That 'Best of 2006' poll...

Orizio

NOTE:This thread isn't an excuse to just make a list and not actually say anything.Vote and post as to why you think that album was the best released this year.Beware there is only a certain amount of slots in poll option, so your fave album might be excluded.Thats not my fault.I tried to get a decent mix of albums up there.

I voted for Cunninlynguists - A Piece Of Strange, primarily because it was one of the only albums I could listen to the whole way through.I thought it lacked a few killer tracks like Southernground had but still very consistent both lyrically and production wise.

Not a bad year, not a great one.A lot of good releases,no classic albums I think, although I suppose time will tell.Commercial Hip-Hop released mediocre albums again and again.The media is by and large still attacking Hip-Hop at every chance, the Hip-Hop media it self is still representing the artists with the biggest budgets and giving a huge middle finger up to the people with talent and Hip-Hop's image as a whole continues to take a pummelling.Nothing has changed I guess.

me and the biz

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

P.O.S - Audition

This was a fresh album at the start of the year, the punk influences I liked and weren't overdone so it didn't get too much. Nice rhymes, great production. Nearly a year on it still gets very regular spins and hasn't got old yet.
Doomtree are going to do very big things

Best songs:

Half cocked concepts
paul kersey to jack kimball
stand up (let's get married)
bleading hearts club feat slug

evil_seed

Kidz IN THE Hall - School Was My Hustle

I voted for Lupe. Why? Because for 1 I can't stop listening to it. The lyrics, i think, are top notch and the production is quality. Also it was something fresh, which was needed and has been needed for a while to be honest

Jay Ru

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

j.dilla - the shinning, even though some of the albums mentioned might be better i just fooking love this album, it sounds like nothin else that has come out this year IMO. production is second to none and its got 2 tracks with common with it alway a good look, the pharoah monch track is incredible and never fails to get heads noddin!

Makaveli

The Roots - Game Theory

CunninLynguists gets my vote. Quality album, nothing really a let down on it. Good guest appearances by Tonedeff (as usual) and Immortal Technique. I don't their is a bad song on this album. It's rare that an album released at the begining of the year is still number one for me anyway. I've been listening to this since November last year and it's still sounds fresh. Great replay value. Solid album and one that has been looked over by most (CunninLynguists seem to suffer from that in general).

Added Ghostface to the poll.

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

I strongly suggest people check out the Kidz IN THE Hall album, a late runner for album of the year imo.

j.dilla - the shinning, even though some of the albums mentioned might be better i just fooking love this album, it sounds like nothin else that has come out this year IMO. production is second to none and its got 2 tracks with common with it alway a good look, the pharoah monch track is incredible and never fails to get heads noddin!

Other then the weak Black Thought and Busta tracks that album is golden.'Love' is easily one of the best tracks out this year and the Guilty Simpson stuff is very nice.

Makaveli

The Roots - Game Theory

Kidz In The Hall is nice album but it wouldn't be in my top 10 for the year.

Strange_Fruit

Lupe Fiasco - Food And Liqour

**** i didnt think anyone else in ireland listened to this music,and by that i meant QN5,Kidz in the hall etc

i voted for the roots because it was my favourite,but ghosts 2 albums were just heat.cunninlyngists album was brilliant too,all the albums were excellent really apart from T.I(cant stand him anymore)

me and the biz

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

Makaveli wrote:

Kidz In The Hall is nice album but it wouldn't be in my top 10 for the year.

Same here, really liked it but wouldn't be near top ten

Beefeater

The Roots - Game Theory

im goin for cunninlynguists for all the reasons already stated. actually havent listened to much of the albums here(not listenin to much new hip hop these days), lupe fiascos is very good, game theorys great. have to get my hands on The Shining. I think The Games album is sh*te, what ive listened to of it anyway and ive heard from others the rest of d album is the same. does he actually have anything to say?other than name calling the deepest he gets seems to be rims, chains and how hes gangsta.

BLITZ_Molloy

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

**** it, wrote a big post there and managed to delete it somehow.

Best albums I've heard this year all came out in the last month or so. It was a bloody awful year for hip hop up until recently. I'd give Snoop an honorable mention for releasing the best commercial rap lp this year (especially after the last two releases which were largely gash) but my fave three in no particular order.

