mafioso22 said:
Ok to end this shit the cd is KNOCKIN!!!! Ok better than alot of shit that came out in the last 2 years or so! Now we all know MUSIC isn't the same like it used to be 95-97, So everyone quit cryin and shit and enjoy what we got! The boy still got spitters the production was cool made my 3-15's knock!!!!!!!!! So their 99% of the people liked it so their it is a classic and it well go down as one of the classic cd's this year along with that T-NUTTY
Let me put it to you this way would you rather have this cd or ANOTHER BLACKMARKET BOOTLEGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know if it's a classic (there were a couple of tracks I wasn't feeling), but here's my take on all this craziness:
When LOADED came out in '97, believe it or not, there were people in '97 who said that it was a piece of shit because "it didn't sound like SOTS." Five years later, I read comments on the Siccness and some folks prefer LOADED to SOTS!!! And others will say "it's not quite a classic, but it's well worth buying." IMHO, LOADED has a different identity than SOTS, and LYNCH BY INCH has yet another identity from those two. History has a weird way of determining what lasts and what doesn't.
I want to end this with a quote from Chuck D (I know--he's East Coast, but this would do a lot of people on this board some good). Read:
"In 1994, when [Public Enemy's] 'Greatest Misses' project came out, writers were saying I didn't sound the same. You're damn right I didn't sound the same...I wanted to do a mellower vocal. Somebody else can do a laid-back groove and be accepted, but...I always have to be compared to 'It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back.' That's ridiculous. [Comparing albums] is like comparing children. Anyone that has children knows that that's not a wise thing to do. Each one has his or her OWN identity and characteristics."
We're all entitled to our opinions (you too, Smurf), but before you all trash artists' new CDs just because they don't sound like the old stuff, think about that quote above. But I'm an old geezer compared to others on this board--what do I know?
PEACE!