C/D: Main Sorce - Breaking Atoms

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I'm downloading this and I just wanted to know what everyone else thinks.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

One of the best of that era, I think.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 17 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

i loved it but i never loved it like i loved other stuff.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 17 June 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

i preffered main source :-P

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 17 June 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty good. just a step below classic, i think. "live at the BBQ" is of course ultra classic.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm with mully.. it's a nice album and had it not been released in 1991, it would have smashed the competition but lesee

De Le Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Black Sheep - Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
The UMC's - Fruits Of Nature
K.M.D. - Mr. Hood
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
P.M. Dawn - first album (yea yeah, boo all you want)
Leaders Of The New School - A Future Without A Past
Son of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk...
Ed. O.G. and Da Bulldogs - Life Of A Kid In The Ghetto

that's just a sample.

1991 was a bonkers year for hip hop, and I mean that in a very good way... possibly the best year, IMHO..

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

^ Let's not forget "efil4zaggin", "death certificate" and the first Pete Rock & C.L Smooth ep too as far as '91 goes.

Definately not a dud. Maybe classic. Very, very good regardless.

It's a very solid album with tracks like "large professor", "snake eyes", "just hangin' out", "lookin' at the front door", "friendly game of baseball", "scratch n kut"(one of the best scratch tracks you'll ever hear) and the aforementioned "live at the bbq" but there are some tracks which now sound really corny and dated like "let roger do his thing" and "he got so much soul.."

Which version is it that you're downloading? If it's the reissue version with the extra tracks like "the atom", "think" "fakin' the funk", "friendly game of baseball" remix and "how my man went down in the game" then you're getting some of their best 12" only tracks.

If you don't know them, you should download some of Large Professor's best solo tracks from his aborted mid 90's album "the l.p". I'm talkin' cuts like "get off that bullshit", "the mad scientist", "spacey", "ijuswannachill" and "queens lounge".

― Ellis From Die Hard, Friday, 17 June 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

Well I'm getting the version with the "Just a Friendly Game of Baseball" remix as the bonus song but as I was gettng it, the guy left. Can someone YSI me "Live at the Barbeque" and "Let Roger Do His Thing"????????? I'm trying to find them and nothing is coming up.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

what's the word on this getting reissued? likely/possible/no chance?

hey, everyone likes the PM Dawn album, db. there was a thread about it recently

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 17 June 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

It got bootlegged on c.d with all the extra tracks i mentioned a year or so ago.

http://sandbox.pair.com/abstract/wpd2004.html

^ Tracklisting. Sandbox is the only place you can get it from i believe.

― Ellis From Die Hard, Friday, 17 June 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Really good - mostly strong cuts. I'm always struck at how weak Large Professor's freestyle on "Live At The BBQ" is compared to Nas et al, though. "Don't try to tell me how you can break Rambo/That's just a bunch of mamma-ja-hambo."

― mike a, Friday, 17 June 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

This thread is so OTM.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Completely classic.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i just made $51 on this!

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

It sold for $112 on eBay recently.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

i know - i sold mine in the wake of that sale...

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

whoa, really? I paid $3 in Seattle a few years ago. eBay, here I come!

― mike a, Friday, 17 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, a lot of the never reissued early 90s hip hop classics have gotten crazy expensive in the past couple of years (Showbiz and AG's CD also was going for ridiculous amounts as of late, for ex.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I love love love this album. "Looking At the Front Door" is so perfect, the very beginning of that weird early 90s sample-crazy thang and Large Pro might be my favorite producer from this era, more so than even Pete Rock or Q Tip or Premier. And his solo album is terrific, I think - one of the coolest, unsettling-yet-mellow criminally non-released albums of the period.

― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard that solo album and I swear you are the first person who has ever indicated that I should. The Matador one is uh not so good.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

reason why: sample clearance. there's no way a reissue of those albums will profit from the required sample clearances. Thank Gilbert O'Sullivan, kids.

"Thanks, Gilbert!"

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

the matador one is awful.

― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Can someone please YSI me tracks 10 and 11. I can't find them anywhere

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

(xxxpost)Yeah, I guess you're right. Three Feet and Rising is the only sample heavy album from that period that I can think of that's gotten a deluxe reissue.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Alex SF, "ellis from die hard" made the same recommendation re: The LP upthread! It is fantastic, I think, although I seem to remember reading on ILM that people don't like it. I love it. Try "IJUSWANNACHILL" and if you like that, get the rest.

Re: gilbert/sullivan...after the suit, there was a lot more chopping/messing with the samples.

― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Hmmn. Maybe I'll download it. I've never heard the 2nd "Main Source" album either, but I can't believe that anyone thinks that's good.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Large Pro has nothing to do with it, and since he essentially was Main Source I'm not sure what the point would be.

― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Great album.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

"Looking at The Front Door" was prolly one of my favoritest songs ever in highschool. i think i originally had this on tape.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

the title proves there backpackers. GAY

― Bullet Proof Gloss, Friday, 17 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

B-b-b-but Onyx wore backpacks. That's where they stored their guns!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Backpackers aren't gay, Except maybe a Gay Backpacker.

They go out on adventurous trips and stuff. I think that's cooler than staying at home.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but Large Pro did beats for Nas and Akinyele!

― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

the title proves there backpackers. GAY

what the fuck is this even trying to say? it's pure stupidity. spelled words wrong. no point. homophobic.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

revive (cause it ain't noise nor grime threads)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

backpacks can be a handy means of transporting objects. and i still like main source.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Re: gilbert/sullivan...after the suit, there was a lot more chopping/messing with the samples.

No doubt. Also, I think The Chronic being released right after kinda changed the approaches of hip-hop to not being so much sample-collage based anymore... (of course, hip hop has always been about sampling from the start until today..)

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

wait wait, the CD is going for a hundred bucks??? when did this happen? I got it at a run-of-the-mill record store for normal price about 5 yrs ago.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah man, outrageous pricing. They DID reissue O.C.'s Word...life recently. That's one of my favorite records from the era.

― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

man I like this record, but I have a CD in good condition that if anyone wants for $100 it's YOURS like T La Rock.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

now I'm having fantasies about selling my Main Source CD for big $$ and copping the Sabbath box set finally.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

it happens ()ops. I found the original Biz I Need A Haircut CD used for $7 just last year.

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

CD finds happen all the time. People just assume CDs have no value and aren't collectible so you can end up picking up stuff for a lot less than certain desperate people will pay for it on eBay.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

This was reissued, in '97. (Take it easy on my shitty writing here...)
http://citypages.com/databank/19/892/article4081.asp

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Rereading my younger self makes me wince, but also reminds me how great "Looking at the Front Door" was at sketching the dynamics of couples that really should break it off.

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

The Fondle 'Em pressing of "operation doomsday" by M.F Doom goes for around 160 bucks these days and even the second pressing that was on some other label (was it Subverse or something?) goes for 80-100 bucks. Which is crazy because that album's only 5 years old.

― Ellis From Die Hard, Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Can anybody do me a favor and YSI this album?

I'd really appreciate it.

thanks!

― Jimmy Cooper, Saturday, 3 September 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

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