Oh No - Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms
Great samples, all from Galt MacDermot albums. Great storytelling raps. Best Stonesthrow album since Madvilliany.

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
You don't usually get 12 good Neptunes tracks on one album. In fact, you never do. What's going on? Absolutely stormer of an album.

Trae - Restless
Most southern rap is ****. But I'd put this up there with UGK and Three 6 Mafia. Bit heavy on the ghetto street gansta type cliches but since one of the guest rappers was victim of homicide shortly after recording then I guess it's justified!

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

The Clipse album was very nice imo, don't know why people seem to hate it so much.Oh No's album would have been a stormer if he knew what a decent MC sounded like.

I'd like to point out that Outkast - Idlewild wasn't as bad as most people(including me to a degree)said.Solid 4 mic album at least, the only tracks I don't like on it are N2U and Buggface. Janielle Monae is incredible on it...:eek:

gamb1or

Orizio wrote:

The Clipse album was very nice imo, don't know why people seem to hate it so much.Oh No's album would have been a stormer if he knew what a decent MC sounded like.

who's hating it?

album of the year

that and the method man album need to be on the list


Haven't heard HHID yet, which might well be my number 1.


Don't like that trae album although "real talk" is one of the best tracks i've heard this year

Makaveli

The Roots - Game Theory

Clipse album was good but not as good as people are making it out to be. It seems people are going to either extreme when describing the album. I liked it but I haven't gone back to it much because it didn't really do anything for me and the one thing that stands out when I think back is the Keys Open Doors hook which was one of the most annoying things I've heard in a while.

Snoop's album was good too, perhaps slightly overrated because it's being compared to his more recent stuff (well anything bar Doggystyle really) but a good album regardless.

Method Man album was the third best Wu release this year (out of 6 I think), both Fishscale and More Fish were better imo but Method Man's album was so much better than Tical 0 (or whatever it was called, can never remember).

Best commercial album of the year I'd give to Nas hands down. I really like HHID and I keep going back to it. Lupe Fiasco is worth a shout here too (but I think he's slighly overrated aswell and his mixtape stuff is better imo).

Outkast was an album I couldn't get into at all, too many skits and most of the songs were simply annoying. Jay-Z was a boring affair, lacked effort imo and was just very flat and uninspired.

I disagree about this being a bad year for Hip-Hop, I could actually compile a top 20 for this year, other years you'd be lucky to get a top 5.

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

who's hating it?

People on the net, but maybe we go to different websites.Admittedlty the few people that I have met in the real worldwho have heard it liked it...

album of the year

Barely top 20 imo.Pharrell is on it too much vocally for a start, couple of weak tracks.

that and the method man album need to be on the list

Meth's had a couple of tracks that were absolute stinkers.Three of my favourite tracks of this year are from that album all the same.Say is :eek: .

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

Makaveli wrote:

Clipse album was good but not as good as people are making it out to be. It seems people are going to either extreme when describing the album. I liked it but I haven't gone back to it much because it didn't really do anything for me and the one thing that stands out when I think back is the Keys Open Doors hook which was one of the most annoying things I've heard in a while.

Snoop's album was good too, perhaps slightly overrated because it's being compared to his more recent stuff (well anything bar Doggystyle really) but a good album regardless.

Method Man album was the third best Wu release this year (out of 6 I think), both Fishscale and More Fish were better imo but Method Man's album was so much better than Tical 0 (or whatever it was called, can never remember).

Best commercial album of the year I'd give to Nas hands down. I really like HHID and I keep going back to it. Lupe Fiasco is worth a shout here too (but I think he's slighly overrated aswell and his mixtape stuff is better imo).

Outkast was an album I couldn't get into at all, too many skits and most of the songs were simply annoying. Jay-Z was a boring affair, lacked effort imo and was just very flat and uninspired.

I disagree about this being a bad year for Hip-Hop, I could actually compile a top 20 for this year, other years you'd be lucky to get a top 5

That hardly makes it a good year.It's just better then some of the awful past years.

