who?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
...Stole the Soul? (Sir Jinx Stolen Souled Out Reparation Mixx)
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
on wikipedia
oldest version 22 June 2006
Categories: Public Emeny albums / Greatest hits albums
Revision on Revision as of 19:34, 17 October 2018 changed "It features new tracks (1-6)," to "It included previously unreleased outtakes (1-6)"
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
Washington Post, 1994:
PE's 1992 "Greatest Misses" echoed 1973's "Dylan," a collection of marginal outtakes and leftovers that belonged on a bonus disc, not a bona fide one.
not saying that's right or wrong, but that info clearly predates 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/08/24/public-enemy-classic-rap/f6dae98c-97c2-4ba3-a9e3-3773fc8904a7/
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
LA Times, 1994:
Public Enemy first stumbled with its 1992 album of outtakes, “Greatest Misses.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-19-ca-29095-story.html
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
my recollection is that it was promoted as six new tracks, six (mostly new) remixes (plus the Word performance) but obv that is inadmissable as evidence
the printed credits on the 1992 release Greatest Misses, however, indicate that they can't be outtakes from anything older than 1991 release Apocalypse '91, so I refer the honorable member to my earlier ???
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
"Apocalypse '91" outtakes seems reasonable I guess?
but yeah, ???
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
FWIW, Erlewine's AllMusic review simply refers to them as "new songs" / "new material"...
Also, if it's a helpful piece of the puzzle, Discogs.com user "tiddlerz" remarks -- "this is being filed under a comp but its fucking banging and essential as any PE album in my opinion."
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
I'll say this for How Do You Sell Soul..., the single "Harder than you Think" is an essential PE jam for me
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
tie goes to the runner rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
“Harder Than You Think” is so good
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
There’s a lot of great stuff on There’s a Poison Going On too, which people miss because it’s like their fourth slept-on release in a row at that point
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
I love this beathttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=62nCe2a1zsc
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
There’s A Poison sounds like it was recorded on styrofoam
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
GREAT track, but I was surprised to find that "Harder Than You Think" hit #4 on the UK singles chart, which makes it PE's highest charting single there. (And it did it five years after it was released.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 5 March 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
^ when it was used as the theme to Paralympics coverage on UK television
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 5 March 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
Still going through late era PE. I would add 2012's "Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp" as another keeper - Chuck's physically sounding a bit older, but he still has a commanding authority. 2002's "Revolverlution" is a mixed bag by design, but throw out the four fan remixes and the live cuts weighing it down and it's probably another keeper. I'm going to miss Flav's levity and absurdity on these records, and he's still an underrated multi-instrumentalist.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 5 March 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Turns out, Flavor Flav's firing was an elaborate hoax to promote a new album, LOUD IS NOT ENOUGH, that was dropping on April Fools' Day (today).
Posted yesterday on March 31: https://www.enemyradio.net/news/a-hoax-that-aint-no-joke
More here: https://pitchfork.com/news/chuck-d-says-flavor-flavs-public-enemy-firing-was-staged-to-promote-new-song-and-album/
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 05:30 (four years ago) link
🙄
― morrisp, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link
um.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 06:23 (four years ago) link
I had watched Orson Welles’ ‘War Of The Worlds’ from 1938 when he pulled the wool over the public’s eyes as they put 100% belief in the technology of radio. Most people followed like a Pavlovic dog just like they do now.
"I believed a fictional press release about people being unable to tell fiction from news, so I made up some fiction and pretended it was news, and then put out a press release about it, to prove that people are as stupid as me ermm, everyone else but me."
I’m not sayin’ it’s a hoax, I’m sayin’ that the original intention is to get your attention and not play attention, but get you to pay attention.”
idk Carlton man, this is a little too coherent. can I suggest How You Pay Attention To An Attentionless People Who Ain't Play Attention? Get Talkin' To Get 'Em Torqued Up With Intentional Tension
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 06:23 (four years ago) link
even viewed through the most charitable lens, this is phenomenally bad timing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 06:24 (four years ago) link
Oh dear
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 07:34 (four years ago) link
sic lol
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
is chuck advising that we... don’t believe the hype
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
This is the funniest fucking thing, rivaled only by the title of one of the songs on the album being "STD (Slavery Transmitted Disease)"
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
Wait, all the reasons they gave for firing Flav were tru tho
I mean I'm glad tho
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
I feel like this album release could itself be an April Fool's prank inasmuch as it's a latter day Public Enemy album whose title somehow fails to read like it was whipped up by a gaggle of college freshmen getting super high in their dorm room.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
Luau Dis Naughty 'Nuff, surely.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
it's so sad to see this band that were just absolute titans reduced to this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
it's a latter day Public Enemy albumIt’s an “Enemy Radio” album, there’s a loophole there...
― morrisp, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Also, not to fact-check Chuck D, but he may be off-bass* on the subject of public credulity around the War of the Worlds broadcast.*my phone made this typo and I’m gonna keep it, seems appropriate here
― morrisp, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
fuck lol
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
can we please just turn this into a thread of speculative future Public Enemy album titles
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
How Much Flav Would a Chuck D. Chuck If a Chuck D. Would Chuck Flav?
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
never mind
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
lol
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
haaaaa
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Wait, wait, wait ... how do we know that the reveal that it was supposedly all a satirical social media prank is itself *not* the satirical social media prank, and that Flav *was* fired and this is all a ruse to trick us into thinking he *wasn't* fired and is still in the group!?!!"!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
This is like the opposite of a deepfake.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a retcon on Chuck's part... the "prank" claim doesn't make a lot of sense, in light of the timing, how it played out, etc.
― morrisp, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
I don't believe a word of it
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
History shouldn't be a mystery.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
lol creative cover Chuck just take LL's artwork and photoshop Enemy Radio on it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Chuck D was interviewed by HipHopDX beforehand and it's a much better read than the official statement. Chuck actually makes a lot of good points, and at least the prank makes more sense in the context given here.
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.55227/title.public-enemys-chuck-d-flavor-flav-blast-april-fools-day
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
People would take it serious, but I’m saying, ‘No, I’m attacking the fact y’all were gullible and fell for it.”
― morrisp, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
Also, people were insisting the very thing that Chuck is affirming now — namely, that you can’t “fire” Flav from PE, as he’s a core partner. They were saying that to Chuck and Flav on Twitter! And now Chuck’s like, “Yeah, I played you guys...”(?)
― morrisp, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
I'm interested in seeing how everyone reacts after looking back at the "finally Chuck saw how much of a coon Flavor Flav was" rhetoric swirling around after the original announcement
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
so does flav LIKE bernie circle one: y/n/maybe
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Chuck is so full of shit right now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link