Picked mine up at Long In The Tooth.
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1) standard 1CD edition @ 9.99
2) limited edition "fan package": 1CD + T-shirt with this design:
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you know that shirt will be an XL. i'm more a medium.

>1) standard 1CD edition @ 9.99
>2) limited edition "fan package": 1CD + T-shirt with this
>design:
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>THE HOME OF BOOK-NESS:
>http://www.thisisbooksmusic.com/
>http://twitter.com/thisisjohnbook
>http://www.facebook.com/book1
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Undun+-+CD/4119814.p?skuId=4119814&id=2327152

https://twitter.com/#!/tomhayes_sd/status/145298631900143616/photo/1

I want this

Been listening to the stream on non stop. LOVIN the album!

overstock? regardless, i'm getting this

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if so im goin to best buy tonight, if not gonna get the okp bundle

i'm disappointed cuz if i knew that i woulda just got the CD. plus, they only had XLs and I'm a L. The shirt is just gigantic on me, more like a 2XL. I should have saved the extra $10...then I see the store appears right after I get back and I coulda got that new shirt with the CD. Argh!

Rotation:
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
DJ Flash - Best of Phonte
Blu - NoYork!
Wilco - The Whole Love
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
DJ Breakem Off & Big K.R.I.T.-Last King 2
Trombone Shorty - For True

box that had the 10th anniversary part. This was done pre-shrinkwrapping.

Rotation:
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
DJ Flash - Best of Phonte
Blu - NoYork!
Wilco - The Whole Love
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
DJ Breakem Off & Big K.R.I.T.-Last King 2
Trombone Shorty - For True

the front pic is the caricature of quest on the drums. Not worth the extra $. I'd get the one from Okayplayer.

Rotation:
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
DJ Flash - Best of Phonte
Blu - NoYork!
Wilco - The Whole Love
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
DJ Breakem Off & Big K.R.I.T.-Last King 2
Trombone Shorty - For True

I think I'll get the OK one too, I'll keep the shirt and give the cd as an xmas present

The Roots albums are the only ones that I HAVE TO HAVE a hard copy of, and I don't know why

The nostalgia of reading the credits and such while I listen for the first few spins, maybe

which is weird since it says dec 6th on the release date....oh well. SHIT IS SO FUCKING DOPE. i have seriously listened to it 10 times already

EDIT by yesterday i mean friday lol damn its late/early...

this year.

This shit is all types of pure fire my nigga. 'Kool On' been on repeat
for two hrs. 'Kool On'>>>Otis btw... just sayin.

Lighthouse is undoubtedly my favorite Dice chorus ever. Nigga KILT that
shit.

This shit is a front to back banger. Not a gotdamn thing on here is
skippable.

Yall know I'm just bein silly with all these >>>>'s. I mean they true,
but ion't care bout all that.

>this year.
>
>This shit is all types of pure fire my nigga. 'Kool On' been
>on repeat
>for two hrs. 'Kool On'>>>Otis btw... just sayin.
>
>Lighthouse is undoubtedly my favorite Dice chorus ever. Nigga
>KILT that
>shit.
>
>This shit is a front to back banger. Not a gotdamn thing on
>here is
>skippable.
>
>Yall know I'm just bein silly with all these >>>>'s. I mean
>they true,
>but ion't care bout all that.

I'm sure they have it. not out on display until Tuesday. just ask at the counter. I get shit early all the time there.

BTW, you like Everybody's better than Shake It?

>BTW, you like Everybody's better than Shake It?

depends on what i'm looking for. alternative/rock i go with Shake It. Rap and R&B i go with Everybody's. I dig both stores though. just found Shake It about two years ago. been shopping at Everybody's since i moved here in 06'.

Still waiting for a vinyl release to be announced. Def Jam didn't release Ghost and Redman's albums on vinyl last year, nor did they put out Watch the Throne, so I'm a bit worried. One would think that Quest would insist on a vinyl release though..

