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But I was kind of under the impression that they were only liked by people like my mega-square white aunt, who, when finding out I liked hiphop a lot, started raving to me about the greaatness of Arrested Development.

xp I grew up in the 90s so heard "Set Adrift" for years and years before I heard "True", so it's def. not a reaction to obviousness of sample,

― The Reverend shines like a lighthouse (Rodney J. Greene), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean cuz by and large PM Dawn did not really seem interested in hip hop

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

but that's my point--regardless of whether it was "fear" (and that's obviously not the full story), you'd have to imagine it, because it never really went there.

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Scott's stressing of the PM Dawn-Roxy analogy is a good one (I think Eric Weisbard said something similar in the big SPIN book) -- neither act gave a shit about the genre into which they were categorized; it was all sound and vision.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

but what could/should hip hop have taken from PM Dawn? New Age platitudes? 80s synthpop sampling?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I've probably said this on the real ILM, but Of the Heart was the first album I ever owned on CD, and they were probably my first real "favorite band."

I never followed them after The Bliss Album, though, and I hardly listen to them today. I do still listen to Digable Planets, whose debut is a far more consistent album than any of the other alt-rap albums of the early 1990s, which by the end of 9th grade probably made up half my CD collection (I also had Me Phi Me, Arrested Development, and Us3.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Who are Me Phi Me? I'm not sure I'm familiar with them.

― The Reverend shines like a lighthouse (Rodney J. Greene), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose that's probably a singular is.

― The Reverend shines like a lighthouse (Rodney J. Greene), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It was one guy. He was the in thing for about two months in summer 1992, ended up on the Reality Bites soundtrack, and then was never heard from again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Digable Planets' Reachin' is probably a better album than The Bliss Album...? song-for-song, although I listen to neither more than De La's Buhloone Mindstate, their own contribution to jazz-rap.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post: http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p019/p01996uatfw.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

see also Justin Warfield pre-She Wants Revenge

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

[to shakey's]
more vulnerability, more overt prettiness, probably more synthiness, yeah, and probably more new age platitudes at least insofar as recognizing (if not really saying anything particularly meaningful about) the unreality of the whole "real" thing. (Not saying I wish everyone in hip-hop sounded like P.M. Dawn, by the way, just surprised at how anomalous they were.)

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

when i said Al Green above, I think I mean that I see P.M. Dawn's relationship to most other hip-hoppers of the period (more the gangsta stuff than the jazzy stuff, granted) as sort of an Al Green/Stylistics vs. Otis Redding/Wilson Pickett kind of thing.

― sw00ds (sw00ds), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I was a big fan of their hit "I'd Die Without Jews" which I really related to since all my doctors back then were Jewish.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, seriously, I do love "I'd Die Without You." Not kidding.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it was "I'd Die Without Shoes."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to play HORSE with my friend Steve while listening to The Bliss Album, and we'd sing "Plastic! What? Basketball." True.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It makes me happy to see this thread get 50 hits, but I'd be happier still if more people posting had followed the band through their "Dearest Christian..." album, and had heard their pretty great T-Rex rip-off.

In another PM Dawn thread, sometime in the past, someone posted the b-side to Downtown Venus (not on the album/cd) which was pretty fabulous and also in semi-rock mode: "Downtown Venus" is great, but not a one-off by any means. On the same album as Venus, "Apathy, Superstar" is right up there.

― dlp9001 (dlp2007), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Pisces - "yeah my mate jason insisted to me once drunk that the lyric
"i wanted her to be a big pm dawn fan" was his favourite ever."

your friend Jason should meet my friend Eric. he constantly says that.

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"Apathy, Superstar" is better than "Downtown Venus". On that album, "Puppet Show" has the same hook as Julian Cope's "Head". I love the crap out of Jesus Wept - even the moment of silence from the grave of Martin Luther King and the "1999/Once In A Lifetime/Coconut" mashup with the piano bit from the Schoolhouse Rock "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" song.

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

PM Dawn actually did a gig this year at Maxwells in Hoboken of all places. Prince B was living in the apartment next door to me for 2 years in Jersey City and was a sweet fella! He was actually recording MC Paul Barman back then...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The one time I saw Public Enemy Chuck D said something like "hur, go and listen to yr PM Dawn records" in a rik mayall way.

Maybe they seemed too easy listening for them. "feared" may be about right.

I liked " watcher's point of view" best, ah heck even the spand sample as "that record was created for PM Dawn to sample" as I disliked the original.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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