Northern State-All City (2004)

 


Artist: Northern State

Title: All City

Label: Columbia

Format: CD

Catalog Number: CK 90497

Year of Release: 2004

Country and Year of Edition: US 2004 explicit version

Sell Price: $2.99

Sell Date: 6/23/26

Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Discogs Last Sold: 1/19/26 VG/VG+ $0.94

Low: $0.57

Median: $1.95

Average: $2.30

High: $6.00

Current low price: $0.53 (Canada) $1.00 (US)

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26

Have/Want: 148/26

Where Sold: Indianapolis, IN

Time It Took To Sell:  16 years

Where and When Bought: internet early aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No 

I completely misheard the best track on this album, "Last Night."  As it was popping up on streaming over the week I thought they were chanting "last night I lost my black book bag" but looking at the lyric booklet now I see that the chorus is "last night I lost my bank book and..."  To the ATM again and again and again.   It totally changes the meaning.  Although l thought I knew they were out at the mini bar in NYC, I forgot these girls were from Long Island and not Park Slope!  They were the kind of girls that ultimately took over the East Village on weekends as the aughts progressed and the lest monied were forced to Brooklyn and beyond.

The Dean of Music Criticism gave A's to nearly everything this group pulled out.  I think he has some sick fantasy of having them as students to lord over and carefully "guide" their studies.  For the rest of us, this is cute diversion hip hop that sounds like a Beastie Girls night out.  More collegiate suburban but close enough to the city to drink there.  By the time Pete Rock shows up to produce "Time To Rhyme" you realize they were more likely listening to the Spice Girls in high school then "They Reminisce Over You" or whatever cool shit the Beasties had on their turntable.   Who knows who suggested mimicking "Wannabe."  Maybe it was Pete putting them in a box to get a hit for his one shot with them.

2004 was their "time to shine" after all.

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