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"Most Played Albums"


  

          

What albums have you burned out playing them front to back time after time?

These albums may not be the best (i.e. Illmatic, Takes A Nation, etc.) but for whatever reason you were always drawn to them and constantly played them.

  

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I get such joy out of Weezer's Pinkerton
Sep 26th 2018
1
somewhat cronological as far as when I started listening on repeat
Sep 26th 2018
2
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
Sep 26th 2018
3
top 5 probably....
Sep 26th 2018
4
blackalicious - blazing arrow
Sep 26th 2018
5
Quality Control I still listen to semi-regularly.
Sep 26th 2018
7
      blazing arrow was my introduction so it will hold a special spot
Sep 26th 2018
8
           Totally hear you. Nostalgia is powerful when it comes to music.
Sep 26th 2018
10
                i think quality control was my first "underground" purchase
Sep 26th 2018
11
Too many to list
Sep 26th 2018
6
ones that immechily (c)Bernie Mac come to mind...
Sep 26th 2018
9
Definitely an underrated album
Sep 26th 2018
12
First ones to come to mind....
Sep 26th 2018
13
Roy Ayers ‎– Evolution (The Polydor Anthology) CD 2
Sep 26th 2018
14
Bashin - The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith
Sep 28th 2018
23
I'mma just do hiphop
Sep 26th 2018
15
As I go thru the years in Hip-Hop...
Sep 26th 2018
16
Dah Shinin’ - Smith & Wesson
Sep 27th 2018
17
DYWM - Roots
Sep 27th 2018
18
Once I buy an album, it usually stays in rotation for a long time.
Sep 27th 2018
19
DAMN is probably the most recent that has stayed on repeat
Sep 27th 2018
20
      RE: DAMN is probably the most recent that has stayed on repeat
Sep 28th 2018
24
Dizzy Gillespie - Jambo Caribe
Sep 27th 2018
21
I like the year by year thing you did.
Sep 27th 2018
22
Common "LWFC"...
Sep 28th 2018
25
Great take on LWFC.
Sep 29th 2018
27
I'm trying the year by year thing a little
Sep 28th 2018
26
chronologically
Sep 30th 2018
28
Hm yea I forgot Below the Heavens and Hip Hop is Dead.
Oct 01st 2018
29
      i looooved Hip Hop is Dead at the time
Oct 01st 2018
30
           I still love HHID *shrugs*
Oct 01st 2018
32
We Got it For Cheap Vol. 2
Oct 01st 2018
31
Year by Year
Feb 22nd 2021
33
What's Going On
Feb 23rd 2021
34
Update, cause I think this joint is masterful...
Feb 23rd 2021
35

adg87
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1. "I get such joy out of Weezer's Pinkerton"
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It's just such a singable album, that my mood instantly swings up whenever it's cued up. One of my all time favorite albums of any genre.

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2. "somewhat cronological as far as when I started listening on repeat"
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Wed Sep-26-18 09:16 AM by c71

  

          

Prince - Purple rain (when it was released in 84)

Kurtis Blow - America (around 1985)

The Fat Boys - Big and beautiful (around 1986)

Nevermind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols (around 1987)

Black Flag - damaged (around 1988)

Kool G Rap and Polo - road to the riches
Eric B and Rakim - follow the leader
Three Times Dope - original stylin'
MC Rell & the Houserockers - into the future

Sly & The Family Stone - There's a riot goin' on
Band of Gypsies
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Fishbone - in your face
Fishbone - Truth and soul
X-Clan - to the east blackwards
D-xtreme - the truth shall be told

The UMC's - Fruits of nature
Fishbone - The reality of my surroundings

Nirvana - incesticide

Jean-Paul Bourelly - trippin'

Nirvana - in utero

The Amps - Pacer
Bad Brains - God of love
The Flaming Lips - clouds taste metallic
Juliana Hatfield - only everything

The Cardigans - first band on the moon

Jonathan Fire*Eater - wolf songs for lambs
Mulu - smiles like a shark

Fugazi - end hits

Q-Tip - amplified

Ohio Players - Ecstasy
Ohio Players - Fire
Ohio Players - honey
Ohio Players - Contradiction
Ohio Players - Angel
Ohio Players - Mr. Mean
(only had Skin Tight on vinyl - so I didn't repeatedly listen to Skin Tight - these others I have on tape and CD)

Parliament - up for the downstroke (I bought this on CD probably in 89 but listened to the tape format repeatedly around late 90's and again in the 2010's)

  

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3. "Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother"
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Said it on here a few times: that cassette stayed in my car's tape deck from the last of junior year of high school in early June until, I don't know, maybe July?

