― Omar, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Friend of mine met them at a radio station where they were being interviewed whilst on tour promoting 3 FEET HIGH, an album of course hailed as revelatory/seminal/etc for its gentle, mature imagery. Conversation went something like this: De La Soul: "Where's the fucking pussy at?" Friend: "Eh? I thought you guys were all peace and love." De La Soul: "Fuck that shit! That's record company shit! They made us do that shit! Where's the fucking pussy at?!" Still amused by that.
― AP, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
De La is great and I will always treasure _De La Soul Is Dead_, but album for album the Tribe is the better deal, IMO.
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
But Jesus, I have to think hip-hop fans of any stripe would find much to love on any of those 3 releases, so go out and buy them if you haven't. The Tribe production in particular is much more stripped down and less sophisticated than what is happening today, but it still has its charms. "Overrated"? Perhaps, yes, Tribe in particular are revered so much by indie hip-hop types today that it can be hard to see their true worth. But those three are just great records.
― Mark Richardson, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― bnw, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Keiko, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Tribe: Low End Theory, "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo"
It's a tie, though both ARE overrated, yes.
― Kris, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dave M., Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Why not De La Soul - partly cos my little sister got their first (being very honest here!) and partly because they seemed more hippie, rocky, indy... I need to go back to them though obviously.
Around then I liked the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy more than both…
― Guy, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Momus, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― ethan, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Daniel Keith, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― olly 360, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Now my buddy, don't you know that drive me nutty, Not too skinny and not too chubby, soft like silly putty...
― Joe, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ian, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nitsuh, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yes, it's fantastic (it's called "Flyin' High in the Brooklyn Sky") -- I've never heard anything quite like it. The DPs second album, Blowout Comb, always sounded a little like the hip-hop version of Bitches Brew to me, if that makes sense. But "Flyin' High" points to something totally different...it sounds almost cinematic to me, full of flashing lights and jump-cuts, with a groove that sounds (to me) like the best of all possible blaxploitation soundtracks. And then you add Lester Bowie and Wah Wah Watson to that...! I wish we'd gotten a third album out of them -- if it was anything like this track, it'd be an instant classic.
― Phil (phil), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
That being said, I think the Jungle Brothers' wrongly ignored and vastly underrated "J Beez Wit the Remedy" singlehandedly puts them above De La and Tribe both. That record is AMAZING - dense, varied, alternately sobering and funny, thick, sonic headfuckery, nothin like it before, lots of things like it since (Anti-Pop Consortium, for example).
Blow Out Comb is also rightly praised in this thread. Fantastic, overlooked record. Just listened to it the other day - the logical extension of "Low End Theory", only yes more cinematic (maybe that's the "Shaft" orchestral breaks), broader in scope.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 21 October 2002 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 06:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4pwKKJ5TJU
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:57 (seven years ago) link