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this album seems to get ilm love so what's the top track on it, dudes? my track listing is based on my cassette tape version, i guess there are some bonus tracks on the cd release, but yo cassettes up cds down yo, sheeyit!

Poll Results

OptionVotes
a roller skating jam named "saturdays" 20
bitties in the bk lounge 14
millie pulled a pistol on santa 9
keepin' the faith 6
oodles of o's 5
ring ring ring(ha ha hey) 3
pease porridge 3
pass the plugs 2
afro connections at a hi 5(in the eyes of a hoodlum) 1
let, let me in 1
skit 5 1
fanatic of the b word 1
talkin' bout hey love 1
skit 4 0
wrms: cat's in control 0
shwingalokate 0
not over til the fat lady plays the demo 0
skit 3 0
SIDE TWO: rap de rap show 0
skit 2 0
wrms' dedication to the bitty 0
skit 1 0
SIDE ONE: intro 0


thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

how the hell am I supposed to pick just one

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:31 (sixteen years ago)

by clicking on the circle next to 'a roller skating jam named "saturdays"' and then pressing the vote button

iatee, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

yeah this is pretty tough, might go with "pass the plugs," i dig the sort of resigned atmosphere it has.

itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

voted for bitties in the bk lounge

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

having same difficulty as dan

D@n P3rry is the drummer on Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

have eliminated anything starting with skit

D@n P3rry is the drummer on Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

oodles of o's
pease porridge
a roller skating jam named "saturdays"
bitties in the bk lounge
millie pulled a pistol on santa
ring ring ring(ha ha hey)
shwingalokate
keepin' the faith

I could easily vote for any of these

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

although IIRC I am also kind of tempted to vote for "skit 2", lol

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

Saturdays. Then lots of other great songs. But Saturdays. Really.

EZ Snappin, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

ehhh im so tired of saturdays that my votes going somewhere else, prob bitties tbh

D@n P3rry is the drummer on Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

Keepin the Faith

Trip Maker, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

oodles of o's
bitties in the bk lounge
millie pulled a pistol on santa
ring ring ring(ha ha hey)

argh this is difficult

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

If I listen to this again to remind myself of all the tracks I'll never be able to choose so I'll go with the one that's gotten the most repeat play over the years, ie Millie.

Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

album's all of a piece, very consistent. hard to pick a high point (but yeah probably not one of the skits, altho they are essential to the album in general)

I'm bored, I think I'll become a beatnik (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

oh man but i love who do u worship

69, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

oh well i voted saturdays

69, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

Bitties.

T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

"yo what's up?"
"hey what's up jeff?"
"yo guess what i found, i found a 'de la soul' tape in the garbage!"
"c'mon let's hear it!"
"why you gotta be like that?!"
"c'mon jeff!"
"NO!"
"what's up cocksnot? how ya doing buddy? what do you have here bud?"
"leave me alone, don't touch me!
"sucker!"
"listen you little arsenio hall gum having punk!"
"ooohhh! you let him call you arsenio!"
"No, no!"
"i want the tape!"
"It's mine!"
"Jeff!"
"Jeff's getting played!!!"
"Bodyslamm'im Jeff!"
"NOW! I've got the new De La Soul tape! hey dicksnot, buttcrust, get over here!"
"What's up baby?"
"Coolin'!"
"What's happening? I just got this De La Soul tape man, slammin'. Where's the box! The box!"
"Yo, let's get with the shilsnilhilsnobilsno!"
"I got the bidox, let's do this like Brutus!"

thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

^that is classic

Trip Maker, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

wellllllllllllllllll it was a wednesday

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Every time my iPod shuffle chose "Millie..." I smiled.

Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

"Pease Porridge", though I don't love this album as much as its predecessor or (esp.) its successor.

Euler, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

fwiw I cannot tell you what roughly a third-to-a-half of the lyrics on this album are about at all

I'm bored, I think I'll become a beatnik (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

a large chunk of them are basically about how, despite being hippy beatniks, they are more than ready to beat the shit out of fools and have mad indiscriminate sex with foxy ladies

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

"Pease Porridge", though I don't love this album as much as its predecessor or (esp.) its successor.

― Euler, Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

another challenging opinion about de la soul albums

69, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

haha challop is as challop does
(not sure what that means but it sounded good)

Euler, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

When I'm not brushing my teeth with Didi 7 I'm listening to the doo doo man on wrms rap de rap show.

Trip Maker, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

p-p-put it on vibrate

69, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

we sellin' oodles and oodles of o's, y'all
we sellin' oodles and oodles of o's, y'all
we sellin' o's, y'all
we sellin' o's, y'all
we sellin' o's at the corner store, y'all

thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

voted bitties

some dude, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:22 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah, oodles of o's is sort of the best

69, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

really? that's one of the few songy-songs on the album that is just kinda there for me

some dude, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:33 (sixteen years ago)

The opening of that song instantly made me fall in love with the entire album.

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

Super classic song opening. This whole album is just the best.

