Off Topic · OT: What is your favorite album(s) of all time. (page 1)

Mines is easy, it have to be Raekwon's "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx......."

It was the perfect album, defiently the best solo albums from everybody in the Wu. Raekwon Lyricism was on point the whole entire album, his flow was so sweet, he couldn't be stop on that album. He defined what the 90's was about in that 1 hour. The best songs was "Incarcerated Scarfaces", "Wu Gambinos", " Knowledge God", "Ice water".

Raekwon - Criminology


Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces


Raekwon - Ice Cream


What's your favorite?

[Edited by - CDB on 07-19-2007 11:27 AM]

[Edited by - CDB on 07-19-2007 11:28 AM]

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
AC/DC - Back in Black
Rush - Moving Pictures
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Tupac - All Eyez on Me
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Naughty By Nature - Naughty By Nature
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Michael Jackson - Thriller (come on, you know you listened to that sh__ when you were little)

[Edited by - TMS on 07-19-2007 12:59 PM]

Loved Thriller, I was scared of the video when I was younger though lol.

DMX - its hot and hell is hot

2pac - All Eyez on Me.

Is this thread limited to Hip-Hop?

You can put any kind of album you want, Rock, R&B, Jazz, Country, etc.

[Edited by - CDB on 07-19-2007 12:00 PM]

My favorite song of all time and not too many people know about it

^^^Love that song. Cant wait for Lost Tapes pt2.

[Edited by - CDB on 07-19-2007 12:02 PM]

Nas= Illmatic/Stillmatic
Rakim= Paid in Full/Follow the leader
Ghostface= Supreme Clientele
Raekwon= Cuban Linx
AZ= Doe or Die
Public Enemy= It takes a nation of millions
Wu-tang= 36 chambers
Earth wind and Fire= Best of
Prince= Purple Rain
EPMD (first three albums)
Redman= What thee album
Michael Jackson= Thriller
Denise Williams= Best of..
Big Pun= Capitol punishment

BTW, CDB...dont hold your breath for that Lost tapes 2. Its been rumored to be coming for the last 5 years. I just make my own Lost tapes with Rare Nas songs.

[Edited by - bigbeast on 19-07-2007 12:17 PM]

[Edited by - bigbeast on 19-07-2007 12:31 PM]

[Edited by - bigbeast on 19-07-2007 1:24 PM]

lol yeah but they were saying that it was coming late this year...hopefully. Im still waiting on the Nas & Premo album and the Nas & Az album but I doubt that they will come out even though that would be fire.

Listen to the song "GHETTO Life and BUSTIN OUT"
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[Edited by - playa2 on 19-07-2007 12:31]

Posted by CDB:

lol yeah but they were saying that it was coming late this year...hopefully. Im still waiting on the Nas & Premo album and the Nas & Az album but I doubt that they will come out even though that would be fire.

I'm a big Premo fan, but I'm not sure I want an entire Nas album produced by Premo. Maybe half by Premo, and the other half by Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Large Professor, Rza, Kanye etc. As much As I like Stillmatic, Lost tapes, and even It was written, I'm still waiting on a real follow up to Illmatic. I need one more grimey album from Nas in the vien of Illmatic but updated obvioulsy.

Also, since Nas and Cormega are cool again, wouldn't mind seeing a Firm II album with Nas, Mega, AZ and Nature. But that makes too much sense to happen.

Posted by bigbeast:

Posted by CDB:

lol yeah but they were saying that it was coming late this year...hopefully. Im still waiting on the Nas & Premo album and the Nas & Az album but I doubt that they will come out even though that would be fire.

I'm a big Premo fan, but I'm not sure I want an entire Nas album produced by Premo. Maybe half by Premo, and the other half by Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Large Professor, Rza, Kanye etc. As much As I like Stillmatic, Lost tapes, and even It was written, I'm still waiting on a real follow up to Illmatic. I need one more grimey album from Nas in the vien of Illmatic but updated obvioulsy.

Also, since Nas and Cormega are cool again, wouldn't mind seeing a Firm II album with Nas, Mega, AZ and Nature. But that makes too much sense to happen.

I never thought that Marley Marl was a good producer. He was really overrated. As far as a Firm album, the main problem would be getting AZ with Nas. Mega and Nature speak to each other. As a matter of fact Nature is going to be Mega's next album.

Mine is a tie:

Jeff Buckley- Grace
U2- Achtung Baby

Other All Time Favorites:
Elbow- Leaders of the Free World
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Kinks- Something Else by the Kinks
Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation of Millions
Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory
Travis- The Invisible Band
U2- The Joshua Tree
U2- Zooropa
British Sea Power- Open Season

And holy cow there's a lot more...I better stop before I list too many.

Posted by BigC:

Posted by bigbeast:

Posted by CDB:

lol yeah but they were saying that it was coming late this year...hopefully. Im still waiting on the Nas & Premo album and the Nas & Az album but I doubt that they will come out even though that would be fire.

I'm a big Premo fan, but I'm not sure I want an entire Nas album produced by Premo. Maybe half by Premo, and the other half by Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Large Professor, Rza, Kanye etc. As much As I like Stillmatic, Lost tapes, and even It was written, I'm still waiting on a real follow up to Illmatic. I need one more grimey album from Nas in the vien of Illmatic but updated obvioulsy.

Also, since Nas and Cormega are cool again, wouldn't mind seeing a Firm II album with Nas, Mega, AZ and Nature. But that makes too much sense to happen.

I never thought that Marley Marl was a good producer. He was really overrated. As far as a Firm album, the main problem would be getting AZ with Nas. Mega and Nature speak to each other. As a matter of fact Nature is going to be Mega's next album.

Whats up with AZ and Nas? BTW, without Marley Marl, there is no Premo, RZA, Large Pro, Kanye etc. He was the father of sampling and chopping. He produced classics, Kanes "Long Live the Kane", G Raps "Road to the Riches", Biz Marks first joint, LL's "Mama said knock you out", some joints off Lords of the underground.....And the greates posse cut of all time "Symphony".

Posted by VDesai:

Mine is a tie:

Jeff Buckley- Grace
U2- Achtung Baby

Other All Time Favorites:
Elbow- Leaders of the Free World
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Kinks- Something Else by the Kinks
Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation of Millions
Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory
Travis- The Invisible Band
U2- The Joshua Tree
U2- Zooropa
British Sea Power- Open Season

And holy cow there's a lot more...I better stop before I list too many.

How could I forget about PE's "..Nation of millions.." That was a great, great album.

Talib kweil and DJ hi tek - "reflection eternal"

Common "be"
Common - "one thing it will all make sense"

Kanye west - "college drop out"

Guns and roses first album

Jay-z - "hard knock life"

Roots "game theory" "things fall apart"

Bob marley "exodus"

Eminem "marshall mathers lp"

Ghostface "ironman" supreme clientel" and all of his other albums for that matter

Wutang clan "return to the 36th chamber" and "reunited"

Raekwon "Cuban link"

The delfonics - "love songs" its a best of album.

Gangstarr "full clip"

DJ hi-tek - "hi-teknowlogy" vol. 1 & 2

The beatnuts put out some good albums too.

Anything tribe called quest

Krs-1 "return of the boom bap"

Rakim - "Eric b for president"

Salt n' pepa - "a salt with a deadly pepa"

Big pun - both his albums

Guy - "I like"

There are so many. The list is endless.

We did this before many times but its still cool.