The best beat in the record is in the track called 'Mind Terrorist' and Chuck D never goes in on it. The rest of the record, I don't know man, it's clearly anti-establishment but the song's ideas and delivery are dated. It's funny to see all them 90s and 91s distriubted in the tracklist, as if people don't know which tracks from the album to pretend to like.
Hit or miss, but Eminem is pretty much still a star, still engaging with his art. There's a ton of classics that come from this album. The runtime is what it is but in an Eminem record you don't have to necessarily expect simplicity, or bonus material. The whole thing is one big tower of ego.
Everyone thought it was going to be an incomplete album, and Kanye actually dropped a full length project where he is rapping and singing well. He may be a little goofy sometimes but the record is amazing considering the circumstances.
I loved it when he said "I'm the Joker baby!" and proceeded to joke all over the room.
Just a nice groove at first but later on the lyrics catch you off guard. The release of Zombie apparently made the government kill Kuti's mother and he talks about it with extreme sincerity.
Never in a million years better than MM..Food, Vaudeville Villain, Take Me to Your Leader. I loved Raid, Fancy Clown and some of the instrumental tracks but that's pretty much it, many of the other "songs" don't hold water. Obviously DOOM has a sharp pen but I think the concepts don't give much room for deep thought or analysis and it came out distorted and shy, in the sense that I don't feel like it shows me everything it could show me.
Tribe's best record from front to back. A little overlong with the last two tracks feeling like bonus material, but you have some of their most forward-thinking production in tracks like Rhythm and Can I Kick It? Also great storytelling in I Left My Wallet in El Segundo. Q-Tip is hilarious throughout the whole thing from Bonita Applebum to Ham 'n' Eggs.
Same old bull. I wouldn't consume this band even if I was one of its members.
More melodic than Veteran but still as flacid and post-ironic.
Confusing at first, but in hindsight there are many bops, and even a ballad like Naima that flourishes alone in the record.
Album of the year in 2017. Completely re-inventing his identity, Tyler established himself as the next great sentimental gentleman in hip hop following Mos Def, with great ballads like See You Again and Boredom, but hard hitting songs like Who Dat Boy and I Ain't Got Time! Even finishing with a beautiful instrumental track. This LP has it all.
One of them old Bowie records left that you should check out.
I guess the rhythm and melody aren't as compelling to require the whole 21 minute piece to be about it. Fela rambles about religion this time. It's groovy as always but a little meandering.
The greatest 38-minute concert you could ever get. Get it on vinyl and get it on CD, it's a classic.
Very solid. A bunch of great-sounding melodies in the vein of the Beatles but more advanced. Very playful as it expresses the best aspects of music developing as means of irony in the 1980s, like the cover art illustrates.
I've always enjoyed Nirvana but none of their records ever felt that pleasant of a discovery as whole pieces but rather just some tracks you enjoyed. It's a good album, the cover is iconic but after Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come as You Are it doesn't feel like one of the greatest albums of all time. I like Polly and Stay Away for their own reasons, but I don't love it as much as the prog rock community does.
Just a little more polished than the previous albums to fit into 1980s sensibilities, but after Start Me Up starts up the record most of the rest is not very memorable. I like Heaven and Tops, too. But Rolling Stones albums don't feel like a cohesive thing anymore. It feels like they're barely in the editing booth by this point.