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Tracklist (Vinyl)
| | Side Silver | | | | A1 | | Countdown To Armageddon | | 1:41 | | A2 | | Bring The Noise | | 3:47 | | A3 | | Don't Believe The Hype | | 5:20 | | A4 | | Cold Lampin With Flavor | | 4:13 | | A5 | | Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic | | 4:30 | | A6 | | Mind Terrorist | | 1:18 |
See more tracks| A7 | | Louder Than A Bomb | | 3:37 | | A8 | | Caught, Can We Get A Witness? | | 5:03 | | | Side Black | | | | B1 | | Show 'Em Whatcha Got | | 1:57 | | B2 | | She Watch Channel Zero?! | | 3:50 | | B3 | | Night Of The Living Baseheads | | 3:16 | | B4 | | Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos | | 6:25 | | B5 | | Security Of The First World | | 1:22 | | B6 | | Rebel Without A Pause | | 5:05 | | B7 | | Prophets Of Rage | | 3:15 | | B8 | | Party For Your Right To Fight | | 3:27 |
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Review
Rap didn't come any heavier, harder or angrier in '88 than Public Enemy's second Molotov cocktail of nuclear scratching, gnarly minimalist electronics and revolution rhyme. Where a lot of rap vinyl is still mostly beats and bluster "Nation" features abrupt sequencing and violent sonic compression of rapid-fire samples, slamming-jail-door percussion, DJ Terminator X's tornado turntable work and Chuck D's outraged oratory; listening to it is like having your brain hot-wired into emergency TV broadcasts, with the apocalypse playing on every channel.… Read More That Public Enemy can step into your face so fiercely, challenging your courage with its conviction, makes the band's lapses into sexism and advocacy of Black Muslim demagogue Louis Farrakhan all the more troublesome. Chuck D slams a sister for clotting her brain with TV sop in "She Watch Channel Zero?!" only to have comouth Flavor Flav grouse, "Baby, you gotta cut that garbage off, yo, I wanna watch the game." If the revolution is televised, will Public Enemy be glued to Monday Night Football? As for Farrakhan, the band's salutes to him cloud the real issues of strength through pride, of war on apathy, that fuel the PE noise. "Remember," Chuck D says in "Don't Believe the Hype," there's a need to get alarmed.
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