Best Ever Albums

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:46:23 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/18/2013 01:46

I forgot about that. My fave puns are the ones with both albums, so that if I ran more than one competition, any albums that appear in more than one don't get the same pun. Here's one I made up for this round: "The Wu-Tang Clan knows no pleasures."

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:05:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/18/2013 01:05

JMan wrote:

:lol:

I thought you would say "The best pleasures are the unknown," but this is great!

I base the puns on the loser, that way every album gets one.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:04:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/18/2013 01:04

🤣

I thought you would say "The best pleasures are the unknown," but this is great!

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:02:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/18/2013 01:02

Wu-Tang Clan has been fucked wit.

29-19

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Defago — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:49:42 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 12/17/2013 05:49

White dude with a guitar here voting for black dudes without guitars.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Mercury — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:36:00 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 12/17/2013 03:36

CellarDoor wrote:

Yesterday was Joy Division day. I finished reading Peter Hook's "Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division" and rewatched Control.

I'm still in love with the band, and it's not about being cool or the whitest boy alive.

The production is amazing, the riffs are great, and Ian was 22 when writing the lyrics to New Dawn Fades…

But as someone said, I've been promoting the band since 2009 and I won't be able to convince anyone anymore.

lethalnezzle wrote:

Yesterday was Wu-Tang day. I finished reading RZA's "Wu-Tang Manual" and rewatched Rock The Bells.

I'm still in love with the group, and it's not about being cool or the blackest whiteboy alive.

The production is amazing, the samples are great, and Inspectah Deck was 22 when writing the lyrics to C.R.E.A.M.…

But as nobody said, I've been promoting the group since 2010 and I won't be able to convince anyone anymore.

Y'all crack me the fuck up!

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:48:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/17/2013 00:48

Yesterday was Wu-Tang day. I finished reading RZA's "Wu-Tang Manual" and rewatched Rock The Bells.

I'm still in love with the group, and it's not about being cool or the blackest whiteboy alive.

The production is amazing, the samples are great, and Inspectah Deck was 22 when writing the lyrics to C.R.E.A.M.…

But as nobody said, I've been promoting the group since 2010 and I won't be able to convince anyone anymore.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

CellarDoor — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:37:22 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 12/16/2013 20:37

Yesterday was Joy Division day. I finished reading Peter Hook's "Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division" and rewatched Control.

I'm still in love with the band, and it's not about being cool or the whitest boy alive.

The production is amazing, the riffs are great, and Ian was 22 when writing the lyrics to New Dawn Fades…

But as someone said, I've been promoting the band since 2009 and I won't be able to convince anyone anymore.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

HazeyTwilight — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:15:31 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 12/16/2013 19:15

I liked Wu-Tang's album enough and I do understand it's appeal and acclaim. But, Unknown Pleasures, in my top 30, I mean, come on, I ain't abandoning that album.

i'mtoowhiteiknow

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Listmeister — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:42:55 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 12/16/2013 18:42

I think I voted against both of them at each round to this point. I'm picking one in the hopes that I don't have to make a decision about the other one in round five.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:34:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/16/2013 17:34

There's so much suppression from house of the elders that people who vote UP don't express themselves haha. But to be honest with you WU's debut isn't even in my top 50 hip-hop albums right now. I like some things about it (production, crazy samples, GZA and Ghostface) but overall it just doesn't grab me as it seems is the case with many other people.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

HigherThanTheSun — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:32:47 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 12/16/2013 17:32

Voting Wu because it's well behind now, but I love them both equally I think, depending on mood.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

alelsupreme — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:24:05 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 12/16/2013 17:24

we on da swarm

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

SuedeSwede — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:40:41 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 12/16/2013 16:40

The white guys with guitars.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:51:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/16/2013 14:51

wutanganisnotevenclose

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:09:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/16/2013 13:09

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lethalnezzle wrote:

I bought this album having never heard a Wu-Tang song before, based on a friend's recommendation. I put it in my Discman to listen to on the way to school, got two and a half songs in and turned it off. I didn't return to it for about 18 months. I just didn't get it, it was messy, angry, unfinished, full of stupid fucking samples from stupid fucking kung-fu movies, and lyrically just made up of hyper-violent, macho posturing from a bunch of amateurish rappers. The Blueprint it was not. Then, after immersing myself in the genre a little more, thanks to some help from the Beastie Boys and Kanye West and Mos Def, I finally plucked up the courage to go back to it. This time, it was a little more tolerable. It was still a mess, and most of the rappers were still fucking idiots, but it had a certain charm this time around. The hooks were catchy, and I actually quite enjoyed the kung-fu samples and dated pop culture references. I liked the fact that there were so many of them, all with such unique, vivid rapping personas and voices, even if most of them still weren’t to my liking. That said, I liked Ghostface Killah - his raps were urgent and the stress he put on every hard consonant threatened to break through the speaker and perforate my eardrum. Method Man had this lovely, buttery voice, and everything he said sounded effortless. GZA's measured, authoritative bars made me sit up and pay attention, genuinely worried that if I didn't give him my full attention that I might miss something really important that could come in handy later in life, as though I was listening to a wise old sage whose path I might never cross again. Then, the next time I listened, I realised I'd already stored most of the choruses in my memory. I'd warmed up to RZA's grimy productions - beats that sounded 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. I listened more and more, with increasingly regularity. I'd sit and try and decipher their slang, an alien language with roots in the English that I spoke, twisted into something crude and aggressive, yet strangely poetic. Eventually it became a daily ritual, listening to 36 Chambers. It felt like being part of the world's coolest religion, hearing sermons from a foreign land that taught me so much about the world despite saying nothing to me about my life. It was the beginning of an obsession that stays with me to this day, and it's quite possibly the most important record in my life.

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That fucking piano.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Patman360 — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:29:29 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 12/16/2013 12:29

I can't do it...

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 02:06:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/16/2013 07:06

fucking hell please let's not be so white

Closer was their peak

Wu Tang KKKlan ain't nothin' to fuck wit

EDIT: Joy Division has literally been the tourny fave since 2009 on this site starting at least 2009. I'd like to see something else advance. I'm drunk and not liking JD

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

drakonium — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:48:20 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 12/16/2013 06:48

Unknown Pleasures by a mile.

Re: BDAT Rd. 4 - Unknown Pl... vs. Enter the Wu-Tang... (CLOSED)

Norman Bates — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:31:33 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 12/16/2013 06:31

The serious stuff now. Both top 10 material. Will come back, it might be that I like Wu more now, I'll check on that tonight.