Friday, August 25, 2006

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (Top 500 Countdown Update)

This is a very nice album. It is somewhere between De La Soul and Massive Attack and really sets a good groove. The 90's saw such a big change in the whole hip hop scene and the kinds of things people were trying to do with the beats and the sounds. A lot of this was discussed in my entry about the Beastie Boys album, but A Tribe Called Quest continued the revolution of sound coming out of the hip hop genre and helping to create spin off genres like trip hop.

There isn't anything bad to say about the album because there is nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't quite sit at the top of the list for me. It's a good sound and a good listen, but not the kind of album that I'm going to get really deep into.