A couple of others I can think of off the top:

Beatnuts - Both Intoxicated Demons and Street Level
Esoteric - Esoteric Vs. Japan
Mr Lif. - I, Phantom
Willie Evans, Jr. - Introducin'
Run the Jewels 1 & 2

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4. "top 5 probably...."
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Goin Off'
3ft High & Rising
De La Soul IS Dead
Low End Theory
Runaway Slave



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5. "blackalicious - blazing arrow"
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not sure i have played it out but i probably have played it more than any other album. love the experience of listening to that album and most of the songs are great on their own.

3 feet high and rising is another. atlantis is one too.

quality control and power in numbers got plenty of spins when they came out. not so much now. its rare for me to go back to most albums and listen in full more than 3 times. i will at minimum skip skits.

cant remember the last time an album came out that i felt it needed to be listened to in full repeatedly. i will always listen to albums in full the first time but dont know any recent ones that make me want to go back to the full album.

  

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7. "Quality Control I still listen to semi-regularly."
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That album is FULL of nostalgia.

Blazing Arrow is damn good but I played Nia way more.

PRhyme is the most recent album I wore the fuck out. I didn't stop listening to that for like 10 straight months after it was first released.


>not sure i have played it out but i probably have played it
>more than any other album. love the experience of listening to
>that album and most of the songs are great on their own.
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>3 feet high and rising is another. atlantis is one too.
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>quality control and power in numbers got plenty of spins when
>they came out. not so much now. its rare for me to go back to
>most albums and listen in full more than 3 times. i will at
>minimum skip skits.
>
>cant remember the last time an album came out that i felt it
>needed to be listened to in full repeatedly. i will always
>listen to albums in full the first time but dont know any
>recent ones that make me want to go back to the full album.

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8. "blazing arrow was my introduction so it will hold a special spot"
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i know nia vs blazing arrow is a debate but im strongly in the BA camp. that album was my college freshman year theme music. i would listen to it almost daily from morning to evening between breaks in classes. the album was perfect for starting in the morning and finishing at sun down.

if i was upset or down it was in awesome album to get me in a great mood.

quality control is mostly great songs but its not a full album experience, its more of a collection of songs compared to blazing arrow. i thought power in numbers was more of an experience but overall not as great track to track. i might need to go on a J5 fix soon.

  

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10. "Totally hear you. Nostalgia is powerful when it comes to music."
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It transports you right back to the time/place you listened to it. It's kind of amazing. Kinda washes over you. I think the curiosity and innocence/naivety of youth plays a part in that nostalgia as well, in terms of all the unknowns and how music helps you through some of the anxiety. So those fixture albums from times like those are always special to us.

Funnily enough Quality Control holds that sort of nostalgic position with me, along with several others of course. But I vividly recall buying that album when out visiting my aunt, uncle and their kids in California with my cousin when we were in high school. It has just dropped and I was super excited to get my hands on it. The first couple notes of the title song will always transport me right to the back seat of my aunt's car, when I remember reading the liner notes and both she and my cousin were asking me "what the hell kinda name is Jurassic 5 ?!" haha.

And the hip-hop purity of that album was such a throwback, it stayed in rotation for a long time. It's not a perfect album by any means, and as you touched on it may not even be their best or most consistent front to back ... but it's def my favorite.

