We need a thread for this guys, specially after Undun.
im diggin this song these days:

Yeah. They're fucking good. I've gotten some hip hop onto the ol' iPod over the summer. They're one of my better additions.

I saw them open for 311 a couple years back and they were really really good.

Here is the short film they release with Undun.... what great album...im really surprised on how they use their soul influences so well and mixed them with r&b, dubstep, some jazz, some funk...

Seeing 311 in 1996 is understandable, but a couple years back? How was the show?

I have Yo La Tengo on...I'm not watching these videos but I'm sure they're good.

never heard a song from them.

Very good. Definitely a band that still has a lot of fun playing and they mix up their set lists quite a bit. I think it was 2006? Im not sure. 311 is by no means the best music ever created, but a lot of the stuff up until the early 2000's is still a lot of fun and enjoyable to listen to.

Let's take this to a 311 thread, pardner.

i only have Things Fall Apart, Game Theory, Rising Down, and Undun. Thing Falls Apart is one of my favorite rap albums. best lineup--storch, rahzel, malik b. not to mention common and mos def at the top of their respective games.

I also would like to recognize internet user: washing machine for his commitment to thread integrity.

What´s your opinion on Undun?....Things fall apart is awesome.

i really like Undun. i thought the four-song instrumental suite at the end seemed like an odd way to end the album when i first heard it, but it's grown on me. Kool On and One Time are a few of my all-time favorite Roots songs. how about you?

i am appalled by what passes for acceptable spelling in the rap game's bylaws

Oh man, you've gotta give "How I Got Over" a listen. Far and away my favorite Roots album--very piano-driven, very tuneful, but blanketed in this aura of sadness that in my experience is rare in hip-hop. I think the only other hip-hop album I've ever heard that gives me that same feeling in my gut is Jay's "Reasonable Doubt," to which I'd compare "How I Got Over" if Jay and Black Thought didn't come from such different places as lyricists.

I think the Roots are one of those rare acts that are just now, twenty years in, getting around to creating their best material. Most of their stuff has been solid, but I think "How I Got Over" and "Undun" are a step above.

I need to listen more to how i got over...but yeah undun is a masterpiece.