Trip Maker, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

so tough to pick!

carne asada, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sfdTVCA_A

o_O

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

(crocker!)

btw

carne asada, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

first impulse is millie or bitties, but i haven't listened to this in so long. which i should do anyway.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

haha btw skit 2 is the skit I was tempted to vote for

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

love how the 808 kicks in on Afro connections

carne asada, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

hey
how ya doin
sorry you can't get through
why don't you leave your name
and your number
and I'll get back to you

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

my college roommates and i sang that as our answering machine message.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

i had that shit on my answering machine even!!

carne asada, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

lol xp

carne asada, Friday, 22 January 2010 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

WHO'S THE DOO DOO MAN?

sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:54 (sixteen years ago)

I alternated between using that and a creepy movie soundbite sampled by a Doubting Thomas song that slammed religion.

Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

xpost yea i played the boombox into the answering machine and those who could understand it thought it was A+

thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

^^ of ring ring ring that is

thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

its a tuff one, think for the final 4 comes down as

a roller skating jam named "saturdays"
bitties in the bk lounge
millie pulled a pistol on santa
ring ring ring(ha ha hey)

most likely millie or saturdays, but dammn as much as i love millie this took me aback "Every time my iPod shuffle chose "Millie..." I smiled."
well i love the song but don't know if smiles are what come to my face when i hear it start

H in Addis, Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

"no, no."
"yo but, but yo biddies was kinda cool, it's kinda fly."
"biddies? uh maybe if you was to flip it on '45' so i could dance to it, it would be slammin. it's wack! wack!"
"i give that one props gee!"
"why y'all dissin it? i kinda like it man."
KA POW
"yo gee, stop hitting him man!"
"on to the next one on to the next one!"
"he keeps hitting me man."

thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

Everything about this poll makes me so, so happy. This is one of the few albums from the Native Tongues/jazz-rap/"happy rap" era of hip-hop that I feel I haven't outgrown. It's so thematically rich—and so much fun—that I find new surprises every time I hear it. Plus there's so many good-to-great songs hidden in the album's final third that it's hard to wear the album out.

I gotta go with "Pass the Plugs" though. That's the one that best captures the disillusionment that binds the album.

Evan R, Friday, 29 January 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

pease porridge

ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:57 (fifteen years ago)

love the way MF Doom flips the Pease Porridge beat on the third verse of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5XiXOXQdyA

ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)

2:00 in

ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)

"let, let me in" because, coincidentally, I have been singing it for the past two or three days.

she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)

Whiney unfortunately that's the best song on that album (most of which is pretty tired)

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

"Blaahh! Oh man this album sucks! They're starting to sound like M.C. Shan's. I don't like it."
"I know. That jam 'who do you worship?' man, what they on, some old devilish shit or something?"
"What's up? Afros got a slammin' beat, but what are they sayin'?"
"Yo Afros is wack!"
POW
"Why don't you stop fuckin' with him man!"
"Listen I'm hemroid, I'm the leader, now put the tape back in and give me the box!"
"Punk."

Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

kinda think the "buhloone is their masterpiece" can be downgraded to regular opinion, been hearing this from people all decade and it's the default position of bloggers like noz and martorialist

of course 3 feet high is still the big important record for the kitchen-sink sampling and the expansion of that middle-class rap tradition run-dmc->public enemy->de la that faded from the mainstream after gangsta rap's triumph where you didn't mention like that you went to art school anymore (no asher)

men lie, women lie, hips don't (zvookster), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

"kinda think the "buhloone is their masterpiece" can be downgraded to regular opinion, been hearing this from people all decade and it's the default position of bloggers like noz and martorialist"

I'm surprised to hear this, because although I agree, it's not an opinion that's ever met with a great deal of agreement, at least in my experience.

As far as this album, maybe "Bitties..."? Tough call.

King of Snake (j-rock), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

ha ha ha, i had to laugh

mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

I like "Buhloone" better too. I think they expanded their sound a lot on that one. Also, I'm not usually a big fan of skits.

o. nate, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

skits on 3 feet high > your life

men lie, women lie, hips don't (zvookster), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

Probably - but that's setting a pretty low bar.

o. nate, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)

lol aw <3

men lie, women lie, hips don't (zvookster), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

excuse me could you take my order please i've got to go
shoshonna's got a real job, dag don't you know

Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

o. nate: http://danteross.com/blogs/jzone/2009/07/13/j-zones-top-8-most-perplexing-hip-hop-skits/

^recommend!

men lie, women lie, hips don't (zvookster), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

Hmm - that's interesting. I didn't realize that 3 Feet High is credited with pioneering hip hop skits. I guess they get points for influence then. I mean their skits are good examples of the form, and it's kind of hard to separate them from the songs, which often begin or end as skits. I guess I should like them - but they seem kind of extra-musical to me - like they have more in common with the golden age of radio and drama than with music per se. I just rarely find myself wanting to listen to a skit, I guess.

o. nate, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

hip hop skits begin and end with De La for me, everyone else's are pretty much boring/worthless... its weird how pervasive they were for awhile there. do rappers still bother with them, now that they don't have to worry about filling entire albums anymore?