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11. "i think quality control was my first "underground" purchase"
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i was a j5 stan once i was put on. they were my favorite group for a good 5 years.

dont remember which video i saw on tv but i was set on this was gonna be my jam and ordered it on columbia house or whatever those cd catalogs were lol

i was listening to quality control, jay-z vol 3 and cypress stoned raiders back to back my senior year in HS. the summer after graduating HS was when i went full into backpack mode. quality control definitely holds a special place in my heart.

might be in my personal top 10. not necessarily one of the 10 best albums but top 10 that impacted me. just a great fun album.

  

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6. "Too many to list"
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John Coltrane:
A Love Supreme
Impressions

Keith Jarrett:
Koln Concert
Facing You

Tony Williams Lifetime:
Emergency

Sun Ra:
Lanquidity

Fela Kati:
Expensive Shit

Jimi Hendrix:
Blues
Band Of Gypsys (Live)

John McLaughlin:
Love Devotion Surrender

Joe Henderson:
Double Rainbow

Pharoah Sanders:
Summun, Bukmun, Umyun

Alice Coltrane:
Journey in Satchidananda

Dorothy Ashby:
Afro-Harping

Ornette Coleman:
Skies of America

Too many more to list.

  

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9. "ones that immechily (c)Bernie Mac come to mind..."
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Lupe - Tetsuo and Youth
Kieth Murray - Enigma
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
Tanya Morgan - Rubber Souls
SO many more, though

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12. "Definitely an underrated album"
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>Kieth Murray - Enigma

  

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13. "First ones to come to mind...."
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Little Brother - The Listening, The Minstrel Show
Pete and CL - Main Ingredient
Tribe- Low End Theory
Phonte - Charity Starts at Home
Big KRIT - Return of 4Eva, 4EvaNaDay
OutKast - ATLiens
Nas - Illmatic, It Was Written
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
The Roots - Things Fall Apart, Do You Want More??!!

  

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14. "Roy Ayers ‎– Evolution (The Polydor Anthology) CD 2"
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no diss to cd 1, LOL

ATLiens and Illadelphalflife, got to the point where I don't need to play them anymore, they live in my head.

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23. "Bashin - The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith"
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I stole this album from my pops when I was like 12y.o.

I still play old cowhand to this day...always puts a smile on my face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dCZswulOZI

Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders
Buhloone Mindstate

I can remember letting those rock for months in the walkman

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15. "I'mma just do hiphop"
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to name a few....

Labcabincalifornia
Stakes Is High
Gravity
The Main Ingredient
Chronic
Dirty30
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Things Fall Apart
O.S.T. (puts)
Low End Theory
Midnight Marauders
Jazzmatazz vol 1



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16. "As I go thru the years in Hip-Hop..."
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94 - The Main Ingredient
95 - Cuban Linx
96 - ATLiens
97 - Jewelz
98 - 40 Days & 40 Nightz
99 - Things Fall Apart
00 - Like Water For Chocolate
02 - The Lost Tapes
06 - Game Theory
09 - The Ecstatic
12 - Trophies
15 - Tetseu & Youth
16 - The Impossible Kid

I’m not saying there weren’t others that got played out, especially for those 94-98 years but these were always the ones that drew me in the most for whatever reason.

  

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17. "Dah Shinin’ - Smith &amp; Wesson"
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Beatminerz soundscape is addictive. Tek and Steel rhymes fit production like a glove.

Breaking Atoms - Main Source. Large Pro help shaped my ear for hip hop
Mecca and the Soul Brother - Overwhelmed by Pete Rock’s production also an Architect

Step in the Arena - Daily Operation - Hard to Earn - Premodented my Brain

Paid in Full - Rakim nuff said

Low End Theory & Mauraders - actively paced myself to not run these into the ground
Baloon Mindstate, Stakes, Anonymous Nobody - De La’s shit almost wills it’s way. Never get tired off any of these.

Labcabin - Realized Dilla was an Alien

Liquid Swords - GZA & RZA made me feel bullit proof - got me through winter in the Chi

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18. "DYWM - Roots "
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Drums Drums & overall rhythmic arrangement. Really contemplated becoming a drummer off this joint

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19. "Once I buy an album, it usually stays in rotation for a long time."
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That being said, this is a halfway chronological list (thanks to my media player on my laptop)

I went overboard here but it was cool to stroll back down Memory Lane.

Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
The Chronic - Dr. Dre
Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. - 2Pac
Kill at Will - Ice Cube
The Low End Theory - Tribe
Midnight Marauders - Tribe
Sunset Park Soundtrack - Various
Tical - Method Man
Murder Was the Case Soundtrack - Death Row
Down With the King - Run DMC
Da Bomb - Kris Kross
Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu Tang Clan
Dare iz a Darkside - Redman
5 - Lenny Kravitz
Vegas - The Crystal Method
Decksdrumsandrockandroll - Propellerheads
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers
The Fat of the Land - Prodigy
Shelter - Brand New Heavies
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Better Live Through - Fatboy Slim
Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers
We've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis
Sketches in Spain - Miles Davis
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
illadelph halflife - The Roots
Wu-Tang Forever - Wu Tang Clan
The Coming - Busta Rhymes
Word...Life - OC
Muddy Waters - Redman
Lethal Injection - Ice Cube
Baduism - Erykah Badu
Mr. Smith - LL Cool J
Beats, Rhymes, and Life - Tribe
It Was Written - Nas
illmatic - Nas
Conspiracy - Junior MAFIA
Dogg Food - Da Dogg Pound
Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Stikes Black - Public Enemy
Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
Evil Empire - RATM
Homogenic - Bjork
Debut - Bjork
Rid of Me - PJ Harvey
Angles with Dirty Faces - Tricky
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Dr. Dre Presents The Aftermath - Various
Mecca and the Soul Brother - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
ATLiens - OutKast
Things Fall Apart - The Roots
Aquemini - OutKast
Nevermind - Nirvana
Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
Yield - Pearl Jam
Black Star - Black Star
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
New Forms - Roni Size
So, How's Your Girl - Handsome Boy Modeling School
Stakes is High - De la Soul
Labcabincalifornia - The Pharcyde
Bizarre Ride II - The Pharcyde
Surrender - The Chemical Brothers
Buhloone Mindstate - De la Soul
The 18th Letter - Rakim
The Love Movement - A Tribe Called Quest
Star Wars Soundrack
Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack
Return of the Jedi Soundtrack
Speed Soundtrack
Saving Private Ryan Soundtrack
The Matrix Soundtrack
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
OK Computer - Radiohead
Quality Control - Jurassic 5
Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
2001 - Dr. Dre
Amplified - Q-Tip
Supermodified - Amon Tobin
Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
Psyence Fiction - UNKLE
Breath from Another - Esthero
Still Standing - Goodie MOB
40 Dayz & 40 Nightz - Xzibit
Moon Safari - AIR
Journey Inwards - LTJ Bukem
Kid A - Radiohead
A Retrospective - KRS ONE
Like Water for Chocolate - Common
Float - Aesop Rock
Odelay - Beck
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - Oasis
The Man Who - Travis
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Stankonia - OutKast
Tweekend - The Crystal Method
Parachutes - Coldplay
In the Mode - Roni Size
Command of Relationship - At the Drive In
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
AOI - De La Soul
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Walls Don't Exist - (OKP's own Science Fiction)
Shades of Blue - Madlib
Come With Us - The Chemical Brothers
Phrenology - The Roots
Electric Circus - Common
The Cold Vein - Cannibal Ox
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
The Minstrel Show - Little Brother
Exit - k-Os
Res - Res
Sea Change - Beck
Justified - Justin Timberlake
The Private Press - DJ Shadow
The K&D Sessions - Kruder and Dorfmeister
Man with a Movie Camera - The Cinematic Orchestra
The Essential Dave Brubeck - Dave Brubeck
Joyful Rebellion - k-Os
Speakerboxx / The Love Below - OutKast
Si Se - Si Se
Shades of Jade - Cal Tjader
Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
Urban Hymms - The Verve
Ready for Freddie - Freddie Hubbard
Late Registration - Kanye West
New Danger - Mos Def
The Tipping Point - The Roots
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2
The Black Album - Jay-Z
OkayPlayer: True Notes - Various
HomeGrown: Vol 1 - The Roots
HomeGrown: Vol 2 - The Roots
When it Falls - Zero 7
Be - Common
X&Y - Coldplay
Worldwide Underground - Erykah Badu
St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
Atlantis: Hymns for Disco - k-Os
Everything Is - Nine Black Alps
Game Theory - The Roots
King - TI
Finding Forever - Common
Graduation - Kanye West
American Gangster - Jay-Z
Getback - Little Brother
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
Invincible - Michael Jackson
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Eardrum - Talib Kweli
Rising Down - The Roots
Pre-Act II - Jay Electronica
Blackroc - Blackroc
The Blueprint 3 - Jay-Z
The Ecstatic - Mos Def
How I Got Over - The Roots
Free Wired - Far East Movement
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae
The Black Saint and the Sinner - Charles Mingus
Ken Burns Jazz - Charles Mingus
EP - Childish Gambino
The Less You Know, The Better - DJ Shadow
Elmatic - Elzhi
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
Pala - Friendly Fires
Jam Boy Magic - Money Making Jam Boys
undun - The Roots
good kid, m.A.A.d City - Kendrick Lamar
Professor at Large - Large Professor
Life is Good - Nas
Black Messiah - D'Angelo
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Thank You 4 Your Service - Tribe
DAMN - Kendrick Lamar
4:44 - Jay-Z