Does anyone have some info on this?

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Def Jam is apparently pretty good about putting off vinyl releases.
You'd think with a band like The Roots they'd be hip to put it out on vinyl too.


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

week. I gotta check that episode again.

Rotation:
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
DJ Flash - Best of Phonte
Blu - NoYork!
Wilco - The Whole Love
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
DJ Breakem Off & Big K.R.I.T.-Last King 2
Trombone Shorty - For True

There are a few he features on the show that are actual vinyl pressings, but most covers are specially made. Best clue is when he puts the "cover" down and it's completely in black. The Steve Martin album they showed last night? That was an actual LP, and you could see that it had a gatefold sleeve.

"Album slicks" is the term record labels use when they would set up displays at record stores to promote the album. You might see a cardboard display or poster, or maybe a section with multiple album covers. It would be too costly to staple/Scotch tape actual album covers as a display, so they just print up "slicks" with the front cover. Most are tossed out, but a few are collectibles since a few labels in the late 90's (Universal) would press up vinyl but place them in generic covers, without making a sleeve. The "album slick" would be the only way you could have the album cover as a proper 12", instead of taking a picture and attempting to do it yourself.





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thanks for sharing your knowledge on this. I've noticed a couple of times that he has had full size covers for albums that weren't out on vinyl, this explains it.

On a related note: I was about to pick up a vinyl copy of Things Fall Apart, which is one of the few Roots albums I never got on vinyl (the other two being dywm and alive), however I noticed that the tracklisting for the US version does not list Act Fore (the end) contrary to the EU and Clean promo pressings. Do any of you know if it's on there, but just not listed, or if they actually omitted it from this pressing?

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Is J. Dilla on this? If so I'll see if my man will buy it for me. I thought their last few were going to be good, and they were.

Perhaps if he was we could go on a date or something. He could show me how he works the beat things and we could do something together. I don't know. He was just one of the best.

...copped yesterday, along with the Amy Winehouse and Robin Thicke!! Good Day for Great Music.

not in sac. FUCK.

band roll call
song credits
album credits
6 photos - the famous photo of the kids jumping on mattresses and 5 photos of what appears to be alleys in South Philly (I swear that second photo looks like this apartment building on Chestnut in Center City).


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

your sig? Everywhere I've ever checked says there's no evidence.

Did Freud say of the Irish "This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."?

This remark is discussed in the Oscar-winning movie 'The Departed'. However, there is no evidence Freud ever said it.

http://www.freud.org.uk/about/faq/

Movie writer's name should come after it.

Cant wait to listen.

dude is one of my favorite new rappers. been a fan since the Rising Down LP even though I know we won't get a solo effort.

iTunes leaked Friday.

Will be ordering the CD from Amazon today.

It's so damn good. All of it.

I dug Game Theory...I liked How I got Over...but THIS SHIT?!?

1st off...the brevity really plays into the ADD Ipod generation format that I am kinda victimized by.

2nd...the connectivity of it really takes you through. I we can all say "Kool On" is a favorite...but I couldn't even imagine taking that song out of the suite. I mean...maybe as a "See...the album is dope...listen to THIS!!!" type situation...but its a narrative and it should be consumed as a full-on animal a la "Here, My Dear"

3rd...where this album excels past its only similar offering..."A Prince Amongst Thieves"....is that the narrative is non-linear and implied. There is a genius there in that its not a movie you are going to watch and understand the full nature of. It actually reminds me of **shameless plug** me and tREBLEFREE'S album "THE BALLAD OF CJ MEMPHIS" in that it takes particular scenes from a larger object and weaves them together...but even in that...we kept the format more linear than this. I can honestly see myself listening to this album for years...and to say that for a Roots album in 2011 not late 90s-early 2000? That's a fucking accomplishment.

