Wow!



Scary, VERY scary how the years flew by. I swear I remember the day where I stood in front of Tower Records before it opened, @ the day of the album release. I knew I couldn't wait to go back home, so I brought the walkman with me. Bought the shit and listened to it FULLY....

I still remember the goose bumps I felt the 1st time I heard the album's opening lines...

It's funny how money change a situation
Miscommunication leads to complication

I'll NEVER as long as I live 4get how hyped I felt that morning, I was on the verge of acting the damn fool.

I miss those days....

Girl I miss this sista and great music like this!!! But I still have Jill Scott and Erika Badu and Ledsi!!!

I hate how she fell off all together.

I know, it seem like just yesterday I was readin Blaze magazine, listenin to Lauryn Hill, waiting for Def Squad to drop.

10 years!!!
Who does she think she is? Kate Bush?

Release something!

I feel old....I think it was late summer when it came out?

Harlepolis said:

I hear ya...I had just started working at the Virgin Megastore in the summer of '98 and I remember when this came in the Monday before and I cracked one open to listen to! I could not wait...

Those were the days..1998 and working at Virgin is when my musical horizons really broadened....groups like Daft Punk, Air, Portishead...I would have never bothered listening to if I didnt work there...some other greats from '98 were...

Garbage - 'Version 2.0' --I still listen to this album! Every song is a winner
Madonna - 'Ray of Light' --A great era for her...
Air - 'Moon Safari' --beautiful beautiful album
Whitney Houston --'My Love Is Your Love' --her best album..hands down
Shakira -- 'Donde Estan Los Ladrones' --her best album hands down!!!!!
Gloria Estefan - 'Gloria' --Non stop Miami disco...I lost weight to this album!
Alanis Morrisette - 'Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' --great album

so many more I cant even think of...but man...it was a fun year!

...

I remember the excitement I used to feel when one of my favorite artists released a new album.In the 80s,I wasn't able to sleep the night before a new Prince album came out I really miss those days.

As for 'Miseducation'....I bought it the week it was released.That album is a masterpiece....one of the few truly brilliant albums of the 90s.

Good times, good times...

Since their duet on this album, D'Angelo has released a studio album and Lauryn hasn't. Now that's slow...

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

It actually seems a lot older than that to me! She's been gone foreeeeever.

sosgemini said:

That duet with Tonya Blunt on Sparrow still bring heavy tears to my eyes

Seem like jus yesterday
I was gettin reeeal tired
of hearing "The Boy Is Mine"
on the radio
every day

Cinnie said:

One of the biggest #1's of all-time, and I think most people have forgotten about it.

Probably the last contemporary R&B album I was interested in. Man, time is flying.

Moonbeam said:

Me too. I had been waiting for her to make something as good as this again, but it's yet to happen and I have lost hope. This was such a damn good album.

I loved how she kept it raw, the flat notes and imperfect harmonies. I remember when she said in an interview that she kept it that way inspite of encouragement to polish it. She wanted to capture the moment, the emotion.
1998 was actually a fairly exciting time in music, for me at least.

Adisa said:

One element in Mis-Education that keeps it different from anything else @ the time; sincerity. She wore her heart on her sleeve, thats what people kept trying to capture in their music but failed.

I bought that album off Amazon for a buck.