I always tend to procrastinate and fine tune my year-end albums list til the very end, and one of the reasons/benefits is that there are always perfectly good albums released in December that get lost in the shuffle, and it's fun to be at least one of the few that notices them without just throwing them on the next year's lists. The last big one of this year that I was looking forward to was the new Fall Out Boy last week, but I was also compelled to pick up Anthony Hamilton's The Point Of It All based on Cibula raving about it. And while he's exaggerating how good it is by quite a bit, it's still pretty good. I've always mainly just adored "Charlene" without feeling really compelled to dig deeper into the guy's music, but really he makes some pretty dope shit. For all the old-school soul Al Green-type signifiers thrown at him, he really has a voice that's completely his own and keeps the production aesthetic way more modern than you'd expect, although thank god this record has a better drum sound than the awful snare on Comin' From Where I'm From, which always bugged the shit out of me. Right now the last song on the record, "Fine Again," is my favorite, but I'm still getting into it.
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Don't listen to this corny blogger; Cibula is NOT exaggerating.
 
Well, "one of the best soul albums ever released" is high praise but subjective and arguable; "destined to go down in history as" same just makes your enthusiasm sound a little more detached from reality. It is good, though!
 
Yeah but what if someone actually believes something, instead of just hating everything? What if someone COULD come out with a classic soul album in 2008, instead of just saying "oh that genre died in 1971 LOL"? OPEN YOUR HEART AL, SNARK IS DEAD.
 
I'm not being snarky, I'm just being for real. Soul music is very alive this year, and I loved a lot of it, even if AH wasn't quite my favorite album. I'm just saying that going for "HISTORY WILL VINDICATE MY OPINION" hyperbole isn't the best way to make your case. If you think I hate everything and am just a mysanthropic grump than you're not paying attention.
 
Not that you SHOULD be paying close attention to me, but if you're paying enough attention to notice when I buy and enjoy an album based on your reccomendation, maybe you shouldn't go straight to calling me a corny snarky hater.
 
I wasn't entirely talking about you Al, nor was I being entirely serious. And I'm glad you like the record, I really am. I was just kind of taken aback at you saying that the bonus track (produced by Heavy D!) was your favorite track when there is all kinds of amazing stuff here, I misinterpreted that.

I was also being an online jerk, something I have promised myself not to do in 2009. My apologies.
 
Nah, "She's Gone" is the Heavy D bonus, I said "Fine Again," which is at the end of the album proper. Not sure it's really my favorite still anyway, "Prayin' For You/Superman" is pretty killer.
 
haha, reading comphrehension is a lost art, and i am the proof. anyway, i take back everything i ever said if it was wrong or unfair. i am done with drama like henrik ibsen.
 
it's all good, dude. i know you get heated sometimes.
 
great top 100 list!
 
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