I didn't want to put track # 2's because we're going to nix the intros ("It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back") and extended entrances ("The Coming").

The "middle child" position of the 2nd song on an album is a paradox. On one hand, you have to come down from the 1st song, which grabs your attention and also sets the tone for the rest of the album. On the other hand, it also starts the build-up to the mid-section of the album.

The second song holds the difficult position of being spectacularly "unspectacular". It's a simmer piece, but it's greatness also exists in it's own bubble.

There's a few obvious ones, but I'm going to throw some out there.

Public Enemy "Don't Believe The Hype" (from "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"). One of my favorite PE songs of all time, simply because Chuck was addressing different topics like the media, while still maintaining a straight lunchroom freestyle-like flow. This 2nd song represented a good body of the 1st half of this album.

Jeru The Damaja "Brooklyn Took It" (from "Sun Rises In the East"). This is a straight flow song, too. Every song on this album has it's own place and pocket, except this one...which gives it it's own place and pocket.

De La Soul "Peas Porridge" (from "De La Soul is Dead"). Technically track # 4, we have to exclude "Talkin Bout Hey Love" as a great interlude. "Pease Porridge" is the 2nd official song after "Oodles of O's", and it's one of my favorite De La moments out of all of their albums. It's funny, creative as hell, and much like my first two picks, they focused on personality and flowing.

Add on. I'd like to see some of these.

also, your boy Mike has a laundry list of kick ass #2s, "Rock With You" being probably the best of that lot

but i wanted to pick one that
wouldn't be so predictable coming from me.

i also intentionlly didn't put "billie jean"
in the 'bassy songs for the whip' post. lol


>also, your boy Mike has a laundry list of kick ass #2s, "Rock
>With You" being probably the best of that lot

Tribe - "Buggin' Out" on Low End Theory
Cypress Hill - "How I Could Just Kill a Man" on the first album
Gangstarr - "Code of the Streets" on Hard to Earn
GZA - "Duel of the Iron Mic" on Liquid Swords
Raekwon - "Knowledge God" on OBFCL
Dr. Dre - "Let Me Ride" on "Chronic"
EPMD - "Total Kaos" on Unfinished Business and "Nobody's Safe Chump" on Business Never Personal
Eric B. and Rakim - "Microphone Fiend" on Follow the Leader
Jungle Brothers - "Feelin' Alright" on Done By the Forces of Nature

>EPMD - "Total Kaos" on Unfinished Business and "Nobody's Safe
>Chump" on Business Never Personal

I heard "Total Kaos" in my head the second I read this. Beat kind of makes me laugh but that was a great EPMD song.

That was the main reason I ran, not walked, to buy this tape. I heard "Nobody's Safe" on a mix show and lost my shit. PERFECT 2nd cut.That song barely comes up when people even discuss that album.

I can't tell you the last time I listened to that album and didn't start with that song

I fucking LOVE Boondocks. One of my favorite album openers ever. Love Nobody's safe Chump but Boondocks makes me bang my fucking head.

That list is perfect in my eyes



#DopePost

"For Pete's Sake" and "Caramel City"

>"For Pete's Sake" and "Caramel City"

For me "Caramel City" is just part of the build up to "I Get Physical".


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it does set it up perfect to come back hard with 'Physical' too.

heat -- lwfc -- dopeness -- n/m.

peace.

one.

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Sly Stone: If You Want Me to Stay

Man!

That song is so DOPE!

"Something"--Abbey Road (Beatles)

Music of my Mind--"Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)"--(Stevie)

Ask Rufus--"Close The Door" (Chaka/Rufus)

Mothership Connection---"Mothership Connection (Star Child)"--P-Funk

1999---"Lil' Red Corvette" (Prince)

Off The Wall--"Rock with You" (MJ)

Criminal Minded---"South Bronx"--(BDP)(EDIT!!!!!!!!!)

