Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

...so awesome!!!

 

One of very few albums I own with hip hop on it! Agree, it's a great album. I got it a few years after it was released, and give it a listen from time to time. Did not know there was a remix version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"; maybe available on YouTube?

 

I liked some of the songs, but there seemed to be loads of extra vocal tracks going "yo" "uh" "yeah" "come on" ect....in every song. That annoyed me.

 

The was just her version of the Michael Jackson wee-hee-hees and jam-ons (or whatever he said there).

I like Miseducation a lot. Whatever happened afterward to Lauryn is a real shame.

 

That's how I look at this album. I spin it pretty often. At least a couple of times a year. It's a beautiful, moving album that has something meaningful to say.

I started a thread about pressings a while back but didn't get any replies. Since then I found a nice 1998 US original which sounds very nice. But I haven't actually compared it to the CD.

However, I can recommend that you avoid the 2015 Ruffhouse/Columbia pressing (Ruffhouse Records 88875021571, Columbia - 88875021571). I returned a copy of that. It had significant surface noise (after repeated washings) to the point that it was really un-listenable and, if I remember correctly, it was warped.

 

YES!!!

It's about time, this is one of my favorite albums EVER!!! My older sister used to be obsessed with it back when I was really little so it's also very nostalgic to me. She was so talented and so beautiful and then just dissapeared. But you could tell she was never really into stardom anyway. Regardless the album is still amazing.

 

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http://www.salon.com/2012/09/17/wyclef_jean_i_loved_lauryn_hill_and_my_wife/

 

That bastard! Did he nail Shakira too?

 

Wyclef Jean:
"I’ve been told by many angry people who are also her fans that if I hadn’t messed with her she would not have gone so insane. My response to that is: you can talk as much as you want to talk, because talking is easy, because you’re not the one who was in my shoes. You’re not the one who had to be around that beautiful woman 24/7 sharing genius space with her."

 

He can romanticize and rationalize that situation all he wants, but that was a sleazy thing to do. I'll bet his wife loves hearing that he wouldn't change a thing.

 

"Genius space"? Is that what they call a 23 year old hitting on a 16 year old now?

Got it.

I do agree that he didn't make Lauren Hill what she is. Bad biology, bad chemicals.

 

This is the one.



You're down with hip hop Lauren, we get it.

 

Are you really questioning the impact of that song? We get that you're not down with hip-hop but I'm fine with her choices regarding that song. It's perfect

 

it's a good song, just too much yo-ing.

 

Not going to jump all over the guy but that's not a flattering story from him. Reactionary parents and strict cultures produce many victims, that's for sure. No idea how that actually went down, but possibly the threat of another love interest in her life sparked him to make a move when he did. The rest would just be rationalization. At least he does say who the real talent is, even though he wants to claim sensei status.

 

so wycleff was one of the reasons for messing her up?

 

Remember when Mariah Carey went loony for a while? I believe it was in the early 2000s. Anyway, that happened immediately after singer Luis Miguel broke up with her. He was her Wyclef.

 

What year did they do that, JohnnyQuest?

 

Great album. Played it a lot back in 1999. Thanks for reminding me of this classic. Got the CD single for Everything Is Everything as well. GREAT live version of Ex-factor on that one.

 

I believe it was 2001. Which is strange because they used the music for "Heartbreaker" instead the song they were parodying "Loverboy".

 

Something happened between 2000 & 2001. The MTV Unplugged show was the first appearance where you could tell that something was wrong.

Just look at these clips:

2000 (speech):
https://thetruthrenaissance.wordpre...-hill-speaks-to-high-school-students-in-2000/

2001 (MTV Unplugged):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17pz5k_lauryn-hill-peace-of-my-mind-mtv-unplugged-hd_music

 

Definitely a classic. Pity she never followed it up.