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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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