PE – Growing up I did not pay much attention to Rap Music. I just couldn’t get into the violence of it. Now when I listen to it, I appreciate it more. I have to say I like the older groups more than the newer ones. I think it is more raw.
PG – Never heard this song, can’t say that I have heard a lot of PG until he did Sledge Hammer. Oh wait, the chorus, I remember the chorus. Its coming back to me now.
Public Enemy – Who Stole the Soul?
I remember this being an exceptional album on the whole – haven’t spun it recently. Glad to have this track come up. Love the collage-like intro. They build a charging beat and don’t let up. Powerful and tasty.
Peter Gabrial – Biko
Just the mention of this track brings back memories of the crowd at an 80s concert singing along and the emotion pulsing through the crowd. Off his third solo album (aka The Melting Face record), the sound is one he would fully embrace on his next album [again untitled, but aka Security] – see San Jacinto & The Rhythm of the Heat. Appreciate that this is a live version. I remember this ending one of the concerts I attended and going out into the night with thousands singing huh, huh, hohh (or something like that). Majestic.
[I’m going to listen one more time just for the experience.]
“Biko”/P. Gabriel. A week after “Cry Freedom,” here we are with South African martyr Stephen Biko again. Gabriel has frequently taken on big issues and stories in his solo work, especially starting on this album (which also included “Games Without Frontiers”). Been a while since I’ve heard this majestic track, and obviously the live version is quite different from the album cut. I had to good fortune to catch him on his most recent tour (I subsequently released him, after tea) and despite playing quite a lot of stuff from his new album (it was good stuff), all these decades later he still closes with the elegiac “Biko.”
PE – Growing up I did not pay much attention to Rap Music. I just couldn’t get into the violence of it. Now when I listen to it, I appreciate it more. I have to say I like the older groups more than the newer ones. I think it is more raw.
PG – Never heard this song, can’t say that I have heard a lot of PG until he did Sledge Hammer. Oh wait, the chorus, I remember the chorus. Its coming back to me now.
Public Enemy – Who Stole the Soul?
I remember this being an exceptional album on the whole – haven’t spun it recently. Glad to have this track come up. Love the collage-like intro. They build a charging beat and don’t let up. Powerful and tasty.
Peter Gabrial – Biko
Just the mention of this track brings back memories of the crowd at an 80s concert singing along and the emotion pulsing through the crowd. Off his third solo album (aka The Melting Face record), the sound is one he would fully embrace on his next album [again untitled, but aka Security] – see San Jacinto & The Rhythm of the Heat. Appreciate that this is a live version. I remember this ending one of the concerts I attended and going out into the night with thousands singing huh, huh, hohh (or something like that). Majestic.
[I’m going to listen one more time just for the experience.]
“Biko”/P. Gabriel. A week after “Cry Freedom,” here we are with South African martyr Stephen Biko again. Gabriel has frequently taken on big issues and stories in his solo work, especially starting on this album (which also included “Games Without Frontiers”). Been a while since I’ve heard this majestic track, and obviously the live version is quite different from the album cut. I had to good fortune to catch him on his most recent tour (I subsequently released him, after tea) and despite playing quite a lot of stuff from his new album (it was good stuff), all these decades later he still closes with the elegiac “Biko.”