Fugees - The Score (w/ guest Bobby Olivier)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Music/entertainment reporter for and The Star Ledger joins Bill and Brian to discuss Fugees' second and final album the Score (1996, Ruffhouse/Columbia). Bobby talks about how a deep dive into this album while preparing a retrospective celebrating its 20th anniversary helped him learn to fully appreciate this work. Then Bill, Brian, and Bobby discuss Bobby's interview with Wyclef Jean, the themes on this- as Lauryn Hill describes it - "audio film," pass-the-mic style posse cuts and pop singles, the Boogah Basement, what Pras Michel is up to nowadays, the production of Jerry Duplessis, John Forte, Salaam Remi, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track! Make sure to support our sponsors for this week's episode: Learn from the best in the world at ! ...Your vinyl. Your choice.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:01.9	And I'm Brian.
0:02.6	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:04.8	1996's The Score by Fugees.
0:08.1	Ready or not, here I come.
0:10.9	You can't hide.
0:13.0	Going to find you and take it slowly.
0:19.1	Ready or not.
0:20.1	Here I go.
0:21.7	You can't hide.
0:23.8	Going to find you and make you want me.
0:29.5	What we do every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:34.4	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off with
0:38.7	a track-by-track review.
0:40.3	And we're not doing it alone this week.
0:42.1	Nope.
0:42.6	Who's joining us this week, Brian?
0:44.0	We've got Bobby Olivier, a local music journalist, uh, the Newark Star Ledger, NJ.com,
0:51.0	and a whole host of other outlets that he will tell you about. He kind of came onto my
0:56.0	radar personally, where every year he writes about like his favorite local bands or local
1:04.8	artists and things like that. And people we've had on the show, he's like written about.
1:09.7	So, you know, that I was like, oh, I know these people.
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