Pretentious bong music for pot-head students since 1970-something.



I swear that if I ever hear any Pink Floyd played in my presence, I walk away. Their music makes me feel physically sick.

LightOfArt said:

Steely Dan's 'Do It Again'

SUPRMAN said:

hmm, the percussions on the steely record does remind me of BJ's bass line

GirlBrother said:

LightOfArt said:

MJ told Darryl Hall that he had copped the bassline from Hall and Oates I Can't Go For That

GirlBrother said:

Agreed. The whole Pink Floyd thing escapes me completely and ironically I have this album. It spent 20 years on the charts or something, there must be something there, right?? I tried it. Maybe even twice. Just thoroughly underwhelmed and by it's status.

mynameisnotsusan said:

Darrly must have been on acid

GirlBrother said:

It's actually a good album (with one waste of space song near the beginning) but you are right, it is one of the most overrated albums of all time.

mynameisnotsusan said:

that's closer than the bass line on Do It Again. But Billie Jean is a really simple bass line. I am sure it appears in dozens of songs.

daPrettyman said:

It may touch the soul but that does not mean that it is soulful. The thing with "Thriller" is that it had to have one or two songs to make it marketable to all demographics. But, I would STILL label it a "pop" album, more than an R&B album. "Off The Wall", on the other hand, is a straight up R&B album.

Mars23 said:

Regarding the Lauryn, I would say this. When she first came on the scene, she was basically a rapper. It was not until she sang bits and pieces of songs, that people began to take notice that this girl could sing as well. This is where I think the trouble started. People were like, "You need to release an entire cd of you singing. When she did, and it got the response it did, she could not handle it. After that, some may have started to think, "Maybe this ISN'T as great as people thought. Hype does allot for an artist and their material. For me, if the less hype that an album has behind it, the better it is. "Off The Wall did not have as much of the hype as "Thriller" did. This is why I think it all of the songs on it can be played now, 26 years later. If it weren't for MJ's passing I don't think one could say the same for "Thriller".

Moonbeam said:

Incidentally, I love The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. The only bit that annoys me is during one of the segues and "the teacher" says, 'There ain't no song called "Love"'... I always feel like shouting, 'What about the John Lennon song?'... But maybe that's just me.

shorttrini said:

then what makes a song soulful?

My wife suggested this one;


Alanis' "Jagged Little Pill"

shorttrini said:

When she first came on the scene, she was singing in Sister Act 2. It wasn't until the first Fugees album that we got to hear her rap.

minneapolisFunq said:

To me the early Prince records were much more influential than any one artist at that time. He had a distinct sound that was being flagrantly emulated all over the music spectrum and when you heard it, you knew who it was or "who" they were copying.

MJ was producing very polished well made music, but to me it didn't sound too different from most everything on the radio at the time, maybe that's why it was so popular, because it was familiar, comfortable and accessible,
The Hall & Oats youtube posted previously, says a lot.
Dirty Mind was anything but familiar, comfortable and accessible.

I agree with Cinnie, you cant overate music that completely changed the game.

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AlexdeParis said:

True, but she was doing more rapping than singing...

shorttrini said:

I get ur point about Thriller, but do you honestly think OTW is "straight up" r&b? To me, OTW is the transitional disco/dance/r&b album. Think about it, songs like "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Workin' Day and Night", "Rock With You", "Get On The Floor", and "Burn This Disco Out". were more dance/disco songs with a funky bass and beat. Whereas, "She's Out of My Life", and "Girlfriend" are straight up pop. "I Can't Help It" is a "straight up" r&b track.

AlexdeParis said:

Don't forget the acting gig on the soap opera. Not to mention her Showtime At the Apollo performances.

thriller and death magnetic weren't worth the hype. highly overrated albums.

mynameisnotsusan said:

One of my favorite albums ever. I don't think it's possible to overrate this album.

With subjective subjects like these no one wins or loses. Everyone likes what they like and some don't approve if a certain album is actually succesful and sells or has sold a lot of copies

daPrettyman said:

You call her appearance on The Appollo, singing? If I recall, she heard mostly boo's. She had not come into her own yet.

PurpleJedi said:

radio so played the shit out of this record in the 90s, I can't bear to hear a note of it today. I can honestly say I HATE it

shorttrini said:

There were boos in the beginning, then they got into her. It wasn't "professional", but she can honestly say she's an "Apollo Legend".
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Like I said, this was Lauryn's big break:

GirlBrother said:

SoulAlive said:

I love Girlfriend

I prefer the demo version of The Girl Is Mine over the released version

ViintageJunkiie said:

Truthfully i don't even listen to that cd. I have a close friend
who says it just collects dust in her collection as well. I dig That's the
Way Love Goes, What i do, and Funky big band most.

SoulAlive said:

Most definitely. I also like Controversy and Dirty Mind better too but
1999 is his best imo.