http://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women
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QuoteThe Fugees struck gold in the late 1990s with albums like The Score, a feat that also made their resident wordsmith, Lauryn Hill, a household name. But when Hill went out on her own two years later and dropped her debut, the neo-soul masterpiece The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, she schooled everyone all over again in new and necessary ways. In it, Hill refuses to shy away from topics often left unspoken, injecting classroom love lesson interludes and hard-hitting lyrics about how money changes people in the banger "Lost Ones." Then there's the cautionary tale "Doo Wop (That Thing)," a bold song that unpacked sexual politics and not only scored Hill two Grammys, but also earned her the distinction of becoming the first woman since Debbie Gibson (with 1988's "Foolish Beat") to have a song that she simultaneously wrote, recorded and produced soar to the top of the Billboard charts. And that's just one song on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album, rife with Hill's biting rhymes and sharp turns of phrase, is a wonder from start to finish, from her smoldering duet with fellow R&B superstar Mary J. Blige "I Used To Love Him" to the unapologetic, plucky "To Zion," in which Hill details how people discouraged her from having a child in order to further her career: "Everybody told me to be smart / Look at your career, they said / Lauryn baby use your head / But instead I chose to use my heart." It's further proof that, yes, women absolutely can ? and will continue ? to have it all. ?Paula Mejia (Contributor)
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Perch Jan!
Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 06:40:26 PM
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QuoteThe Fugees struck gold in the late 1990s with albums like The Score, a feat that also made their resident wordsmith, Lauryn Hill, a household name. But when Hill went out on her own two years later and dropped her debut, the neo-soul masterpiece The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, she schooled everyone all over again in new and necessary ways. In it, Hill refuses to shy away from topics often left unspoken, injecting classroom love lesson interludes and hard-hitting lyrics about how money changes people in the banger "Lost Ones." Then there's the cautionary tale "Doo Wop (That Thing)," a bold song that unpacked sexual politics and not only scored Hill two Grammys, but also earned her the distinction of becoming the first woman since Debbie Gibson (with 1988's "Foolish Beat") to have a song that she simultaneously wrote, recorded and produced soar to the top of the Billboard charts. And that's just one song on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album, rife with Hill's biting rhymes and sharp turns of phrase, is a wonder from start to finish, from her smoldering duet with fellow R&B superstar Mary J. Blige "I Used To Love Him" to the unapologetic, plucky "To Zion," in which Hill details how people discouraged her from having a child in order to further her career: "Everybody told me to be smart / Look at your career, they said / Lauryn baby use your head / But instead I chose to use my heart." It's further proof that, yes, women absolutely can ? and will continue ? to have it all. ?Paula Mejia (Contributor)
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One of my favorite albums ever. Very deserving
Lemons!
:gorlonfire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-2I1JKwIzo
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why is Queen Latifah on this list....
ima give her album a listen later.
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n
These 1971 entries. Plea
Jans just sitting comfortable and mess...
Hard Core shoulda been higher tbh
Where the fuck is Afrodisiac or Never Say Never?!
yes at Robyn being perched! :blessed:
Quote from: MelMel on July 24, 2017, 08:16:30 PM
yes at Robyn being perched! :blessed:
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Bey is retired, Mariah's a fat hog, and Gloria got deported back to Cuba
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I hit yes on this
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-alcohol-be-illegal
cant wait.
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Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 08:40:17 PM
I hit yes on this
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-alcohol-be-illegal
cant wait.
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you always gotta go below the belt
142. Body talk :howfestive:
134 a god at the table :cheerup:
130 wild and peaceful :flamebroiled:
118 I Feel For You :stressed:
116 On How Life Is :ohwow:
113 Young Gifted & Black :feelinmyself:
110 Platinum :youready:
108 Inagination :butwait!:
106 Tragic Kingdom :nogrammynoneck:
105 The Glamorous Life :sobusyjetsetter:
102 Sounds and Colors :young:
Quote from: Sl? on July 24, 2017, 10:35:04 PM
142. Body talk :howfestive:
:gorlonfire: :gorlonfire: :gorlonfire: :gorlonfire: :gorlonfire:
Quote6. Beyonc?
Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016)
One of the most recent projects to be part of our new canon, Lemonade is a masterful excursion through terrains at once visually fantastical and emotionally all too real, exploring shattered trust in a broken relationship; the singular pain borne by the mothers of men like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown; the battering down of black women throughout history; the scars of all of these kinds of trauma; white-hot rage and hopeful, though not blind, reconciliation. The inventive, stunning Lemonade film ? credited to seven directors, with each dream-like scene lapped atop the next ? has already generated a thousand points of exegesis (Was that yellow dress and gushing water in honor of the Cuban orisha Oshun? Was it coincidence that while wearing that dress, Bey smashes a closed-circuit TV with her baseball bat?). But those visual shifts also provide sinew and shape to the hugely varied sonic palette that Beyonc? employs as she flits between genres with everyone from Jack White to The Weeknd. Lemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually, but taken in totality, it is so artfully constructed that it feels right. Pop music has only very rarely sprung from the mind or talent of a single auteur, but few solo artists have conceived of collaboration in as wide-ranging, or as dimension-shifting, a way as Beyonc? has on this project ? and she is the one most definitely in command. ?Anastasia Tsioulcas (NPR Music)
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Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 10:43:08 PM
Quote6. Beyonc?
Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016)
One of the most recent projects to be part of our new canon, Lemonade is a masterful excursion through terrains at once visually fantastical and emotionally all too real, exploring shattered trust in a broken relationship; the singular pain borne by the mothers of men like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown; the battering down of black women throughout history; the scars of all of these kinds of trauma; white-hot rage and hopeful, though not blind, reconciliation. The inventive, stunning Lemonade film ? credited to seven directors, with each dream-like scene lapped atop the next ? has already generated a thousand points of exegesis (Was that yellow dress and gushing water in honor of the Cuban orisha Oshun? Was it coincidence that while wearing that dress, Bey smashes a closed-circuit TV with her baseball bat?). But those visual shifts also provide sinew and shape to the hugely varied sonic palette that Beyonc? employs as she flits between genres with everyone from Jack White to The Weeknd. Lemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually, but taken in totality, it is so artfully constructed that it feels right. Pop music has only very rarely sprung from the mind or talent of a single auteur, but few solo artists have conceived of collaboration in as wide-ranging, or as dimension-shifting, a way as Beyonc? has on this project ? and she is the one most definitely in command. ?Anastasia Tsioulcas (NPR Music)
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B'Day where were ya?
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98 Bikini Kill :jetbeauty:
96 Hardcore :takeallofme:
95 ?D?nde Est?n los Ladrones? :cmereddy:
94 Tuesday Night Music Club :rthosehotwings:
84 First Take :damselindistress:
77 Aaliyah :wellheythere:
75 Bad Girls :caseoftheherp:
71 Blacks' Magic :sistas:
63 Like A Virgin :mmyucudnvr:
62 Wide Open Spaces :suplol:
61 Writing's on the Wall :ATLcameo:
57 What's the 411? :ohhey:
Quote from: AYR on July 24, 2017, 10:44:34 PM
Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 10:43:08 PM
Quote6. Beyonc?
Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016)
One of the most recent projects to be part of our new canon, Lemonade is a masterful excursion through terrains at once visually fantastical and emotionally all too real, exploring shattered trust in a broken relationship; the singular pain borne by the mothers of men like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown; the battering down of black women throughout history; the scars of all of these kinds of trauma; white-hot rage and hopeful, though not blind, reconciliation. The inventive, stunning Lemonade film ? credited to seven directors, with each dream-like scene lapped atop the next ? has already generated a thousand points of exegesis (Was that yellow dress and gushing water in honor of the Cuban orisha Oshun? Was it coincidence that while wearing that dress, Bey smashes a closed-circuit TV with her baseball bat?). But those visual shifts also provide sinew and shape to the hugely varied sonic palette that Beyonc? employs as she flits between genres with everyone from Jack White to The Weeknd. Lemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually, but taken in totality, it is so artfully constructed that it feels right. Pop music has only very rarely sprung from the mind or talent of a single auteur, but few solo artists have conceived of collaboration in as wide-ranging, or as dimension-shifting, a way as Beyonc? has on this project ? and she is the one most definitely in command. ?Anastasia Tsioulcas (NPR Music)
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B'Day where were ya?
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Sitting somewhere being better than Lemons
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Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 10:45:39 PM
Quote from: AYR on July 24, 2017, 10:44:34 PM
Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 10:43:08 PM
Quote6. Beyonc?
Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016)
One of the most recent projects to be part of our new canon, Lemonade is a masterful excursion through terrains at once visually fantastical and emotionally all too real, exploring shattered trust in a broken relationship; the singular pain borne by the mothers of men like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown; the battering down of black women throughout history; the scars of all of these kinds of trauma; white-hot rage and hopeful, though not blind, reconciliation. The inventive, stunning Lemonade film ? credited to seven directors, with each dream-like scene lapped atop the next ? has already generated a thousand points of exegesis (Was that yellow dress and gushing water in honor of the Cuban orisha Oshun? Was it coincidence that while wearing that dress, Bey smashes a closed-circuit TV with her baseball bat?). But those visual shifts also provide sinew and shape to the hugely varied sonic palette that Beyonc? employs as she flits between genres with everyone from Jack White to The Weeknd. Lemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually, but taken in totality, it is so artfully constructed that it feels right. Pop music has only very rarely sprung from the mind or talent of a single auteur, but few solo artists have conceived of collaboration in as wide-ranging, or as dimension-shifting, a way as Beyonc? has on this project ? and she is the one most definitely in command. ?Anastasia Tsioulcas (NPR Music)
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B'Day where were ya?
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Sitting somewhere
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else than this list?
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Yes Missy for Supa Dupa Fly at no. 5!!!!!
Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 10:45:39 PM
Quote from: AYR on July 24, 2017, 10:44:34 PM
Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 24, 2017, 10:43:08 PM
Quote6. Beyonc?
Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016)
One of the most recent projects to be part of our new canon, Lemonade is a masterful excursion through terrains at once visually fantastical and emotionally all too real, exploring shattered trust in a broken relationship; the singular pain borne by the mothers of men like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown; the battering down of black women throughout history; the scars of all of these kinds of trauma; white-hot rage and hopeful, though not blind, reconciliation. The inventive, stunning Lemonade film ? credited to seven directors, with each dream-like scene lapped atop the next ? has already generated a thousand points of exegesis (Was that yellow dress and gushing water in honor of the Cuban orisha Oshun? Was it coincidence that while wearing that dress, Bey smashes a closed-circuit TV with her baseball bat?). But those visual shifts also provide sinew and shape to the hugely varied sonic palette that Beyonc? employs as she flits between genres with everyone from Jack White to The Weeknd. Lemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually, but taken in totality, it is so artfully constructed that it feels right. Pop music has only very rarely sprung from the mind or talent of a single auteur, but few solo artists have conceived of collaboration in as wide-ranging, or as dimension-shifting, a way as Beyonc? has on this project ? and she is the one most definitely in command. ?Anastasia Tsioulcas (NPR Music)
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B'Day where were ya?
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Sitting somewhere being better than Lemons
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let's jump Ray sis!
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50 Live Through This :loose2when:
47 Son con Guaguanco :gorlonfire:
36 Nightclubbing :tistheseas:
34 Private Dancer :wellheytherelol:
33 All Hail The Queen :shittinonmmy:
29 Jagged Little Pill :caramelapple:
28 Nina Simone Sings the Blues :tittehbeendry:
27 Little Earthquakes :freewilly:
23 Amazing Grace :butwait!:
22 Diamond Life :oof:
16 Rumours :acquit:
15 Where Did Our Love Go :wheresmylawyer:
14 Whitney Houston :watchit:
13 Like a Prayer :popeyes:
12 Baduizm :latisha:
9 Back To Black :stressed:
8 Pearl :stressed:
6 Lemonade :stressed:
5 Supa Dupa Fly :kii: (over da real world and under construction?? WTF??)
4 I Never Loved a Man The Way I Loved You (not at number 1) :uhh:
3 I Put A Spell on You :stressed:
2 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill :kii: this also as well as number 3 & 4 could've been number one instead of that white bitch
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96 Hardcore :takeallofme:
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Ncncncmc @ them mostly discussing the lemonade FILM. Yea, that was stellar for sure lol
Lol yeah "Beyonc?" or "B'Day" should've been on that list instead of Lemonade
QuoteLemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually
The way Lemons get gassed up like "Beyonce" and "4" didn't happen...
Quote from: Gimmieabeat on July 25, 2017, 12:20:42 AM
The way Lemons get gassed up like "Beyonce" and "4" didn't happen...
lolz yea ...
