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About five times a week, unbidden into my head comes: Beam me up, Scotty/ I control your body/ I'm as deadly as aids/ when it's time to rock a party.

How are their later albums? I've SB and UB, but never really investigated the solo albums or the later reunion stuff.

― Rofofo Fight! (honestengine), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

well, I like Back in Business but at least a 1/4 of it is either remakes of old songs or unnecessary remixes. the first half is pretty great though.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

and the Def Squad album was not bad... whatever happened to Keith Murray?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Business As Usual has its moments. "I'm Mad".

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i like business as usual a lot actually.

i never heard back in business.

― sir lord baltimore club music (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember randomly meeting a friend of mine after his last exam at McGill in Montreal when he was all fucked up on mushrooms, and walking down ste catherine street with him. For some reason all he could do was try to quote EPDM lyrics, but he kept fucking them all up like: "I'm a Locksmith! And you're a green beret!". But then we went to get a slice of pizza and he started doing all these pizza lines from "Mona Lisa" in a fucked up effeminate Slick Rick voice, like "My gosh, ya look nice! Put away your money, I'll buy yur slice!" to these mean-looking quebecois metal dudes. Why do I have perfect recall of the most useless moments of my life? Anyway, it was funny.

― fritz wollner (fritz), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

!!!! omg that's amazing fritz! that doesn't seem useless at all!

― sir lord baltimore club music (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

well it's been a useless until now, anyway... though I have called Dan just to say, "I'm a locksmith - and you're a Green Beret!" more than once.

― fritz wollner (fritz), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

They've never made a bad album, they just progressively less awesome as time goes on. Shocking consistent.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

They've never made a bad album, they just progressively less awesome as time goes on. Shocking consistent.

that, and b/c they'd been around for so long you can tell how hip-hop has evolved over time just by following the course of their records.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

what's more -- and for which they are to be credited -- that even as their beats changed somewhat over time (to match changing fashions), they STILL maintained their individuality throughout. even when, as on out of business, they invited folks like redman & method man to appeal to newer audiences or (from business as usual onwards) their lyrics got more "street" (translation -- they started cussing and talking more about guns, a stylistic tip of the hat to NWA?) -- throughout all that, they still remained Erick and Parrish most interested in girls and dissing any MCs not as skilled as they were.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"even when, as on out of business, they invited folks like redman & method man to appeal to newer audiences"