What your thoughts on this album?
A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
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Definitely not their best but unfairly hated on
Had some dope joints on it
But too little Phife and the Overall Ummah production wasn't as good
Had some dope joints on it
But too little Phife and the Overall Ummah production wasn't as good
Stuckinthe90s
Pro
The production wasn't that great to me. I really want to like this album
Solomon Lurke
My Boys Dey Be Lurkin...
Funny cause I been riding to some of the joints on here recently. Was definitely an album I didn’t play much when it came out but I been in a mode of rediscovering albums I passed on. As stated, not there best but also not wack. There are joints on it.
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Basura
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Veteran
Straight trash
After a two classic album run, big disappointment
After a two classic album run, big disappointment
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
It feels more like a compilation but it has a lot of dope shyt. Find a Way, Pad & Pen and Busta's Lament are top 10 Tribe songs for me. I remember somebody described it as more of a Slum Village album but with Tip and Phife instead of Baatin and T3 and I think that's spot-on
chunky_mcdaniels
All Star
Not a bad analysis re Slum without Slum, however i'd argue Jay Dee was sounding more rigid and maybe polished for lack of a better word at this point of his production. This is compared to Fantastic 2 (interestingly released after Love Movement. the latter of which probably got recorded pre Love Movement and finessed and released later i.e. The Fantastic Vol 1 re recorded songs and repeats present on Vol.2.
I can't remember if it was this album or the Tip/Amplified album in which Dilla lost the entire albums instrumentals mid album and then had to start everything again? That had to have impacted whichever one it was, its never the same when you do it all again. Tip then having his records flooded or burnt in the following few years too, bad run of luck!
The Love Movement you can hear the disconnect as a group, Dilla completely carries it, and that's not a good thing. Either way it had a half dozen classics as you mentioned.
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Veteran
First album put them on the map, but under no circumstances was it a classicJust two classic album run
chunky_mcdaniels
All Star
At the very least 3, even 4 arguably, just arguably, more like 3.Just two classic album run
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Veteran
Just two classic album run
I have Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders as classics
Forgot about Beats, Rhymes, and Life and lumped it in with Love Movement (consider them both substandard after albums 2 and 3)