It is important for a CD to have a to have a natural flow to it, and the sequencing of an album can sometimes make or break an album. Many praised ?uest's job of arranging tracks on Com's LWFC and we've heard him comment on his opinion on the mistakes made on Com's previous effort, "One Day...". So I was wondering which CD's sequence made you appreciate the method behind the exec producer's arrangement. Which "classic" or "near-classic" albums were not sequenced to your liking?
I'd have to say De La's "Buhloone Mind State" is sequenced well in my opinion. The theme is stated in the opening minutes and held throughout, the lead single in the middle ("Ego Trippin'", I hate when the singles are the first three songs), and the resurrection of an almost forgotten art (thanks to Rahzel and others) on the finale.
So what does everybody think? Share your opinions.
-1Mind
"I be the in 'cause the brother runnin' blocks is out" -Posdnuos, "Eye Patch"
3. "As I'm listening to it now..." In response to Reply # 0
Enter the 36 Chambers was some shit. Now I kinda see why Jef Lee jocks the Rza. This was some mess.
"Just don't cook my bread" -- Del
"We start a riot like Jamaicans over gas prices" -- A-Plus
May is FUCKIN offensive lyrics month: "Misses boo boo head, you never said it would be this way, so the jizzim I sprayed in your face! I never waste a drop, it plops down from ya chin, ya done again! -- Del tha Funky!
"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.
Ten banging cuts (nine if you don't include the Genesis intro) that flow seamlessly from beginning till end. And no bad skits or filler tracks-a truly great achievement for a nineties hip-hop record.
from the cafeteria beginning to the bringing back the cafeteria rhyme at the end, throw in the "I have no idea what it takes to be a good mc skits" with him showing you in each song. Totally well thought out n put together.
Things Fall Apart also sounds like a straight story being told all the way through how each song kinda starts where the last one left off.
"Im only 19 but my mind is older"- Prodigy
"I got the bling. I got the bling AND the bling dammit"- random dumbass on a drag-on interlude
CELEBRATING APRIL AS WACK QUOTES MONTH ON OKAYPLAYER.COM
"Thats that shit that Im talkin bout n shit, same niggas that you fuck with fuckin with them niggas that you dont fuck with"- Nore
"Snoop Deezy's off the heezy so make mine extra cheesy"- Guess who?
"Bitch nigga, you more of a bitch than a bitch"- kurupt on dre's "xplosive" (thanks jahbryll)
"My dunns moved from the slums but you cant take the slums out my dunns"- Prodigy
Outkast's ATLiens, Tribe's Midnight, Jay's "Reasonable Doubt" (minus "Ain't No Nigga), SMif 'n' Wessun's "Dah Shinnin", D' "Brown Sugar"...just to name a couple...
I meant to post this when LWFC and got lazy. Good job.
I'd start off with Stevie's Innervisions and Prince's Sign of the Times.
__________________ What's Nesta listening to these days:
Donny Hathaway - In Performance Fela Kuti - YTellow Fever/Na Poi Ghostface - Surpreme Clientele Bashir Shakur aka Me'shell NdegéOcello - Live at Luna Park, CA Dead Prez - Let's Get Free!
*** "I think Brett Favre basically is a selfish guy, Brett Favre goes out there with his gray hair, his Wranglers and gets up when he gets hit. I understand why people like that. But there's another side. He's a selfish guy." - Teddy Atlas
13. "hmm... lemmme see...." In response to Reply # 12
the albums that come to mind for me are.... chante moore- love supreme lauryn hill- the mis...... built 4 cuban links- raekwon liquid sword- GZA embrya- maxwell love jones sdtk. soundbombing 2 all the roots albums... especially TFA.... black on both sides- mos def...
" i aint buyin these women no mo drinks at the club..." -changa bey "yawls gon believe fat meat is greasy one day... watch.... "- mom dukes.... "boy don't you know i'll whoop yo ass...." - me "girl... these fries taste like eggrolls.... yep... eggrolls....."- Pauline Victoria
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TFA - Roots Bitter - Me'shell (Come on y'all) Marvin - Here, My Dear Marvin - Trouble Man
__________________ What's Nesta listening to these days:
Donny Hathaway - In Performance Fela Kuti - YTellow Fever/Na Poi Ghostface - Surpreme Clientele Bashir Shakur aka Me'shell NdegéOcello - Live at Luna Park, CA Dead Prez - Let's Get Free!
