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Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation to Hold us Back
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Christopher Weingarten's take on "Nation Of Millions" is a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record - the engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing. How they re-sampled their own scratches to create "Bring The Noise", how they plundered and reconfigured their own composition for the proto-IDM splatter-collage of "Night Of The Living Baseheads". And, most importantly, how they played all the samples by hand - together in a room...
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Arguably the greatest hip-hop recording ever, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back arrived in 1988, when rap music was just beginning to emerge in the mainstream. Chuck D and Flavor Flav adroitly captured the rage, dismay, and wit of African America during the late stages of the Reagan era. The rapping was eloquent and urgent, and the backing sound was abrasive and urbane. Songs like "Bring the Noise" and "Don't Believe the Hype" became big hits and idiomatic expressions. "Black Steel in...
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Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #12 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey.Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.110) - Ranked #48 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Loud, obnoxious, funky, avant-garde, political, uncompromising, hilarious..."Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics - "...In any context, a revolutionary work..."Spin (12/03, p.122) - "...NATION OF MILLIONS lived up to its hype and then some..."Q (10/01, p.44) - Ranked #4...
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"Yo! Bum Rush the Show" was an invigorating record, but it looks like child's play compared to its monumental sequel, "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back", a record that rewrote the rules of what hip-hop could do. That's not to say the album is without precedent, since what's particularly ingenious about the album is how it reconfigures things that came before into a startling, fresh, modern sound. Public Enemy used the template Run-D.M.C. created of a rap crew as a rock band, then brought...
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The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing, SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc, allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players.
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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Countdown to Armageddon. Bring the Noise. Dont Believe the Hype. Cold Lampin With Flavor. Terminator X to the Edge of Panic. Mind Terrorist. Louder Than a Bomb. Caught Can We Get a Witness?. Show Em Whatcha Got. She Watch Channel Zero?!. Night of the Living Baseheads. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos. Security of the First World. Rebel Without a Pause. Prophets of Rage. Party for Your Right to Fight.
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Description Yo Bum Rush the Show was an invigorating record, but it looks like child's play compared to its monumental sequel, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, a record that rewrote the rules of what hip-hop could do. That's not to say the album is without precedent, since what's particularly ingenious about the album is how it reconfigures things that came before into a startling, fresh, modern sound. Public Enemy used the template Run-D.M.C. created of a rap crew as a rock band, then...
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Notes: Public Enemy: Chuck D, Flavor Flav (vocals); Norman "Terminator X" Rogers (scratches); Professor Griff (background vocals); The Security Of The First World. Additional personnel: Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee (programming); Johnny Juice Rosado (scratches); The Black To The Future Sample Stars (background vocals). Engineers include: Nick Sansano, Matt Tritto, Chris Shaw. Recorded at Greene Street Recording, Chung King House Of Metal, New York, New York, Sabella Recording, Roslyn, New...
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