It's the MADLIB Complete Discography Poll: Lootpack, Quasimoto, Yesterdays New Quintet, Jaylib, Madvillain, DJ Rels, Sound Directions, Jackson Conti and more!

Boring vote ,but Madvillian

somehow my comma migrated

I'm about 90% sure that Madvillainy is gonna walk this. More interested to see what'll come below it.

Still love The Unseen most, though Blunted in the Bomb Shelter Mix was mighty tempting.

Madvillain is so so so so much spottier than 'Lib and and Doom's real albums. i'll never understand its cult

This one for me:
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas (2005)

i can't imagine listening to all that stuff. you'd have to pay me. a lot.

I've heard em all but 2!

you need professional help.

its not like i listen to them all in one sitting

also, i like madlib

do you know how many times i listened to 'Lectric Funk's "Shanghaied" today? the long version? which i can't seem to find on youtube. 6 times in a row today. which is something like 40+ minutes of my day. and then i came home and immediately looked for it on youtube so that i could hear it some more. am i crazy? it's possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emLf1rsRvcw

okay, i just watched that clip 3 times. i gotta stop.

The Jaylib album is one of the three best hip-hop albums made this decade, so that.

lootpack vs the unseen vs madvillainy

I've heard em all but 2!

Which two?

ha, the only two that didn't get serviced:

Madlib and Talib Kweli - Liberation (2007)
Madlib - The Other Side: Los Angeles (2007)

Quas's first album for sure.

although this deserves a special mention, considering it has three of my absolute favourite madlib breaks and as far as i remember, they aren't on any album:

http://assets.mog.com/pictures/0000/0010/9007/images/1216701581.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lihxn2bcd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbqlHNDXXAw

And I don't think Lonely Piano is on yoooooooutube.

Madvillain is so so so so much spottier than 'Lib and and Doom's real albums. i'll never understand its cult

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, June 19, 2009 11:13 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

no

champion sound

Unseen

no

― autogucci cru (deej), Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:27 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually, yeah.

i voted "shades of blue," but, well, i'm only familiar with 3-4 of his releases.

actually, the 2001 "live at chocolate city" set beats that - it's a free dl mp3 on his label's website.

what i wrote about "live at chocolate city" on my blog:

http://voguingtodanzig.blogspot.com/2009/05/991-madlib-live-at-chocolate-city-no.html

Gonna chew on this for a bit but probably Further Adventures or Madvillainy. Talk of the chocolate city set has got me listening to weather report, not sure how that decision is shaping up yet though.

actually, yeah.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mf doom challops of the worst kind. u really think 'mm food' & 'viktor vaugh 2' are >>>> madvillainy??

how do you tell the good stuff from the bad stuff? is there some sort of boredom scale that you use?

u sound like my dad talking about metal

u really think 'mm food' & 'viktor vaugh 2' are >>>> madvillainy??

fuck no. but DO think pre-villainy records like operation doomsday and Viktor Vaughn 1 and King Geedorah and and The Unseen and Jaylib are ALL better than Madvillain. And when indie-fuxxor blogger got their dicks in a knot over madvillainy it was some sad-bastard overcompensating late-pass shit like when all the big magazines gushed about The Eminem Show.

while it's the most obvious choice i just can't not vote for madvillainy. i have an ongoing argument with some friends over who's better madlib or j dilla, and my main reason for choosing madlib is that madvillainy is by far the best thing either of them have made. for the record champion sound would be second, then lootpack. and scott, what about madlib do you find boring?

also, scott, I know that one of the world's most inventive beatmakers alive isn't as engaging as BATHTUB SHITTER or whatever, but you don't have to keep reminding us

fuck no. but DO think pre-villainy records like operation doomsday and Viktor Vaughn 1 and King Geedorah and and The Unseen and Jaylib are ALL better than Madvillain. And when indie-fuxxor blogger got their dicks in a knot over madvillainy it was some sad-bastard overcompensating late-pass shit like when all the big magazines gushed about The Eminem Show.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

well, as someone who was down w/ doom since doomsday & thinks madvillainy is better than all those except doomsday, i disagree totally. & your concern over 'sad-bastard overcompensating' sounds ridic, what do u know, indie artist builds buzz over time, news at 11.

esp vs. jaylib, at least the rapping on madvillainy was competent

Soundpieces, no question. 1st Madlib I heard and still the best.

quit being a douche and go listen to some obscure buttscratch metal, scott

"and scott, what about madlib do you find boring?"

i'm done trolling. this is a fan thread. i'll let it be. i honestly hadn't thought of the guy in years until i saw this thread.

although now i'm tempted...

As a lolbritisher I have to mention that Operation Doomsday was given 5 stars in HHC (cos lol fuck the source; hhc only hiphop magazine who's opinion mattered) and treated as pretty much a cult classic over here.

So Madvillainy wasn't some new, just based on hype bullshit. Anyone who cared about hip-hop press over here had already fallen in love with doom or madlib long before madvillain; the album was just a combination of the many things to love about both of them instead of just being lol juggernauts of indie hiphop together. maybe if i weren't quite drunk I'd be able to say this better (and anyway, i voted champion sounds!)

