GNBohr:

truth be told, most of these people are no musicians, cant play musical instruments, rely on keyboard, have no bands, mime to their own music at their own shows. songs are not inspirational, very odious. How many of these albums get any attention now. watch any local TV stations or listen to local FMs even Nigezie on HiTv and you will understand they are all dead songs. Nobody listens to them much longer, they are now part of history. Which party plays such music again.

They have all been pushed into oblivion by new non-inspirational and odious albums. An album can only be regarded as best of the decades when it is consistently being listened to and video shown regularly through out the years in the decade. None of them qualify. No wonder one of the music awards organised gave Obiwon the song of the decade award. Obiwon himself has not even spend five years on the Nigerian music scene.

For me the Sunny Nneji's album containing the track "Oruka" and Martins' "Olo mi" has been proving worthy of being regarded as Albums of the decade. No weekend pass by in Nigeria without people listening and dancing to those two albums.

Here we go again with the party track mentality.
Go to the real parties and see who plays there . . . ask anyone how much KSA charges for performances.
Or have you forgotten how Lagbaja entertained a live crowd at Motherland for years with songs of this album??
Femi's Shoki Shoki and Se Were still rock at the African shrine . . . that's what's true relevance.

It's about looking at your Itunes and knowing that you can pick an album in ten years and still enjoy it. . . that's what it's all about. Internatinal acclaim, local celebrity.

Oruka was a one-hit wonder, I've not seen the Tosin Martins album yet.
They're nowhere near contenders for Album of the Decade.

tosinaded@:

four songs or not, that album sure moved and made a huge impact on the naija music scene

Come on . . . it is not even an album.
When I want Best Four Song Cd of the decade, I'll remember to add Olufunmi

@ GNBohr to be an artist u don't need 2 play any instrument. And what does playing instrument have 2 do wiv great albums?

eldee:

Here we go again with the party track mentality.
Go to the real parties and see who plays there . . . ask anyone how much KSA charges for performances.
Or have you forgotten how Lagbaja entertained a live crowd at Motherland for years with songs of this album??
Femi's Shoki Shoki and Se Were still rock at the African shrine . . . that's what's true relevance.

It's about looking at your Itunes and knowing that you can pick an album in ten years and still enjoy it. . . that's what it's all about. Internatinal acclaim, local celebrity.

Oruka was a one-hit wonder, I've not seen the Tosin Martins album yet.
They're nowhere near contenders for Album of the Decade.

i couldnt agree less jare

tosinaded@:

do people really know wut albums are
some posts here got me thinking 

I wonder. . . . 
Let me keep the lid on the expletives and curses tank!!!

tosinaded@:


i couldnt agree less jare

Let's look at it

How many good songs were on the Unchained album?? Oruka was perfect, Face Me was great, Tolotolo was not that good . . . Highlife Dance Floor was creative . . . name one other good song on that album.

u even try sef . . . . . after oruka, thats all for me

you go mind the guy. apart 4rm olomi by tosin martins i no sabi nothing else. we dey talk of albums when u go hardly skip any song ma guy dey here dey yarn him own.

tosinaded@:

pls i dnt get that part of your post o

ep means that it isnt a full album by standard but is sold as an album.

lp is a full album with more than 8 tracks while ep is usually 3 to 7 tracks.

Abagworo:

ep means that it isnt a full album by standard but is sold as an album.

lp is a full album with more than 8 tracks while ep is usually 3 to 7 tracks.

ok now i get ur prev post!
u on pont

not in any paticular order and with a few notes  

i am in no way leaking boots but since naa you start this thread

1]eldee album 1- sun ree was an amazing tribute to a lost friend and the 1st day i listened to the words i teared up quite a bit and i repeated it
                            quite a bit
                        -i cant remember the title but that song about the state of the nation in yoruba was the bomb 4 me and i played that thing quite a
                          bit

eldee album 2-bo si gbangba kajo was sheer genius
                      -the phone call that led to pack your things and go oo.eldee naa u bikoooooooooo

[i hav read quite a bit of critque about the whole nate dogg thingy you got going on but i think it works well for you and personally there is longevity in the singing rather than the rap]

2] 9ice album 1- who ?
          album 2-where have you been all our lives??
                      -street credibility 5 GBOSA
                      -gongo aso          5 gbosa
                     -photocopy          1 TRILLION GBOSA

           ALBUM 3-9ice but why now?wetin do you now? ISOLATE JOOOOOOOO!!!

3]MI ABAGA    -what more can i say and i aint even in their generation. PURE GENIUS

4]WANDE COOOAAAL MOOOO HITS- This album is intoxicating and i get high every time i listen to it.
                                                      how did he come up with that jeun soke track SIMPLY AMAZING

5]STYL PLUS -2003/4 this guys did something to music in nigeria even if they had only olufunmi

6]TIMAYA album 2 -Naa waa ooo,butter boy like me dey love timaya,i no understand eeeeeeee
Naa God do am for you eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
timaya doesnt need to be poetic with his words,just add eeeeeee or oooooooo at the end but we love yoy shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

7]P SQUARE - ALBUM 2 on point
-ALBUM 3 UNA KILL AM
-ALBUM 4 who gave who the flu 9ice or u

8]2 face -album 1 -1 trillion gbosa
-album 2 -1 billion gbosa
-album 3 - NO GBOSA

9]BANKY W -THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO NAIJA MUSIC IN A BIT

10]ASA -NOTHING FIT TOUCH YOU.I WILL PAY 30 GRAND TO WATCH YOU EVEN IN A RECESSION COS YOU REIGN OVER NAIJA MUSIC,
AWEEEE ,IBO LO LOO KAAA TAFIN WA OO ,KAA OOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAASSSSSSSAAAAAAAA!!!!!


WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT BEST THING AND I CAN TELL ONE WHEN I HEAR ONE AND HER NAME -MO CHEDDAH!!!

i no sabi am from adam oooooo,but the girl has it and she must blow.

While Tu-Face has tried in the Nigerian music scene Styl Plus were good to listen to but made little sense in the Nigerian contest ( More American). The writer s quite handsome in his pickings whereby he has really chosen songs that portrays the true Nigerian not the foreign Nigeria!

Apart from Gongo Aso by 9ice another outstanding album was Blackky's 'about tyme"

kenerep:

While Tu-Face has tried in the Nigerian music scene Styl Plus were good to listen to but made little sense in the Nigerian contest ( More American). The writer s quite handsome in his pickings whereby he has really chosen songs that portrays the true Nigerian not the foreign Nigeria!

true. i see your point.

IS THERE A CREATIVITY CURSE WITH PROMINENT ARTISTS

I know homeboy has received enuf bashing already but 9ice the beloved you have disappointed quite a few of us.This is my take and take note cos if banky w and eldee can come up with amazing follow ups to critically acclaimed stuff then you guys all bringing out garbage ought to take note.why i know mention timaya,the perfect companion for a lagos ibadan expressway that might hav thoughtless traffic,[everybody carry cutlass eee,jehovah dey by my side eeee,lai lai i no go last eeeee,my own don better eeeeeee, ]

people anticipated gongo aso the album like crazy after the single and the album killed the single and not vice versa.i feel 9ice was not prepared for the storm he had created especially with a gazillion young bros doing the 9ice thingy[jaywon ,isolate ]and his creative recess was too long.
Artists are to strike when the iron is hottest i.e when their creative juices are still flowing and for that reason they should never be far from an audience and the studio.tours are not just for making money like naija artists have turned it into,you need to tour to feed on the energy of the audience and watch out for the songs they clamour for and what songs they know the words cos this gives you a hint if you need commercial acclaim.if however you are into genre bending and critical acclaim you might lose your audience.

I cannot count how many artists in the states claim to have written classic songs and albums on their tour bus cos the energy around touring is creative.naija artists pls start touring and stop playing shows for the highest payer.the moment light improves and the technology is rampant people are going to stop buying CDs and simply search the internet for what is hot and listen for free.you naa still dey shout piracy well you aint seen nothing yet cos the phenomenon is not going to get worse it is going to get ridiculous.

If i were to award the album of the decade, i'll give it to
Asa-Asa
As poster said, at a time when most musicians' brains was facing one direction, this genius came up from the unknown and everywhere was like 'have u heard about ASA' which was really good plus her songs make sense!!!

naeto c

yeswecan:

naeto c

Albums of the Decade means classics or just any album with a hit track, P square, Dbanj, Wande Coal, MI, Mode 9 are sure not close to that, 2face and 9ice have albums to classified as classics most def

@yeswecan,

U said neacto simply becos of "kini big deal". That was just a good track not an album

zhiggy:

Albums of the Decade means classics or just any album with a hit track, P square, Dbanj, Wande Coal, MI, Mode 9 are sure not close to that, 2face and 9ice have albums to classified as classics most def

You obviously didn't listen to No Long Thing.

No Long Thing had songs like Ika Oda and Mobolowowon . . . Dbanj's masterful control of the harmonica reminds me of SSP.
Talking bout taking it back to the motherland, Dbanj did that literally with Iya Mi.
It was a pure classic. Tongolo and Socor are still crazy party tracks till now.

Dbanj and M.I are prolly the only Naija artistes that can drop hit singles every year non-stop.
That shows the importance of having a good team behind you to help your creativity.

eldee:

You obviously didn't listen to No Long Thing.

No Long Thing had songs like Ika Oda and Mobolowowon . . . Dbanj's masterful control of the harmonica reminds me of SSP.
Talking bout taking it back to the motherland, Dbanj did that literally with Iya Mi.
It was a pure classic. Tongolo and Socor are still crazy party tracks till now.

[b]Dbanj and M.I are prolly the only Naija artistes that can drop hit singles every year non-stop.[/b]That shows the importance of having a good team behind you to help your creativity.

add psquare to that list, and 2face

only two albums thru out the decade had songs that actually hits, D'Banj - Entertainer and Tuface - (the first one)

^^^What the ****?

i forgot to add a lot of songs in the albums were hits

The albums with 100% hit singles are styl plus' olufunmi,2face's face2face,p-square's get squared and more recently d-banj's entertainer.

some need to go back to the drawing board!

Abagworo:

The albums with 100% hit singles are styl plus' olufunmi,2face's face2face,p-square's get squared and more recently d-banj's entertainer.

apart from olufunmi n runaway. which othersong wa a hit in that album, stayalive??

kpolli:

apart from olufunmi n runaway. which othersong wa a hit in that album, stayalive??

call my name and olufunmi remix and thats all the 5 tracks in the E.P.

well, wait for my album, to come up

I guess you guys are just running your mouths from left to right instead of doing an opinion pole for naija to vote.

@ Belelikfin,

You ain't serious!