Another silly list show from VH1 - 100 Best Hip Hop Songs

i was actually 100% serious about the message and cream

I think a "Fight The Power" vs. "The Message" poll is in order.

FTP isn't even in my top 10 PE songs, so Message would win.

I'm trying to think of 10 PE songs I like more than "Fight The Power"; I can come up with maybe 3 ("Brothers Gonna Work It Out", "Night Of The Living Baseheads", "Bring The Noise").

To those, I'd add "Can't Truss It", "Hazy Shade of Criminal", "Don't Believe The Hype", "Fear Of A Black Planet", "Rebel Without A Pause", "You're Gonna Get Yours", and "Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos". "Fight The Power" is a good song, but it doesn't stand out as a song. As a cultural event, maybe.

^co-sign. this list (and these lists in general) are heavy on "cultural event" and light on groovy tunes.

I mean I most definitely was changed for ever the first time I heard "Now That We Found Love", and I assume we all were.

Okay yeah, "Rebel Without A Pause".

I do like "Fight The Power" more than the others you listed, though.

I mean I most definitely was changed for ever the first time I heard "Now That We Found Love", and I assume we all were.

Do you remember in middle school when we could bring in tapes to gym class and Mr Coverdill or Mr Gehrke or whoever would play them in the locker room? I brought in a tape of songs that I'd taped off the radio, and "Now That We Found Love" was totally on there.

Dude I have a vague recollection of you playing a tape there! The gym teachers had some weird bat cave type set up that I didn't dare venture into.

I think Marky Mark might've been on that tape, too.

If it was that MTV dance mix album, "Now That We Found Love" segued into "Good Vibrations".

Nah, it was a homemade deal: whatever was being played on the radio in late summer 1991.

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Mr. Coverdill always reminded me of Jimmy Stewart. Wonder if he kicked the bucket yet.
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