Champion Sounds is totally the most British album title. Good job! Or, good on you! as those people seem to say.

one of the world's most inventive beatmakers

too much makin', not enough beats.

i like seeing threads like this though because i like knowing ilx is more lol-indie friendly than it lets on. it provides cover for all of our indie crushes.

well there's only a handful of people on this thread. and one of them is a hater.

Scott, may I ask out of pure curiosity which of these you've heard?

The Unseen for me.

Listened to Dilla's Donuts over the weekend. It's good but I'm almost convinced the Beat Konducta series does it one better. Not prepared to stick by that opinion in the long term... just saying.

simply don't understand the appeal of quasimoto. shit sounds like a joke

YNQ stuff can be pretty interesting but i haven't had much of a motivation to listen to it. same goes for 'shades of blue.' think i sold back a few of those albums.

madvilliany is great tho, but yea i'm not sure if it's better than other stuff like VV1, etc

have not heard any of the beat konducta series

simply don't understand the appeal of quasimoto.

really good beats. 2nd not as consistent tho.

went for 2nd quas album, could've gone for beat konduktah v1&2 or 5&6 though. definitely think king geedorah is better than madvillainy, which is still hells of strong.

uh yeah Geedorah>>>>Madvillain

imo

I'll rep for the Sound Directions album. By no means my favorite here but it's great and deserves at least a mention here. Pretty relaxed vibe all the way through, nice for late nights.

Anyone heard the Jackson Conti project?

Listened to Dilla's Donuts over the weekend. It's good but I'm almost convinced the Beat Konducta series does it one better. Not prepared to stick by that opinion in the long term... just saying.

I'm prepared to.

Jackson Conti = eh. I might've ripped a track or two, but not that hot.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Hhmmm...

voted unseen

had no fuckin clue what to vote for so went with gut

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

fittingly close

is it the bleh lyrics that causes that Lootpack album to be overlooked??

for real

h8 that kinda battle rap-for-the-sake-of-rapping rap

agreed but the beats are so good and consistent that who the fuck is listening to the lyrics!

but i'm the type to listen to a million "jah is the mighty ruler" reggae tracks and not give a fuck

uhhh the lyrics and vocal delivery on the lootpack album are top motherfucking notch. i would complain about champion sound not getting more votes but i didn't even vote for it so whatevah. i found the unseen pretty uninteresting, i guess i should go and listen again.

didn't know Wildchild's mom was on ilm. welcome!

so you guys are seriously saying that you don't like the rapping on this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_EK3uYTIN0

(whenimondamic starts at around 1:07)

thought that would be the track you would point to, if any. was the only one i could recall any good lines from. it's well done no doubt, but ian's complaint would still apply. mind you, it'd apply to about 85% of rap. not saying wildchild isn't a good mc from a tech standpoint, but shit gets boring esp over a full album.

lootpack rapping is so much better than champion sound rapping tho

i don't think ian's complaint is really valid. i've never not like an album because of lyrics content or theme. and as far as subject matters go, is "im-rich-im-the-best-i-fuck-alot-of-women-i sell-alot-of-drugs" really that much better than "non-freestylin-mc's-are-whack-i-dont-smoke-weed-madlib-makes-cool-beats"?

why would you rap over madlib beats if you don't smoke weed?

lootpack rapping is so much better than champion sound rapping tho

― zzz (deej), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 08:47 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

on a technical level sure, but good rapping is not hardly of champion sound imo

i don't think ian's complaint is really valid.

it his to him.

i've never not like an album because of lyrics content or theme.

me neither! well maybe some superextreme nerdrap. i voted for lootpack.

why would you rap over madlib beats if you don't smoke weed?

don't get him wrong, he likes the smell of it, but needing it and preferring it are 2 difft. things

Declaime's album and ep prob should've been on this

why would you rap over madlib beats if you don't smoke weed?

because you're sick of all that other shit?

simply don't understand the appeal of quasimoto. shit sounds like a joke

^^ what do you hate JOEKS?

Upping this topic for lack of a better place to ask a question on the DJ Rels album:

What would it get classified as?

I know very little about these electronic sub-sub-genres. Broken beat? Nujazz? Early dubstep?

Please enlighten me.

DJ Rels' Theme for a Broken Soul is perhaps the greatest leap from expectations. The album was inspired by, and in homage to, the West London scene responsible for the short lived “broken beat” scene. Depending on who you talk to DJ Rels & Theme for a Broken Soul is either Madlib's greatest work, his worst, or a pretty damn good experiment from a producer who refuses to do the same thing over and over again.

Thanks for c+p the last.fm bio.

that is from stonesthrow! what more do you want, a musicologist up in here?

Ahh, sorry.

I dunno. I just wanted to see a bit more discussion on the album because I've gone back to it in recent days.

fug me is that dj rels album the nuts.

excited for the Piñata follow up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo8Ls80pi0w

solid MadGibb album