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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[mr_lebowski]

1. It's a classic, no doubt, as were FoaBP and It Takes a Nation of Millions ... (nt)

[The Polack MSgt]

2. Yes sir, those were also outstanding. It's just that his one seems to get forgotten -

Even though it had their biggest hit.

[ADX]

3. What "biggest hit" are you referring to?

..."Bring The Noise"? The Anthrax version on this album charted better but personally, I preferred the earlier version.

"Apocalypse '91" was the shit (as was "Yo! Bum Rush The Show&quot , but "Fear Of A Black Planet" was better and "It Takes A Nation Of Millions..." was an absolute masterpiece.

Of course, your mileage may vary...

[The Polack MSgt]

5. The most play on radio and MTV was

By The Time I Get To Arizona

Of course, I was not living in America then, but in Japan and on MTV "Arizona" was hard to avoid

[ADX]

8. By that metric, you may be right...

...but keep in mind that PE wasn't a band that got a lot of airplay prior to '91 due to their overarching message and Professor Griff's seemingly anti-semitic comments. Rap didn't really get played on MTV until Yo MTV Raps debuted in late '88 and it was pretty much confined to that program for a long time before breaking into mainstream rotation a few years later.

At any rate, PE was, is, and will always be the single best hip-hop act in history - other than the Wu Tang Clan, that is.

WuTang forever...

[BigmanPigman]

4. My albums are mini time capsules.

Each one has a price tag from a particular store or thrift shop (most of which have gone out of business) along with cover art, full lyrics, skips and scratches which I cherish and they all blend into great memories whenever I put any of them on my turntables. Lately The Sex Pistols have had a special place it my angst filled mind. I listen to "Fuck this and fuck that" and my blood pressure goes down since it is a lot more pleasant than watching cable news when I usually yell "Fuck this and fuck that" at my TV screen. At least I can dance to the Sex Pistols better than I can dance to Rachel or Lawrence.

I especially like to sing sing the lyrics, "YOU'RE A LIAR!!!!".

[The Polack MSgt]

7. I pulled out some PIL and Buzzcocks records

And was really let down.

In my memories those guys were so damn good but almost retirement age me just couldn't get into them

[yallerdawg]

10. 'Raw Power' - Iggy and the Stooges - timeless and stark raving mad.

[BigmanPigman]

11. That was unusual...

I have Apoc Now and never heard it with anything except The Doors original soundtrack. Iggy is one of my favorites!

[The Polack MSgt]

13. 2 Thumbs up

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Oh yes. I find I can revisit jazz and classical, not so much rock

Lots of what I loved ages poorly for my ears.

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9. My youth

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[The Polack MSgt]

12. That whole album is solid

Really good record

[Xipe Totec]

14. Yes

[Sweetque]

15. favorite

Even though it is the same song, I have different feelings when I listen to it at a different time. We are growing up

[The Polack MSgt]

16. Welcome to DU cousin

Every time we listen the song -SHOULD BE - a different song than the last time we listened

It isn't that way in real life tho.

Welcome to DU Sweet Q