I started “After Further Review” on here and if you need a refresher, here are the past examples and here’s what I said when I wrote the first one, back in 2013(!):
After Further Review was born out of the many online chats I’ve had about music. These are almost always off-the-cuff convos yet, at times, they yield insights I only get through dialogue (vs. trying to untangle what’s in my lonesome head). It’s easy for us to form an opinion around a piece of music (or art or whatever) and just stick to it because there’s nothing else challenging our world view but through dialogue, it opens us to new ideas. There’s something exciting and rewarding about that possibility even if, at the end of the day, we still affirm what we originally thought.
The concept with these columns is simple: 1) take an album that’s far enough from the past that we now have some hindsight vision on it. 2) Discuss.
I’ve always wanted to do more of these and, over the years, I have…just very sporadically. In the past year or so, I’ve published two on other sites and forgot to add that back here.
Almost exactly a year ago, me and Dave Ma collaborated to revisit create an Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clienete as it was turning 25 that year.
And the other week, me and Adam Mansbach did a super deep dive into De La Soul’s Stakes Is High for POWMAG, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
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