4th...the fucking music suites...the general orchestration...I've been waiting for a Roots album that would make both use of Thought's writing and the band's reputation...and this is it. You can REALLY tell that the Fallon show has helped to gel their sound and hone it in a way that incessant touring hasn't. I also like the fact that Thought is very understated in that he is tied to a larger narrative...so MC posturing and bravado is at a minimum...eliminating one of the greater cliches of this genre.

This shit is a knife. And its sharp.

I'm not going to sully my opinion of the album by trying to add a rating to it...but I'll say that this is easily a top 3 Roots Album of all time.

Just realized this is the first album he hasn't been on in 5 years. Shit is still dope!

I miss him on this one.

Damn, where is Peedi?

i don't know. Malik was kinda dry on Rising Down and the more i listen to Undun i don't think Peedi would've fit the tone of the album.

... and only that song. The rest is flawless.

before it was finally removed, i don't see that happening

said they were working on putting together something in another undun post.

iTunes and local store in Bristol today - no app yet though in the UK

Brilliant album - their best IMHO

It's in the stereo right now... amazing album.

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also came with a digital booklet so i'm not really missing anything by not getting the cd.

only $7.99 too!

on first listen this am was very very impressed, particularly with the music and the cohesiveness

Rotation:
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
DJ Flash - Best of Phonte
Blu - NoYork!
Wilco - The Whole Love
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
DJ Breakem Off & Big K.R.I.T.-Last King 2
Trombone Shorty - For True

at least the one on del ave. I was there last night in hopes to get the DEEE-LUX jawn early. I mean there is NOTHING even mentioning the album release in the store. Fucking pitiful.

C'omon Philly,with your same ol shit... isn't this story supposed to be about a character FROM philly. annoying.


...your Auntie Clarisse!

lurkin since 1999. werd.

I knew they had stock from checking the website and these fools couldn't find it anywhere. They even confirmed they had stock on their system. I found the damn album on a shelf in the very back aisle that no one could see.

Rotation:
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
DJ Flash - Best of Phonte
Blu - NoYork!
Wilco - The Whole Love
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
DJ Breakem Off & Big K.R.I.T.-Last King 2
Trombone Shorty - For True

* Still not a fan of the singing hooks, maybe mostly because I'm not a fan of the singers. Which isn't to say they aren't serviceable but The Roots have worked with singers. I imagine Bilal in more spots, Jill Scott on that one joint. The voices themselves would turn the whole thing around.

* Thought is exponentially better on the tracks featuring Greg Porn. And he still gets got on the one he drops that clunker about being the toast of the town like Thomas. But Stomp. Best verses all around.

* The instrumental bits stand out like a sore thumb. Nothing about them scream The Roots to me. They fit in with the whole cinematic feel, but they almost overstate it unnecessarily so.

* LMAO at them going 'out'. I mean I've seen something in that vein live but within a 'suite'. Kudos for that.

* Speaking of sound and design, the snare on Lighthouse. At first I was mad that it wasn't cracking (yo shout out for all the cracking drums on here though), but then I realized with the spaced out verb it created the sound of the ocean. Nice touch.
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"When the music stops he falls back into this abyss."

but..heading out shortly to best buy to get a physical copy.

the store is back http://store.okayplayer.com/

Dope track...this dude Porn impresses me once again. He did his thing on HIGO and killed this joint too.

I woulda bought the deluxe package from Best Buy but they all XL sizes.

first hip hop album i copped all year.

i only really copped it to keep up the collection on da real/

XL T-shirt included.
I wonder who makes the T-shirt size decision.
I found the Roots album together with Drake & Lil Wayne, Linkin Park albums with T-shirts included, and could not find one of them in a size XL. Does the marketing team base the decisionon the group target audience style preferences?
Smedium for the skinny jean crew
XL's for the 30+ set.

bonus.

...got it...impressive....

about to pop this disc in, oh boy

copped that and Friendly Fires AND heard the J. Period Best of The Roots mixtape. Rakim has the illest rhyme on there by the way.