Quote77. Aaliyah
Aaliyah (Blackground/Virgin America 2001)
For her third and final act, Aaliyah made her strongest and most important offering. Her very tragic and untimely death shortly after the release of this self-titled album made it difficult and haunting for most people to listen to. But Aaliyah is a revelation that projects an effortlessly cool aesthetic coupled with the actual vulnerability that comes with being cool. The compositions on the forward-thinking album, most by Stephen Garrett (Static Major), were complex and futuristic, much more so than any other R&B records released at the time, and the way Aaliyah perfectly embodied Garrett's songwriting is astounding. You'd never think that she didn't write these songs herself. On this album, Aaliyah continued the legacy of soprano singers like Minnie Riperton and Mariah Carey, and simultaneously set the stage for artists like Kelela and Solange to emerge. In the process, Aaliyah became a catalyst and bridge that created a smooth transition from '90s style R&B into Modern PBR&B. ?Stasia Irons (KEXP)
Quote17. Janet Jackson
Control (A&M, 1986)
There would be no Rhythm Nation, Janet, or Velvet Rope without Control. This was the breakout album for then-19-year-old Janet Jackson, who until then was fondly known as Michael Jackson's little sister, Penny from Good Times and Willis' girlfriend on Diff'rent Strokes. She fired her dad as her manager, got with producers Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam from The Time, and made an album that clearly said "I'm a grown-ass woman," in case anyone was confused. The album, released February 1986, took on important issues such as sexual harassment, safe sex and abstinence, and we sang right along with her, making hits out of "What Have You Don't For Me Lately," "Nasty," "Control," "When I Think Of You," "Let's Wait Awhile" and "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)." But Janet did something especially pivotal with the video for "Pleasure Principle," another single from the album. She walked alone into an empty loft with kneepads on, kicked over a chair, cabbage-patched and clarified for those in the cheap seats that she was as great a performer as her big brother: "Ba-by you can't hold me down! Ba-by you can't hold me dow-ow-own!" ?Tanya Ballard Brown (NPR Staff)
Quote9. Amy Winehouse
Back To Black (Island, 2006)
The late '00s saw an explosive, cross-genre revival of retro-sounding soul music that continues to shape the pop landscape to this day. Arguably, that trend's catalyst was Amy Winehouse's earth-shaking final album. Working closely with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, plus a then-little-known Brooklyn soul ensemble called the Dap-Kings, the young, beehived-and-tattooed London singer pivoted from jazz to the velvet musical vocabulary of '60s girl groups and Motown. Yet however smartly it evoked the sounds of an earlier era, Back To Black could never have been mistaken for anything but contemporary ? or anyone but Winehouse. Funk and R&B grooves snapped through a post-breakbeat filter; her lyrics about lost love and self-destructive habits pulled zero punches; her delivery came fluid as exhaled cigarette smoke. Even "Tears Dry On Their Own," whose arrangement reproduced Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye's version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" down to the drum fills, sounded magnificently fresh with Winehouse's lead line ? a romantic duet flipped into a frank, lonely rendering of a breakup's aftermath. This was a soul record that wouldn't forget that hip-hop happened, a thoroughly modern tract on heartbreak whose bluntness made it believable. ?Rachel Horn (NPR Music)
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Quote from: Harlem on July 24, 2017, 11:26:09 PM
Lol yeah "Beyonc?" or "B'Day" should've been on that list instead of Lemonade
They listed what the fuck they listed.
:woohoo:
Quote from: BowDown on July 25, 2017, 10:02:20 AM
Quote from: Harlem on July 24, 2017, 11:26:09 PM
Lol yeah "Beyonc?" or "B'Day" should've been on that list instead of Lemonade
They listed what the fuck they listed.
:woohoo:
!!
Rig kinda lost control in here. lolz :blessed:
so many of my queens in the top 20 :cheerup:
Quote from: CDY on July 25, 2017, 03:06:40 PM
so many of my queens in the top 20 :cheerup:
yes Selena and Madge and Bey :stressed:
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Quote from: CDY on July 25, 2017, 03:06:40 PM
so many of my queens in the top 20 :cheerup:
yes Selena and Madge and Bey :stressed:
and Janet, faggit
v
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Quote from: MelMel on July 25, 2017, 03:19:38 PM
Quote from: CDY on July 25, 2017, 03:06:40 PM
so many of my queens in the top 20 :cheerup:
yes Selena and Madge and Bey :stressed:
and Janet, faggit
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I wish it was The Velvet Rope over Control but love that she was so high :loose2when:
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Quote from: Amir on July 25, 2017, 03:21:35 PM
Quote from: MelMel on July 25, 2017, 03:19:38 PM
Quote from: CDY on July 25, 2017, 03:06:40 PM
so many of my queens in the top 20 :cheerup:
yes Selena and Madge and Bey :stressed:
and Janet, faggit
:usuresis:
I wish it was The Velvet Rope over Control but love that she was so high :loose2when:
Praise ha!!
:gorlonfire:
I gotta bottle of Patron Silver with your name on it.
:stressed:
Quote from: Baph al Mana. on July 25, 2017, 12:49:44 PM
Rig kinda lost control in here. lolz :blessed:
fdddddd
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