'Best' LP, Production Wise....

[Carpe Diem]

Seeing as I generally rate LPs on the quality of the beats rather than lyrics, I'd like to know what you guys think...

Soooooo, what album/s do you rate highest on production?

 

[Benny BuKu]

1. Wu-Tang Forever (lyrically the best too)

 

[Cleverwon]

Enter the Wu Tang: Beatwise the MOST & BEST influencial album of all time.

 

[StressWon]

My pick would be "Low End Theory". "Enter the Wu-Tang :36 Chanbers" was insane and probably my 2nd fav album of all time, but Ali revolutionized the jazz sample flip like RZA did wit soul samples.

 

[Cleverwon]

^^^^^^^^ eh.

 

[Benny BuKu]

I agree "36 Chambers" was the most influential...but "Forever" (to me) was on another level. At least we agree that the RZA is responsible for some of the best albums of all time.

 

[StressWon]

^^^^^^^^ eh.

fuck off...cats be sleepin on Ali Shaheed Mohammed. I don't think many peole realise how influencial that album was production wise.

 

[classic]

UMM ....ATliens, or AQUEMNI by Far people........ Production wise, those cats influcents ALOT of dudes in the game...

 

[djswivel]

Chronic 2001 was to me the most superior on a production tip. Every record on that album was incredible. He created a whole new sound with that, a sound that is still being copied today, 7 years later.

 

[Fury]

jedi mind tricks violent by design..hell on earth mobb deep...ghost face fishsale and wu forever and the 36 chambers...DANGERDOOM AND honestly Murs 9th Wonder Murrays revenge 9th KILLED IT

 

[Fury]

Chronic 2001 was to me the most superior on a production tip. Every record on that album was incredible. He created a whole new sound with that, a sound that is still being copied today, 7 years later.

Scott Storch is responsible for most of those sounds u swear is Dre

 

[dahkter]

Production is not just beats, production is that wall of sound that comes out of the speakers, it's the whole package.

For me the ones who set the bar were The early Def Jam producers, Rick Rubin / Russel Simmons / The Bomb Squad -
T La Rock "It's Your's"
Run DMC "Raising Hell"
Beasties "Licensed to Ill"
PE "Nation of Millions"
Slick Rick "Adventures in Storytelling"

The other shit is Marley Marl (Big Daddy Kane/Kool G Rap) and Ced Gee/Scott La Rock (Ultramagnetics/BDP/TuffCrew).

I love the direction where Tribe (psychadelic / jazz funk) and Wu (stax/soul/kungfu) and Dre (Pfunk/James Brown) took it, all great stuff, but for me the ones who created the style out of thin air, the ground breakers, deserve the most credit...

I'm also into the production with more live elements, Joe The Butcher (Three times dope/Cypress Hill), Organized Noize (Outkast) even that Heavy Rhyme Experience and Yo MTV Raps unplugged, all incredible music.

I'm gonna be 35 in two days, listening to that new Nas record really has me reminiscing....

 

[dahkter]

Can't forget Amerikkka's most wanted, the Bomb Squad killed it on that. For some cats who had no musial training whatsoever, they created some amazing soundscapes...

 

[Fade]

For me it's 3 albums:

-Ice Cube "Amerikkka's Most Wanted"
-PE "Nation of Millions"
-PE "Fear of a Black Planet"

 

[dahkter]

Werd Fade,
I sat in on an amazing lecture at NYU where the Bomb Squad talked about how they made Nation of Millions, all before digital, straight from the SP1200 and S950 into the 2" tape, no protools, no automated mixes. They'd have eight people on the boards, all panning shit back and forth, sliding the faders up and down, five different things happening on each track, amazing stufff.

After posting above, just wanted to go alittle further back before someone else beats me to it:

There would have been no Def Jam/Dre/Rza, etc. without:
- Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel
- Planet Rock - Afrika Bambata and Arthur Baker
- The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
- all the Enjoy Records / Sugarhill Records
This is the nucleus that everything came from, whether it was Kraftwerk type synths and drum macines, or the South Bronx style, two turntables and a mixer, and a big ass PA system wired into the lightpoles......

 

[djswivel]

Scott Storch is responsible for most of those sounds u swear is Dre

Let's not even get started on this topic. Scott storch is a fuckin musician. He did not produce any of those records. He played some melodies. Tell me why NONE of Scott Storch's records now sound like the tracks from 2001. NONE of his records have the same bounce, NONE of his records have the same knock. His records sound like a lesser producer trying to copy Dre, which is exactly what they are. Don't get me wrong, Scott Storch is a very talented dude, and a great producer in his own right, but he is NOT responsible for that album whatsoever.

 

[Benny BuKu]

Let's not even get started on this topic. Scott storch is a fuckin musician. He did not produce any of those records. He played some melodies. Tell me why NONE of Scott Storch's records now sound like the tracks from 2001. NONE of his records have the same bounce, NONE of his records have the same knock. His records sound like a lesser producer trying to copy Dre, which is exactly what they are. Don't get me wrong, Scott Storch is a very talented dude, and a great producer in his own right, but he is NOT responsible for that album whatsoever.

damn...."tell em why you mad son!"

"I'm sayin these niggas these niggas these niggas these niggas.....know what I'm sayin!"

 

[Fury]

Let's not even get started on this topic. Scott storch is a fuckin musician. He did not produce any of those records. He played some melodies. Tell me why NONE of Scott Storch's records now sound like the tracks from 2001. NONE of his records have the same bounce, NONE of his records have the same knock. His records sound like a lesser producer trying to copy Dre, which is exactly what they are. Don't get me wrong, Scott Storch is a very talented dude, and a great producer in his own right, but he is NOT responsible for that album whatsoever.

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrighttttttttttttttt

 

[The Bastard]

scott storch is pretty ill, but he look like a bitch, he needs sum chuckas fucka!

 

[Elementree]

For me its either

Souls of Mischeif- 93 till infiniti

or

Clipse- Lord Willin'

Peace