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'OOhh, i luv it...yeahhh' (c) Minnie

for 14.99. I was hoping for another 9.99 album, but oh well, it's worth it.

Would've loved a t-shirt with it, but I dont wanna wait 2 weeks to go to a Best Buy for it, especially for an XL shirt.


But this album is great. it flows so perfectly. If you play it backwords, it's also seamless. it's def top 3 Roots album imo.

LMAO

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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

along with the black keys and amy

That's the move right there.

Wow! I paid 7.99 way to go amazon.

I listened to How I Got Over more than any other album in my life. I love that album and it has been my sound track for the last year and a half.

Just got Undun earlier tonight. Always buy the clean on iTunes so that I can play it in my classroom, then pick up the dirty hard copy later. On my third listen, and this shit has me at a loss for words. The music is beautiful. I'm looking forward to listening to this over the years and really digesting the lyrics.

Thanks to the Roots crew, you guys have provided the soundtrack to my life for 13 years.

Also copped the mp3 album from 7digital, was selling for the low low of $4; encoded at the highest mp3 bitrate (320k)...for that price how could I not?

... in the mail. The Kids love The Roots, so I gotta get the edited jawn so I can still blast while they in the car.

Flames!

Really liking Other Side and I Remember......
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-unknown

"To Each His Reach"
-George Clinton

iTunes and downloaded the iPhone App,

yesterday. Shit bangs in the car.

I hate live nation.

Picked mine up from the box office for $45 including service fee. :)

good to know

album is an automatic buy for me. I wanted to hear it all at once. haven't listened to it yet. Heard the first couple tracks, but I'm too tired too follow it right now.

Bumped it on the way home, way to work, and twice at work. This shit is really dope, but I'm still fully absorbing it.

As of now, I'd say my favorite tracks are "One Time," "Lighthouse" and "Kool On."

Regardless, job well done.

n/m

this definitely isnt gonna leave my car stereo for a long time.

...the 23.99 is going on the shelf unopened...listened to the record about 3 times today...

More impressed with him than any of the other guest features (K.R.I.T. got busy, though, too) in best capturing the mood of the album.

Anyway, scooped it up Tuesday @ BB, and the record has been on repeat in the stinkin Lincoln since then.

Shit is LIGHTYEARS ahead of HIGO.

bunch of old niggas on here

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'I love to watch him dance. It's almost like watching a cat clean itself or something.'(c) Drugs regarding Prince

Listening from the desk right now. I avoided leaks too. I just like the 'push play' experience for albums when I haven't already heard half of the album if I can pull that off. Especially with cats like the Roots who go out of their way to make a front-to-back jam.

I'm on Kool On...jamming of course.

And I'ma prolly Best Buy the deluxe for my mama (but I'm keeping the t-shirt!). She BE listening to the Roots stuff that I blessed her with. I know I'll be in there getting the car audio upgrade I have been putting off forever since I'm keeping the ride for 2 more years or until it dies (whichever happens first). Nav, touch-screen, USB, all of that. Might do some slight speaker upgrades too. May as well.

Jimaveli

>Picked mine up at Long In The Tooth.
>Support real hip hop at your local independent record store!
>
>
>"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which
>has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

i purposely avoided the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th videos and all the lyric posts so that "make my" would be the only song i knew the first time i played the album. that's how i like it.

so, 24-30k sold 1st week?

i know Jimmy Fallon said that the album was the 4th highest selling album the day after the record was released.

Wore the shirt at work later that night while I sold beer to high schoolers.


Yeah.

More than worth the $3.99 I paid for it. Lighthouse is my favorite track so far.

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Damn! I thought the numbers were gonna be better than this! I bought 2 cd/t-shirt bundles from the Okayplayer store myself. Disappointing for such a fresh album.

and that's with both of them having reputations and hits on the radio. so, seeing how the roots have no songs on radio, no videos, this is a great opening week

enjoyed it............. the end!

that's a good look for the fellas.

good job fellas!


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