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

"So while Grimace and Ronald McDonald are inside spreading a positive image of America’s #1 chain, JD is outside jackin for transpo."

hahahaha

Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

"'94 Ho Draft" by Warren G is one of my favorite skits

i get mines the fast way, the balaclava way (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

"Stop It! Stop It! I can't take it anymore"
"C'mon man chill, chill, just hear the rest of the shit!"

Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Friday, 5 February 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

"That's it? That's all? VanDamme! What happened? What happened to the pimps? What happened to the guns? What happened to the curse words? That's what rap music is all about right?"
"Right."
"That little bastard Jeff found this crocka in the right place . . ."
"GARBAGE!"
"De La Soul is dead! Let's be out. Yeah, let's get the crocka outta here!"
"Word, let's go play Hammer!"

Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Friday, 12 February 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

I voted for Roller Skating Jam Called "Saturdays" I just got hold of Instant Funk's self titled album. The other day I was listening through for the first time and got a great surprise when the first track started, it took me like 20 seconds to realise it was the Roller Skating Jam intro sample.

Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

And Instant Funk's trumpet player (Larry Davis) produced L'Trimm's "Cars that Go Boom"

fat ass idiot butt munch (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 20 February 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 21 February 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

i voted for hey love but rollerskating jam is every bit as good

on in the b.g. while you're grouting (stevie), Sunday, 21 February 2010 00:11 (fifteen years ago)

so is Kicked Out the House just a straight/diss parody of the Jungle Bros or what

mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 March 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

yes

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Monday, 1 March 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

reappreciating this atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1-naHt1aA

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

Youth's 'Disco Fever' mix of Saturdays = still one of my favourite records ever.

piscesx, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:26 (thirteen years ago)

Was this album ever re-released in a deluxe package? I'd love to hear a thoughtful remaster of it; always felt the original CD mix was a little flat

Evan R, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:32 (thirteen years ago)

A deluxe package would be awesome since there were so many b-sides and remixes from this, but WMG owns those masters now and it's hard to imagine they'd put money behind something like that.

Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:34 (thirteen years ago)

it's sad, this (and every De La album except Grind Date) isn't on Spotify

some dude, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:10 (thirteen years ago)

I think that's also down to WMG. They don't really want to fuck with any albums with which there may be unresolved sampling issues. If any of those albums were made available on Spotify, they'd be opening themselves up to legal action.

Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:29 (thirteen years ago)

I listened to all of 3 Feet High & Rising on Grooveshark last week. Just sayin'.

pplains, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:33 (thirteen years ago)

xp ugh, that's terrible. I just realized this isn't even available on iTunes. This album means the world to me; kind of sad to realize how many people will never hear it b/c it's only available in a really un-enticing, outdated CD package

Evan R, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:10 (thirteen years ago)

i still own the weird cassette version with a few songs missing and a weird saxophone remix of "Ring Ring Ring" tacked on at the end

some dude, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

Kind easy to forget how damn long this album must have seemed at the time; this was essentially a double album by the standards of 1991. Can only imagine hearing it on cassette

Evan R, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

mm a long album with skits taking the piss out of you all the way through. that you could *read along with*.

piscesx, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

3 Feet High & Rising was on in Starbucks the other day and I marveled at how long it's been since I listened to it. Must have been one of the albums I listened to most in college.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 20:01 (thirteen years ago)

mm a long album with skits taking the piss out of you all the way through.

I disagree with this, of course. The skits weren't insulting the listener. But neither were they patting the listener on the back for being smart/tasteful enough to "get it," the way so many other '90s alt-rap albums did (or the way, say, a Community episode does). It was a generally angry album, but there was nothing condescending or calculated about that anger; it was just a spleen vent

Evan R, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 21:29 (thirteen years ago)

the way so many other '90s alt-rap albums did

exactly what albums are you referring to?

It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:48 (thirteen years ago)

Jurassic 5, early Black Eyed Peas, any of those acts that patted their own listeners on the back for listening to "real hip-hop"

Evan R, Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:32 (thirteen years ago)

i still own the weird cassette version with a few songs missing and a weird saxophone remix of "Ring Ring Ring" tacked on at the end

― some dude, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:16 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last tape i bought before i got my first cd player

lag∞n, Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:39 (thirteen years ago)

xp ugh, that's terrible. I just realized this isn't even available on iTunes. This album means the world to me; kind of sad to realize how many people will never hear it b/c it's only available in a really un-enticing, outdated CD package

― Evan R, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 7:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is however available in the comments section of the first search result for:

phish "de la soul is dead"

i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:44 (thirteen years ago)

These guys have never made a bad record. I rocked The Grind Date two weeks ago and still marveled.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:47 (thirteen years ago)

agreed, alfred. though i think buhloone mindstate might be my favourite.

It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:38 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

having just picked up a copy i agree w/ the buhloone consensus

the late great, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 05:13 (twelve years ago)


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