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Blowout Comb

Digable PlanetsAudio CD
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)

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listen  7. Agent 7 Creamy Spy Theme/Dial 7 (Axiom of Creamy Spies)/NY 21 Theme 5:46$1.29  Buy MP3 
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listen  9. K.B.'s Alley (Mood Dudes Groove) 2:05$1.29  Buy MP3 
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (October 18, 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Capitol
  • ASIN: B00000HFM2
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,382 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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In 1993, the Digable Planets, a trio of New York MCs with happy insect monikers (Doodlebug, Butterfly, and Ladybug) and nonthreatening auras, created manna for the pseudo-beatnik crowd. On Reachin': A New Refutation of Time and Space they melded jazz records, hip-hop beats, and rhymes--like Gang Starr and the Dream Warriors before them. Much to their dismay, the single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," which combined their be-boppy flows with a catchy Art Blakey loop, captured the clove cigarette contingent. Their sleeper follow-up, Blowout Comb was a De La Soul-esque reaction to their pop success. They forsook the bohemians (and probably scared them as well) by waxing poetic about the Black Panthers and Fidel Castro and giving shout-outs to their peeps in the Five Percent Nation of Islam. Loaded with live instrumentation, the album includes "Black Ego," an interpolation of a popular Meters composition laced with nice guitar plucks, and "K.B.'s Alley," where a schizophrenic trombone perfectly complements their wordplay. Despite strong guest spots by vet female DJ Jazzy Joyce, Guru, and Jeru the Damaja, it's the hidden messages, somber mood, and understated beats of "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)" or "Dial 7 (Axiom Of Creamy Spies)" that outshine the gloss of their debut. --Dalton Higgins

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It's also the quintessential hip hop album. Campbell Roark  |  11 reviewers made a similar statement
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably The Most Slept-On Album Ever April 4, 2001
Format:Audio CD
This has got to be the most underrated, slept-on album in the history of hip-hop. I consider myself to be an avid hip hop fan, yet I slept on this album until November of last year!! I have heard that this album was a classic time and tiem again, but I never considered buying it until recently. This album is dope from the beginning to end. The production is reminiscent of The Roots, but I think it is much more mellow and organic. All of the songs are nice, but my favorites are Jettin, Blowing Down, The Art oF Easing, Dial 7 and Four Corners. 1994 was one of the best years in hip-hop. Illmatic, Sun Rises In The East, Word...Life, Resurrection and Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik were released during the year, but in my opinion, Blowout Comb ranks up there with those albums because it is just as good, if not better in some cases. If you do not have this album, you are missing out on a masterpiece.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the most criminally slept on hip hop album. January 23, 2004
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This is one of those albums that just slides through the cracks between genres. It's also the quintessential hip hop album. Along side 'The Low End theory,' 'Things Fall Apart,' Paul's Boutique,' 'Stankonia'... It takes hip hop to new places, it makes the whole more than what it was. Few albums accomplish that- stepping up the game for all involved and raising the collective ante.

The tracks are dense as hell- sticky-thick, odd effects, abyssinian-deep funkee samples, beats the likes of which I have never heard before (really- and I know beats pretty wel, aside from the shuggie otis sample on 'For Corners' and a couple others I'm at a loss for most of the album), and sick rhymes that stick in your head eternally... It is way beyond 'Reachin,' Digable Planet's debut album, which was a very good album in its own right.

Like I have said before in reviews, there are very albums that I can just sit back and listen to- the whole thing, no skipping tracks, no messing with the order. This is just perfect, like the girl you hope to take home to mom one day. If the almighty bounced into my kitchen while I'm washing dishes to Blowout Comb, while skipping around and murmuring the lyrics, and asked me- "Well, can I make it better? More echo on the jazz drums from 'black ego'? Or higher pitch on the singing on 'the axioms of creamy spies? Anything? you want fries with that perfection???"

I'd just say, "You know what, God? This one is fine as is."

Just kidding, there is no God. But this album is damn close.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hip Hop evolution July 15, 1999
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I understand that I am in the minority when I make this statement: I have listened to hip hop my whole life. I own all of the albums that are considered "essential" to the genre, from Run DMC to the Roots. I think this is the most creative and interesting hip hop album I've ever heard. Smart, layered, and seductive: It quite literally makes 99% of the hip hop I hear today seem like mundane mic and turntable chatter. Shame on you Digable Planets for breaking up!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Heard it a 1,000 times but still blows my mind
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I can't say much that hasn't already been said here, only that this is one of those albums I can always go back to and listen to from... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Henry II
5.0 out of 5 stars The most slept on hip-hop album EVER.
I've had this album since 1994. I only searched for it to write a review on it. I was pleasantly surprised that there were others that echoed the same sentiments that I had about... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Cornelius DeMarcus
5.0 out of 5 stars Right On!
You need not have ever visited New York City to appreciate where Digable Planets are from. This music takes you through the five boroughs, in and out of back alleys, on and off of... Read more
Published 19 months ago by The Mission
5.0 out of 5 stars A must, across all genres
When I first listened to this album back in the moment of its release, 1994, I couldn believe what I was hearing: if there was a definition of vanguard, that CD, was the perfect... Read more
Published on May 12, 2011 by LuisGdA
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best!
Since I got introduced to Digable Planets first with their two songs "Nickel Bags" and "Cool Like Dat" since 2001 or 2003, I was amazed. Read more
Published on November 18, 2010 by Henry Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic In Every Sense
On Amazon you'll see many lovely 5 star reviews for this album. And Blowout Comb is a stone cold classic. Read more
Published on July 14, 2010 by michael moodgroove
5.0 out of 5 stars "Rolling with the seven and the crescent puffin' some expression" (5...
There's a few reasons that Digable Planet's sophomore album "Blowout Comb" is one of my top 10 favorite hip-hop albums ever made. Read more
Published on August 4, 2008 by Alan Pounds
5.0 out of 5 stars 1994's most slept on hip hop album.......
i remember when i first purchased this album. once i heard it, i couldnt stop listening to it. it has the same effect on me now, and i recently purchased the compilation album... Read more
Published on March 8, 2008 by Tanesha Rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars G*d Save the DP's
Got this album when it first came out, then let someone borrow it and never saw it again. I just recently picked it up again. Read more
Published on April 27, 2007 by K. Piazza
5.0 out of 5 stars Just the best hip-hop album ever.
Well this is the fourth time I've bought this album, but if something happens to this copy I will be happy to buy it again. It's just that good! Read more
Published on February 11, 2007 by Neil Edward Mullen
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