Albums you used to love... Change of pace....

[herpes]

You usually get asked what albums did it take a while for you to like but i want to change it up.  What albums at one time were one of your favorite albums but over the years you just dont listen to it anymore.  For me it would have to be doggystyle.  Its still a great album but i dont listen to it anymore.  The content is crap and lyrically its ass cheeks.  Its still a great album but i just dont care for it much anymore.

[truedupbluedup]

I used to bump Restless alot

but i dont remember the last time i popped it in.

Its sad too because when i first heard "Get yo walk on" I couldnt stop bumpin it

[Don Jacob]

wow there's a lot of albums:

1. thriller, back when i was little i wore out two tapes of that thing....now i make it half way through billy jean on my i pod and i change it

2. stillmatic/illmatic, they're still awesome albums, but i can only listen to them on random occasions, nas's voice is weak and annoying after a while

3. streetz iz a mutha, i use to think this cd was a classic but then after a while it's become ...eh

[KURUPTION-81]

There is a few with me, its usually due to the fact i over play them and basically kill the cd.

[TraceOneInfinite]

Nice thread idea.

For me it is D12 "Devils Night".   

I had been anticipating this album for over a year and it even exceeded my expectations at the time it dropped.  I remember feeling like I could really relate to the subject matter.  First I bumped a 5 song album sampler for a few weeks, then when the album leaked I bumped that daily, it never left my cd player, then I bought like two copies of the album when it finally dropped.  Yeah, no doubt, I was some kind of a fanatic.  I thought "Fight Music" was the next level of hip-hop and I thought that "Revelation" was just that---- a striking revelation!

^^Yeah, I know, hate all you want, that's what I used to think.

...anyway, I hadn't listened to the album in a long time since 2001.   I listened to it just a little while ago after all these years, and I still feel like the beats are top-notch, but the lyrics and concepts make the album appear as a calculated attempt to sell records to 12 and 13 year olds.

[Eihtball]

The content is crap and lyrically its ass cheeks.  Its still a great album but i just dont care for it much anymore.

LOL, that's a contradictory statement right there.

There is a few with me, its usually due to the fact i over play them and basically kill the cd.

Same here.  There are a lot of CDs' that I still consider to be among my favorites, but I've long sinced killed them by overplaying.  Any of the classic G-Funk albums ("The Chronic", "Doggystyle", "Regulate", etc.) and the classic East Coast albums ("Illmatic", "Ready To Die", "The Infamous", etc.), I still love those albums, but I don't listen to them much anymore because I pretty much know them by heart so it's not the same.

Oh, and I've also played the hell outta Bone's "E 1999 Eternal".  I've been through 3 copies of the album (once on tape, two on CD) because every once in a while, I become obsessed with that album again and start listening to it.  I've probably listened to that record more than any other CD I own.

[King Tech Quadafi]

^ Every person I know who has that e 1999 album has had to get it at least twice

wierd

[Jip]

i listened to the chronic again today, its so good its unbelieveable, its easily the best cd in my collection

[WestCoasta]

I never overplay shit...

[Elevz]

Doesn't this just go for any cd you've loved? The love just fades away because you overkill the play you're giving the album. I could probably list over 50 albums that I don't like as much anymore because I've heard them too much. I even agree with Infinite on D12's Devils Night... I loved that album back when it came out, and right now I would find it extreme garbage, but that's most likely just because my taste has changed for the better.

Some random examples...
2Pac - All eyez on me
50 Cent - Power of the dollar
50 Cent - Get rich or die tryin'
A Tribe Called Quest - The low end theory
Common - Be
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
D12 - Devils night
dead prez - Lets get free
De La Soul - 3 Feet high and rising
De La Soul - Buhloone mindstate
Dilated Peoples - Expansion team
... the list is endless.

This doesn't mean I think any less of these albums, or that I don't like them anymore. I just don't love them as much as I used to.

[West Coast Veteran]

MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em
Fu-Shnickens - F.U. Don't Take It Personal

[macknlatin36]

Beatnuts "take it or squeeze it" it was hot at one point (at least in the east)

[Minkaveli]

50 Cent's-Get Rich Or Dy Tryin, G-Unit-Beg For Mercy.  A lot of the old school west coast stuff.

[TraceOneInfinite]

^ Every person I know who has that e 1999 album has had to get it at least twice

wierd

add me to your list.

[white Boy]

mostly all the rap albums i used to love, i still love em, i just cant listen to them.