if you started out with 'begone dull care' then you fucked up, the first 2 albums are both classix
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pleasant enough but I don't actually want to listen to it.
this is exactly how i feel about contra
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Contra is all about juxtaposition to me; it's them doing messy and orchestrated and glossy and raw and thick and thin in a really well-sequenced ebb and flow. S/T sounds like a bunch of cleaned-up demos that don't really have much to do with each other.
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
15. J DILLA Donuts (2006) [492 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://www.kelvingumbs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/donuts.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Yay Dilla!!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Although I didn't vote for it, huge regret.
BOOOOOM
― gman59, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck the haterz, i love that album
― hobbes, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
are there many donuts haterz?
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
well then
donuts is a cool listen, no idea how it made it this high tbh altho it makes sense since this list leans a bit beat heavy
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a great album tho
dan: vw flows perfectly to me, and their budget ruined their sound
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
but the biggest problem with contra is that the songwriting went from really fucking great to just kinda who gives
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I am thinking that there is some element of "which one did you hear first" at play here
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the rev is totally wrong about contra
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Anti-American Graffiti. Time: The Donut of the Heart. excellent
― gman59, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the songwriting on both VW and Contra is at a pretty comparable level, but something about the first album seems more "pssst, we're just some guys you know...listen to our songs" whereas Contra is more "PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WE MADE AN ALBUM FOR YOU!"
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
donuts is a legit surprise up here i think
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
there are great bits of melody even in songs like "run" which are in the template of their debut but aren't as good as stuff like "campus"
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Are we still talking about VW?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently!
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
donuts is fine to listen to, like, once i guess, but i'm not sure i could have mustered any lasting enthusiasm after even one play. but obviously a dead guy's beat tape must be better than any actual rappin-ass rap that got released in the past five years. i am actually surprised to see it here.
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the only junior boys i've is their latest album, which i'm falling asleep just thinking about
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:40 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
Lex is totally wrong about it too. The third album is not a bore at all. Really really good shit.
― rennavate, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, don't get me wrong, i don't hate contra at all, but i don't think i would have checked out more of their stuff if i had heard it first
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
xp no really, that's one of the most boring albums i have ever heard by anyone
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i lean towards agreeing w/rev on donuts, which i heard at the time but can't remember much about
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
14. STUDIO West Coast (2007) [517 points, 23 votes, 2 first place votes]
http://www.inf000.com/images/inf002_small.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Listened to that album for the first time yesterday and it renewed my faith in balearic.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
donuts isn't a rap album, shouldn't be looked upon as such. same goes for the field which is a fuckin shoegaze album, guys, not techno.
― hobbes, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost fuck yeah my #1
don't see how the field is not techno but ok
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Donuts, though I'm not sure how to go about convincing someone it's not "boring" if they've already decided that. I don't know, it came along at a time when my interest in hiphop had started to seriously decline due mostly to no longer feeling able to listen to lyrics I found hateful. I guess it being a "dead guy's beat tape" is at least partially why I liked it. There's a lot of love for all kinds of music in it.
― elephant rob, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Donuts is utterly fantastic.
Studio I've played a few times, like it well enough, but never caught the ILM love fever.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i prefer yearbook 1 cuz 'radio edit' is my favorite studio song
― Whiney G. Savagegarten (LOLK), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Listened to Donuts the other day. I like the idea of it, and it's perfectly pleasant, but I have a hard time understanding how someone could love it. Except for "Workinonit," which is assuredly great. I guess I'd just rather listen to Prefuse 73 or RJD2.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought Studio would be top 10, or even top 5. If I had bothered to rank my votes, it would have been my #1.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
xpostI like the simplicity of Donuts compared to Prefuse or RJ who are a little more prog-y imo (I don't mean that as a pejorative).
― elephant rob, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
never heard donuts or prefuse or any other "hip-hop beats" album--don't feel like i'm missing anything but i guess i could be?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
13. M.I.A. Arular (2005) [517.5 points, 17 votes]
http://www.tubafrenzy.org/weblog/archives/MIA_Arular.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
aw, would have been sweet had that hit the top 10
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
even if I still don't really like "Bingo" or "10 Dollar"
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh i've never really had any use for the beat tape subgenre at all
xp my #2! disappointed it's not in the top 10 and disappointed it's lower than fucking overrated-ass kala
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
will MIA have two top twenty albums?
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
AW SHIT
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
First couple Prefuse albums are still great.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
One Word Extinguisher >>>>>>>>>> Arular, in fact.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
So Kala is higher than Arular -- disagree but not vociferously.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
12. MIA - ^^^VVVVV
http://blog.oregonlive.com/ent_impact_dining/2008/10/large_truffle-fries.JPG
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link