wuuuuuuuuuh
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
11 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 126 points7 votes1 first-place voteGreatest contributor: a hoy hoy
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/r/raekwon/album-only-built-4-cuban-linx.jpg
Prove to me that Only Built 4 Cuban Linx and Liquid Swords are worthy of their hype.....
― Mark Espisito, Monday, 5 December 2005 03:45 (4 years ago)
Proof:
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2001-4/img212.gif
with U_ij = Only Built For Cuban Linx, A = Liquid Swords, and V_i = hype, it follows that W_i = sum of all hype over the entire universe > worthy hype. QED, motherfucker.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:45 (4 years ago)
Cuban Linx = unsurpassable, greatest rap album ever?
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:33 (4 years ago)
Cuban Linx is as lush, sprawling, as opulent as a Godfather movie.
― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:16 (5 years ago)
Chef cooking up someMarvellous Scarface Pacin...O shit. Ghostface rules.
-a hoy hoy
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
although goodbye my other votes. still...
best rap album ever imo.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
love this album. Thanks Sam.
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 7 May 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Firstly, the cover. Never understood how so many Wu albums fucked up things like tracklisting (Supreme Clientele) or the names of the group (Ghost Face Killer). For a piece of music so thorough and well thought out, it seems crazy they couldn't even spellcheck the cover.
Second, this beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSREFKsZ7Y AND IT'LL BE LIKE BLUE AND CREAM I HAD CRAZY VISIONS
Third, the rise of Ghost as unquestionably the best mc of the past 15 years. He has this crazy way of making what could seem like dated references seem fresh as hell. Without being restricted to '1 of the group' doing 16 bars here and there he is able to really let loose and just take what should just be another verse and go in for like 3 minutes, not stopping to breath because the evolving imagery is too important. Every Ghost verse on this is a classic. Every verse on this is a classic but damn, Ghost took each and every to another level.
Fourth, Nas! Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold/ I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe/ When I'm deceased, by then the beast arise like yeast/ to conquer peace leaving savages to roam in the streets/ Live on the run, police paying me to give in my gun/ Trick my Wisdom, with the system that imprisoned my son!
Fifth but really any number- rza is the best beat maker ever. See also 2nd
Sixth, aw hell just go listen to it y'all flowerpotheadz
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Speaking of covers: Wu-Tang album covers Blue Note style.
― sofatruck, Friday, 7 May 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Just noticed I made the big mistake everyone makes w/ this album. It's Rae's album. AND HE'S FUCKING AWESOME. His slang, his wordplay, his imagery, his storytelling. Just listen to Incarcerated Scarfaces again. No Ghost. Just rae going in hard. HAAARD.
I do this for barber shop niggaz in the PlazaCatchin asthma, Rae is stickin gun-flashersWell-dressed, skatin through the projects wit big onesBroke elevators, turn the lights out, stick oneupstairs, switch like a chameleonHip Brazilians, pass the cash or leave your childrenLeave the buildinNiggas, yo they be foldin' like envelopes under pressureLike Lou Farigno on cokeYo, Africans denyin niggaz up in yellow cabsMusty like funk, wavin they arms, the ArabsSit back, coolin like Kahlua's on rocksOn the crack spots, rubberband wrapped on my knotsYou bitches who fuck dreds on SudafedsPussy's hurtin, they did it for a yard for the FedsWord up cousin, nigga, I seen itLike a 27-inch Zenith - believe it!
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
totally forgot to vote for Cuban Linx
― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
btw double hoy if you decide you don't wanna do a 90s singles poll i'd be happy to step in
― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i can/will do it, i've got poll experience (tv poll)... i just thought we figured out an order somewhere? can't remember where now tbh to quote.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
a world of polls: what do you want to see next?
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
the rise of Ghost as unquestionably the best mc of the past 15 years
^^^ real talk
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
also megalol at "proof" upthread
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yay my rap votes all counted!
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
did lj die or do we just agree cuban linx is the best?
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
he went to bed
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
he was at a general election victory party with his mates
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
wanted to chime in on alien lanes
"a salty salute" is one of the best openers ever, and once i saw them at this outdoor college springfest thing and they did an epic 2 1/2 hour set that opened AND closed with "a salty salute"...pollard kept having to hit up the audience for cigarettes...kept saying "Children, children, do you have some cigarettes for your uncle Bob?"
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ's a tory supporter?!
