It wasnāt this, but this article touches on it
Music Has The Right To Children has a similar quality but doesnāt sound dated imo.
Would put Entroducing in the category of āsounds like it was made when it did but doesnāt sound dated to these earsā. Possibly because so many artists have retread over the same ground since.
Hasnāt ever really clicked for me in the way it has for so many. I mean, itās good, but I donāt really see the massively heralded/classic status album side of things. Dunno if itās cause I listened to it later so donāt have any cultural appreciation of it, or what. Bit of a shame because by all accounts it should be so up my street, but alas, hasnāt happened.
I have the EXACT same feeling about both Endtroducing and Untrue and dark winter mornings. Thereās something about those albums and walking around in the dark, almost deserted streets in the early morning that just fits for me.
Endtroducing is a 10 for me, baffled at the idea that it sounds dated for some, as it still sounds so original to me.
I very much associate those two albums together and yep, you guessed it, both have a certain time-stamped feel for me. Itās worth noting though Iām not saying this means either of them are bad records now, they still definitely hold up, Iām just saying I donāt find them as revolutionary as they would have been at the time.
I think the fact that the Madlib Beat Konducta LP where he does an impression of J Dillaās Donuts probably ranks in my top 10 instrumental hip hop albums says a lot.
Yeah, of course. Iām far from a St Vincent expert but I thought it her last album that was regarded as her āclassicā?
One of the most underwhelming āclassicā albums Iāve heard in any genre. The very definition of a 4/10.
I dunno. Actor is definitely my personal fave!
Donāt think she really has an agreed upon classic, because they are all good and thereās a clear evolution across them, plus the last one split opinion. My favourite is self titled personally but then Strange Mercy is the mid-point that kind of bridges her two eras so far.
10
āDJ Shadowā is a swear word in our household. My wife uses it to describe any bit of music she doesnāt care for.
I went to see him play in Bristol a long long time ago. A friend let me down at the last minute and so I generously told my wife to accompany me instead. She hated it
Time to entroduce my son to it
Hmm, Iād say (for me at least) the ānostalgic atmosphereā it has was always of decades previous somewhere in the 40s, 50s or maybe 60s. While its genre is hip-hop the nature of the samples and the style of vocal stuff tends to feel like black and white movies and of a murky past that we have lost.
Thatās exactly what I was poorly alluding to. Itās nostalgic due to itās make-up rather than when it was made. Definitely conjures up thoughts of old lost cinema in my mind too.
Re-listening to it now, I canāt hear the sample in the track below without picturing it being spoken by the current Donald of the US. Like one of his more coherent speeches.
Straight 10. One of my all time favourite albums no question. Itās been 22 years since it first blew my mind, and Iāve never tired of hearing it since. An actual Masterpiece.
10 from me, I loved this album so much. I think this would make a good atmospheric trilogy next to Untrue and Kid A if it lands mid-table, though Iād have them all a little higher.
Really interests me that Stem/Long Stem isnāt top of the song list as I always felt like it had the biggest following back in the day.
Itās not much of a track on record but the dicking about with organ donor he did when I saw him in 2002 was the highlight of his show, really good fun. Must have been touring the Private Press but obviously all people wanted was Endtroducingā¦
The extended version on the High Noon EP is a bit meatier and much more interesting, I seem to recall.
Iāll be honest that Iād probably still take the High Noon EP over Endtroducingā¦ but EPs when theyāre good are always a bit special arenāt they?
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while I never really listened to the album as a whole before, some of my all-time favourite drum sounds are on here. If youād asked me if Iād ever heard Mutual Slum before I wouldnāt have been able to remember it, but as soon as that opening fill hits ā¦ ooft itās punchy