*** "I think Brett Favre basically is a selfish guy, Brett Favre goes out there with his gray hair, his Wranglers and gets up when he gets hit. I understand why people like that. But there's another side. He's a selfish guy." - Teddy Atlas
15. "I can think of a few old ones" In response to Reply # 0
Prince - Sign O' The Times Stevie - Innervisions Sly - There's A Riot Goin On The Beatles - Abbey Road...I came across a cassette version that has "Come Together" and "Here Comes the Sun" switch places. Personally, I like having the album start off with "Here Comes the Sun" - it's a nice and pleasant way to kick things off. Plus, "Come Together" packs quite a punch coming at the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
"You a grow tired fe see me face/ Can't get me out of the race" -Bob Marley, "Bad Card" (1980)
"My only weapon is my pen/ And the frame of mind I'm in/ I'm a songwriter, a poet" -Sly and the Family Stone "Poet" (1971)
Prince Among Thieves has to be added...but what about Handsome Boy Modeling School? Pretty dope that all the different styles of music are able to flow into each other.
"Just don't cook my bread" -- Del
"We start a riot like Jamaicans over gas prices" -- A-Plus
May is FUCKIN offensive lyrics month: "Misses boo boo head, you never said it would be this way, so the jizzim I sprayed in your face! I never waste a drop, it plops down from ya chin, ya done again! -- Del tha Funky!
"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.
"book of human language" read or "listened" like a sequenced novel. chapters, prologue, epilogue, etc.
but the best is:
"what's going on" marvin gaye -- the first side was like one big, non-stop song. if y'all get the chance, read how it was done. this was before digital editors, so the tape had to be cut perfectly and blended. i love that cymbal right before "flying high..."
20. "RE: Best sequenced albums...." In response to Reply # 0
while listening today, another one...
"Fear of a Black Planet"
Especially how the instrumentals are fit in. I mean, it's hard to find problems with this album, you could nominate it for a lot, but I think it fits here.
DMC
"I think LL Cool J and Canibus are both fantastic!" - MC Paul Barman
"They need to make it legal, before I start barking like a beagle" - Black Attack(For Trooper)
"The greatest feeling I ever had in my life--with my clothes on--was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St. Louis." - Miles Davis
CELEBRATING MAY AS OFFENSIVE QUOTE MONTH ON OKAYPLAYER.COM -- "My new album is Flo-Jo's heart, watch it blow up" - Chino XL
"The incredible, hetero-sexual, credible, beg a hoe, let it go, dick ain't edible" - Ice Cube
"Who Said I drink? I don't drink I guzzle" - Subroc
Few moments "...diggy dang diggy dang a dang a dang diggy diggy" RIGHT INTO butter, it sounded ill.
whcih went into verses from the abstract and then the transition from what to scenario was hot too.
"Im only 19 but my mind is older"- Prodigy
"walk through shaolin after dark you'll get stuck up, you know my steez baddest boy when Im puffed up"- Meth
"because if you're not there....I'll kick somebodys ass and TELL them that their gonna be named atruhead for the weekend" - Naz's reaction to my possibly not making it
Offensive quotes
1)"Im down for runnin up on them crackas in they city hall"- dead prez
2)"BURGER" (various okayfellas)- I take no offense to this, ladies may
3)"Y-tees cant sell on the corner of bushwick, y-tees cant sell on the corner of bed stuy"- The chubbsta from crooklyn dodgers pt. 2
It has long been my opinion that Paul's Boutique by the Beasties is as close to a perfect album as it gets, and this is due, in large part, to its genius sequencing. Word.
--Spark
"Do you think I'm gonna grab the mic and waste my nation's time?" -- KRS-ONE
30. "RE: four considerations" In response to Reply # 27
> >LED ZEPPELIN "II" (flawless flow) >> word!
I love it when it goes right from the cut off of Heartbreaker into She's Just A Woman..wow, it's been way too long since I listened to that album. i've been playing Physical Graffiti a lot latley and nothing else..
"how many hours in a day? 24. that's 2 + 4 = 6. how many minutes in an hour? 60. 6 + 0 = 6. then you got 60 seconds in a minute. that's 6 + 0 again, so you gotta another 6. 666, know what I'm sayin'? time is an illusion invented by the devil George Bush and the CIA. I'm gonna expose him on the next album" -ODB
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