A song full of sexy lyrics, catchy melodies and the kind of beat that makes a middle school boy get all excited in his pants. ![]() 180g orange colored double vinyl pressing. 3.5 great Review by The Jungler USER ( 183 Reviews) November 21st, 2006 13 replies Release Date: 1999 Tracklist Kelis broke onto the scene with a hit song, like many R&B singers do these days. debut album produced entirely by The Neptunes. With Kelis classed as a weirdo outsider- or worse, nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Neptunes- both 1999s Kaleidoscope and 2003s Tasty sank from memory once America had squeezed her. Originally released in 1999, this 2LP set is pressed on translucent orange vinyl. The classics are still the classics, but the canon keeps getting bigger and better. Their work signaled a new shift in R&B, making it clear that, with Kelis up front, they were coming for the Timbaland/Missy Elliott crown. But that was part of what made rebooting the RS 500 fascinating and fun 86 of the albums on the list are from this century, and 154 are new additions that weren’t on the 2003 or 2012 versions. Of course, it could still be argued that embarking on a project like this is increasingly difficult in an era of streaming and fragmented taste. (As in 2003, we allowed votes for compilations and greatest-hits albums, mainly because a well-made compilation can be just as coherent and significant as an LP, because compilations helped shaped music history, and because many hugely important artists recorded their best work before the album had arrived as a prominent format.) When we first did the RS 500 in 2003, people were talking about the “death of the album.” The album -and especially the album release - is more relevant than ever. The electorate includes Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Billie Eilish rising artists like H.E.R., Tierra Whack, and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail as well as veteran musicians, such as Adam Clayton and the Edge of U2, Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan, Gene Simmons, and Stevie Nicks. To do so, we received and tabulated Top 50 Albums lists from more than 300 artists, producers, critics, and music-industry figures (from radio programmers to label heads, like Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman). Experimentative, soul-charged, funky and futuristicthat blazing burst of curls on the coverKaleidoscope wasn’t just another Hip-Hop album, and Kelis wasn’t just another R & B singer. ![]() So we decided to remake our greatest albums list from scratch. The Intro sends up the autobiographical skits of the era: we hear a. Intro Yo, this song, yo This song is for all the women out there That have been lied to by their men And I know yall been lied to over and over again This is for yall, yo, maybe you didnt. But no list is definitive - tastes change, new genres emerge, the history of music keeps being rewritten. With Kaleidoscope, Kelis appeared as if from outer space with her shock of brightly. ![]() Over the years, it’s been the most widely read - and argued over - feature in the history of the magazine (last year, the RS 500 got over 63 million views on the site). Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012.
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