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20. "DAMN is probably the most recent that has stayed on repeat"
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never did the reverse order listen.

elmatic was on repeat as well.

  

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24. "RE: DAMN is probably the most recent that has stayed on repeat"
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I tried the DAMN. in reverse a few times. I couldn't make out much of a difference theme wise, but the album did seem to flow better in reverse for some reason.

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21. "Dizzy Gillespie - Jambo Caribe"
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Brew
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22. "I like the year by year thing you did."
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This will get lengthy. I think that per year, you can probably have up to maybe 3 albums you burn through endlessly to fit your criteria. I tried to do 1 per year but some years I remember absolutely frying a few CDs so I had to put them all in. Still, I narrowed it down the best I could. Obviously some albums were played way more than others but these are albums I recall staying in rotation for front to back listens for months on end, if not longer.

I'll do a list of albums I bought and beat to death upon their release, then a list of albums I heard maybe a couple years after they were released but subsequently, beat them to death as well. Haha. I'm sticking to hip-hop for now, but will hopefully be back later to add some other genres if I remember. Also I skipped a couple years just cause no albums stick out off the top of my head as ones I listened to endlessly.

Real time:
1992 - The Chronic
1993 - Doggystyle
1994 - Regulate ... G Funk Era
1995 - Dogg Food, and still Doggystyle & G Funk Era haha
1996 - All Eyez on Me
1997 - *sigh* No Way Out
1998 - It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Slim Shady LP, Aquemini
1999 - Chronic 2001, Things Fall Apart, Black on Both Sides, I Want It All
2000 - Like Water for Chocolate, Quality Control, Train of Thought (which is the album on this list I've probably listened to the most out of any)
2001 - The Blueprint
2002 - Phrenology, Eminem Show
2003 - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2004 - The Grind Date
2005 - Be
2006 - Game Theory, Blue Carpet Treatment, Murray's Revenge
2007 - Graduation
2011 - Charity Starts at Home, Book of David
2012 - People Hear What They See, Life is Good
2014 - PRhyme

Albums I heard more than a year after they released but subsequently beat to death:
- Illmatic
- BlackStar
- Resurrection
- One Day It'll All Make Sense
- AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
- Efil4zaggin
- Safe & Sound
- Reasonable Doubt
- ATLiens
- Buhloone Mindstate
- Stakes is High

I'm probably forgetting a few but this list is comprehensive enough lol.

