Best Ever Albums

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Listmeister — Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:51:44 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 11/08/2013 20:51

Just thought I'd mention... 36 Chambers is the featured article on Wikipedia today.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:37:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/03/2013 19:37

Nobody wants milk from tigers that's gross.

19-9

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

junodog4 — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:58:48 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 10/01/2013 01:58

I hate it when two epic albums go against each other. One gets knocked out, and a weak album paired with a weaker album gets through... I guess that's how random tournaments go.

Tigermilk is brilliant.

Wu-Tang is once in a generation brilliant.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

CellarDoor — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:12:56 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 09/30/2013 18:12

Link

This alone gets my vote.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Necharsian — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:50:16 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 09/30/2013 17:50

meccalecca wrote:

It's a far more important and fully realized debut.

🤮

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

meccalecca — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:28:42 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/30/2013 15:28

Can't believe i'm doing this. I enjoy Tigermilk more regularly, but had to go with Wu Tang. It's a far more important and fully realized debut.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:13:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 15:13

This is difficult. I love Belle and Sebastian, but mostly IF You're Feeling Sinister (same way I love Queen Is Dead but have yet to fall for another The Smiths albums)...This one doesn't do as much for me as of now. 36 Chambers is an album I appreciate musically but can't get into the whole atmosphere of it. I do love how each member has so much personality and it shines through, I love personality in music...
So, usually I'd view results and vote for the underdog if I couldn't decide, but I'm actually edging towards Enter the Wu-Tang, just because of how great it is...Like, it isn't a record for me, but I can still see something magic happening...The kind of record that makes me feel like I'm being objective about it when, y'know, I'm not. I do like it a lot, it just doesn't do much for me personally or emotionally, I like it purely based on the sound. Protect Ya Neck is just so awesome.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:39:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 12:39

Ah man, two of my favourite four or five albums in the whole tournament, and they couldn't be more different either. Tigermilk is stunning, but not quite as focused or as heavy on great songs as If You're Feeling Sinister, but it's still one of my favourite albums ever. 'The State I Am In', 'Expectations', 'She's Losing It', 'We Rule The School', 'I Could Be Dreaming', hell, even 'Electronic Renaissance' are all some of my favourite Belle & Seb songs, and this was still in the days before they tried (or, rather, were able) to add all the production flourishes that made the likes of Dear Catastrophe Waitress and The Life Pursuit a little too polished.

But 36 Chambers is #1 on my chart, it's the best album ever. I once described RZA's beats as sounding "like he'd taken a sledgehammer to a pile of old soul records and then shoddily glued them back together, beats that were ominous and menacing and exactly like how I imagined the music of New York housing projects in winter should sound", whilst the sheer personality that shines through on the microphone has never been matched in hip-hop (or any other genre, for that matter). Everybody has a favourite rapper, a favourite song, a favourite verse, a favourite line. This album is capable of switching between effortless, mindless fun and touching poignancy so easily - for every 'Bring Tha Ruckus' there's a 'Tearz', for every 'Shame On a Nigga' there's a 'Can It All Be So Simple?', for every 'Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' To Fuck Wit' there's a 'C.R.E.A.M.'. And that's to ignore the greatest posse cut of all-time, the incredible 'Protect Ya Neck', not to mention 'Method Man', which is my go to drunken singalong ("poetry's in motion, coast-to-coastin', rub it on your skin like lotion"). It's been 20 years since this record was released and, despite a host of imitators, there's still nothing else that sounds quite like it. It's raw passion and energy in musical form, and the group's enthusiasm more than papers over any cracks there might be (e.g. they were hardly the most polished rappers). As if by accident, they helped to usher in the cult of the personality in hip-hop, and there's never been a more entertaining selection of voices on an album than on 36 Chambers, be it Ghostface's emotive squeal, Method Man's buttery, elastic flows, ODB's unforgettable sing-songing, Inspectah Deck's internal rhymes and ability to accentuate a punchline ("swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood Spiiiiidermaaan"), the GZA's weird little hood Yoda thing he has going on - everybody here has their own distinct character (and often two or three). It's banger after banger, and it never gets old. The best album of all-time.

Link

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:41:08 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 11:41

Wu - Tang

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Norman Bates — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:36:55 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/30/2013 06:36

Wu-Tang, easy.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

drakonium — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:15:36 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 09/30/2013 06:15

No promotion could convince me to vote for Wu-Tang here, sorry. Tigermilk is just too good, and I'm not exactly a fan of 36 Chambers.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

SingingPeasant96 — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:09:41 GMT

Author: SingingPeasant96

Posted: 09/30/2013 06:09

Tigermilk is awesome

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

MrFrogger — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:47:21 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 09/30/2013 04:47

Wu Tang's debut is something that I've recently been a bit obsessed with, it also recently made it into my top 30. It's truly a masterpiece. Tigermilk, on the other hand, is merely a pleasant listen.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:37:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 04:37

Both are masterpieces, but Tigermilk would be in my top ten if not for Sinister, where as Wu-Tang's debut is something that will probably make my chart eventually but isn't there right now.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Mercury — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:01:17 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 09/30/2013 04:01

I haven't heard Tigermilk, but Wu's debut is great. Ill give its competition a listen before voting don't worry.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:48:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 03:48

Sorry lethal, lol.

BDAT Rd. 1 - Tigermilk vs. Enter the Wu-Tang (36... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:33:21 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 03:33

BDAT

Round 1

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Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian (1996)
Sponsor: Patman360

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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan (1993)
Sponsor: lethalnezzle

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU HAVE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS