Big Mel
@bigboss
ALBUM SUCKS.
Common Electric Circus
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Lurking Class Hero
Medicine for loneliness
Not a great album, but not the disaster it's made out to be either. I still really like New Wave and Come Close. I give it 3 mics.
BTW, I think Common's influence on Brother Ali is really apparent on this album. The 3rd verse on "I Got a Right Ta" is basically Ali's whole style.
BTW, I think Common's influence on Brother Ali is really apparent on this album. The 3rd verse on "I Got a Right Ta" is basically Ali's whole style.
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
theres still some good shyt on this album.
New Wave
Hustle
Electric Wire Hustle Flower
Between Me You And Liberation
Star 69 Ps With Love
Age of Aquarius
i always bumped the bulk of the album...i just skipped the last couple tracks and i didnt bump Come Close or I Got A Right Ta all like that.
New Wave
Hustle
Electric Wire Hustle Flower
Between Me You And Liberation
Star 69 Ps With Love
Age of Aquarius
i always bumped the bulk of the album...i just skipped the last couple tracks and i didnt bump Come Close or I Got A Right Ta all like that.
DJ Mart-Kos
All Star
It's judged on very wrongly i think. Simply cause it's different.
Funny this is my favorite common album. Dude was spitting on this. Electric wire hustle flower goes Aquarius is so smooth.
If this album were to come out now it'll be a classic
nikkas got to influenced by critics and missed out on a great and underrated album
If this album were to come out now it'll be a classic
nikkas got to influenced by critics and missed out on a great and underrated album
Dope album and one of the best albums sonically.
No.
bordeaux
xxx
far better than his entire catalog after be. how breh go from contender for one of this best rappers alive. in the same league as jay and nas to an artist in i hav a next to no excitement in even checking for? disgusting.
SnowflakesByTheOZ
Sorry, that's another B
I couldn't appreciate this album years ago but now I do, wow.
Sunalmighty
Superstar
Age if the Aquarius
It was weird the first time I heard it, but interesting as hell. A few years after it came out, I was stuck in bed, sick, in a foreign country. I was too weak to look for anything else to listen too, so it stayed on repeat for a minute.
Being forced to listen to it front to back over and over made me listen actively, instead of passively. I wasn’t just waiting on something familiar or hot to grab me, just mentally absorbing what the music gave me. It made me pick up on the little subtle production queues and better visualize the shyt he was saying.
You can tell everyone involved was having a lot of fun making this and had a lot of passion for it. You can also hear an evolution of who common really seems to be. A man who’s trying learn how to open up to feeling the world around him and love (on some Earth Wind and Fire shyt).
Listening for days, mostly with my eyes closed, looking at the ceiling, or in a novel helped me better grasp the expressive freedom he was trying to get across on some of the tracks I initially though were weak. I think this was a “shaking off the chains” of his past human, and stage persona, that he started with on “can I borrow...”. I feel like the album was more for himself than his og fan base. It may not feel Harlem approved but he was possibly learning to openly express sensitivity and growing up.
It’s not my favorite common album (“one day it will make sense” is) but it’s up there, and I respect the hell out of bruh for making it. I don’t think he hates it either because he went back and experimented with “UMC”. He just wants to be him without the rough emotional outer shell that we’re all encouraged, as men, to wear growing up. If he was a visual artist he’d probably do a lot of abstract expressionism.
Being forced to listen to it front to back over and over made me listen actively, instead of passively. I wasn’t just waiting on something familiar or hot to grab me, just mentally absorbing what the music gave me. It made me pick up on the little subtle production queues and better visualize the shyt he was saying.
You can tell everyone involved was having a lot of fun making this and had a lot of passion for it. You can also hear an evolution of who common really seems to be. A man who’s trying learn how to open up to feeling the world around him and love (on some Earth Wind and Fire shyt).
Listening for days, mostly with my eyes closed, looking at the ceiling, or in a novel helped me better grasp the expressive freedom he was trying to get across on some of the tracks I initially though were weak. I think this was a “shaking off the chains” of his past human, and stage persona, that he started with on “can I borrow...”. I feel like the album was more for himself than his og fan base. It may not feel Harlem approved but he was possibly learning to openly express sensitivity and growing up.
It’s not my favorite common album (“one day it will make sense” is) but it’s up there, and I respect the hell out of bruh for making it. I don’t think he hates it either because he went back and experimented with “UMC”. He just wants to be him without the rough emotional outer shell that we’re all encouraged, as men, to wear growing up. If he was a visual artist he’d probably do a lot of abstract expressionism.
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East Is In The House OMG
......was way ahead of its time, common needs to re-release this piff
Dilla + The Roots Production
GOAT WEEDPLATE
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
This is the correct take. Sonically it was super unique but just super inconsistent.
Some great traccs but also some supertrash ass shyt
I still like a good amount of this tho