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25. "Common "LWFC"..."
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Maybe the first time I recognized what Hip Hop could be. The musicianship on that LP, was next to perfect...to me it was an ELEVATION of the art due to the instrumentation, presence of live instruments blended with sampling, scratching perfectly. All of which blended perfectly with Com as a multidimensional artist that talked about a broad area of topics, stories, etc....This is also somewhat of curse though, cause I developed this untouchable standard that I hope Com lives up to on each release, but I stay disappointed with his 3 past projects...It also made me go back and appreciate the Roots earlier projects more than I did when first hearing. After LWFC, my ears were tuned to better appreciate what The Roots were doing....

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27. "Great take on LWFC."
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I couldn't have said it better myself. They really found a perfect harmony on that album, Comm and the Soulquarians. IMO that's the best Soulquarian release.

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26. "I'm trying the year by year thing a little"
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that's a good way to look back at your listening habits and reflect on where you were at the time or why you were listening to certain albums. . . I think I was depressed man lol

older stuff would be All Eyez On Me, Aquemini, The Love Movement, Embrya, Miseducation Of

The Black Album, College Dropout, Diary of Alicia Keys, Come Away With Me, White Ladder, Room For Squares, Kind of Blue

Donuts, The Unseen, Madvillainy, Shades of Blue, LWFC, Be, Reasonable Doubt, Brown Sugar

Infinity On High, The Reminder, 19, Finding Forever, Waiting To Inhale, The Cool, Gravity


Covert Coupe, 4eva In A Day, Return of 4eva, Kush & Orange Juice, Section .80, Oneirology, Devotion, Woman

Double Cup, Random Access Memories, Cupid Deluxe, Pinata, Days Are Gone

probably 3-4yr increments starting with junior high up to about 2014

noticing I really don't keep stuff on repeat nowadays more recent would be

Big Grams, Zion II, not much lately though

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LES
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28. "chronologically"
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2003
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Disturbing tha Peace - Golden Grain

2004
Nas - God's Son
N*E*R*D - Fly or Die

2005
Royce da 5'9 - Death is Certain
Nas - Illmatic

2006
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Little Brother - Minstrel Show

2007
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
My American Heart - Meaning in Makeup
Nas - Hip Hop is Dead

2008
Eisley - Room Noises
The Depreciation Guild — In Her Gentle Jaws
The Bird and the Bee - The Bird and the Bee

2009
The Five One - The Virginia Complex
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Little Dragon - Machine Dreams

2010
Charles Hamilton - Normalcy
every Weezer album

2011
Tyler, theCreator - Bastard
Danny Brown - XXX
Maria Bamford — How To WIN! + Burning Bridges

2012
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Levi Watson —

2013
Eisley - Combinations
Danny Brown - Old

2014
pizza boy. - no tip necessary

2015
lupe fiasco - tetsuo & youth
towkio - wav theory

2016
Kaytranada - 99%
Chales Hamilton - Hamilton, Charles

2017
little simz - a curious tale

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29. "Hm yea I forgot Below the Heavens and Hip Hop is Dead."
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Those definitely belong on my list.

"Below the Heavens" I got into in 2008 or so, so a few months after it was released.

"Hip Hop is Dead" I heard in real time and burnt that shit out.

One more album I got into in 2007 was "Connected" by Foreign Exchange. Can't really explain / figure out how I missed it in real time; as a huge Little Brother fan and someone who visited this site very regularly in 2004, it makes zero sense how this album wasn't all over my radar, like red alerts everywhere haha. But alas. I did finally hear it and it's one of my all time favorites.

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30. "i looooved Hip Hop is Dead at the time"
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>Those definitely belong on my list.
>
>"Below the Heavens" I got into in 2008 or so, so a few months
>after it was released.
>
>"Hip Hop is Dead" I heard in real time and burnt that shit
>out.
>
>One more album I got into in 2007 was "Connected" by Foreign
>Exchange. Can't really explain / figure out how I missed it in
>real time; as a huge Little Brother fan and someone who
>visited this site very regularly in 2004, it makes zero sense
>how this album wasn't all over my radar, like red alerts
>everywhere haha. But alas. I did finally hear it and it's one
>of my all time favorites.

played the crap out of it. sadly i think i'd view it pretty apathetically nowadays

Below the Heavens is still great, I love emotive albums like that one. Its fun listening to Miguel before he blew up too.

it took me awhile to appreciate the Connected, it probably wasn't until 2006/2007 and unfortunately that was just due to my preconceptions about what kind of music Phonte should be making.

