Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="curst"][quote name="Choson"]You really think "Grind Date" surpasses "De La Soul Is Dead"? WHY? I found it less consistent than whichever AOI album had "Oooh" on it (Mosaic Thump? I can never remember). There are a few good tracks (I can listen to "The Future" on loop), but it's woefully unmemorable to me. On a related note, "Buhloone Mindstate" is the one De La album that I can't do without. Completely slept on by a lot of De La fans, but I still consider it their best album. "It might blow up but it won't go pop."[/quote] Actually, I'm not sure that I like it more. My saying that might be hyperbole stemming from me burning out on "...Is Dead" after having played it <i>to death</i> over the years. That goes for "Buhloone" as well, which as you rightly point out is slept on more than Select Comfort mattresses. Then I was mostly underwhelmed by "Stakes" and the AOI albums (I remember Bionix being awesome in parts and dull in others, whereas Mosaic Thump never really took off the ground for me). So now that I've got a new De La album I can play practically nonstop, I might be going overboard in expressing my love for it. "The Future" is vintage fuzzy warm-feeling De La stuff. "Verbal Clap" is a great throwback track. "Much More" is pretty good. Oddly, the MF Doom-produced track bores me so I skip it, whatever it's called. The title track is excellent. "Church" crescendos so beautifully, holy fucking shit. Then there's one or two blah tracks. "He Comes" both A: rocks and B: has Ghostface rocking shit, which means it rocks to the trillionth power because right now Ghostface is my favorite MC in the entire business. The track with Flavor Flav has, um, Flavor Flav, so it is great by default (it helps that he's in a hype-man role instead of actually trying to rhyme - Flav hasn't done a good rap in years). "No" is more vintage awesome De La. "Rock Co Kane Flow" with MF Doom is not amazing or anything, but Doom is always nice on the mic and the beat's a lot better than the other song he produced here. In short - positive! I remember thinking the same way, basically, about "...Is Dead" and "Buhloone", and maybe "3 Feet" to a lesser extent. A handful of tracks I skip, plenty of really good songs, and always one or two classics.[/quote]