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i doubt it (he just said he was going to a general election party)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
wuuuuuuuuh
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
what happened i am confused
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
lj was outed as a Thatcherite and is, at this moment, basking in Conservative glory instead of finishing the poll; this state of things prompted others to claim Raekwon the winner, and then to claim one of his verses as a Ghost breakout in error.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Or did I make that up?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
just had a 4-hour nap iirc
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
So you're not a crazed Thatcherite running naked through the streets? That's a relief.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know who or what i support except probably the green party now
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
also Tuomas can be excused for that misinterpretation because pfunkboy fucking said a 'victory' party, which it *most assuredly* wasn't...it was a load of 20somethings looking at a TV and making quips
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it was a load of 20somethings looking at a TV and making quips
Replace "TV" with "computer screen" and there's your new ILX board description, fellas.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
and that's the story of the most unfunny and literal board description ever
― ayo for dyao (samosa gibreel), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Making queefs more like.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Speak for yrself!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Also hey OVAL! Won't attempt a more detailed account, haven't slept for 40 hours or something.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Friday, 7 May 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
TOP TEN COMING UP
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Glory be.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
*gulp*
― ayo for dyao (samosa gibreel), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
yay Oval.
(tired britishers everywhere - I don't even have much of an excuse, was only up til 2)
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
gotta say, this is where the unpredictability is really getting fun. enjoyed being surprised at the hip hop in the top 20, after Reasonable Doubt i kinda thought well, that's the last one i was sure would show up, maybe that's it.
― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yeah tiredness is fairly acute now......
voted for 94diskont cos i've listened to that and 'systemisch' a lot lately and they're both great, they're ever so vaguely related in my mind to the later mozart piano concertos in their formal invention and ~usually~ good natured but unsaccharine temperament
the 90s album i've listened to most after those two wd be 'cuban linx' but i thought that wd get millions of votes anyway
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
(in recent times)
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm curious to see if there's any hip hop that places above OB4CL (but then I'm not sure what was on the OG list to begin with)
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I had to drive an unfamiliar, busy route through the city this afternoon, which was a bit of an unpleasant ordeal - expecting & hoping the top ten to be equally bewildering.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
10 Autechre - Amber (1994)133 points5 votes1 first-place voteGreatest contributor: i am using your worlds
http://img13.nnm.ru/3/1/0/a/a/310aa82b1e9d991843d60ae17e653914_full.jpg
My favourite Autechre album. Buy.
― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 25 April 2004 19:47 (6 years ago)
definitely buy this. i have a liking for " mellow, soothing, slooooow shit" as well, and this record does the job nicely. it's possibly my fave autechre release - although incunabula is not far behind. silverside is my favourite - lovely synth melody, with great dark robot voices in the background. i love that dripping-tap effect at the start of "further" too. best lullaby-track award goes to "Nine". that's a pretty one.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:41 (6 years ago)
that's how i feel about autechre's "amber" which is another album that i've spent an unhealthy amount of time with.
i think to myself, now this is a declaration of intent if i've ever heard one. simply massive...
i think my favorite thing about "sawII" and "amber" is the way they reference nature.
― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:11 (6 years ago)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks to lj if yr going to finish this tonight cos i need something to hold the attention so i can stay vaguely awake for another few hours or so in order to avoid my sleep pattern completely going to shit
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
rap on the orig list:
93: LAURYN HILL - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (234 points, 18 votes)87: EMINEM - The Slim Shady LP (253 points, 18 votes)79: OUTKAST - Aquemini (277 points, 20 votes)71: MISSY ELLIOTT - Supa Dupa Fly (288 points, 20 votes)57: DE LA SOUL - De La Soul Is Dead (342 points, 18 votes)55: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - The Low End Theory (345 points, 27 votes)49: SNOOP DOGGY DOGG - Doggystyle (354 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)47: DR. DRE - The Chronic (360 points, 24 votes, 1 first place vote)23: GZA/GENIUS - Liquid Swords (541 points, 33 votes)14: NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - Ready To Die (693 points, 30 votes, 3 first place votes)11: PUBLIC ENEMY - Fear Of A Black Planet (774 points, 36 votes, 4 first place votes)8: NAS - Illmatic (877 points, 38 votes, 3 first place votes)2: WU-TANG CLAN - Enter the 36 Chambers (1132 points, 55 votes, 2 first place votes)
― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
poll has been a victory for techno I really ought to listen to but haven't, and the fact it already has more rap than the o.g. list is also worthy of celebration
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Amber is dope as hell guys. My fav Autechre.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Another of my votes
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Given how Ghostface's profile has gone up since the previous poll, I guess it's still possible for him to make it, but I can't think of any other rap album that would have a guaranteed spot in the top 10. Maybe Me Against the World still has a chance, I've always thought people rated it higher than All Eyez on Me?
Peronally, I voted for 8 rap albums, but looks like none of the are gonna make it. Where's the love for Heltah Skeltah, Cypress Hill, The Coup, Eve, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony...?
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
STILL hoping The Score, 2001 and Midnight Marauders have a chance.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link