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Despite becoming what is essentially Tiger Beat for the emo set, I still like the fact that Spin placed Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back above Nirvana's Nevermind in their Top 100 Albums of the last 20 Years list.
Does that sound like sacrilege coming from a native Seattlite? I'll tell you what: for me, PE held a lot more weight for me, more cultural import. Nirvana's record was a period piece. That's not to say it wasn't important - it killed hair metal dead, and it was nice to see a band from my little burg get some recognition on a national level. But I still get chills sometimes when I listen to Nations. I was 11 or 12 when I first heard the record, and it just blew me away. For all the so-called 'conscious' hip-hop that was coming out around then, I feel that PE was the most succinct and articulate and least pretentious (*cough* KRS One *cough*). It has retained most of its power over the years, as many of the topics they brought up are still relevant today.
[I just totally pulled this out of my ass. I'll go back and fix my spelling errors later. Gotta go home now.)
Does that sound like sacrilege coming from a native Seattlite? I'll tell you what: for me, PE held a lot more weight for me, more cultural import. Nirvana's record was a period piece. That's not to say it wasn't important - it killed hair metal dead, and it was nice to see a band from my little burg get some recognition on a national level. But I still get chills sometimes when I listen to Nations. I was 11 or 12 when I first heard the record, and it just blew me away. For all the so-called 'conscious' hip-hop that was coming out around then, I feel that PE was the most succinct and articulate and least pretentious (*cough* KRS One *cough*). It has retained most of its power over the years, as many of the topics they brought up are still relevant today.
[I just totally pulled this out of my ass. I'll go back and fix my spelling errors later. Gotta go home now.)