Monday, February 15, 2021

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?, Public Enemy

It's Black Music Month!

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?, Public Enemy, 2007, 1:06

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

These guys just continue to rock harder, stay uncompromising and critical of their peers, and keep on preaching.  But the beats somehow don't sound dated, and they even experiment, as on the children's chorus on "Sex, Drugs and Violence."  I was intrigued by "The Long and Whining Road," which looks back at PE's career, sprinkled liberally with references to their own and Bob Dylan's songs.  I could do without "Flavor Man," or the four-minute, tired, repetitive "Col-Leepin."  Favorite tracks: "Can You Hear Me Now?," "Escapism," "Harder Than You Think."

Apart From the Crowd, Great Buildings

Apart From the Crowd , Great Buildings, 1981, :40 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Solid jangle-pop from a now largely-forgotten group featuring two guys who went ...