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

As a Yank, Oasis we’re never quite the phenomenon over here as there which makes it a bit easier for me to not have to think about the hype nor forget that it was the soundtrack to my youth which it wasn’t. That said, I’ve heard it a bunch along with WTSMG so I have thoughts . . .

BTW is this our first repeat band?
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
As a Yank, Oasis we’re never quite the phenomenon over here as there which makes it a bit easier for me to not have to think about the hype nor forget that it was the soundtrack to my youth which it wasn’t. That said, I’ve heard it a bunch along with WTSMG so I have thoughts . . .

BTW is this our first repeat band?
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Threepeat, if you include Noel.
 
I couldn’t wait for this album to come out, having already heard Supersonic and Shakermaker as the lead singles. Loved the album immediately (although not a fan of Bring It on Down), but when that first note to Slide Away kicked in, I was blown away. Still one of my favourite-ever tunes
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
I think I’m going to be very unpopular, this round.
I’m on first listen and I’m struggling.
I’ll try my best to get through this as objectively as possible and put some coherent thoughts together, but listening to Liam Gallagher is not my idea of fun.
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At least there's 2 of us.

It will get 3 listens, as always. Open mind and all that.
 
BimboBob said:
At least there's 2 of us.

It will get 3 listens, as always. Open mind and all that.
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I’m struggling through the first listen and I’m getting dirty looks from the missus, who’s not overjoyed by them either.

I was starting to think it might be fairer if I just bow out of this one.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
I’m struggling through the first listen and I’m getting dirty looks from the missus, who’s not overjoyed by them either.

I was starting to think it might be fairer if I just bow out of this one.
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Don't you dare leave me!

Try and give it a listen with headphones, without the ogre...erm...missus giving you evils!

Got to give it a proper go mate...
 
BimboBob said:
Don't you dare leave me!

Try and give it a listen with headphones, without the ogre...erm...missus giving you evils!

Got to give it a proper go mate...
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Initial impressions?
Pretty much what I’ve always thought and why I’ve never bothered with any of their albums.
However, it is true that familiarity breeds contempt.
I’ve read BH’s personal comments on each song as I go and I will agree with him regarding the stuff he regards as underrated.
I think I prefer the unfamiliar.
The stuff I haven’t been saturated with and continually told is the most brilliant ever while I scratch my head saying, why? What am I missing?
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
Initial impressions?
Pretty much what I’ve always thought and why I’ve never bothered with any of their albums.
However, it is true that familiarity breeds contempt.
I’ve read BH’s personal comments on each song as I go and I will agree with him regarding the stuff he regards as underrated.
I think I prefer the unfamiliar.
The stuff I haven’t been saturated with and continually told is the most brilliant ever while I scratch my head saying, why? What am I missing?
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By contrast, as I was writing that above, the next song came on and I thought hold on, this sounds much more interesting.
Yeah. The album was over though and Spotify offered up The Arctic Monkeys instead. Much less bland.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
Initial impressions?
Pretty much what I’ve always thought and why I’ve never bothered with any of their albums.
However, it is true that familiarity breeds contempt.
I’ve read BH’s personal comments on each song as I go and I will agree with him regarding the stuff he regards as underrated.
I think I prefer the unfamiliar.
The stuff I haven’t been saturated with and continually told is the most brilliant ever while I scratch my head saying, why? What am I missing?
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It's the adulation for simple song writing, a splash of plagiarism and the musical skills of a pub band that I find weird. And I’ve not even mentioned the singing.

I was working abroad when all this hit, so didn't get the hoo har.

Will still give it a go though.
 
Not missing out on scoring this one, as it will be a first for me....The Master Plan, is my second favourite album of theirs, the rest I find 'mid' as my kids would say.
However, this (wonderwall aside, only due to being overplayed everywhere) blows me away everytime I listen to it, Colombia, closely followed by Supersonic, I will never tire of hearing.
10.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
OT (sorry I know there was a thread about this, but so what), I saw this today:



Personally I would say Eddie VH is the greatest ever, and it's nice to see some love for Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and this list is missing Bob Mould, and Pete Townshend should be higher up . . . but my most visceral reaction was HOW THE FUCKING FUCK DOES THE EDGE MAKE THIS LIST????
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Not sure who she is or what qualifies the list but I have skimmed this twice now;

Where is Rory..............!?!
 
Be really interesting to look at the ages of the high and low scorers on this one. Obviously they really rode and to some degree defined the zeitgeist at that moment. I suspect I was simply a bit too old and had heard a bit too much to buy into it. I don't know if I'd have been in my teens or early twenties whether they'd have resonated more.

My dad died a couple of months before this was released and in a sense that had aged me a little bit further by the time this arrived. Anyway I'm drifting into context I said I would ignore.
 
Their best album. Sounds like their label mates My Bloody Valentine but where Loveless sounded like a mermaid falling into a black hole, Definitely Maybe sounded like fag ends swirling around in a pint glass that's been shook up - in the best way. A proper rock and roll record made by (at the time) a sensitive young songwriter with a football fan in his heart and his loutish brother who hides nothing of his yobbish nature. This is as good as it got.

8/10.
 
youngbob said:
Their best album. Sounds like their label mates My Bloody Valentine but where Loveless sounded like a mermaid falling into a black hole, Definitely Maybe sounded like fag ends swirling around in a pint glass that's been shook up - in the best way. A proper rock and roll record made by (at the time) a sensitive young songwriter with a football fan in his heart and his loutish brother who hides nothing of his yobbish nature. This is as good as it got.

8/10.
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Grace, out the same year.
Just saying.
 
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