World Famous Comics: Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
By: Public Enemy Average Rating: Binding: Audio CD Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered Label: Def Jam Number of Discs: 1 Release Date: August 02, 2005
Amazon.com: Public Enemy is not the kind of group that does compromise--either you own It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back and its explosive follow-up Fear of a Black Planet in their entirety or you simply hate music. So use this all-too-brief primer merely as a map to find your way to the albums that actually shook the world, mixing blunt politics with hard-hitting beats and Chuck D's prophet-like zeal for affecting change. If nothing else, tracks like "Bring The Noise" and "Fight The Power" serve as timely reminders of how much power hip-hop can wield when not tripped up in name-calling and bitch-slapping (D famously dubbed the genre "CNN for black people"), while on "911 is a Joke" Flava Flav proves there's a fine-line between laughter and tears. --Aidin Vaziri
Best rap group ever! Great compilation! I LOVE Public Enemy. To be honest, they are the best of the rap genre. 'Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits' was released in late 2004, and it remains the definitive single-disc PE collection.
Chuck D and Flava Flav know how to rhyme, and it shows on some of these classics. 'Bring The Noise' is legendary, 'By The Time I Get To Arizona' is just timeless, while 'Fight The Power' is a rhymefest featuring two of the kings of the microphone.
But, I do have several complaints here. Why is their duet with legendary speed metal band Anthrax 'Bring Tha Noize' missing? It's pretty much a heavy metal-rap version of the timeless classic, and I'm really disappointed to see it not appear on this set. Another surprising omission is the classic hip hop FM radio staple 'Night of the Living Baseheads.'
Overall, despite several key omissions, this still remains to this day the definitive single-disc Public Enemy compilation. Highly recommended to anybody who appreciates classic rap and hip hop.
Highly recommended for any casual Public Enemy fan. ENJOY!!!
BUY THIS TODAY!!!! This contains all of Public Enemy's greatest hits and only their HITS. My personal favorites include "Don't Believe the Hype", "911 is a joke", "Can't Truss It", and "Fight the Power". Besides, for $10.00 what have you got to lose. Buy this even if you despise Public Enemy. Totally worth the money!!!
Best Greatest Hits compilation by Public Enemy yet.
Strangely disappointing sound production quality Let me begin by saying I am a huge Public Enemy fan who was expecting to absolutely love this CD. Yet, I found one flaw was very disappointing: The CD sound has a strange tinny quality in several of the songs. Something is just off. The music doesn't sound as compelling with this small, but noticable change.
I have absolutely no rational explanation for why someone would change the sound mix from what worked in the original recordings. I don't know if it was done intentionally or on accident, but clearly, something has been changed just slightly in several of the recordings. "Fight the Power" is the most notable example.
I feel sad, like someone drew a moustache on the Mona Lisa or chipped off the nose of George Washington's face on Mount Rushmore. Why would someone mess with perfection?
Buyer beware - not all that explicit Explicit lyrics. Really? Not on my copy.
"Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant (silence) to me."
What the (silence)? I suppose we have Wal-Mart et al to thank for this (silence) state of affairs - they must be really (silence) scared at the thought of a Public Enemy CD buying audience being exposed to some cuss words. For (silence) sake, can you imagine anything worse? So beware: as great & powerful as the music is on this compilation, it is of the G-rated variety. Shame on you Def Jam.
yes some songs are edited as some of you know already most of the songs are edited if you read the liner notes black steel is the single edit version as for fight the power the uncensered version is in do the right thing soundtrack the song is surpriselenly edited in fear of a black planet but all in all it's a nicely put togetther for people that are not fimiler with pe good remastering too way bettter than the millenum collection
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