Wayback music challenge: Day 4 – Rebel Without a Pause

Hive account@slobberchops nominated me for this Wayback music challenge. You can read about it in the bottom of the post.

Here's the music...

I have realised that the music of my youth until now in two of three cases are music that was old when I discovered it. But somehow I took it all in without worrying about age, and I did listen to the new things that came out in these years.

My younger brother had decided that he was a hip hopper - so RunDMC, Beastie Boys and LL Cool J, became part of what I listened to. But the one band that I felt most attracted to was Public Enemy. My brother and I listened to music together while we sat in his room making roleplaying game rules, reading comics and getting lost in our collective imagination. We had some of the Yo! Bum rush the show songs on tape, and when the It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back-album came out my brother bought it (it was after all him who was the hip hopper). This album was ugly, funky, aggressive and it made use of samples in the most creative and annoying way. I was so very fascinated by this LP and knew there was something great happening inspite of not understanding neither music nor lyrics. I listened to it over and over again even though it made my ears wring and my harmonic sense cringe. I still love it, and had to just pick one tune from an all favourite album. Chose this one for Terminator X's famous scratching.

"Brothers and sisters -- Brothers and sisters, I don't know what this world is coming to;" the sampled opening words often pops up in my minds these days...

I nominate Hive account@shortcut and/or Hive account@roused for this challenge if they like.

The rules:

• Choose one song from your high-school/college years.
• Write a few words about who made you listen to this song for the first time, what this song means to you (was it a breakup song? you blasted it at 100% on your audio system when you were partying with your friends?) whatever you want.
• Write your text while listening to the song. As soon as the song ends, wrap up what you where writing and submit it.
• Do this for 7 days in a row if you get nominated
• Mention one person who should do this on each day.
• Tag it with #musicwaybackchallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post