thats #18 btw.
Def my least favorite first wave wu release. i had such high expectations for it.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
#17 Ol' Dirty Bastard — Ni**a Pleasehttps://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/765/MI0001765836.jpg4 votes 11 points
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
hadnt listened to this in a long time and had a hard time getting through it. lots of vile stuff on there. production is all over the place.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
#16 Ghostface Killah — Bulletproof Walletshttps://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61UJAJ%2Bu6hL.jpg 3 votes 13 points
Wallets is p slapdash, feels like a collection of outtakes, but there are some really good tracks on it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
yeah it ended up climbing my rankings a bit.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
It's a lot of fun, but feels lightweight compared to a lot of other Ghost releases
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
#15 Wu-Tang Clan — Iron Flaghttps://images.genius.com/aa7a18c2a99cfab6093f5c73cc358aab.500x500x1.png3 votes 17 points
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
Iron Flag has aged really well imo.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
their "pop" record, I guess, but I love it.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
when i bought the cd i got the clean version on accident, so that's what i know, got all the little record scratches and sound fx memorized. was kinda weird hearing it with all the swears for the first time recently.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
haha the first copy I got of 36 Chambers was also a clean version purchased by accident. Shame on a NUH!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
the beginning of Rules on my copy just starts with the horns straight to the drop, no rza intro. much better that way.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
iron flag has definitely aged well!
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
btw sorry i couldn't get a vote in but i'm trying to pop in here a lil
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
Surprised ODB was so low, he was my #1
yea he'd be higher up for me too
odb possibly has my favorite verse on any wu album "here i go / deep type flow..."
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
yeah his delivery is so great on that.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
#14 Raekwon — Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. IIhttps://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61YJrYppPDL.jpg5 votes 19 points
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
great album, much better as a whole than the sum of its parts
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
yeah this was better than it should have been for sure.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
benefits from all the songs being fairly short imo, all killer no filler
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
also avoided sounding pastiche.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
#13 Gravediggaz — 6 Feet Deephttps://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8031/7989053788_207bab5851.jpg8 votes 23 points
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
never really liked this as much as I expected to, it's alternately too goofy and too gross
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
production is A++ though
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
never registered as gross to me. just straight up funny in the best way possible
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
#12 Method Man & Redman — Blackout!https://bonuscut.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/blackout.jpg5 votes 28 points
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
^^ banger after banger
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
yeah pretty much perfect album.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
This album needs to be polled separately
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
might be sacrilege but it may be my favorite from both artists
pretty big point jump for the next one. the next six were all really tightly scored.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
#11 Method Man — Ticalhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZeaUfyrLL.jpg10 votes 51 points
this album is a subwoofer murderer
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
Release Yo Delf has been a staple on my workout/pump-up playlists for like 20 years.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
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It's definitely my favorite by Meth. Blackout! 2 was unfairly overlooked, imo, even though it doesn't have the hit-to-miss ratio of the original, it has some jams,
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
yeah BO2 was pretty good!
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
#10 Ol' Dirty Bastard — Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Versionhttps://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mErOnfYcL.jpg10 votes 59 points
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
this next one is TOO LOW
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
#9 Wu-Tang Clan — Wu-Tang Foreverhttps://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/ar0/d9218d08725343839af3ff15e1133c36 10 votes 60 points
waaaaaaht that is def too low
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
It's acutally tied with the next one but the next one had a first place vote and more voters(!). this run are all within a handful of points.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
i def waited in a long line at Sam Goody for the midnight release of that one.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
feel like thats a common story for that album tho
#8 Wu-Tang Clan — The Whttps://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/426/0001426441.jpg12 votes 60 points 1 first
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Didn't expect that!
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
who put that as no. 1 lol
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
yeah that first place vote propelled it
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
#7 Ghostface Killah — Fishscalehttps://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gibBHeI%2BL.jpg 9 votes 61 points 1 first
― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
Love the beat on Suspect Chin Music and I listened to Retro Godfather a ton in college. RZA showing his range between those two.
― competitive shooter - - - - (Spottie), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
ha yeah suspect chin music is my close #2
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
How did you assign points for each ballot, Spottie? IOW, how many points would someone's #1, #2, #3 and so forth earn? I'm trying to figure out just for myself what the results would've looked like had I submitted a ballot.
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:14 (six years ago) link
1 502 453 414 385 366 357 348 339 3210 31
and so forth down to pick 36 which was worth 5 pts.
― competitive shooter - - - - (Spottie), Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:36 (six years ago) link
thanks for running this poll, Spottie - good stuff! I for one did not mind the tempo at all
― niels, Thursday, 7 December 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
surprised Camay didn't place
― video2000, Thursday, 7 December 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
thanks Spottie, top work!
this is my favourite Killah Priest thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMHZTauB-uY
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah, would have loved to see that one and one of the early Sunz of Man tracks on the list :)
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
This Method Man feature is so good - about halfway through it becomes less about the songs and more about regrets and anxieties: http://www.complex.com/music/2011/10/method-man-25-essential-songs/
― JoeStork, Friday, 8 December 2017 06:08 (six years ago) link
oh yeah lots of good stuff in there thx.
“Dirty took all their shit and made it his own and GZA ain’t say shit. Most of [Dirty’s verses] was GZA’s shit. I remember GZA and ODB got in an argument one night and GZA was like, ‘Nigga most of that shit on your fucking album is mines anyway!’“ODB wrote ‘Brooklyn Zoo’ though. I could go through the discography I could tell you which ones he wrote. Like ‘Dog Shit’ on Wu-Tang Forever? The fucking, ‘Calling me a dog/But leave a dog alone/Because nothing can stop me from burying my bones,’ I wrote that when I was 15 years old.
“ODB wrote ‘Brooklyn Zoo’ though. I could go through the discography I could tell you which ones he wrote. Like ‘Dog Shit’ on Wu-Tang Forever? The fucking, ‘Calling me a dog/But leave a dog alone/Because nothing can stop me from burying my bones,’ I wrote that when I was 15 years old.
― Spottie, Friday, 8 December 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
yeah it's great
listening to that strange, strange Texas remix I'm reminded of a quote I once heard paraphrased, where RZA describes not knowing the concept of musical keys when starting out as a producer, which, if true, may explain some of the off-ness abt songs like Can It Be All So Simple
― niels, Saturday, 9 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
Thanks for running this poll, Spottie! Unfortunately work kept me from being on ILX during the final half of the rollout, but it was really great to re-engage with the clan. Even though my ballot was all old favorites, the nomination process introduced me to some great tracks I wasn't familiar with
― intheblanks, Saturday, 9 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link