― 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, chuck d-paws.
― Eisbaer, Monday, 15 October 2007 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic or dud, Chuck D calling his band "Confrontation Camp?"
Great music, too bad about the fluffery of the racist, crackpot Nation of Islam
― dally, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The best thing Chuck D ever did was Forthright MC.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
have not heard this at all!!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I vote "Classic", of course.
"Fear Of A Black Planet" is the best Rap album I've ever heard. I essentially stopped buying Hip-Hop records after that came out, because ... well, what was the point? No one was ever going to top it.
― Riot Nrrrd™, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
FAKE
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
They will never top Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age, nor will anyone else.
― The Reverend, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
It's bad, but it's not nearly as bad as Revolverlution, which is just stupid.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
they were great last night.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 26 May 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
god I'd love to see them. my uncle told me he saw 'em back in like '86 or something in Minneapolis, one of only a few white people there. when the firt beat dropped the entire place jumped to it in unison and knocked the needle off the record. they had to stop and be like, "ummm, we're gonna don this again, and you can all dance, but don't every body jump at once alright?"
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 26 May 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
*"don this again"
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 26 May 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I think they were the only black guys there last night. People were really into it, though, and they claimed they always love playing my town.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 26 May 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
WAIT. What does this entire thread MEAN? Are you going to throw away Public Enemy based on one or two debatably good or bad albums or what? I'm seriously confused. For sure they are classic and not 'everyone likes them' but if you're gonna say oh NWA or Public Enemy which is better, people'd be more likely to say Public Enemy. They may not be all that relevant any more but STILL.
― VeronaInTheClub, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll303/dangerouslife/jcole03.gif
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
who cares if their influence hasnt been that pronounced? they made some of the best rap records and were one of the best groups EVER - isnt that enough? people are unfairly cruel/cynical when it comes to PE, like theyre judging all their achievements through the prism of modern hip hop.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
PE are heroes, a lot of PE boosters, not so much.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
-- VeronaInTheClub, Monday, 26 May 2008 18:11 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
http://www.stanford.edu/group/sfs/ssff/2007ssff/sockpuppet2.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Not one of mine.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I entirely resent that picture...but why I'm not sure. I meant to say....Public Enemy are classic, they have been the platform for many, many a rap group and with good reason, they represented consistently and yes may not always have done so effortlessly but you could say that about a lot of classics from Wu Tang Clan to Common the fact remains that they are a seminal rap group and without them... So why throw them away based on one or two albums? Definite keepers.
― VeronaInTheClub, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
a lot of people seem to smirk about PE. its like 'hahaha those revolutionary guys'.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"Why do people always have to say theye were the greatest ROCK group or couch them in rock terminology? That really pisses me off."
ditto. although the second album was definitely produced in a more rocky way than the first one, which was much 'tighter' as far as how the beats were layered.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm shocked to learn that the pinefox has even heard public enemy.
― J.D., Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty fucking unreal live show, even in their mid-40s. Two thumbs way way up
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 19 July 2008 06:26 (fifteen years ago) link
They were amazing at Primavera - I was in tears, it was almost too much. Incomparable with other gigs, just...wow.
― Mister Craig, Saturday, 19 July 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120201455.html
correction A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
― Cunga, Friday, 4 December 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 December 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck "Hazy Shade of Criminal" is so hot; you can hear something ending, it's true; but the mix is like when you hook a video camera to a television and shine the former into the latter: it sounds as deep as infinity, noises going down down down in shrinking focus, like you'd understand the significance of the song if you could just hear it a little closer
― Euler, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link