You're Just Poppin A Pill
2009-04-30 by Mr WoolyDigital Underground – Packet Man
Sex Packets were these amazing mythical pills we all believed in and wanted to get our mits on back in the early nineties when we first read the inner sleeve of Digital Underground’s “Sex Packets” album.
I remember sitting at home with Johnny K, the Kanko Kid and The Droog and spinning this on vinyl and dreaming up the kinds of packets we would design for ourselves and enter pilled up sex packet bliss.
The cover sleeve told stories about these pills designed by NASA to give to astronauts in orbit, who sometimes had to go for months without getting proper sexy actions. To help alleviate the many months of sex-free time in low gravity, all you had to do was pop one of these magical sexually-charged pills to get taken on a fantastic, visual sexy voyage, complete with ahem, plenty of comage. I wanted a sex packet pill! I wanted the fucking factory!
The Sex Packets album has many many glorious rapalong choonz all the way through it and it’s well worth a re-listen to after all these years and if you ain’t heard it before, now’s your chance to snap up this gem. Either way, have a listen to the wondrous lyrics in tracks like Underwater Rhymes – “Now last night underwater I saw a French mermaid / Treated her to caviar and wine over shrimp brain / In the raw on the ocean floor need I say more? / You never heard nobody kick it like this before.” And we sure hadn’t!
As you listen to this choon, be sure to heed the packet man’s wise advice “Remember, there’s only one thing safer than using your hand – dial that beeper number and call the packet man.”
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Classic DU weirdness. I love how pretty much all their songs have the same blueprint, especially that cracking snare/clap combo.