So, what the fuck am I trying to prove, anyway? Well, really, that ALL of us are entitled to think what we want to think, are entitled to our opinions no matter what others may think, and in the end, we all end up six feet under ground anyway, ALL of us.......
Public Enemy, for my money, anyway, were about 100x better musically than were Skrewdriver.....as for THIER ideology, I can't say I'm in agreement with a whole lot of it, either....but the point is, they can BOTH co-exist on my CD shelves as musicians who were angry about SOMETHING and atempted to make some music to drive the point home.
Personally I LOVE a lot of the music of Public Enemy, which is a LOT more than I can say for Skrewdriver or Bully Boys......although I sagre with some of the Public Enemy stances and politics, I will say this, that shit ROCKS THE FUCK OUT, to a greater degree than any of the "hate rock" shit of the last couple of days, and, believe you me, I am no "hip hop" fan especially....but Public Enemy brought the goods and I give them credit. As I say I am NO EXPERT on hip-hop, nor do I especially even LIKE it, but I've always enjoyed listening to Public Enemy. Without question they were angry as hell, and their sound was like no other.....dense layers of sounds and samples piled up like thick blankets swirling around Chuck D's booming vocals....."Fight the Power", "Brothers Gonna Work It Out", "Can't Truss It" and many others are outright anthems of their scene.
I understand they have a large discography, I don't have it all by any means, I have their older records which are the only ones with which I am familiar....we'll see if I can find anything else of interest, but for now.....
YO! BUM RUSH THE SHOW-01 You're Gonna Get Yours/02 Sophisticated Bitch/03 Miuzi Weighsa Ton/04 Timebomb/05 Too Much Posse/06 Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man)/07 Public Enemy No. 1/08 MPE/09 Yo! Bum Rush the Show/10 Raise the Roof/11 Megablast/12 Terminator X Speaks with His Hands
IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK-01 Countdown to Armageddon/02 Bring the Noise/03 Don't Beleive the Hype/04 Cold Lampin with Flavor/05 Terminator X to the Edge of Panic/06 Mind Terrorist/07 Louder Than a Bomb/08 Caught, Can We Get a Witness/09 Show Em Whatcha Got/10 She Watch Channel Zero?!/11 Night of the Living Baseheads/12 Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos/13 Security of the First World/14 Rebel Without a Pause/15 Prophets of Rage/16 Party For Your Right To Fight
APOCALYSE 91: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BLACK-01 Lost at Birth/02 Rebirth/03 Nighttrain/04 Can't Truss It/05 I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga/06 How To Kill a Radio Consultant/07 By the Time I Get to Arizona/08 Move!/09 1 Million Bottlebags/10 More News at 11/11 Shut Em Down/12 A Letter to the New York Post/13 Get the Fuck Outta Dodge/14 Bring tha Noize
MUSE SICK -N- HOUR MESSAGE-01 Whole Lotta Love Goin On in the Middle of Hell/02 Theatrical Parts/03 Give It Up/04 Wat Side You On?/05 Bedlam 13:13/06 Stop in the Name/07 What Kind of Power We Got?/08 So Whatcha Gone Do Now/09 White Heaven/Black Hell/10 Race Against Time/11 They Used to Call it Dope/12 Aintnuttin Buttersong/13 Live and Undrugged Parts 1 & 2/14 Thin Line Between Law and Rape/15 I Ain't Mad at All/16 Death of a Carjacka/17 I Stand Accused/18 Godd Complexx/19 Hitler Day/20 Harry Allen's Interactive Super Highway Phone Call To Chuck D/21 Livin In a Zoo (remix)
