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Topic subject | DUST IT OFF: Digital Underground's SEX PACKETS... 25 years later |
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2925350, DUST IT OFF: Digital Underground's SEX PACKETS... 25 years later Posted by johnbook, Fri Mar-27-15 12:27 AM
March 27th is the 25th anniversary of the debut album by Digital Underground called SEX PACKETS, released on that unknown Tuesday in 1990. I wrote my memories about the album in my column DUST IT OFF, have a look when you can: http://www.thisisbooksmusic.com/2015/03/26/dust-it-off-digital-underground-sex-packets-25-years-later/
I still feel it is one of the best hip-hop albums ever made and holds up brilliantly.
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2925359, an absolute classic. Posted by shockzilla, Fri Mar-27-15 05:43 AM
on the short list for my favorite album of all time.
(which shouldn't come as a surprise, given my handle).
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2925361, One of my favorites Posted by Mack, Fri Mar-27-15 07:40 AM
Still pissed that I lost my tape and when I got it on CD, Hip-Hop Doll wasn't on there. This needs to be reissued with all the songs/b-sides/etc.
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2925391, Thanks! Reading your piece made me cop Sex Packets and... Posted by Creole, Fri Mar-27-15 12:00 PM
RE: DUST IT OFF: Digital Underground's SEX PACKETS... 25 years later
Sons of the P. I had them back in the day when I had a nice sized cassette and cd collection. All of my vinyl is from before '90. Anyway, I plan to rock out with both of them all weekend.
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2925419, fantastic album with incredible production Posted by , Fri Mar-27-15 02:27 PM
werd.
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2925440, great write up; lots of memories Posted by cbk, Fri Mar-27-15 03:51 PM
I bought my cassette at Sam Goody the mall in Pleasanton.
My mind was BLOWN as soon as I pressed play on my Walkman.
Wish I still had that tape. Got the CD, but it's not the same.
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2925649, damn i think i got that tape still Posted by no great pretender, Sun Mar-29-15 11:53 PM
gonna have to dig for it.
sick album.
I always liked arguin on the funk too, the way Shock laid down both parts of that whole argument is fuckin genius.
Arguin' on the Funk https://youtu.be/hui3ecC4Nbw
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2925451, This album is still fantastic Posted by spenzalii, Fri Mar-27-15 04:39 PM
Yet another album where the tape is better than the CD
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2925508, Last Week I had one of the most frustrating conversations of my life... Posted by Nate Geezie, Sat Mar-28-15 10:02 AM
Teacher at my school....mid 40's...from NYC...used dance in the Juice Crew era...
She told me Digital Underground wasn't real hip-hop...lol
She couldn't name a geto boys song, a scarface song, the west coast and south pretty much do not exist in her mind.
I spent 10 minutes tryna explain Digital Underground...the funk...parliament...
It was like talking to Box of empty boxes....
I just stopped...
I Grew Up On Booty Shake...We Did Not Know No Betta Thangs...
https://Soundcloud.com/Soulbouncers/Soulbounce-presents-the-mixologists-dj-nate-geezies-dc-wonder-women
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2925576, Shock G is so underrated Posted by mistermaxxx08, Sun Mar-29-15 05:24 AM
dug how that album felt and its own freshness. they brought P Funk to the Mainstream and were part of it and it felt truly real.
Shock G paved that door for Dr Dre and DJ Quik,
the humor and the multi personalitys and characters.
dug the balance of the album then and now.
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2925671, digital underground felt like they really were making p-funk Posted by shockzilla, Mon Mar-30-15 09:41 AM
much more so than dre and his cohorts who were borrowing from the same well.
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2925651, underrated standard set in production imo Posted by zaire, Mon Mar-30-15 12:24 AM
shock g minted something there
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2925684, those Pfunk handclaps on Humpty alone sold me Posted by revolution75, Mon Mar-30-15 11:02 AM
Like Shock said...they were really the sons of the p Those first 2 records come straight from the mothership
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