Fugees - The Score

either "The Mask" or "How Many Mics." Shit, I haven't heard this in years.

"How Many Mics" no question

major soft spot for "zealots", might go with that

Family Business is my favorite

fugees - fu gee la

Easily "How Many Mics." But "The Beast" is kind of a sleeper.

The score

You stand stiff and got the nerve to let your man riff
(We know where to run)

fu-gee-la

this album is so fucking good tho

yeah this is p impossible to poll.

there's at least five i love about as much as each other

2,3 or 9 but can't rly pick tbh

cowboys

This album is so great. Will probably have to go for Fu-gee-la but it could easily be The Beast, The Score or Cowboys. No Woman No Cry is the only song I might skip.

Some days I think I might actually like this album more than the Lauryn Hill one.

i always like wyclef's 'carnival' best tho for whatever reason

When this record came out my mom wouldn't let me buy it because it had a parental advisory so I went and bought it with my dad.

the score/the mask/cowboys is such a great little run.

"Cowboys" was the first song I heard from this, on a rap radio show, which made the Biggie verse even stronger.

(faux-Biggie)

listening to this album after not hearing it for years i had forgotten how fucking stoned the production is, the loose way that voices loop in and out of each other, interrupt each other. everything eliding at these sweet spots. nothing really sharply delineated but instead accumulating and dispersing. so melodic.

the sound of the beast is so awesomely grinding and insistent

yeah but even the beast is full of slippery surfaces.

i thought way more people would be into talking about this here. this album is so good. some current that runs through everything.

"ready or not" is like top 10 of all time for me

WHY YOU IMITATIN AL CAPONE
I BE NINA SIMONE

fugeela is the best obv but tempted to vote for zealots because of the flamingos sample and pras' verse

i was heavy into the carnival my freshman year of college. listening to it now and it's funny how much of it i have no memory of at all but there's some good stuff on here too

Carnival needs a poll

oh man I forgot about "Zealots"

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I feel like the dope as fuck version of "Killing Me Softly" (and if you didn't bump that shit a million times in 96, gtfo) gets short shrift here but it's hard to vote for because it's such an obvious outlier.

"and if you didn't bump that shit a million times in 96, gtfo"

OTM

omg when i heard this song for the first time i thought that there had and never could be anyone w a voice as beautiful as lauryn hill. my sister bought the single and then would never let me play it.

0 for "The Mask"!

Also presently have the "Zealots" line stuck in my head:
"And while you're munchin' at your luncheon I'll be plannin' your assasination"

OTM lazy delivery u&k there

rev otfm, I feel like this version of KMS is kind of one of the all time great covers

ON THE TOWN THE BEAST IS LOOSE

everything's gonna be alright
fugees come to the dance tonight

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2013/12/fugees-killing-me-softly/

Fuck off, 6

halfway through first listen and damn, the chinese restaurant skit at the end of "The Beast" is racist as fuck. could never get away with that these days. also, wow, pras really is as bad a rapper as everyone says he is. hahaha trying their damndest to make "i only have eyes for you" by the flamingos a sampleable song but that's just trying too hard.

I don't think Pras is a bad rapper, but he's such a third wheel on this album that it's painful. Missing on a bunch of tracks, no verbal interplay with the other members, and always tacked on last.

naw, "Zealots" is the jam

like 2/3 of this album is whatever tho

Family Business is my favorite Fugges deep album cut

really xp? i think this is p close to a perfect album. Cowboys is the only song I don't really care for.

and it's still good

Love "How Many Mics"/"Ready or Not"/"Zealots"/"Fu-Gee-La"/"Killing Me Softly", "Cowboys" is cool, could do without the rest. Mind you I haven't listened to it in its entirety in a long time. A lot of it is more drab than you'd expect iirc. I prefer Wyclef and Lauryn's solo debuts.

'Ready or Not'

This album is still great, especially considering that pretty much everyone involved with the creation of it either went nuts or became a joke.

:-/