>I can name 7 out of 12 songs that I dare you to tell me they
>were bad songs...particularly when you juxtapose it to other
>HipHop records that dropped around that same time
>
>-Ferris Wheel featuring Vinia Mojica (the intro was DOPE!)

sux.

>-Soul Power

sux.

>-The Hustle

sux.

>-Come Close featuring Mary was a good record

sux mightily.

>-Star 69 featuring *Prince* and Bilal (Prince on a HipHop
>record?? that alone make it dope lol)

sux.

>-Between Me and You & Liberation the most progressive song Com
>has made imo (and Cee Lo is great on this record as he is
>always w/Common)

sux.

>-I am Music featuring Jill Scott I love this song...

cute.

>Now, if you can make a record that has 7 good songs on it then
>I would hardly say the cd "sucks." lol

that record sux, homie.

>>and it sucked b/c try as he might, Common (and his ppl) just
>>isn't good at making that type of music. it didn't sound
>>good.
>
>what??? you mean the same ppl who worked on 'Things Fall
>Apart'...Voodoo...'Mama's Gun'...'Like Water for
>Chocolate'...and '1st born 2nd' aren't good at making that
>type of music?

yup. they had several good/great ones in a row. then they laid this egg.

>but no one can tell me that HipHop listeners aren't the least
>most sophisticated listeners of ANY genre,

'least most', huh?

even moreso than
>hard core rock fans...it usually takes HipHop listeners a
>decade or two before they embrace something different in the
>music...and a group like 'Arrested Development' is a PERFECT
>example of that.

...AD sucked too. though 'Tennessee' is a classic.

>Remember how so called HipHop purists criticized them for
>SINGING on their records back in the early 90s because that
>wasn't considered "HipHop," nevermind the fact that they made
>good music, it was just most ppl were accustomed to hearing
>HipHop artists singing on records back then - fast forward
>10-12 yrs later and damn near every artist began singing on
>their records and they are still doing it to this very day.

i'm relatively well-versed in the musics in which Com dabbled on EC. so when i say that record sux, it's an informed opinion. it's not that i think the record sux b/c it has non-Hip-Hop references. far from that.

i just don't enjoy listening to Electric Circus as a whole. there are maybe 2 songs on it that i can sorta get into - 'I Am Music' and 'New Wave'. keyword: sorta.

again, i'm a fan of the Soulquarians style and several other albums they worked on back then. this is my least favorite of them all.