Terius "The-Dream" Nash Solo Albums + Major Writing/Production Credits (Electrik Red, Mariah Carey, Ciara)

my ranking looks something like--

Love King = Love Vs Money >>> Love/Hate = Basic Instinct = How to Be a Lady >>>>> Memoirs

sorry lex

first two are interchangeable for #1 depending on day/mood/etc.

― ilxor, Monday, January 17, 2011 10:25 PM (5 days ago)

i've played love king a ton this year but i prob played love vs money twice as much in 2009 and would admittedly choose it at gunpoint so

jaymc are you getting this?

lvm def more respectable than lk

Voted Love vs Money but was real close to picking Memoirs for fear it's getting shut out.

Love/Hate beats Love King solely on the fact that "Fast Car" = the Little Red Corvette of the 00s

I love "Fast Car" partly because of how much it reminds me of "Little Red Corvette" but it's ridiculous to equate it with "Little Red Corvette"

yeah

10.0/potential favorite albums ever:

1. love/hate
2. how to be a lady

9.5/10:

3. love vs. money

8.5/10:

4. love king

8.0/10:

5. basic instinct

7.0/10:

6. memoirs

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 17, 2011 3:27 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

this is more or less exactly what I got, cept I ain't heard Ciara yet

so bored of this guys presence on ilm yeesh

r u bored of bangers, sir?

just saying maybe the problem lies *within u*

it's ridiculous to equate it with Little Red Corvette in terms of impact for sure, given Prince's pop stature versus The-Dream's very moderate levels of success, but in this case I was strictly speaking sonically.

so bored of this guys presence on ilm yeesh

― plax (ico), Sunday, January 23, 2011 9:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ditto

so post in other threads then.

yeha more chillwave please

Love vs Money was the first Terius I heard so maybe that colours my view. Didn't hear L/H until after I'd heard Love King so at the moment it doesn't resonate with me as much as those other 2. Never felt the urge to listen to a Mariah Carey album, and didn't much care for the Ciara.

you know me so well, k3v, i clearly want more posts about chillwave and not other R&B artists.

uh i dont think he was spec. targeting u w/ that maybe

oh i know but it was still such a disingenuous zing

e. red

^^ someone who knows what's up

oh i know but it was k3vin keller

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ha -- i really had no idea how the results were gonna fall

these results are shockingly close to my opinion! lol vote-splitting begets justice.

kinda surprised e red won

I can't say I had heard of The-Dream before Love King (well a single or two). But if he's as good as posters here are saying, I really must delve deeper into his catalogue. I suppose this Electrik Red album is a good place to start!

Correct winner.

Yeah i voted e-red w/v little hesitation.

Poor cici :(

yeah first her career fell apart now this

haha

looooooooool

i'm now willing to admit that i have underrated the mariah album

someone tell ramzi

still think it's a bit weak at the middle & the very end but "the impossible" -> "the impossible (reprise)" is so pretty -- vocoders kill me

layin in the bed bumpin joedci etc

and "candy bling" is still one of the hardest hitting songs terius has ever written

also the use of interpolations on the album is unique in the dream discog & very effective across the album imo

if i'm reading the song right it's about a dead childhood love? he's never written anything else like that right?

unless the "doug e fresh 'all the way to heaven'" line is not as literal as i'm reading it

anyway this song kills me

song being "candy bling" obv

sorry for blogging

Memoirs drags mostly because of the non-Terius songs that were needlessly packed on. Cut those four or five tracks, and you've got a really smart, taut record.

Particularly hate how that desperate, Glee-ified Foreigner cover closes the album. It's like a vote of no confidence in all the songs that preceded it.

that's one of the most pleasant tracks on the whole album imo, the singer and the material clash badly throughout

i really don't have many complaints about memoirs at all, i like its languorous pace, i even think the cover - which is redundant in isolation - works really well as a conclusion to it all. i guess i don't care that much about "inseparable" or "angels cry", and "standing o" doesn't quite come off - wouldn't get rid of another track though.

j0rdan is right about "candy bling" too, devastating once you realise what it's about (and the way she murmurs that one line that tells you half to herself)

Still love "Ribbon," too. Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsyS7wi2D4

yeah "ribbon" was my pick too. evan r totally otm

Not on Def Jam anymore: http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/the-dream-announces-departure-from-def-jam/

Good for him.

one thing I didn't realize until just now is that August Alsina is signed to Def Jam via Radio Killa Records -- i wonder if The-Dream is just leaving Def Jam as an artist or if his imprint is no more too, which would be odd since he finally has an artist that's blowing up

all-tricky-&-dream nicole scherzinger record out next week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKA_DcgowVQ