>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.