet! And some stuff in the credis i didnt recognize (like the Sabbath sample)
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
this album is -- how you say -- fucking incredible.
― Treeship, Saturday, January 14, 2017 8:28 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've been reading this post in a russian accent
yes this is incredible
― nomar, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
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
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
I've been looking forward to a summer with this album. Why not start today?
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
yes!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
shit bangs
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
WE GOT TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 1 June 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
This album is a goddamn miracle
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
^^^
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
Yes.
― Dr Keith Assblow (stevie), Sunday, 1 October 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/201470063
― fpsa, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 04:24 (two years ago) link
been listening to this album again for the first time in awhile and goddam it holds up
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Same! Even some of the tracks I'd usually skip are decent.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
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
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 11 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
What were the reasons?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
it's still scarcely believable how good this turned out
― imago, Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
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.
― Lone Wanderer Mark II, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
Low End > Midnight > We Got It
Checks out.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Friday, 12 November 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link
Low End is so clearly inferior to the other two, as a relative newcomer, imo
― imago, Friday, 12 November 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
Hard disagree, as someone who grew up on them!
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Friday, 12 November 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
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?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 12:24 (two years ago) link
Low End is the best one wtf xxpost
"Scenario", "Excursions", "Buggin' Out".....
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
NOT NO PARKAY, NOT NO MARJARINESTRICTLY BUTTER BABY, STRICTLY BUTTER
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Friday, 12 November 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
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.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Friday, 12 November 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
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
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 November 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
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?
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Friday, 12 November 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
haha OTM
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement but that certainly isn't what we got
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
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!
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
"Start It Up" and "Find A Way" are great, and then comes the creeping realization that nothing else on the album is going to be monochromatic refractions of those two songs with little to no percussive or melodic variation (aside from "Like It Like That") (I'm not including bonus tracks here, obv; the Spotify version elevates dramatically at "Scenario (remix)" and leaves you wondering why they put all of that bland beige shit on the album proper)
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
Nobody’s mentioned “Peoples instinctive travels” etc..
I have personal reasons for that one being my fav, and the best,etc.
Still though…..l
― Mark G, Friday, 12 November 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
"Left My Wallet in El Segundo" is nice. it's good overall, but I feel like it's a mega leap from that to LET which is why it gets forgotten.
"Bonita Applebum" also classic
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
"There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement "
Great EP I'd say
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
"Find My Way" bumps. The rest -- well, I've tried.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
Yeah the first three albums are all great, and We Got It From Here too, that was miraculous. Low End is still my favorite of the four, and I'd probably place We Got It From Here second - it's the only one I got to know when it came out, and given that moment in time & history, it feels all the more powerful.
They even made the 2017 Grammys memorable (at least for their performance):
https://vimeo.com/302978618
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 November 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
LET has always been my favorite as well. I’ve always found it odd that people rank MM above it, which feels like thinking Stankonia is better than Aquemini or something
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
In my head the production on Low End is really sparse compared to Marauders, which makes me question why I like it more. But then I listen to it and am reminded. Marauders actually feels a little overproduced by comparison
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 November 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
It's splitting hairs for me but I prefer MM just because that's my peak era of hip hop production & engineering. LET set the bar and MM refined it. It's just a liiil more dense sonically yet still tight/focused. There's lil things popping into the mix or happening in the background which doesn't really happen in LET.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Also prob biased because "Scenario" was never my fav to begin with and it's v played out, never need to hear it again
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
'overproduced' is a criticism that usually means I'll like something, lol
― imago, Friday, 12 November 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
Hah, I think Low End is Tribe's best and would call Stankonia OutKast's best.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 November 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
Song for song I’ll take MM, there is not a bad track imo. As for LET you have songs like Rap Promoter and ..show businesses. Perhaps LET has the higher highs
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 12 November 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Not like we haven’t gone through this exercise countless times lol
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 12 November 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
re: beats, rhymes & life and the love movement—
i usually kind of think of br&l as even with midnight marauders. not because of anything other than i like them about the same. to me they're both 4.5-5 mic classics and i have never understood why br&l was considered disappointing. of course, i bought them at the same time (br&l's release date, to be exact) so i heard them both for first the time basically back to back. br&l was a smoother, slicker sound but to me it felt like the next logical step. i have always considered it classic, if for nothing else than it confirmed for me that dilla ("jay dee" / "the ummah" when working with q-tip at the time, of course) was THE guy to check for in the liner notes.
tlm was legitimately disappointing. songs with nore? really???? some solid beats, but yeah it felt like where the slickness of br&l was in line with the vibe, on tlm it was just . . . so *meh*. that said: "find a way", "like it like that", and "the love" are all top tier tribe and i would easily include them in a "best of" set. 3 mics, tops. and even that's generous. i never really counted the tracks after "rock rock ya'll" because they were all from older 12" singles, but they're all pretty much classic songs (except "money maker", which was just another disappointing new track).
trivia time:tlm was released the same day as aquemini. talk about passing the torch. anyway, i've always just assumed andre's verse on "rosa parks" was about the br&l disappointment backlash (`kinda sour cause my favorite group ain't comin' widdit`). wonder what he thought of the love movement.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Friday, 12 November 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
BR&L has too many mid tempo moments for me to embrace.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 November 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
📹
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
LET is my fav Tribe LP but Electric relaxation might be my fav Tribe jam. After Hours is the best jam off the debut.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link