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  • Recommend a music album for us
     OP - August 20, 2011, 07:41 PM

    Recommend a music album for us to listen to. The kind of album that you will listen from the first track to the last one without skipping. Recommend any genre of music.and it will be good if you add a review on it.Afro

    I will post mine for those who are interested in Hip-Hop and also for hip-hop fan.

    Me Against The World.


    This is the only 2pac's album that i listened to because he was being honest with himselves, unlike most hip-hop artists that tend to brag on materialism on most of their albums.

    Here is a review that i quote from Allmusic.com. It sums everything up about the album.

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    Recorded following his near-fatal shooting in New York, and released while he was in prison, Me Against the World is the point where 2Pac really became a legendary figure. Having stared death in the face and survived, he was a changed man on record, displaying a new confessional bent and a consistent emotional depth. By and large, this isn't the sort of material that made him a gangsta icon; this is 2Pac the soul-baring artist, the foundation of the immense respect he commanded in the hip-hop community. It's his most thematically consistent, least-self-contradicting work, full of genuine reflection about how he's gotten where he is -- and dread of the consequences. Even the more combative tracks ("Me Against the World," "Fuck the World") acknowledge the high-risk life he's living, and pause to wonder how things ever went this far. He battles occasional self-loathing, is haunted by the friends he's already lost to violence, and can't escape the desperate paranoia that his own death isn't far in the future. These tracks -- most notably "So Many Tears," "Lord Knows," and "Death Around the Corner" -- are all the more powerful in hindsight with the chilling knowledge that he was right. Even romance takes on a new meaning as an escape from the hellish pressure of everyday life ("Temptations," "Can U Get Away"), and when that's not available, getting high or drunk is almost a necessity. He longs for the innocence of childhood ("Young Niggaz," "Old School"), and remembers how quickly it disappeared, yet he still pays loving, clear-eyed tribute to his drug-addicted mother on the touching "Dear Mama." Overall, Me Against the World paints a bleak, nihilistic picture, but there's such an honest, self-revealing quality to it that it can't help conveying a certain hope simply through its humanity. It's the best place to go to understand why 2Pac is so revered; it may not be his definitive album, but it just might be his best.


    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #1 - August 20, 2011, 07:41 PM

    Stevie Wonder... The Secret Life of Plants... frackin amazing!!

    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
    Helen Keller
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #2 - August 20, 2011, 07:56 PM

    Frank - Amy Winehouse

    Beautiful voice, and incredible songwriting. Her song about her dead bird, made me glad to be alive as I listened to it sat by a pond.

    Reasonable doubt - Jay-Z

    The best hip-hop LP I've every heard. Flawless flow, and inimitable lyricism. I've never known anyone make the life of a playboy drugdealer sound so sophisticated.  
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #3 - August 20, 2011, 08:17 PM

    Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor... for the lovesick suicidal freaks, I s'pose. I dunno. I just keep listening to it.
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #4 - August 20, 2011, 08:32 PM

    inb4 Jema says Recovery.
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #5 - August 20, 2011, 08:54 PM

    Deliver the Word by War.
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #6 - August 20, 2011, 09:16 PM

    Frank - Amy Winehouse

    Beautiful voice, and incredible songwriting. Her song about her dead bird, made me glad to be alive as I listened to it sat by a pond.

    Reasonable doubt - Jay-Z

    The best hip-hop LP I've every heard. Flawless flow, and inimitable lyricism. I've never known anyone make the life of a playboy drugdealer sound so sophisticated.
     


    Afro, i like your taste of music. You are a cool dude,not StrangestDude. Its one of my favourite albums too, i never get tired of listening to it.

    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #7 - August 20, 2011, 09:43 PM

    Dial P - Plaid

    Hello everything - Squarepusher (I didn't listen to it entirely but liked most of the songs)

    Of Whales and Woe - Les Claypool

    Purple onion - Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade

    "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
    Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
    [Kepler's epitaph]
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #8 - August 21, 2011, 08:16 AM

    Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim

    He's no friend to the friendless
    And he's the mother of grief
    There's only sorrow for tomorrow
    Surely life is too brief
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #9 - August 21, 2011, 08:20 AM

    Mutter by Rammstein

    *my favorite album by my favorite band Tongue*
  • Re: Recommend a music album for us
     Reply #10 - August 21, 2011, 11:46 AM

    Kenza - Cheb Khaled

    "Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."
    هذا من فضل جدي
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