Music : It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454242325
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Manufacturer: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Release Date: April 03, 2000
Running Time: 68 minutes
Studio: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Sales Rank: 618

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Disc 1:

1. Countdown To Armageddon
2. Bring The Noise
3. Don't Believe The Hype
4. Cold Lampin' With Flavor
5. Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic
6. Mind Terrorist
7. Louder Than A Bomb
8. Caught, Can We Get A Witness?
9. Show 'Em Whatcha Got
10. She Watch Channel Zero?!
11. Night Of The Living Baseheads
12. Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
13. Security Of The First World
14. Rebel Without A Pause
15. Prophets Of Rage
16. Party For Your Right To Fight
17. Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Cd-Rom Video)
18. Night Of The Living Baseheads

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
It Takes a Nation of Millions was the sign that hip-hop had exploded like a grenade. A rap record as abrasive, hard-core and eloquent as a Winston Churchill speech, the 1988 disc is one classic track after another: tense, multilayered, harmonically wild music. Chuck D declaims like a master preacher with foil Flavor Flav's voice darting around his. They have got the desperate energy of people fighting for their lives, and everything from their pumped-up rhetoric ("Prophets of Rage") to the group's quasi-paramilitary organisation, to the sirens and sax squeals in nearly every track declares how urgent their mission is. It is a hugely influential album, and it still sounds fresh and frightening after all these years. --Douglas Wolk




Rating: - MOST INTELLIGENT RAP ALBUM EVER??
First bona fide Rap album I ever bought back in the late '80s. I confess, it was Thrash Metal veterans, Anthrax constantly banging on about them that convinced me!
Great album with perhaps the most intelligent lyrics ever written for a Rap cd - even though I don't agree with many of the opinions expressed, I respect them.
A production that was way ahead of the time, with great beats, basslines & samples, with a near perfect vocal balance between the intense and angry Chuck D and the ... Read More

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Rating: - The great pioneers of hip hop
these boys took hip hop from grandmaster flash and run dmc and turned it around to whirringsiren loops and cutting lyrics.

public enemy have never bettered this record, everytime i hear the opening cut of bring the noise or the crumble of rebel without a pause my spine tingles....THIS IS HIP HOP...BAM

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Rating: - the don mega
this is quite possibly the best rap record ever dropped!!!
everything is so perfectly realised, the beats are fast and fresh and very,very funky.
chuck d and flava drop their best raps ever, and display a level of social awareness that is still scarily relevant to this day.
the tunes are top drawer hip hop that has stood the test of time and still sound as vital and electrifying as the very first day i heard them.
utter genius!!!!!
all you need to know about this masterpiece ... Read More

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Rating: - Absolutely AMAZING
This albums rocks...some truly revolutionary stuff from the founders of hip hop rap! Its fantastic, highly recommended.

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Rating: - The BEST
This is (in my opinion) the best album of all time. And that beats off some stiff competition.

if you don't own it, buy it. NOW!

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