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Like Water For Chocolate |  | Artist: Common
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 10622
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 74 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 008811243920
EAN: 0008811243920
ASIN: B000056EU5
Release Date: April 23, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Time Traveling (A Tribute To Fela) - ?uestlove, Common, D'Angelo, James Poyser, Jay Dee, Vinia Mojica, Roy Hargrove, Femi Kuti | | • | Heat - Common, Jay Dee | | • | Cold Blooded - ?uestlove, Common, D'Angelo, Kelo, The Roots, Rahzel the Godfather of Noize, Roy Hargrove | | • | Dooinit - Common, Jay Dee | | • | The Light - Common, Jay Dee | | • | Funky For You - Common, James Poyser, Jay Dee, Bilal, Jill Scott | | • | The Questions - Common, James Poyser, Jay Dee, Mos Def | | • | Time Travelin Reprise - ?uestlove, Common, D'Angelo, James Poyser, Jay Dee | | • | The 6th Sense - Common, DJ Premier | | • | A Film Called Pimp - Common, Jay Dee | | • | Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World) - Common, Jay Dee | | • | Thelonius - Common, Jay Dee, Slum Village | | • | Payback Is A Grandmother - Common, Jay Dee | | • | Geto Heaven Remix T.S.O.I. - ?uestlove, Ahmir Thompson, D'Angelo, God, James Poyser, Macy Gray, Russell "The Dragon" Elevado, Common | | • | A Song For Assata - Common, James Poyser, Cee-Lo | | • | Pops Rap III....All My Children - Common, Karriem Riggins, Lonnie "Pops" Lynn |
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Relaxed, deep, a great thoughtful album. September 19, 2003
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is the album most Common fans, and fans of hip-hop in general, remember him for, and thats the way it should stay. This is an excellent display of lyrical mastery, uplifting choruses and great guest appearances.pAs is often the case with Common, jazzy beats and samples are used a lot, with 'Coldblooded' being a good example. 'The Light' and 'The 6th Sense' are the tracks you will have heard and these are brilliant. Other standout tracks are 'Funky For You', featuring an excellent chorus sung by Jill Scott, 'Thelonius' and 'A Song for Assata'.pBut, the best track on this album is easily track 7, 'The Questions'. The beat is flowing with a beautiful jazz feel that I will never tire of, and the lyrics are both thought-evoking and humourous.pOverall, I would recommend this album for any true fan of hip-hop, and urge them to check his other work, which is also great. Its an easy decision to give this 5 stars.
A funky, spiritual, sublimely produced hip hop masterpiece May 10, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Common (formerly Common Sense) has been around for some time now, having brought out a number of original, if slightly flawed albums that showed his immense lyrical skills and his unique ability to create soulful hip hop and still maintain a hard edge. He is among that small band of emcees out there including Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Black Thought that are trying to push hip hop forward and save it from the sample-heavy, immature, 'cash-money', 'bling bling' rap that floods the mainstream today.p'Like water for chocolate' is the first true classic album of this century. This is the first album from Common that doesn't drop off at any point. Every track is a blend of intelligent, conscious lyrics with tight and incredibly funky beats. This album features some of the best producers in the business so it is not surprising that sonically, it is possibly the most accomplished album you'll ever hear. The producers include ?uestlove of The Roots, Jay Dee and the unstoppable DJ Premier of Gangstarr. It is Primo's joint 'The 6th Sense' that is the immediate stand out track and unsurprisingly it was the first single. It is straight hip hop.pMy favourite track is 'The Light' in which Common raps about love in his unrivalled voice with great feeling. This album is full of clever lyrical twists and it is this that will keep 'Like Water For Chocolate' fresh long after you would have got bored of any other album.pOther great tracks include 'Doin it' where Common has a disguised attack at the likes of Puffy. 'Geto Heaven' too, featuring the immensely talented D'Angelo is a classic. Common shows his social awareness, often lacking in most of hip hop today, on 'A song for Assata', dedicated to a political prisoner.pSimply put, anyone remotely into hip hop or anyone interested in just good music MUST obtain this album. It would not be overstating it to say that this is one of the best albums of the last ten years. Support a rare talent and buy 'Like Water For Choclate' and Reflection Eternal's LP later in the year and fill the pockets of someone other than the likes of Jay-Z, DMX etc. This is real hip hop.
This is the best album money can buy January 26, 2002
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Granted, I don't have a huge hip-hop collection just yet, but I own a number of what are considered to be great albums: the classics. I had never heard any of Common's songs when I ordered this CD, I had just noticed that he had got into the US top 20, while obviously not being commercial. So I bought it.pThere are 16 tracks on this album, if you frget the 1st track, the 8th track, and the last track (skit/music things which are listenable yet skippable if you see what I mean) then you are left with the 13 most consistent tracks I have ever heard on an original studio album. Even if 10 of them were absolute garbage, 'The Light', '6th Sense' and 'Geto Heaven'f/ Macy Gray, are three of the most moving, honest, intelectually stimulating, yet catchy pieces of music I have ever heard.pCommon's lyrics make sense, but not just that, although they rhyme, it doesn't sound as if that is the reason he uses a word - simply to rhyme. Of contemporary, mainstream(ish) artists that can only truly be said of Mos Def (who features on this album, uncoincidentally, to an extent Eminem and Common. And Common is the best, closely followed by Mos. pBasially, if you have the money buy this album. If you don't borrow it from a friend. If none of your friends have it, I'll tape it and send it to yu to share with the other unenlightened people in your life.pPeace.
hip hop dj? then buy this beast!! January 19, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
These two vinyl are quality! If you area hiphop DJ then this is one to buy. Phat tunes, phat beats,an outstanding buy. You'll be able to double the amount of mixes you alredy have after buying this little beauty.
Excellently portrayed piece of imaginative sog writing. March 2, 2002
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Like water for chocolate is one of the classic albums which real no hip hop fan would miss out on. The cd itself has 16 tracks and in my opinion there were 3 i didn't like that much but 13 out of 16 is about as good as you are going to get. the only other album which compares to this is Illmatic by Nas as that also is undefiably good. But any I would recommend this album to the more main stream listeners out there.
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