Do you ever revisit albums you loved in a different stage of your life?

[The Polack MSgt]

I've been a big music fan since forever - For instance, when I finally got around to getting a TV I had more than 800 LPs and boxes of 8tracks.

Some albums and bands just didn't age well. Sorry about that Nazareth, Triumph and Shalamar - Turns out you guys just weren't that good no matter what my 17 year old self thought.


But some albums are just absolute gold.

I was cleaning and alphabetizing my CDs (every 3 years like clockwork) and put one in the player, turned it up loud and was blown away all over again.


Apocalypse 91 - The Enemy Strikes Black doesn't JUST hold up well, it sounds as if it was written by a damn Hip Hop Nostradamus. Chuck Flava and the gang may as well have been talking about today...

And it still wails and screams and crushes the bones of its enemies.

I don't really care much about the 90s - It was a very sparse musical landscape IMHO, but PE was the real thing.

here is a sampling:

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[Moostache]

1. PE remains the truth...2 decades later

"Wearin' red, white and blue, Jack and his crew
The guy's authorized beat down for the brown"
Read more: Public Enemy - Can't Truss It Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[The Polack MSgt]

2. This is a great track as well

Tying to keep it down to three selections was tough.


I like this album's version of "bring the noise" and "Get the fuck outta dodge" is great - well it's all great - that was the point of posting this after all

[brewens]

3. I've bought a few to replace my old 70's LP's and been disappointed.

The Edgar Winter Group "They Only Come Out at Night" was one. I'll give it another chance some day, but when I first listened to the whole thing after many years, it didn't do much for me.

[The Polack MSgt]

6. It's sad but true

That Edgar is really just 2 hit wonder, more of a novelty artist at this point.

His deep tracks are weak, there are no hidden gems to keep me interested

[Runningdawg]

9. His cuz Johnny got all the talent :)

[Ilsa]

4. My Classical music and light jazz remain timeless.

You can have my soundtrack from Miami Vice (tv show), though. There is only the theme song I halfway like.

[The Polack MSgt]

8. Jan Hammer is my hero for playing on and producing Jeff Beck albums in the 70s

But yeah, he kinda sucked as a solo artist

[earthshine]

18. This doesn't suck.

I rather like most of his solo albums.

[The Polack MSgt]

22. Well they make smooth AND crunchy

Because people can't even agree on peanut butter... Can't expect us all to like the same stuff.

I'm not fond of the Jan Hammer Group/Jan Hammer stuff I heard, which I admit is limited.

He played on and produced some of my favorite guitarists' albums - Jeff Beck, as I mentioned, as well as Tommy Bolin's "Teaser" and just about all of Al DiMeola's music in the 70s and 80s


I suppose I prefer guitar as the lead instrument rather than keys

[msongs]

5. timeless tune (the fashions maybe not so much)

[The Polack MSgt]

7. Love this tune - I was a big fan

But, my reply to Brewens applies here as well - No deep tracks no hidden gems to keep me interested all these years later.

Doesn't take away from this song in any way tho

[hibbing]

10. Lots

Time moves fast. Listening to them doesn't take me back to those times but demonstrate how relevant their work still is today. Dead Kennedys for example. Dylan always of course.

Peace

[Runningdawg]

11. I cringe when I think of some of the stuff I liked back in the day

Can I blame it on the drugs? LOL

[SonofDonald]

12. Uriah Heep

Always one of my faves from bitd but damn all that bad synthesizer sound.

Then there's a band called "Styx"

There's more but I just can't think
about it right now, hurts my brain.

[The Polack MSgt]

13. Good Call on Uriah Heep

Remember when they tried to transition to an 80s band sound (the way Styx and REO did)?

It was pretty awful

[SonofDonald]

17. Exactly

I bought that whilst in bush Alaska, thought it'd be Uriah Heep.

Imagine my surprise.

Ever heard of "Starcastle"?

I could go on and on.....

Oh the humanity.....

[Dave Starsky]

19. I had no idea Uriah Heep covered that song.

That's a Russ Ballard (Argent) tune.

[The Polack MSgt]

20. I never knew it was a cover

wow - Live and learn.

The original is better

[Dave Starsky]

21. I agree.

As you have pointed out, it doesn't match Uriah Heep's established style at all. It sounds really awkward, because it is.

[left-of-center2012]

14. I revisit songs, but not albums

Rarely did I ever like every song on an album.
(Perhaps a Simon & Garfunkel album)

[The Polack MSgt]

15. Fair point

Not everything is "Blood on the Tracks" or "All Eyes On Me" but most artists put out solid records which backs up the big song

At least in my memory.

[Tikki]

16. Mr. and I grew up in the PNW in the 60's..still have original Sonics vinyl...

and have re-issues and cassettes, CD's and all digital of everything
(that we know of) that they recorded, along with some boot-leg.

They influenced my whole rock trajectory. I have spent the rest of my life trying to capture that excited feeling I felt as a 14 year old seeing the Sonics live.

(1965)

Tikki
I pretty much love all music, though.

[CTyankee]

23. Carole King is ever good any stage of my life...

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[UTUSN]

24. Bit of a spin: in '65 back from 1st semester, Bob Dylan *shocked* my mother.

She couldn't help hearing it all out the few times the whole Greatest Hits played out. Then two years later, back from my year in Vietnam on 30 days' leave to next duty station, was going through my previous life and played the album, and it was old times and she didn't peep until Blowin' in the Wind came on and she blurted, "We sing that in church!"