The Avalanches

obviously, especially since it's later, but it's not like I would dismiss The Kinks or Pink Floyd for being slightly less influential than The Beatles

Weirdly, I completely adore ATCQ and MFDOOM. Maybe I should revisit 3 Feet High.

Gotta disagree completely about Paul's Boutique. Don't let nostalgia blind you: it's an awful album. There is no excuse for songs like Egg Man, Sounds of Science, B‐Boy Bouillabaisse, Car Thief, or Shadrach.

I honestly can't stand anything about it. The delivery sucks on almost every track (aside from Hey Ladies and High Plains Drifted), and the instrumentals aged like milk.

Literally a 3/10.

I am 19 years old, I literally never heard Paul's Botique until 4 months ago. I think it's great. Of course, I don't mind when the songs get a little weird (I love things like The Pod and Pure Guava), and you seem to. And I'm endlessly fascinated by the layers of the production and skill of the turntablism. I have no problem with the delivery being aged. And I think the flow of the whole thing, especially most of side 2, makes it feel extremely fun, for lack of a better term. I don't really think "B‐Boy Bouillabaisse" is that great though, I will give you that.

What's the sample in Because I'm me? Bonobo used it aswell on the track in all forms

maybe I hate fun, idk.

SILY was a 10/10 so "not as good" means anything below it lol

did he mean to say something like "i would have been glad to say this is the exception"

The rapping never felt like it was part of the music, it felt like it shouldn't be there at all because the music is about sampling and creating something out of existing works and by throwing in features it ruins the purpose.

This applies to noisy eater and basically every song with rap features, the whole point of the samples as the basis for music it is basically makes it timeless while the features concretely date the album to the trends of rap right now.

you know like half the songs on the album also have guest vocalists doing original pieces in the mix right

The problem I have specifically with the rap portions is that they draw attention to themselves, they basically stop the song altogether and make it just about the person rapping and that's just not what I wanted to hear from The Avalanches.