Disco de A Tribe Called Quest: “The Anthology”

Descripción (en inglés) :

A Tribe Called Quest: Phife, Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Jarobi. Additional personnel: Faith Evans (vocals); Trugoy, Leaders Of The New School, Charlie Brown, Dinco D., Busta Rhymes (rap vocals). Producers: A Tribe Called Quest, Hoods, Q-Tip, The Ummah. Includes liner notes by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds. Digitally remastered by Tom Coyne (1999, Sterling Sound). Emerging on the cusp of the '90s, Tribe quickly became that decade's hip-hop icons. While Phife, Q-Tip, and Ali displayed unquestionable lyrical skills, they possessed a social consciousness that eschewed thuggish gangsta sensibilities, more concerned with communication than "street" bravado. ANTHOLOGY opens with "Check the Rhime" from Tribe's masterful second album, THE LOW END THEORY. A quintessential Tribe cut, it features the trademark conversational interaction between Phife and Q-Tip, and observations that tell much about the group's philosophy, as Phife declares "I'm far from a bully, and I ain't a punk" and Q-Tip observes that "knowledge is the key." Of course, Tribe was innovative and impressive straight out of the gate, as shown by its debut's warm love song "Bonita Applebum," which mixes smooth '70s R&B with a sitar sample and the belief that "love never dies." Pioneers of the jazz/hip-hop alliance, Tribe sampled everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Lonnie Smith, achieving the complex, polyphonic tapestry of Public Enemy without the anger. ANTHOLOGY shows that Tribe was always able to find just the right elements to combine for the backdrop to their fast-moving raps. From the breezy jazz guitar chords of "Electric Relaxation" to the Average White Band horn section on "Check the Rhime."

....by the way they left "Butter" off this piece....

Anyone who is a Quest fan will already be familiar will all of the tracks on here. The only song on here that is previously unreleased on CD is "If the Papes Come" which was a B-side single from the first joint ("People's Instinctive..."). Some will complain about which songs are here and which are missing. But you can't front on the 19 selections were chosen for this collection.

Anthology does what greatest hits album do -- give you the greatest hits. It would be nice if there was an extra disc with a few of the hot remixes or b-sides that you can't get on CD. If that's what you want, you might want to go back and pick up "The Love Movement" which includes remixes for "Scenario", "Jazz" and "Oh My God" as well as "Hot Sex" and "One Two S**t" which were never on full-length CD.

Oh yeah, "Vivrant Thing" is on here too. Tip probably had to let them touch this as a term of getting out of the Jive label contract and getting signed on Arista. But all in all this is a great compilation of great moments from a great group. Just put in it and sit back. No track skipping necessary.

If you only buy one Tribe CD (and that would be a huge mistake to buy only one) this should be the disc. This CD has nothing but the most amazing Tribe tracks and many of the greatest songs ever recorded period. I guarantee that you won't even have to touch the next track button on your player because this is one of those incredibly rare CD's where every song is the best song on the disc. If you own a Puff Daddy CD, you might be able to get out of hell and make up for your sin if you buy this CD instead.

This album is perfectly acceptable distillation of the Tribe's 5 lps, with two songs not included on any of those lps: If the Papes Come, a nice b side; and Vivrant Thing, which I assume everybody has already had enough of. This has less of a reason to exist than Hits, Rarities & Remixes or the second half of the Love Movement, and it would make a lot more sense if they put all the extra tracks on one volume instead of giving a little at a time.

I suppose this recording gives a little too much preference to the earlier albums, but a lot of tribe fans are partial to the first one or two of them, so I guess that is justified. I see no point in buying this if you are much of a fan at all; it makes a lot of sense to have at least two of their albums instead because all of them have a lot of worthy content that cannot be compressed in a volume like this. But if you just want to grab a couple of mid-90s hits from one of rap's greatest groups, then go ahead...

Tribe called quest are a big piece of Hip hop and me being young blinded by the commercialized stuff today I didn't get to really know them until 2 years ago. Now I have all of their albums and I give credit to this greatest hits album that was put together so well. First the production is crazy and it hooks you right away. Phife and Q-tip provide the sick lyrics that complete this great trio. This is the perfect greatest hits no skips. So bottom line if you want to really get a grip on hip hop and the greats then you need this album if you don't have any of Tribe called quest then your collection isn't complete.

Really, if you want a crash course in ATCQ, then pick this up. But if you already have all of their albums, then there's really no point, unless you wanna check out "If the Papes Come" (which is kinda hard to find anywhere). There are some really good songs on here from all of the albums with the exception of the weak "Find a Way" from The Love Movement. Although many fans will complain about their favorite songs not being on here (like "Ham n' Eggs" or "Show Business" featuring Sadat X, Lord Jamar, and Diamond D), this collection is pretty good. But why did they tack on the too-too-recent Q-Tip solo, "Vivrant Thing"? (Both that song and this compilation were made in 1999.) If anything, that song shows how commercial the Tribe members have gotten up until that point.