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Originally Posted by noisereductions
I put the Wu and Ghost on my xmas list. But I'll prob check both on Spotify before xmas. I'm way more excited about the Ghostface (of course)
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Well, I was way more excited about the Wu, and initially I saw the GHOSTFACE as a bonus, but also as yet another competitor against for the Wu-Tang Album as well as for the Kanye & Kendrick records I expected to be out by now but which I feel certain will not be out until 2015.
But Ghostface became my favorite solo Clan artist with 12 Reasons to die, and I gave up on pretending that Raekwon or any Wu member had a more prolofic and versatile solo career than Tony. And now that I've heard 36 Seasons (promo), an album that features no other Wu-Tang members, and as a result feels more like a GFK album than a Wu solo album, I think it's got more going for it than A Better Tomorrow does.
So now, I'm more excited about picking up an actual physical copy of 36 Seasons than I am about A Better Tomorrow. ABT has some major hiccups in it, despite the overall quality of the performances. And 36 Seasons is a
stunningly poignant album that doesn't seem to inspire any doubts about the stylistic direction and whether or not it was