Rank Mary J. Blige's albums

[Bob]

1. My Life
2. Mary
3. What's the 411?
4. Share My World
5. Love & Life
6. No More Drama

This is how often I listen to them, but really "No More Drama" had a lot of blasé filler; so did "Love & Life" but it also had some really strong songs (I'd rank "Ooh!" and "Let Me Be The One" as two of my favorite Mary tracks, but only "Family Affair" makes it from the other album). "My Life" is the only album where I enjoy EVERY track a lot.

[Deleted]

I agree with your ranking and everything you said except I liked more than just "Family Affair" on No More Drama.

..and also I wouldn't say her filler is blase. I'd say it's very high quality in comparison to other R&B filler. It's just that her last two albums had a lot of filler for her.

[Ling-Ling]

1) Mary
2) My Life
3) What's The 411?
4) Love & Life
5) Share My World
6) No More Drama (the re-issued version, which was a vast improvement over the original release IMO)

Just a note, I genuinely love all of these albums, and they have all gotten major airplay in my CD player over the years. She has yet to release a stinker and is definately one of the more consistent albums artists working today.

[Bob]

The said:

I agree with your ranking and everything you said except I liked more than just "Family Affair" on No More Drama.

oh, "No more drama" (the song not the album) would maybe top 20 for me, but just barely. and if you count the re-release, maybe "he think i dont know". but nothing else.

itunes plays:
No More Drama - 228
He Think I don't know - 176
Love - 176
Never been - 102
In the meantime - 80
Family Affair - 55
Rainy dayz - 35
Steal away - 29
Destiny - 28
Flying away - 12
Crazy games - 11
Keep it moving - 9

whereas "My Life" has 6 songs with over 200 (even over 300) plays, and the rest have btwn 30-60

[Night Senses]

Her albums are hard to rank after the first 3 on my list, because I don't particularly care about them all that much.

Mary
My Life
What's The 411?

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Share My World
Love & Life
No More Drama

I personally thought Mary was her best work, as an artist. My Life was her most introspective and interesting. And What's The 411? is just a classic.

[strong4PMB!]

I haven't really gotten into any of her albums that I've gotten from the library yet, but as of now, this is how I'd rank them.

1. My Life (library)
2. Share My World (library)
3. What's The 411? (library)
4. Love & Life
5. No More Drama

Haven't gotten "Mary" yet.

[Night Senses]

Fr33 said:

Haven't gotten "Mary" yet.

I wonder if you'd like that. I think it's different from all of her albums. I can't put my finger on why, though. :)

[bluenote]

I looked at this thread when it was first made but this is such a hard ranking because Mary is pretty consistant but also every Mary album has its fair share of filler material. i feel like all of her albums are close together for me personally because I like about the same number of songs on every one of her albums, its just a matter of figuring out which ones i like more. So this took some time to think about.


1. Love & Life
2. My Life
3. No More Drama
4. What's the 411?
5. Share My World
6. Mary



"love and life" is #1 for me because I pretty much enjoy it all the way through.  And it doesnt have as many of those jazzy sounding filler tracks that the other albums hve. But I pretty much enjoy all of her albums but I always have to skip a few.

[Bob]

GettinItRight said:

I looked at this thread when it was first made but this is such a hard ranking because Mary is pretty consistant but also every amry album has its fair share of filler material. i feel like all of her albums are close together for me personally because I like about the same number of songs on every one of her albums, its just a matter of figuring out which ones i like more. So this took some time to think about.


1. Love & Life
2. My Life
3. No More Drama
4. What's the 411?
5. Share My World
6. Mary



"love and life" is #1 fo rme because I pretty much enjoy it all the way through.  And it doesnt have as many of those jazzy sounding filler tracks that the other albums hve. But I pretty much enjoy all of her albums but I always have to skip a few.

ugh

[FADE AWAY]

Bob said:

ugh

lmfao. i know.

Anyhoo I love them all equally, but if I have to rank them, I'd say

-My Life
-What's the 411?
-Mary
-Share My World
-The Tour
-What's the 411? Remix
-Love and Life
-No More Drama
-Ballads
-Dance For Me

It's weird though because the only ones I can listen to without skipping anything is WT411, ML, and L&L. I have to skip "Sexy" on Mary. I can't listen to tracks 12-15 on SMW. I can almost get through NMD but I can't bear "PMS," that poem and "Testimony." When L&L first came out I forced myself to listen to all the songs so now I can stand them all. I hate "Willing and Waiting" and "All My Love" though. The only problem with that album was that there was waay too many samples and Diddy had Mary sampling songs that she sampled before and in one case she basically remade one of her own songs, ("Don't Go.")

[bluenote]

Bob said:

ugh

rude.

* turns on "love and life" *

[Bob]

GettinItRight said:

rude.

* turns on "love and life" *

well you did exactly what josh said you would do rofl

[bluenote]

GettinItRight said:

1. Love & Life
2. My Life
3. No More Drama
4. What's the 411?
5. Share My World
6. Mary

After listening to the re-release of the "no more drama" album,after not hearing it for so long I forgot how much I loved that album. So I have to re-do my list!

1. No More Drama
2. My Life
3. Love and Life
4. Whats the 411
5. Share My World
6. Mary

[bluenote]

Bob said:

well you did exactly what josh said you would do rofl

ugh.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

From the ones I have:

What's The 411?
My Life
No More Drama
Share My World
Mary
Love and Life
The Breakthrough
Growing Pains
My Life II..The Journey Continues
Stronger With Each Tear