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Joe Mac said:
This is true, I saw them live, that’s their strength really, and bought most of it afterwards, I’m crazy for sure. Also I’m in Ireland lol. Tbh it gets very little platter time and 9/10 if it does it’s War, their best by a billion miles, before Eno and the boring big music. I’d actually honestly say 1980-1990, 1990-2000, War and maybe the Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby is the maximum of what one needs.
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Zooropa and earlier is my favorite, however I obv dont hate the stuff after except most of Innocence and Experience.
 
During non-Covid times, I play in a band that specializes in "mash-ups," taking songs with similar tempos and chord progressions and layering them together. Anything to keep the song going and people dancing.

My favorite that we have melded together: Erykah's "On & On," Madonna's "Human Nature," and LL Cool J's "Around The Way Girl."
 
JonnyH said:
Have you AB'd any of the bright eyes remasters by chance? I have all the original pressings and the first box set. But if there's a reason to upgrade...
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I haven't because all my bright eyes albums are from the remaster box. I can tell you I'm listening to some of them now and they are amazing. Slight noise so far at the beginning of I'm Wide Awake however is stops before Conor starts talking.

Highly recommend!
 
Vinyl&Kicks86 said:
this is poetic still makes me feel something today like the first time i heard it tho i've heard the song hundreds or maybe even thousands of times no exaggeration.

"Now Suzy Skrew had a partner named Sasha, Thumper
I remember her number like the summer
When her and Suzy yeah they threw a slumber
Party but you can not call it that cause it was slummer
Well it was more like spend the night
Three in the morning yawning dancing under street lights
We chilling like a villain and a ni**a feeling right
In the middle of the ghetto on the curb, but in spite
All of the bullshit we on our back staring at the stars above (aww man)
Talking bout what we gonna be when we grow up
I said what you wanna be, she said, "Alive"
It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes
I coulda died, time went on, I got grown
Rhyme got strong, mind got blown, I came back home
To find lil' Sasha was gone
Her mamma said she with a ni**a that be treating her wrong
I kept on singing my song and hoping at a show
That I would one day see her standing in the front row
But two weeks later she got found in the back of a school
With a needle in her arm, baby two months due, Sasha Thumper"
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This verse gives me chills every single time I hear it.
 
duke86fan said:
no.. kanye on college dropout and MBDTF is perfect, same with kendrick on GKMC and TPAB

"i cant complain what the accident did to my left eye/'cause look what an accident did to left eye/first aaliyah now romeo must die/i know i got angels watching me from the other side" is one of the best bars of the 2000s (his whole verse on never let me down is that good). plus m.A.A.d city, art of peer pressure, hood politics, u, family business, jesus walks, so appalled, lost in the world, all of the lights.. all amazing if not perfect songs

i like aquemini more than i thought i did before, but i like vulnerability and more modern production
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I don’t think TPAB ever exists without Andre 3000. The Love Below changed the course of what hip hop became IMO.

also per your hatred of skits, I’m also not a big fan unless it’s part of a good concept album. People do tend to overuse them but they can be effective.
 
Vinyl&Kicks86 said:
Kendrick has cited 3 Stacks before as one of his biggest influences.
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The Love Below is one of my favorite albums of all time. The first time I listened to it, it was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It was hip hop and jazz and pop and funk and every genre I knew rolled into one. It was somehow all over the place yet cohesive. Every song on it is great. Prototype is the ultimate jam.
 
MikeH said:
The Love Below is one of my favorite albums of all time. The first time I listened to it, it was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It was hip hop and jazz and pop and funk and every genre I knew rolled into one. It was somehow all over the place yet cohesive. Every song on it is great. Prototype is the ultimate jam.
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And you can’t beat the song “Hey Ya”! That is an absolute monster of a track and is easily one of the best songs of the 2000’s in my opinion! It’s such an ambitious song, but is incredibly catchy, lively, electrifying, energetic and is a fusion of so many genres! Hey Ya is just such a masterpiece in my opinion!

I don’t think we’ll ever get a #1 hit that’s as exciting and musically strong as Hey Ya! I honestly can’t see it happening!
 
NathanRicaud said:
And you can’t beat the song “Hey Ya”! That is an absolute monster of a track and is easily one of the best songs of the 2000’s in my opinion! It’s such an ambitious song, but is incredibly catchy, lively, electrifying, energetic and is a fusion of so many genres! Hey Ya is just such a masterpiece in my opinion!

