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We Don’t Want New Music Anymore
Recently my wife and I went to a performance by a band whose debut album came out in 1986. Every couple of years they produce yet another collection of well-crafted, well-played, mid-tempo album of songs about life in all its mysteries and heartbreaks. More than 20 studio albums in these 38 years. (Considerably more than Pink Floyd or Fleetwood Mac or the Eagles, if, like me, you’re prone to thinking like that.)
These days their new music get modest attention, and the venues they play are decidedly smaller. Still, here they were touring behind their latest album, but it was also clear the singer knew what she was up against with that. After the band kicked off with two older tunes, the singer, in a manner so sheepish that it made me feel both pity and anger, announced they were going to play a few new songs tonight. Cue the uneasy smattering of applause. She immediately added, less there be immediate walkouts, that they’d also be playing all the old favorites we expected to hear. It was all I could do to not stand up and shout, “Play your new music!” They’d more than earned that right. But I was sure by the crowd’s stiff reaction that if I voiced such support I’d be beset by the 60-somethings around me in their flowy smocks and spartan sandals
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Fight the Power (Public Enemy song)
For other uses, see Fight the Power.
1989 single by Public Enemy
"Fight the Power" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released as a single in the summer of 1989 on Motown Records. It was conceived at the request of film director Spike Lee, who sought a musical theme for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. First issued on the film's 1989 soundtrack, the extended version was featured on Public Enemy's third studio album Fear of a Black Planet (1990).
"Fight the Power" incorporates various samples and allusions to African-American culture, including civil rights exhortations, black church services, and the music of James Brown. Spike Lee also directed a music video in Brooklyn featuring a political rally of "a thousand" black youth, with appearances by Lee and the Public Enemy members (Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X), uniformed Fruit of Islam men, and signs of historic black figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.[2][3]
As a single, "Fight the Power" reached number one on Hot Rap Singles and number 20 on the Hot R&B Singles. It was named the best single of 1989 by The Village Voice in their Pazz & Jop critics' poll. It has become Public Enemy's best-known song and has re
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Don't Get Compel to Wrong
1986 individual by say publicly Pretenders
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