Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

CharlieBarley — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:19:10 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 07/31/2020 00:19

Skinny wrote:

It's *Lauryn.

Oh yeah!

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

Skinny — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:03:27 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 07/31/2020 00:03

It's *Lauryn.

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

CharlieBarley — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:25:12 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 07/30/2020 23:25

this is an amazing album.
I played it loads back in the day and still spin it now and again
Killing Me Softly was THE song of the summer of 1996. It was everywhere.
Lauren's vocals are just sublime

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

Skinny — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:31:40 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 07/30/2020 15:31

RoundTheBend wrote:

It's a shame Wyclef fizzled out as I really dig his creativity here and on The Carnival.

Lauren's performance is fantastic.

The second Wyclef album features some of the weirdest, most misbegotten genre-splicing attempts (the Kenny Rogers/Pharoahe Monch mashup; the earnest 'Wish You Were Here' cover) and some of the most shameless pop crossover pleas (the one where The Rock does the hook; the pop reggae, guitar-driven song about weed that shouts out some of the performers from Woodstock '99 - "DMX, Limp Bizkit, Sheryl Crow" - at the beginning for seemingly no other reason than to parade his own self-inflated sense of eclecticism/"eclefticism" *sigh*) and desperate 'check out my Rolodex' flexes (getting Whitney fucking Houston to gently coo reggae clichés for an interlude) I've ever heard. (And this to make no mention of the Youssou N'Dour-featuring Amadou Diallo tribute, because in spite of my cynicism, it's actually a pretty heartfelt and touching effort.)

However, it also contains, in '911' (which succeeds regardless of the overwrought silliness and vocal histrionics) and particularly the giddy, effervescent 'Perfect Gentleman', two of the greatest pieces of R'n'B or hip-hop of its, or any other, era. Go figure.

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

DommeDamian — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:34:47 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 07/30/2020 09:34

Great joint rh.

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

RoundTheBend — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:45:50 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 07/30/2020 01:45

It's a shame Wyclef fizzled out as I really dig his creativity here and on The Carnival.

Lauren's performance is fantastic.

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

baystateoftheart — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:07:23 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 07/30/2020 00:07

Classic album, and some of the first hip-hop (and music, period) I fell in love with

Re: Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

Skinny — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:51:40 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 07/29/2020 23:51

As far as I'm aware, this is the only hip-hop album my dad had in the house growing up. He never played it.

It's pretty dope.

Album of the day (#3513): The Score by Fugees

BestEverAlbums — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:00:19 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 07/29/2020 20:00

Today's album of the day

The Score by Fugees (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1996.
Country:
Overall rank: 805
Average rating: 76/100 (from 387 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Red Intro
2. How Many Mics
3. Ready Or Not
4. Zealots
5. The Beast
6. Fu-Gee-La
7. Family Business
8. Killing Me Softly
9. The Score
10. The Mask
11. Cowboys
12. No Woman, No Cry
13. Manifest/Outro

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.