Theres some stuff I'm forgetting because I dont have a record of physical spins but Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner & Showtime were huge for me 05/06

Drake's Room for Improvement and Comeback Season mixtapes were also played ad nauseum

Kev Brown - I Do What I Do, Kano - Home Sweet Home, Lupe - The Cool, Royce da 5'9" — Build and Destroy

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32. "I still love HHID *shrugs*"
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>played the crap out of it. sadly i think i'd view it pretty
>apathetically nowadays

But you've joined the majority in that most people didn't love it. I never understood the hate it got, I think it's excellent but flawed.


>Below the Heavens is still great, I love emotive albums like
>that one. Its fun listening to Miguel before he blew up too.

Me too. I was drawn to him cause he reminded me of early Common, who he frequently cites as a significant influence on his style, so it makes sense. The lush, soulful production fit Blu flawlessly. Exile was on a roll for a few years around that time.


>it took me awhile to appreciate the Connected, it probably
>wasn't until 2006/2007 and unfortunately that was just due to
>my preconceptions about what kind of music Phonte should be
>making.

I hear you. Which is funny because Connected is the most hip-hop of all their albums haha. But I know at the time a lot of folks saw it as a vast departure from his Little Brother work. And it was. But it worked. Nicolay's production has such feeling to it. Such great vibes.


>Theres some stuff I'm forgetting because I dont have a record
>of physical spins but Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner &
>Showtime were huge for me 05/06
>
>Drake's Room for Improvement and Comeback Season mixtapes were
>also played ad nauseum
>
>Kev Brown - I Do What I Do, Kano - Home Sweet Home, Lupe - The
>Cool, Royce da 5'9" — Build and Destroy

Speaking of Royce I wore Bar Exam II out heavy.

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31. "We Got it For Cheap Vol. 2"
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33. "Year by Year"
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1991 The Low End Theory / Death Certificate / A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing / Step In the Arena / Quik Is the Name

1992 Dead Serious / Daily Operation / Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde / Music to Driveby / Runaway Slave / Mecca and the Soul Brother

1993 The Chronic / 93 'til Infinity / Midnight Marauders / Doggystyle / Comin' Out Hard / Enta Da Stage / Get In Where You Fit In / No Need For Alarm

1994 Hard to Earn / Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik / The Beatnuts / The Diary / The Sun Rises In the East / The Main Ingredient / We Come Strapped / Blowout Comb

1995 Dah Shinin'/ Soul Food / Me Against the World / OB4CL... / All We Got Iz Us / Livin' Proof / Safe + Sound / Dogg Food / Liquid Swords

1996 ATLiens / Ridin' Dirty / IWW / Ironman / Hell On Earth / Muddy Waters / Dr. Octagonecologyst / Makaveli / Illadelph Halflife

1997 Portishead / Homogenic / Ghetto Millionaire / The Fat of the Land / The War Report / Jewelz / Wu-Tang Forever / Becoming X

1998 Still Standing / Aquemini / Moment of Truth / Mezzanine / Soul Survivor / 3rd Eye Vision / Psyence Fiction / System of a Down / Lost

1999 TFA / BOBS / Internal Affairs / Ghetty Green / Soundpieces: Da Antidote / Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha / So... How's Your Girl? / The Soft Bulletin / In Our Lifetime

2000 Voodoo / Supreme Clientele / Infinite Possibilities / Let's Get Free / Who Is Jill Scott? / Mama's Gun / Relationship of Command / Deltron 3030 / Stankonia / SDE / Train of Thought / HNIC

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

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34. "What's Going On"
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The Carnival

A Minnie Riperton Best Of I got when I was a teenager

Joao Gilberto's first album

Voodoo

Black Moses (D'Aneglo's)


Black On Both Sides

  

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35. "Update, cause I think this joint is masterful..."
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...can rock it front to back...Jorja Smith "Lost & Found"...incredible production, sequencing, and her talent. Very impressive...

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