My Life is the only one I have and it's pretty great so I'm voting for that, but I feel like if I had 411 I'd probably prefer it.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
To be honest, the live album is better than the studio recordings (which are and continue to be spotty).
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought about including the live album, but I'd never heard it and it seemed superfluous in this context...but maybe not?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Share My World is my personal favorite.
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
and Alfred stop posting about Mary you are always rong.
you're the same one who said she has "no classic albums" or some bullshit like that rite? lol
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
She doesn't! She has lots of classic songs though.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember the time a coworker informed me that "only white people like the live album." Never did elaborate, though.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
That seems like a pretty unambiguous statement!
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
haha who said it was ambiguous?
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Inference, mostly.
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
(btw I am not having yet another semantic argument on the internets)
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Mary is really good.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I meant to put Drudge sirens with that post.
boring albums are the most boring.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^ a statement it is impossible to argue against
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Music challops are the challop challops.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I totally would've voted for The Tour which still ain't perfect but is better than any of these. That said, Share My World is the most consistent of the 1990s ones. And Soto's right - she's yet to make a great album back to front. Not that it matters really with so much great stuff available to make your own perfect MJB long player. Still, Mary, how 'bout a 40-minute album (!) that absolutely slays next time out (e.g. The Way I See It)?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 September 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Cuz it WOULD slay. Think about how more awesome Growing Pains would have been had it ended a few tracks earlier.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 September 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, with the last two albums she's come closest to excellence.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 September 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I still think Mary is the best of her albums when it comes to being "album-y." Reminds me of early '70s Stax.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 September 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll never forgive her for the Dianne Warren track on that one.
I'd say Growing Pains is her most consistent overall.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 September 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao.
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 4 September 2009 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 7 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
'my life' >>>>> your lives
― butthurt (deej), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
― some dude, Thursday, September 3, 2009 11:27 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
surprisingly i thought it would be that way for me but ... no. 'my life' is actually way better even if i like the 'real love' single more than anything else she did
I still need to hear Share My World.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
imo only a heart of stone wouldn't have had to beat back an instant gleeful impulse for 411 - so many classic jams represented there (sprawled admittedly over 411, 411 remix, the odd 12, and time itself) but not necessarily a great listen-thru album the way it is a great cd or the seminal record of the 90s that it most probably is. and share my world is frequently excellent too, but all the same somehow never quite cumulates in that sense of magnificent abyssal totality that my life ends up leaving you with.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
oftentimes i tend to find myself imagining chucky thompson having had this huge crush on mary while he was making this album, is that weird? the utterly silent, sadly noble kind where he'd know putting an arm around her shoulder would only ever be an awkward, inadequate kind of gesture.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a vivid impression.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
if anyone fancies it that could also kind of have worked as a alternate universe ghost of christmas future for richcraft and amerie, if they'd stayed together forever.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
even though it was as usual only for the benefit of the delighted flute-clinking dinner party audience in soto's head this still kinda makes me laugh - just cos i wouldnt necessarily be mad at someone claiming my life was boring; it is sort of torpid in a profound way, i dunno.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
can't front like 411 has the monopoly on dope remixes either!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_F3YZCVXdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHFgw37eFDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrSrn9ABWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-J8Q9tP4E
(last one's the same beat but just s&w's "i shine, you shine, shine" on the intro is perfection)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a DJ on the radio here that plays the wessunalized "i love you" at least twice a week, never get tired of it
― the delighted flute-clinking dinner party audience in soto's head (some dude), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i propose we now take this moment of bad boy bathos to at last allow ourselves to bump this without shame, who's with me
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6117810199f80784/
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i couldn't place the song title (funny how 3 months fly by!) and so i was just kind of absent-mindedly bumping that and expecting Mary or some 90s girl group to come in after the Puffy verse and then noooo! CASSIEROLLED!
― the delighted flute-clinking dinner party audience in soto's head (some dude), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
She's headlining the Michael Jackson tribute concert in Vienna.
― anagram, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Brainwasher, you're right about Mary. Look for flowers in the mail.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:43 PM Bookmark
classic rtc post. still one of the funniest zings in the history of ilx.
― The Reverend, Monday, 6 September 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
eh, he's done better
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 September 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
not only did i lol @ that, i walked into another room to do something and starting loling all over again.
― zvookster, Monday, 6 September 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xp your view is obv not going to be impartial
― The Reverend, Monday, 6 September 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Naw. Never minded a good zing.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 September 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP dc raised producer Chucky Thompson at 53 from Covid complications. Also produced Chuck Brown and many others
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 August 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link