King of Rock--"King of Rock"--(Run-DMC)

Midnight......---"Steve Biko" (Quest)

Aquemini---"Return of the G" (Dre and Big)

The Bends--"The Bends" (Radiohead)

Baduizm--"On and On" (Badu)

Late Graduation--"Touch the Sky" ('Ye...yeah... I know...it's song 3...But that first joint is just a skit-intro)

Fever To Tell--"Date With Night" (The Yeah, yeah, yeahs)

Matter of fact, #2 tracks were pretty flawless as well:

By Any Means - "Ya Slippin"
Ghetto Music - "Why is That?"
Edutainment - "Ya Know the Rules"
Sex and Violence - "Duck Down"

Throw in the early KRS albums too:

Return of the Boom-Bap - "Mortal Thought" ("Outta Here" was techincally the first track after the intro)
KRS-One - "De Automatic"

That's what I meant to say.....


lol

& hope you're doing okay

Good lookin out.

lol
That song could've been called "De La is Dead" because it really captured the crazy randomness that we were in store for.
It was both shocking (in a feel-good way) and hilarious.
Even introspective. I guess that was the point of that 2nd song.

As far as other albums?
Nine Inch Nails- "Pig" (from The Downward Spiral)
Ministry- "Just One Fix" (from Psalm 69)
Ween- "Dr. Rock" (from The Pod)
Mr. Bungle- "Chemical Marriage" (from Disco Volante)
Idiot Flesh- "Idiot Song" (from Fancy)
Beastie Boys- "Johnny Royale" (from PB)
Prince Paul- "Steady Slobbin" (does that count???)
KMD- "Sweet Premium Wine" (was that the 2nd song on Black Bastards?)

>KMD- "Sweet Premium Wine" (was that the 2nd song on Black
>Bastards?)

It's the third. "What a Niggy Know?" is the the second.

for some reason I always thought "What a Niggy Know" was immediately after the intro.
"he was a nigga yesturdaaaayuh. He was a nigga tudaaaaaaayuh. Annnd he's gonna be a nigga tommoruh!"

Goodie Mob - "Dirty South," Soul Food
Ice Cube - "My Summer Vacation," Death Certificate
Outkast - "Ain't No Thang," "ATLiens," "Rosa Parks," and "So Fresh, So Clean"
D-Nice - "Call Me D-Nice"
Gangstarr - "Flip the Script," Daily Operation
Chubb Rock - "Just the Two of Us," The One
Diamond D - "Sally's Got a One Track Mind," Stunts, Blunts, and Hip-Hop

Takeover- Jay Z
Proceed- Roots
i used to love H.E.R.- Com
think about it- Snoop
King of Rock- Run DMC
Visions- Stevie Wonder
777-9311- The Time
Ghetto life- Rick James
A Song For You- Donny Hathaway
That's the way of the world- EWF
rock with you- mike jackson
you bring me joy- anita baker
love like this- faith

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I didn't leave or take a break, per se. Just started concentrating on other things and 2 days away quickly turned to 2 weeks, etc...Twitter was 10x easier, so I've been there. I still communicate w/ OKP's and rattle-off my hip-hop musings and random dumbness.

Good to see you're still holding it down.

Eric B &Rakim-Mirophone fiend (GOAT second track in Hip-Hop IMO).
Entombed-Drowned (two of my favourite riffs in one ugly motherfucker of a song)
Showbiz&AG-Fat Pockets
Jimi Hendrix-Manic Deprssion (some of my favorite riffs of his)
The many Stevie Wonder-songs already mentioned-Superwoman in particular
Curtis Mayfield-Pusherman
Isaac Hayes-Hyperblahblah
Black Sabbath-the Wizard (FUCK YES THIS IS MY JAM!!!)
EPMD-Total Kaos, Hardcore
Stooges-I wanna Be your dog, Gimme Danger, Loose

Honestly, I never thought about my favourite second songs on an album and I mean that literally so this is perfunctory at best. I literally (¤Again)¤ need to look at my whole record-collection to make this thread justice...

Survival of the Fittest
Drop A Gem on Em
What's Your Poison
Get Away
Win or Lose
Put Em in the Place

Actually I'd say these guys are the kings of the 2nd song.

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Rock with you on Michael Jackson's off the Wall

All Night Long all Night Lionel B.Richie

"superwoman where were you when i needed you" Stevie WOnder

"that's the way of the world" Earth,Wind and Fire

In Bloom - Nirvana (Nevermind)
Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana (In Utero)
Bodies - Sex Pistols (Nevermind the bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols)
Bulls on parade - Rage against the Machine (Evil Empire)

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I like endorphinmachine much better than p control (which I'm not sure I like at all), and it's much more amped/energetic, but at the same time it's hard for me to imagine it as a first track.

Black Ice-Goodie Mob-Stand Still

badu - "didn't cha know"
isleys - "don't let me be lonely tonight"

good/great albums are gonna be sequenced well top to bottom. but these kind of stuck out to me at the moment.