Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Choson"][quote name="curst"]That goes for "Buhloone" as well, which as you rightly point out is slept on more than Select Comfort mattresses.[/quote] <a href="http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=959">http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=959</a> [quote name="from that link"]AllHipHop.com: Buhloone Mindstate is an amazing album. Ten years later, how do you feel about it now? Why do you think it's so slept on? Dave: Ummm, me personally, I hated Buhloone Mindstate. That was one album I did not like. AllHipHop.com: Why Not? Can you go into this a little further? Dave: I didn’t like the album because I think we were just a little too creative. And to me, you should never use the phrase ‘too creative’. But I think we took it a little too far. You know I think there was a big influence on us at the time from groups we were hanging out with. Like Tribe and so many others on the Jazz tip. I just felt it went a little to the left or who we were as people and what we were accustomed to at the time. Like some of the songs personally didn’t want to do. ‘Patty Duke’ [and] ‘Area Codes’ I didn’t want to do. AllHipHop.com: How about ‘Break A Dawn’? Dave: ‘Break A Dawn’ I hated as well. I didn’t want that to be the first single. That’s just me personally. [/quote] Trugoy hates "Buhloone Mindstate" -- along with Blur disowning "Modern Life Is Rubbish", what's next? McCartney wishing he never made Sergeant Pepper's? I think I'm a little disappointed because I always assumed Trugoy, of all De La, was the most creative and least interested in being straightforward. [quote name="curst"] 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. [/quote] Yeah, I got Bionix confused with Mosaic Thump. I actually was pretty content with Bionix. It wasn't the De La of old, and a bit more "mainstream", but I definitely listened to it a fair amount. A lot more than I've listened to Grind Date, at least. [quote name="curst"] "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. [/quote] Great track, but I guess it was underwhelming because it's actually more like a Ghostface remix (the original is on "the Lost Tapes"), with the chorus changed, and De La shoehorned in. I'm surprised you didn't mention "Shopping Bags", which I was reminded of when I went back to listen to the album again and which has that great shuffly-stutter beat. Probably the most memorable track to me after the lead off.[/quote]