a tribe called quest reunion

marcos you will like this record

TLET was such an eye-opening record for me at just the right time that I will always rank it highest. MM was like a victory lap.

^^^

My relationship to ATCQ across the first three albums was "This is great, I should pay attention to these guys" -> "HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE GREATEST ALBUM I HAVE EVER HEARD" -> "HOLY SHIT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A LETDOWN AFTER RELEASING THE GREATEST ALBUM I'VE EVER HEARD"

(then it was "This is good but not on the same level as the first three" -> "I only can remember 2 songs on this but those two songs are fire" -> "HOLY SHIT HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT DECADES LATER THEY CAN BE THIS GOOD? RIP Pfife")

haha yes

Yep.

Which two songs on TLM? "Find a Way" is one of their greatest creations imo

That and "Start It Up"

it's really depressing to look at the list of albums released in september 1991 and realize which ones the 16 yr old me bought at the time instead of 'the low end theory'.

Psychotic Supper - Tesla
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses
Use Your Illusion II - Guns N' Roses
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

The bass on "Find a Way" is so massive. Such great Dilla beats all over that album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Us-4dzcY9A

crushing hard on this album rn tbrr

Didn't TLOT and Nevermind come out the same day? I remember buying both because I couldn't choose.

Also that day was Blood Sugar Sex Magick

Midnight Marauders and Enter The Wu-Tang came out on the same day in '93, which is crazy

CD arrived today after four days of download. This is magnificent. And making me want to go back and re-evaluate Kamaal The Abstract, which I never quite understood the bile towards, but also never quite got.

Is this CD's sound significantly better---?

lol I started trying to list my favourites on each album and ended up just listing basically everything smh

marcos you will like this record

― Οὖτις, Monday, November 28, 2016 4:10 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yea this is a great record

Off one listen to the cd, vs about 4 to the download, I reckon it's a bit different.

my favorites are becoming clear, but the shine's not really coming off this album in general. so great front to back.

otm

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.

― 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

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