I don’t think we’ll ever get a #1 hit that’s as exciting and musically strong as Hey Ya! I honestly can’t see it happening!
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Given your love for country music I have to leave this here
 
MikeH said:
The Love Below is one of my favorite albums of all time. The first time I listened to it, it was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It was hip hop and jazz and pop and funk and every genre I knew rolled into one. It was somehow all over the place yet cohesive. Every song on it is great. Prototype is the ultimate jam.
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I don’t feel as strongly about the whole album as you do, but She Lives In My Lap is definitely one of my favorite songs ever.
 
debar22 said:
I don’t feel as strongly about the whole album as you do, but She Lives In My Lap is definitely one of my favorite songs ever.
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I'm obsessed with that song too! It's so freaking good! The lyrics on that track are incredible! Like how André 3000 is a genius for writing that song! I love the confusing, mind playing tricks, temptation kind of lyrics! And the song is moody, layered, dark yet is so catchy too!

And it has very strong prince vibes with semi D'angelo vibes too! Like She Lives In My Lap is magical. The sexy, dreamy, dizzying, oozing, sleepy, hypnotic Prototype is placed before She Lives In My Lap. And then you get hit with Hey Ya! straight after which is a total change in pace and sound. Then you get the sing-along, funny, sarcastic, desolated, bad-news, savage Roses after Hey Ya!

Like those 4 tracks together in the track-listing is seriously next level! The Love Below is my favourite album of 2003! I feel like The Love Below gets under appreciated because it's half of a full album. If The Love Below was released as a complete solo album, I think it would get more recognition and would be more appreciated! Like, it gets weighed down in appraisal due to Spearkerboxxx, even though Speakerboxxx is pretty great - but nowhere near as strong as The Love Below!
 
NathanRicaud said:
I'm obsessed with that song too! It's so freaking good! The lyrics on that track are incredible! Like how André 3000 is a genius for writing that song! I love the confusing, mind playing tricks, temptation kind of lyrics! And the song is moody, layered, dark yet is so catchy too!

And it has very strong prince vibes with semi D'angelo vibes too! Like She Lives In My Lap is magical. The sexy, dreamy, dizzying, oozing, sleepy, hypnotic Prototype is placed before She Lives In My Lap. And then you get hit with Hey Ya! straight after which is a total change in pace and sound. Then you get the sing-along, funny, sarcastic, desolated, bad-news, savage Roses after Hey Ya!

Like those 4 tracks together in the track-listing is seriously next level! The Love Below is my favourite album of 2003! I feel like The Love Below gets under appreciated because it's half of a full album. If The Love Below was released as a complete solo album, I think it would get more recognition and would be more appreciated! Like, it gets weighed down in appraisal due to Spearkerboxxx, even though Speakerboxxx is pretty great - but nowhere near as strong as The Love Below!
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Yeah, that 4 song run is pretty strong! Actually everything up to Roses is great, but what drags the album down for me is that nothing really hits me the same after that until Vibrate. I actually feel opposite of you in that I prefer Speakerboxxx, but my tastes have always leaned heavily towards rap. But I think the Ghettomusick -> Unhappy -> Bowtie -> The Way You Move start to Speakerboxxx is almost as strong a 4 song run, and for me, the rest of Speakerboxxx was more consistently good.

It's been a while since I've played both albums back-to-back though, so it'd be interesting to see if my impressions would change now. I've been finding that when I revisit albums from that time & era that I feel differently about a lot of them, sometimes changing dramatically. It's different when you're living through the release of an album at a younger age and experiencing everything in real time vs. re-visiting something 15+ years after the fact when you're far more removed from whatever emotions or circumstances you've associated to that music. Plus you have all the music that's been released since to compare it to that wasn't around when it was first released.
 
the moral of me and outkast is fuck those flowcharts.. because the chart said if you wanted lyrical and storytelling start with Good kid, and if you wanted more good kid go to outkast... but what i liked about good kid was the storyline and my favorite song on it was m.A.A.d city, partially because of the amazing beat switch but also the personal lyrics about honest emotional issues he had with the gang lifestyle and regrets he has from living in compton... and i didn't get a beat that reminded me of m.A.A.d city or a moment like the "if i told you a killed a ______ at 16 would you believe it" ending (but it also said if you wanted something more like backseat freestyle and maad city go with flockaveli and i dunno if that would have satisfied me either)
 
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