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Re: 2004: The year in music. by curst 12/30/2004, 12:40pm PST
Choson wrote:

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."


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 to death 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.
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                        P.S. Fatty, he was TROLLING YOU NT by HEE-HEE 12/26/2004, 3:21am PST NEW
                            Or was he?!?! NT by Mysterio 12/26/2004, 4:02am PST NEW
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                            Actually, both those tokens are yours, but hold onto them, pogs are going to be NT by big on eBay soon! Kthor 12/27/2004, 12:26pm PST NEW
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                                        And fuck that quote tag. NT by Senor Barborito 12/27/2004, 12:53pm PST NEW
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                                            hahaha, way to get so mad you can't even type right, lardass NT by Kthor 12/27/2004, 1:43pm PST NEW
                                                At least I finish my posts the first time. BTW "hobo" is not what they mean NT by by "street". Kisses! ~SB~ 12/27/2004, 2:01pm PST NEW
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