The Album Review Club - Week #192 (page 1292) - 3ft High & Rising - De La Soul

FogBlueInSanFran said:
My wife, oddly enough, really enjoyed this record and remembered a lot of it from college too. Of course we went to the same school and had the same friends so . . .
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Mrs Spires been reliving her youth on this one. Unimpressed with some of the low scores, mind she thinks we're all odd for scoring them in the first place :-)
 
threespires said:
Mrs Spires been reliving her youth on this one. Unimpressed with some of the low scores, mind she thinks we're all odd for scoring them in the first place :-)
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It's a bugger updating the ever-lengthening table every week.

Joking aside, what are peoples feelings on this? Should we drop the scoring after this round?
 
RobMCFC said:
It's a bugger updating the ever-lengthening table every week.

Joking aside, what are peoples feelings on this? Should we drop the scoring after this round?
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For all it's imperfections I think the scoring makes at least some people think about their views a bit deeper. Personally I'd be inclined to keep it, nothing to do with me not wanting to be bottom of the ladder in perpetuity of course!

(Maybe put it in the cloud and recruit a couple of Roberts Little Helpers to share the admin?)
 
As someone who looks from the outside I think you should keep the scoring going but I will bet you don't get another album in the top 5. There's enough people reviewing that there will always be a couple of posters who won't like the choice. That's what it's all about though. I can think of one album which I'm surprised hasn't been put up that I think could score high. Much easier to think of loads that wouldn't
 
ALL MOD CONS

I was a big fan of The Jam back in the day, saw them at the Apollo on the ‘In The City Tour’
I still listen to them today and my Mrs is quite a fan too,however my go to album is the compilation’Snap’
I don’t tend to listen to their other albums nowadays but ‘Setting Sons ‘ was probably my favourite.I had this album at the time but other than the tracks on ‘Snap’ I’ve not listened to it in decades.
It’s got some great songs , some good songs and a few fillers.Although Weller gets all the plaudits there would been no Jam without Foxton.

Good to hear it again BB

7/10
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
Who's Next is my favourite of theirs from start to finish.

After finding only a few tracks from there on one of their GH compilations, I made my own which included the rest of the album. Not a clunker on there, IMO.
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Who’s Next is in my personal top 20 albums; think it was top 10 in the last list I did for this forum.
 
RobMCFC said:
It's a bugger updating the ever-lengthening table every week.

Joking aside, what are peoples feelings on this? Should we drop the scoring after this round?
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Scoring is a useful short hand but this shouldn’t be a competition and I’m not the biggest fan of having to assign a number to an album.

I’d say drop it for the next round and see how we get on.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Bit harsh that OB, The Who and the Kinks are two of the greatest bands of all time(and not just British) to compare the Jam with them two colossals isn't fair in my book. I know Weller was massively influenced by both of these bands and took quite a lot from them both( So much Kinks influence on this album especially) The thing is, Kinks,Who,Beatles etc inspired most bands that followed them, I just think the Jam were brilliant at making their own sound whilst nickin bits of this and that along the way. For me, they were the best British band in that late 70s early 80s era. This album is dynamite! There isn't a weak track. I personally love In the crowd, yes, Weller ripped a massive rift from Johnny Thunder by the Kinks but he did it in style. Mr Clean is Weller at his angriest best and to finish the album on A bomb on Wardour St is to finish in style. A truly majestic album which along with Setting Sons, is in my top 10. The only minor gripe I have with it is David Watts. Now for me,this version is possibly even better than the original(more edgy/angry) but I wish he'd of written one himself instead of(possibly) using a filler..just like Heatwave on Setting sons. Don't come much better in my eyes. 9.5/10.
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I don’t think it is harsh, if you take inspiration from other bands, it is inevitable that you will get compared to them.

It should be fairly obvious that I would never class the Jam the best British band of any era; any further comment from me though will derail the thread.
 
OB1 said:
I don’t think it is harsh, if you take inspiration from other bands, it is inevitable that you will get compared to them.

It should be fairly obvious that I would never class the Jam the best British band of any era; any further comment from me though will derail the thread.
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I think you've misinterpreted what I was saying OB. I meant it's harsh to compare the Jam to The who/kinks/Beatles/Stone etc because they're basically the greatest bands of all time. But maybe I misinterpreted your post pal.
 
RobMCFC said:
It's a bugger updating the ever-lengthening table every week.

Joking aside, what are peoples feelings on this? Should we drop the scoring after this round?
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We should change nothing. The scoring forces you to take a stand!

I mean it’s not too hard to get a good score — just pick a very popular record that everyone knows and most like. I am indifferent to whether someone does that or picks something new and/or obscure I don’t know.

They’re both fun.
 
Mancitydoogle said:
Providing Rob’s happy to continue putting in the hard hours, keep the scoring it’s fun and possibly gives a slight clue to any newcomers wanting to listen to any previous nominations.
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Very true, they could look at Skinner's score and also deduce the thread is full of divs
:-))
 
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