I generally find that its near impossible to find a whole album thats listenable the whole way though.Even the Lupe and Roots album had 2 or 3 tracks that were just weak.Same can be said for Nas,Ludacris,Meth, Bronze Nazareth, Lord Jamar and every other album released this year beside Cunninlynguists,Spank Rock and Panacea offerings.

Makaveli

The Roots - Game Theory

If you can look back on a year and pick out 20 albums you really enjoyed I fail to see it as a bad year. What exactly was so bad about this year or is it just the usual case of Hip-Hop is shit now I wish it was still 1992?

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

If you can look back on a year and pick out 20 albums you really enjoyed I fail to see it as a bad year.

I could probably find a lot more.Besides I didn't say it was a bad year, it just wasn't particurly good one.

What exactly was so bad about this year or is it just the usual case of Hip-Hop is shit now I wish it was still 1992?

Well yes there is that fact,plus things like the big names in Hip-Hop almost all dropping mediocre releases, the lack of new talented artists coming through,the image of Hip-Hop still taking a continous hammering, the lack of any classic albums dropping, the lack of any new good movements in Hip-Hop, the idiots we see on the tv representign Hip-Hop, the continuing decline of lyricism in commercial Hip-Hop, average MC's getting the very best beats,the growing obsession with sales and the fact that I still have to ****ing refer to Hip-Hop in terms of 'underground' and 'commercial'...

There may have been a few more decent releases this year then last year, but fundamentally Hip-Hop, and the music industry in general, is stuck in mediocrity.Nothing's changed.

BLITZ_Molloy

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

Makaveli wrote:

If you can look back on a year and pick out 20 albums you really enjoyed I fail to see it as a bad year. What exactly was so bad about this year or is it just the usual case of Hip-Hop is shit now I wish it was still 1992?

Any year where there isn't an MF Doom album is a bad year for hip hop.

Makaveli

The Roots - Game Theory

Ah, I'm sure he'll hit us with at least 4 in 2007, unless Swift and Changeable sneaks in before the year end. (Is it still called Swift and Changeable?)

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

BLITZ_Molloy wrote:

Any year where there isn't an MF Doom album is a bad year for hip hop.

Well I'm sure he supposed to drop something with Ghost, not that I get the obsession with him.

He actually produced and appeared on a track with Hell RAZAH and Talib Kweli called "Project Jazz" that was very nice.Anybody know if thats on an album?

BLITZ_Molloy

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

I don't think Swift & Changeable is coming out till February or something like that. Unfortunately I quite dislike Ghostface so that's not the one I'm getting most excited about..

Still, as you say. There are a good 4 or 5 of his albums due next year. New Madvillian, Viktor Vaughan, MF Doom, Metal Fingers and maybe a Zev Luv X/KMD one.

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

Strange_Fruit wrote:

**** i didnt think anyone else in ireland listened to this music,and by that i meant QN5,Kidz in the hall etc

i voted for the roots because it was my favourite,but ghosts 2 albums were just heat.cunninlyngists album was brilliant too,all the albums were excellent really apart from T.I(cant stand him anymore)

Other then the few people on this forum and one dude I saw walking down Cork's Main Street with a Cunninlynguists t-shirt, indy Hip-Hop seems to be quite under represented in Ireland.:(

Any ideas for track of the year people?I vote The Coup's ShoYoAss purely for the lines...

You're in a system where they flirt with disaster
Tounge kiss death, have mass murder orgies 'til there's no one left
They're finger-****ign Lady Liberty under her dress
And since I didn't say this under my breath
I might be under arrest...

Lupe's American Terrorist and Nas/Jay-Z's Black Republicans also come to mind...

BLITZ_Molloy

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

There's a load of Madlib, Quasimoto, Wu Tang and MF Doom grafitti around Ennis, Co. Clare. It's really bad graffitti.. but I was sort of impressed in their taste in tunes.

Orizio

The Roots - Game Theory

Yeah well there's some 'Cash Money' grafitti on my way into Cork city, take that bitch...:D

Madlib and Quas?Dear me whats happening to this country.Probably the same person anyway.