Not Another Top Albums List

[Woy]

FINISH THE LIST

[NAHSTE]

#4 Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!

Favorite tracks: Jam for Jerry, It's Not Over, Some Children

I just got into It's Not Over today. The pre-chorus is faptastic.

Can't believe you're snubbing Hold My Breath though. You better take some money from the joint account, bruh.

[Rudi]

Finish this list so you can go get laid already

:jay:

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Why don't people complete these lists, and then post them .

Make a top albums thread and then start posting rap albums and people tend to not pay attention.

[MvP]

#3 Common - The Dreamer/The Believer

On The Dreamer/The Believer, Common reunited with producer No I.D. and Cocaine 80's singer James Fauntleroy to create the best hip-hop album of 2011.

"Gold" is one of my favorite songs of the year, featuring an infectious hook that has been stuck in my head since the first time I heard it. On "Ghetto Dreams", you hear Common and Nas spitting over a high energy instrumental as if they were hungry teenagers in the streets again. Common even takes a shot at Drake and other "soft" rappers on the track "Sweet", which, even as a fan of Drake, I felt was much-needed considering the current landscape of hip-hop.

The Dreamer/The Believer is not as good as Be or Resurrection, but at 39 years old and with a current focus on an acting career, Common still has it musically, and I'll pretend that his previous album, Universal Mind Control, simply never happened.

Favorite tracks: Gold, Celebrate, Blue Sky

[NAHSTE]

Celebrate just gives you that good feeling.

EVERYBODY HOME,
AIN'T NOBODY GONE
AND I GOT ALL MY NIGGAS AROUND

[Woy]

[MvP]

In due time. I need to brace myself for the next posts.

[MvP]

#2 Drake - Take Care

I've always been very critical of Drake's work. Comeback Season was alright, So Far Gone was solid, and Thank Me Later was mediocre to me. Drake had a very poor 2010 in my opinion, and I think the reason for that was because he thought he had to be a rapper to sell records and stay relevant. Somewhere between the release of Thank Me Later and Take Care, he realized that at this point in his career, he is able to do whatever he wants musicially and it'll work. Drake ended up having an incredible year by leaking throwaway tracks such as Trust Issues and Club Paradise that were better than most artist's album work, and also by releasing my favorite retail album of 2011, Take Care.

This is an album that just about any young adult can relate to. On "Look What You've Done", Drake regrets being unappreciative of his relatives, realizing he was wrong and that he now owes them for making him the man he is today. On "Good Ones Go", he finds himself the right girl, but at the wrong time. He also provides a commentary on break-ups on "Doing It Wrong", which finds the artist in a position where both he and the girl know things aren't gonna work out, but they also aren't ready to stop seeing each other yet, even though he knows it's a bad idea. In correlation to the album title, Drake states: "I'm getting money just taking care of me, girl", a line that resonates throughout the entire album because while focusing on his career has led him to much success, it has also isolated him socially. Although many of the topics may seem unrelatable due to his wealth and fame, the core theme of the album is simply learning from past mistakes and turning those failures into success while dodging life's bullets along the way. That is something we all must go through, and for Drake it's also the best way to describe his transition from Thank Me Later to Take Care.

By the end of 2010, I was convinced that Drake would never put out a project better than So Far Gone. Fortunately, I was wrong. Take Care is Drake's best work to date, and with a little help from The Weeknd, I'm expecting him to do even better on his next solo release.

Favorite tracks: Good Ones Go (Interlude), Doing It Wrong, The Real Her

[Woy]

Good write-up. Now it's time to wait till next month for #1!

Which will be what's in the spoiler:

 

[Rudi]

Good write up, I always thought you was one of them Take Care haters I was wrong

[MvP]

that Take Care review is faggotry. writing an essay and shit

[Rudi]

i dont even know what that means but finish this already

[MvP]

THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IS.......................

THREE FUCKING ALBUMS





I couldn't rank them. I just couldn't do it. I love them all equally. Even Thursday, which apparently you guys don't like as much as the other two. Each album has its own unique sound, something that you don't notice until you listen to the three albums consecutively. Abel definitely improved as an artist throughout the year, but his first album is somehow just as polished and great as his third. I don't get it.

After listening to The Weeknd, my whole perspective on the r&b genre changed. Guys like Frank Ocean became ordinary by comparison. Abel without a doubt created the new sound of r&b, as evidenced by Usher's new song "Climax" and that JMSN guy that Woy found. Expect a TON of Weeknd inspired music in 2012, and hopefully an album by Weeknd which has a great chance of being #1 on my 2012 top albums list that I am not going to make because I hate writing reviews.

[Woy]

WOOO IT'S OVER

Clever with using all three as your #1.