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after coming across a recent pic of vanilla ice on flickr, i was reminded of my general love for the rap industry and vanilla ice in particular. yeah, yeah. scoff. go ahead. get it out of your system. done? not yet? i'll wait.

ok, so anyway, i really did enjoy the song ice, ice, baby. seriously. but the rest of the album was never listened to much. i also grabbed the live cd he released (recorded in miami of course), which contained another vanilla favourite of mine that i am going to guess, not many people have ever heard of, and thats satisfaction. and then when he changed his image and went punk, pot-head, i still bought his next album. i was always proud that i owned all three vanilla ice albums, especially when people always asked, "he had 3 albums?!?!". very proud.

then i see this picture and decided to do a little research. he released 8 albums in total. 8.

now granted, one was live. one was a best hits (which i think is also the album with the least number of tracks on it. funny.) and i think 2 of them contained mostly the same songs, just recorded as slightly different genres. still, that leaves 5 original collections of music from a man known the world over as a one-hit wonder.

oh, and lets not forget the oscar-worthy performance in "cool as ice". still a guilty pleasure of mine to watch this movie. and yes, it is currently sitting on my pvr (tivo for the americans), and no, i will not be erasing it anytime soon.

anyway, here is the discography.

to the extreme (1990)
extremely live (1991)
mind blowin' (1994)
hard to swallow (1998)
best of vanilla ice (2001)
bi-polar (2001)
hot sex (2003)
platinum underground (2005)

and i noticed on his wikipedia page, his discography is a bit longer, but only because they include hooked, his first ep which was a very limited release, pre-cursor to to the extreme, and 2 more best of... albums.