its better than the sack of shit everyone thought it was in 1994, but its still pretty horrible.
― ppp, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
God the jazzlike phrasing of Chuck... It's so true. He was every bit the equal of Miles and Wayne and Hank and people like that...
"Bang, here it is, in your face, god damn, this is a dope jam, but let's define the term named dope and you're thinking me funky now..."
haha, yeah, so great, and stew you forgot to include that "NOPE!" at the end of that quote
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Thank you for your kind words Stormy.
― stew, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― La Camilla Henemark, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
In what possible way (aside from broadest generalities) is A Tribe Called Quest trying to do what PE does, for example?
There's ATCQ and there's the rest of rap. All the rest are pretenders.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Thank you.
― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
That something = SONIC FURY. Did you ever hear Son of Bazerk?
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
dumb.
I love Public Enemy. Son of Bazerk is good too!
NWA had SONIC FURY...sometimes! Sonic fury isn't everything though....Special Ed didn't have Sonic Fury, but Youngest in Charge, whoo what a great album!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
"Here we go again!"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
"Turn it up!"
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I went to the beach, the ground was all sandy
― Edward III, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
(upward shifting saxophone squeal from "The Grunt")
― Oilyrags, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I just bought that JB's album this week! Boy was I surprised when that snippet came through my speakers.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I know! I always figured it was some kind of electronic gear abuse - a soundboard feeding back or some shit.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, it's "I got to the beach, the ground was all sandy/Girlies on my jock like ants on candy." And so, so unfair that Flav's solo tracks (except for "911 Is A Joke") didn't make the best-of.
― unperson, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
the lyric is genius. you can say just about anything, my mind will supply the punchline, and it will still sound good:
I got shot up, the ground was all sandy... I went to mcdonald's, the ground was all sandy... your mamma's a bitch, the ground was all sandy...
truly one of the all-time great rap images.
― Edward III, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously? No discussion anywhere of the new album?
― lukas, Saturday, 11 August 2007 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul is possibly their worst album title, which is saying something.
― mulla atari, Saturday, 11 August 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously. If they'd put out one single record with a good title in the last ten years, I'd get all excited and interested and buy it, instead of thinking "another insanely convoluted unfunny pun? oh Chuck." and avoiding.
I did buy the Make Love Fuck War single though.
― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 12 August 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
1. "How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul" 2. "Black is Back" 3. "Harder Than You Think" 4. "Between Hard and a Rock Place" 5. "Sex, Drugs & Violence" (featuring KRS-One) 6. "Amerikan Gangster" (featuring E.Infinite) 7. "Can You Hear Me Now" 8. "Head Wide Shut" 9. "Flavor Man" 10. "The Enemy Battle Hymn of the Public" 11. "Escapism" 12. "Frankenstar" 13. "Col-Leepin" 14. "Radiation of a Radiotvmovie" 15. "See Something, Say Something" 16. "Long and Whining Road" 17. "Bridge of Pain" 18. "Eve of Destruction" 19. "How You Sell Soul (Time is God Refrain)"
generic titles
― marmotwolof, Sunday, 12 August 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god i want ?uestlove's Sade tee
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
This made me look up this remix, a guy I went to college did it when he was also in school and it made their album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEhj4hbOskc
His electronic music was so sick, but now he only makes contemporary classical/experimental stuff and electro-country.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/chuck-d-interview-public-enemy-when-the-grid-goes-down.html
some semi-coherent quotes in this interview with Chuck but this one was simply to the point.
The fact that this guy, Donald Trump, who’s been philandering a half-assed celebrity joke for the last 45 to 50 years in New York City, the fact that he has that power is a disgrace to the planet Earth. He’s not equipped to govern millions of people or thousands of people. He’s not equipped to govern 100 people. Get the fuck up outta there. He shouldn’t even be there. The fact that he pulled a three-card-monte job on the United States of America isn’t just a reflection on him. It’s a reflection of the comfort zone a lot of Americans feel. They’re telling you your life don’t matter. Black lives don’t matter. Women don’t matter. You can go through a lot of the doctrine of the United States of America and see where it’s been shown and proven that certain people don’t matter. On top of that, you have authority that basically says they don’t care.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
new album getting some good reviews but didn't do much for meChuck's taste in beats has really declined
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
The fact that this guy, Donald Trump
Why do people do this, idgi. “Ohh, THAT guy!”
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
All the living members of Beastie Boys and Run DMC appear on a lockdown-recorded new version of Public Enemy #1
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
It's not that special. Just another later period pe mixtape/album. But with lots of guests.
― candyman, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
The PE#1 is alright but, yeah, nothing special.I loved PE in their heyday but now it's like caring about a new rolling stones albums.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
When did chuck d become such a wooly speaker?
He also sounds bored on the very first song of the new album. Just going through the motions. And every verse on fight the power 2020 seems to have been cut in a different studio.
― candyman, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
It was done for the BET Awards so everyone was remote
Though even without the pandemic I think it's more the exception than the rule that guest verses are done in the same studio
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
Sure, but it really sounds like it!
― candyman, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
I saw PE at a Bernie rally last year and Chuck was just over the map w/ his banter, more than I ever remember him being...maybe abt half (?) of it held together, that ^excerpt seems relatively coherent by comparison
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
Xpost - the most jarring was the Beastie Boys on the PE#1 remake - I swear they recorded that on their iPhone
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
If neither of them plan to record again, it makes sense that they don't have home vocal studios
though Adrock's partner might have a microphone around at least
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
yeah I mean a Blue Yeti would do
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link