yup, big/longtime Blur fan.

s/t and 13 are amazing records. Both brilliant in completely diff ways.

Modern Life Is Rubbish is way way up there as well for me. Think Tank was fair, but the lack of Graham was hugely hurting.

Agreed on the "britpop" thing.... I mean, fuh, their breakthru in the US was the s/t record which was itself pretty inspired by Graham's love of US indie rock anyway. And 13 is just something else altogether. So spacey and pretty.

Mang, these dudes sure had some depressing drama and unfortunately Phife comes across aa quite an asshole.. not that Tip didn't instigate that shit but clearly phife had a lot of issues ro resolve and decided to go for angst rather than resolution.

shit this documentary almost ruined tribe for me

Glad they more or less worked it all out

Its also weird how the love movement is totally my favorite Tribe record and its clearly their least favorite

didn't ruin anything for me, but def made them feel more human. I love Tribe so so much, and always wish that they'd finally decide to reunite for another album.

Love Movement is far from my favorite. But it's still a good album. Im' sure they hate it more for bitter memories - they were pretty much breaking up while recording it.

Love Movement is kinda like ATCQ's Let it Be.

Got nothing against it, but it was the end, and that sucked. I'm a Midnight Marauders guy, with a peculiarly strong affection for People's Instinctive Travels..., which is probably my second favorite.

Love Movement is probably better than Beats, Rhymes & Life. For me anyway.

Oh, heads up folks. This new Oddisee album is pretty damn good.



We don't talk about him (or Black Milk, or Blu or Open Mike or... Shit... ANY MellowMusicGroup acts) in this thread, like, at all, but despite hating Kanye West, he's a pretty consistently good producer and emcee. He's a pretty damn prolific figure in hip-hop, and I've enjoyed what I've heard over the years.

But his new album drops on May 5th. Listening to it now, and liking what I'm hearing. Give it a listen.

I just love the sound, flow, and feel of TLM its just such a prototypical 1998 record like Aquemini or DJ Quik Rhythmalism. For that to me it enters into the realm of "classic"..

I mean Find My Way.. Busta Bust.. Da Booty..Step It Up..Like it like that..

Earl just dropped a new 10 minute track.

http://pitchfork.com/news/59438-earl...leases-solace/

well it's more like 4 tracks combined into one. either way, this shit's nuts.

Surf is supposedly coming out this week!! FINALLY!!

Tribe studio albums for me go:


Midnight Marauders
Beats Rhymes & Life
The Low End Theory
People's Instinctive Travels
The Love Theory


now it should be noted that even the last album on the list is a great album. Tribe was the best. THE BEST!

agreed.

that Towkio tape is full of EDM joints. it's cool and the production is really good, but i expected more soulful songs like Heaven Only Knows and at last it turned out to be the best song on the tape.

i read that So Help Me God is meant to be "for the people" and has similar vibes to Graduation. which is great news for me. i need soul rap to make a comeback. maybe more rappers will get inspired by Kanye, Chance, Kendrick, etc to make music inspired by the roots of black music.

I love, love, love Graduation.

Graduation is so uniquely and singularly awesome. It's hard to even say why, but it just annihilates College Dropout and even LR. For a completely non-aggressive album, it sounds more authentic than anything else from its time. Just a perfect hip-hop album, with something for everyone and nothing that's too this or too that...

Ye's second best album.

I doubt anything will actually sound like Graduation. Like... ever. But I'm all for an album with a similar energy.

"Good Morning" is one of the most perfect opening songs of all time. Up there with "Teen Age Riot," "Sunday Morning," "Disorder" etc.

I was gonna post almost the same thing. That song is incredible.

Yeah. I can't imagine actually making a top ten list of Kanye songs... what an undertaking! ... But if I did, that's one I would most certainly include. Along with "Everything I am" and "Runaway" (of course).

"I Wonder".. WOW.

Black Messiah is still fucking epic. one of the best albums of the decade.