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[novapsyche]

I remarked to both lameautarch and rikhei that I may be one of a very small number of people who would walk into Borders and buy Pink Floyd and Public Enemy in the same purchase.

Snagging The Piper at the Gates of Dawn could be seen as understandable to the informed observer. Syd Barrett died recently, and the news hit today. So it seemed appropriate that one might augment one's Pink Floyd collection with the album that featured his work.

Public Enemy, now that's a different animal. I recently had gotten the itch to buy some new music. I really built my music collection in the summer of 1994, when I was working three jobs one summer. Since then, I really haven't bought much, except a few albums here and there.

For the longest time, I'd been wanting X-Clan's To the East, Blackwards. It was a cassette I had when I was a teenager. I listened to it often. For some reason, I decided to just get it. Stop thinking about it and just order it. So, it arrived a couple of Fridays ago, and I've been playing it pretty often.

Reading the feedback on Amazon's page, several people said that 1990 was a great time for hip-hop, and I realized that I had never sat down and listened to Public Enemy's seminal work. How did that happen? It wasn't like I wasn't around when that stuff was playing. So, I figured it was time to rectify that, fill in that deficiency.

Turns out, I do remember a lot of that music. I just hadn't listened to the whole album. And I think I'm going to have to listen to it again several times over. Same with the Pink Floyd. Both have a lot to say. Amazing what music can pack in such a short span of time.

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[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

Public Enemy, now that's a different animal.

Would that be The Incredible, Rhyme Animal, The Uncannable D?

[jdoggiedogg.livejournal.com]

definitely not Pink Floyd's Animals

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

jdogg?

as in jdogg of jdogg's entertainment crib?

*grin*

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh out loud when I first read it.

So you are familiar with this animal? :)

Re: *grin*

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

I'm an album short each of having both PE's and PF's full libraries, so yeah. :)

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

So it seemed appropriate that one might augment one's Pink Floyd collection with the album that featured his work.

A Saucerful of Secrets is half-Syd, half-David, no? (Been a looooooooong time since I read those big lavishly-illustrated Pink Floyd bios I used to have lying about.)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I remember reading something like that yesterday, yes. That's another album I'll have to seek.