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DR. DRE - COMPTON: A SOUNDTRACK BY DR. DRE (Official Discussion)
mrkmaidog:
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--- Quote from: mrkmaidog on August 06, 2015, 07:58:22 PM ---Fucking Good Ass album!!! Diggin everything i heard so far.
Will there be Actual CDs sold at Best Buy, Target etc...??? I need an actual CD with the booklet etc...
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i saw 21st somewhere for CDs i think, so 2 weeks from now. seems about right.
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Thanks... lbuy the i-tunes tmw then the movie next friday & actual cds in stores the friday after. August is a GOOD month. Hoping the actual cds will have bonus cuts not on i-tunes such as a Best Buy exclusive etc....
Suga Foot:
--- Quote from: wcsoldier on August 06, 2015, 08:18:04 PM ---Beats lack "musicality" and melodies ... It's like Compton dropped in 1999 and 2001 in 2015
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I feel opposite. I always felt let down by the simplicity of a lot of the 2001 era beats compared to his early/mid 90's stuff. This sounds more complex. It's interesting. It's the type of thing you can pick up new sounds every time you listen.
PLANT:
--- Quote from: Adon on August 06, 2015, 08:05:26 PM ---Just put on my Beats™ Studio Headphones. This is probably the best sounding album I've ever heard.
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I'm thinking the same thing
Listening to iTunes version now, quality much better than the stream!
Matty:
--- Quote from: PLANT on August 06, 2015, 08:37:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: Adon on August 06, 2015, 08:05:26 PM ---Just put on my Beats™ Studio Headphones. This is probably the best sounding album I've ever heard.
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I'm thinking the same thing
Listening to iTunes version now, quality much better than the stream!
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8) bumping full quality now. then i really gotta go to bed ;D
Detox Is A Myth!!!:
It's a good album but it's too strained for my taste. It's definitely Dre's "heaviest" solo album. I prefer lithe, carefree music that you can just grove too, which of course was one of the beauties of G-Funk. You can tell that Kendrick Lamar's approach to album-construction has deeply influenced and shaped Dre in this era. This is by turns the most intellectual Dre album, so if that's your cup of tea, you'll happily drink this up.
Production-wise, of course the studio-craft sonically on display here is impecable, which is to be expected, but Dre hasn't been in his prime for decades now (imo it was early to mid 90s). Then again, I wasn't hoping for anything more than "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" level of quality from the GOAT producer. Still, this isn't a game-changer like Dre's best work.
All in all, it's a good album, certainly not a typical dated sounding album by an old, washed up rapper. In fact, this is very modern, if not an attempt to push modernism forward a bit. But two things: 1) again, the tone and tempos are not really my steez and I agree there's not much music built around core melodies on this album and 2) this sounds like the kind of album Dre could put out every couple years if he were hungry enough to actually consistently make music.
But it doesn't matter; Dre's legacy has been cemented for a long time, and this won't alter it in any either direction, better or worse.
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