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Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back .jpg) .gif) By Douglas Wolk
It Takes a Nation of Millions was the sign that hip-hop had
exploded like a grenade. A rap record as abrasive, hardcore, and eloquent
as a JFK 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've 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 organization to the sirens and sax squeals in nearly
every track declares how urgent their mission is. It's a hugely
influential album, and it still sounds fresh and frightening after all
these years.
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| 1. Countdown To Armageddon | 9. Show Em Whatcha Got | | 2. Bring The Noise | 10. She Watch Channel Zero?! | | 3. Don't Believe The Hype | 11. Night Of The Living Baseheads | | 4. Cold Lampin' With Flavor | 12. Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos | | 5. Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic | 13. Security Of The First World | | 6. Mind Terrorist | 14. Rebel Without A Pause | | 7. Louder Than A Bomb | 15. Prophets Of Rage | | 8. Caught, Can We Get A Witness? | 16. Party For Your Right To Fight |
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