TS: Stetsasonic VS Goats VS The Roots

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... it's a battle of the hip hop bands!

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

The Goats were awful.

Stet was better on record as a Hip-Hop sample group than as a live band.

The Roots' zeitgeist has past making their early stuff irrelevant (especially to younger fans), and their new shit is pretty much as bad as the Goats.

Of all three, no song matches Stet's "Sally"

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

And you left off "Justice System". Hell, I think as shitty as they were, they were better than the Goats.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

The Roots is awesome, but haven't made anything nearly as fun as 'Speaking of a Girl Named Suzy', Stet is tops. Has anyone actually heard the Goats album? I've been 'meaning to pick it up' for like 10 years...

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

― fdsgsdg, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Roots, no contest.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Mission: aka Crown City Rockers

― Jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Max Goat mooned the martini-sipping yuppies Continental at 2nd & Market and for that alone, he rules. He was trying to take back Olde City!

The Roots are good too but thats like, a given.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

the first goats record is good. stet...less than the sum of their parts somehow but still great. thr roots never did it for me.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

believe me I wanted to say the Goats but when I revisited Tricks of the Shade last summer I was embarrassesd for my 17-year-old self.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 22 September 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

"On fire" lp by Stetsasonic when they were tuff electro/drum machine rap = classic. "Just say stet", as far as debut rap 12"s go, is up there with the best of them.

Later Stet as a live instrument band = corny but with a few decent moments here and there.

The Goats = always sucked.

The Roots = worthless, boring jazzy hippy neo-soul backpackers.

― Ellis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah well i'm not going to go so far as relisten to it matos...yr probably right.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE

stet by a mile!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Stetsasonic produced A.F.R.I.C.A. feat. Rev. Jesse Jackson. Once the chorus is in your head, it won't leave for days:

A.F.R.I.C.A.
Angola, Soweto, Zimbabwe
Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique
And BOTswana
So let us speak about the motherland

Neither the Goats nor the Roots have ever come close to sticking in my brain for so long. It's been probably a decade since I've thrown on this 12" and it's still stuck in me brainz.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Prince Paul is the x-factor. Stetsasonic.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

africa is a great song! forgot about that. Remember the video vaguely, I'm seeing Daddy-O in front of a bluescreen travelogue of Africa, but that could describe a lot of rap videos back then. What's with the Roots hate? Hippy wtf? I'd put Black Thought in my top ten all time MCs, I just don't think the beats have been consistent enough over their career.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

"On Fire" by Stet is great ersatz Run DMC!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

So M@tt, we agree again. No surprise.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Hey do you remember that one Daddy-O video from "You Can Be a Daddy, But Never a Daddy-O"? they were riding crotch rocket motorcycles...it was the first time I ever remember seeing motorcycles in a rap video...i was sooo surprised.

also, "Talkin' All that Jazz" is a great song.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I ever saw that video. Yeah, the first time I saw motorcycles in a rap video was a weird minor schocker for me too (being schokced at this seems absurd now).

Stet were just great. Funny they initially took their name from Stetson hats. I mean, Lowell Fulson didn't wear Stetson hats...

I really did like the Roots circa 1994, but in hindsight, I don't think much of their catalog holds up for me.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Daddy-O repped motorcycles in 'Brooklyn Bounce' too, song wasn't much though.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 22 September 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

SO I CAME ACROSS A LIST THAT I'M ON!!! Y'all can argue but I'm on the list!! pic.twitter.com/LGtSexD94J
— Daddy-O (@professordaddyo) August 29, 2019

― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 29 August 2019 07:28 (six years ago)

one year passes...

"in full gear" is so good

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:05 (five years ago)

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