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This week is De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising. How good is it really?

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I’m unsure of what is the ā€˜proper’ track listing so I’ve gone for the original US vinyl release (and yes, I’ve included all the skits just in case one of those is somebody’s favourite track)

  • Intro
  • The Magic Number
  • Change In Speak
  • Cool Breeze On The Rocks
  • Can U Keep A Secret?
  • Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin’s Revenge)
  • Ghetto Thang
  • Transmitting Live From Mars
  • Eye Know
  • Take It Off
  • A Little Bit Of Soap
  • Tread Water
  • Potholes In My Lawn
  • Say No Go
  • Do As De La Does
  • Plug Tunin’ (Last Chance To Comprehend)
  • De La Orgee
  • Buddy
  • Description
  • Me Myself And I
  • This Is A Recording 4 Living In A Full Time Era (L.I.F.E.)
  • I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)
  • D.A.I.S.Y. Age

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Easy 10. Will go into it more later.

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I just hope that it not being on streaming won’t put off people who haven’t heard it checking it out.

Next week’s album:

  • Jeff Buckley - Grace
  • Anthrax - Among The Living
  • Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
  • Arcade Fire - Funeral
  • Love - Forever Changes

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Yeah, this is the best I could find on youtube:

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Hopefully, next week, DiS will be caught in a mosh :smiley:

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I’ve never heard 3 feet high so this will be interesting.

Eye Know is one of my favourite songs, reminds me of getting ready for school.

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I used to work for a TV station called TV3 and the would start and end every day with that 3 is the magic number song. I hate that song so much. It makes me stabby.
That’s all :smiley:

This, once a day in a job that almost destroyed me

first 10 of the series for me I think.
not even the skits can ruin it.

considered putting ā€œpotholes in my lawnā€ as top song, but wimped out and chose ā€œeye knowā€

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Gone for Joni to buck the maleness (and because I like her)

PleaseNotGracePleaseNotGracePleaseNotGrace…

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ā€œHi, I’m Mr Fishā€

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That’s an interesting choice for Joni Mitchell album - I don’t know her work that well but as a casual listener I would have assumed Blue or Hejira were the two obvious ones. Is this a personal favourite or is it better known than I realise? Not heard it myself so I’ve voted for it.

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Think you’ll really rate Hissing OctoB! It’s in equal parts both jazz-y and poppy with some top tier lyrics from Joni. A really wonderful record indeed.

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Pretty cool how these threads are always about the next thread.

Classic album, love everything about it. Me, Myself & I is probably the best tune but as it’s slightly overplayed I went for Buddy, which I love with all my heart.

Sorry for de-railing, I’m keeping my comments for this album until I’ve given it a full spin today!

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3 Feet High And Rising is absolutely fantastic. First impressions, when it came out was it was like a Zappa album, and that is still my overriding feeling about it. With this it took Hip Hop somewhere genuinely new. It still sounds fresh, love the skits. It is a little patchy so for me it’s a 9, but that is no criticism. A Classic album, if not an absolute stone cold Classic.

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Easy 10. Absolutely love it. Such a joy front to back.

Splashed out for the reissue so have been spinning my vinyl a few times recently.

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I can’t remember exactly but it’s definitely not personal preference because I’m unfamiliar with both Hissing Of Summer Lawns and Blue. I know when I was making the list of albums I started to bore myself with all the obvious choices so chose some less obvious ones for some artists. Maybe Joni Mitchell fell victim to that. I like the title as well so that probably swung it for me

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