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fabrirocha
does this pic with the black cover even exist? I always knew the cover with the white in the back
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eroticdanger
such a masterpiece. Unbelievable production and mixing. They were at their best. The greatest band of my life.
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eroticdanger
nope, they don't spoil it a bit. I mostly don't like featurings myself, but those are perfectly fit into the album. Yeah, they could've been missed but still I like them.
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OJS48kenkyuusei
this album is all over the place, I appreciate the different styles but it really isn't very cohesive imo. still a good album though. love Start the Fire! ♥ (just trying to provoke PartySanCTG.)
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Shabalaba11
4.5/5. Some bangers, some hidden gems, and some fillers. An album with the singels, and then just Ocasek (and maybe also Prince) would have been great.
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SimonePerrota
Hella Good is a great dance-pop song. If you don't like it, fair enough but "slapped together in ten minutes" is over-the-top, especially considering how layered the song is when you bring all of its components together. I mean what do you want - a fucking guitar solo and grandiose lyrics?! Rock Steady is a frivolous pop album first and foremost... As for Start The Fire, the bagpipe does sound a bit out of place at first admittedly but I think it works very well with the dub-flavored outro - it's different and actually sounds quite anthemic. The drum fill at the start evokes an almost military, marching band set-up and I think that's what the bagpipe is supposed to supplant over the course of the song. Also the lyrics: The army of words in me, silent the soldier weeps...
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PartySanCTG
(Dancehall is also homophobic as fuck way the fuck too much so fuck it, but I didn't mention that because it doesn't apply to Start the Fire.)
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OJS48kenkyuusei
I'm a gay-ass married man and I love dancehall, it's a shame there is such a homophobic culture around it but since you hate dancehall so much it shouldn't really bother you anyway.
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PartySanCTG
Calling Start the Fire "brilliant" is a great way to signal that I shouldn't take you seriously.
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PartySanCTG
Start the Fire is a terrible combination of cheap, lazy dancehall with cheesy synths and SYNTH FUCKING BAGPIPES. WHY ARE THERE SYNTH BAGPIPES IN IT. And the production is terrible and the lyrics are dumb. But above all, yes, dancehall is boring. If that's the Neptunes at their 2000s peak, fuck, I can't imagine how much they fucking suck now.
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fabrirocha
Start the fire is brilliant! If you don’t like it, it’s YOUR opinion. Take it for yourself. Peace
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SimonePerrota
v indeed. What's bizarre about Start The Fire? Is it because it's dancehall or something? Hella Good is fantastic - The Neptunes at their early '00s peak...
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PartySanCTG
Also, seriously, In My Head? The song with the cheapo drum machine, cheap cheesy synthbloops and the bad main riff? On the same level as Platinum Blonde Life and Waiting Room?
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fabrirocha
Someone is terrible upset here. Get a life dude! No one cares about what you think!!!
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PartySanCTG
Gwen's solo career has nowhere near anything as good as Don't Let Me Down, Platinum Blonde Life, Waiting Room and Rock Steady. Her initial impulse that it was a bad idea was correct. She doesn't really work as well without Tom, Tony and Adrian. But seriously, Hella Good, mind-blowing? It sounds like they worked on it for ten minutes then hit a brick wall and decided, yeah, let's just repeat the thing for four minutes instead of putting more ideas into it. Though it's nowhere NEAR as bizarre and WTF as Start the Fire, or offensively lazy as Hey Baby.
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PartySanCTG
They should've just produced the album with Ric Ocasek and Prince, since they're responsible for the best songs on it.
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ultimatedhani
I couldn't care less about a couple of tracks in the second half BUT Hella Good, Making Out, Underneath It All, In My Head, Platinum Blonde Life, Waiting Room and Rock Steady are all mind-blowing and I won't hear a word against them
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OJS48kenkyuusei
yes, because they wanted ND to keep releasing the same kind of songs year after year after year and never evolve or try something new.
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mota_boy_punky
I forget sometimes how they ruined no doubt before she went solo. I usually hear this stuff and think its her solo work. Which it should have been. [2] I thought it was their worst, but then Push And Shove came out...
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TheOnlyRoc
I forget sometimes how they ruined no doubt before she went solo. I usually hear this stuff and think its her solo work. Which it should have been.
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SimonePerrota
I think some fans give Rock Steady a hard time - it's a rock solid, addictive pop album. It lags slightly during the third quarter but Waiting Room and the title track cap things off stylishly.
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Slayerrrr_88
Definitely their worst album. It's still good though, but not as amazing as their other stuff. [4]
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chrismicheal
i ignored this album for the longest time and it is a shame because it is flawless...
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shibuyadepunch
Definitely their worst album. It's still good though, but not as amazing as their other stuff. [3]
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Ioudcitysong
Definitely their worst album. It's still good though, but not as amazing as their other stuff. [2] Indeed
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petnogakatten
Definitely their worst album. It's still good though, but not as amazing as their other stuff.
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AsylumLeeches
my cd cover looks like that > http://www.sleurink.nl/images/album_covers/thumbs/1270f.jpg
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