Only months later, he cemented his place at the front of jazz’s vanguard with his equally expansive major label debut, The Epic, largely developed with his compatriots in Los Angeles’ West Coast Get Down jazz collective. In 2015, saxophonist Kamasi Washington announced his arrival to mainstream audiences on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Perry Farrell’s celestial voice, along with the dynamic playing of guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins, makes Nothing’s Shocking a truly unique album.Ĭombining the power of Led Zeppelin with the art-rock of The Velvet Underground on tracks like the explosive “Mountain Song” with its magnificent bass line, or the acoustic “Jane’s Says” with its heart-wrenching lyrics, Nothing’s Shocking represents a defining moment in what was soon to be a seismic shift in rock music. Equal parts heavy and ethereal, it’s fitting that the album contains song titles like “Up the Beach” and “Ocean Size,” as the tracks play like waves crashing into the sea. With 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction helped lay the foundation for what would eventually become the alternative rock revolution of the ‘90s. In turn, other great works have been bumped off, or down, or up.ġ00. All of this factors into putting together a behemoth like this, which means records that weren’t considered - or even released - the last time we undertook this challenge now have prominent placement. Tastes have been reshaped, genres have been born and died away, and the way we divvy up importance through history has been altered by the very nature of the present. Understandably, things are going to be different this time. Even the people taking part in this exercise are different, as only two staff members who were part of the OG list, published in 2010, remain with Consequence today. Forget about how opinions have changed over those 12 years - the entire culture has shifted. It’s been over a decade since we first took a shot at boiling down all of popular music history into the 100 greatest albums of all time.
It affected a lot of people.Ĭheck out the liner notes here.It’s Consequence’ s 15th anniversary, and all September long we’ll be publishing a series of retrospective pieces encompassing our publication’s own history - and the entertainment landscape in general. Today, we’re kicking it off with our new and improved 100 Greatest Albums of All Time list. I just wanted to do wanted to something for all mothers. There’s a song on there dedicated to mothers, just a song I wrote just for my mother. It talks about the streets but talks about it in a different light. It’s explaining my lifestyle, who I am, my upbringing and everything. And it took a whole album to get it all out. Everybody thought that I was living so well and doing so good that I wanted to explain it. It was all my fears, all the things I just couldn’t sleep about. So Me Against the World was deep, reflective. And whatever mistakes I make, I make out of ignorance, not out of disrespect to music or the art. Me Against the World was really to show people that this is an art to me. Regarding the album, 2Pac said the following: The album was supported by the singles “So Many Tears,” “Temptations,” the title track, and the Grammy nominated hit “Dear Mama,” the dedication to his mother, Afeni Shakur. The album was also featured on multiple all-time lists, such as The Source’s 100 Best Rap Albums of All-Time and Complex’s 90 Best Albums of the ‘90s. It was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rap Album category, an award it won at the 1996 Soul Train Awards. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, making him the first artist to have a #1 album while incarcerated. Many critics feel this album was arguably his best due to the introspection he displays throughout the album. This album was created in 1994, the year he was shot outside Quad Recording Studios in New York City (as discussed on the intro) and sent to prison. Me Against the World is 2Pac’s third studio album, released on Mathrough Interscope Records.