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Track Listings
| 1. Contract On The World Love Jam |
| 2. Brothers Gonna Work It Out |
| 3. 911 Is A Joke |
| 4. Incident At 66.6 FM |
| 5. Welcome To The Terrordome |
| 6. Meet The G That Killed Me |
| 7. Pollywanacraka |
| 8. Anti-Nigger Machine |
| 9. Burn Hollywood Burn - Ice Cube, Public Enemy |
| 10. Power To The People |
| 11. Who Stole The Soul? |
| 12. Fear Of A Black Planet |
| 13. Revolutionary Generation |
| 14. Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya, Man! |
| 15. Reggie Jax |
| 16. Leave This Off Your Fu*Kin Charts |
| 17. B Side Wins Again |
| 18. War At 33 1/3 |
| 19. Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Damned |
| 20. Fight The Power |
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Public Enemy may have generated more heat than light ultimately, but their bold contentiousness makes this their most incendiary and acidic album. Producers The Bomb Squad and DJ Terminator X's relentless arsenal of samples and concussive backbeats, coupled with Chuck D's fiercely didactic raps frighteningly convey young black America's disaffection rising to boiling point, especially on "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" and "Fight The Power", featured in Spike Lee's equally troubling movie, Do Tha Right Thing. After this bang, the mumbling gangsta rappers of the 1990s seemed like mere whimperers by comparison. --David Stubbs
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As I review this retrospectively, a decade further on, I can recall the anticipation of its release, on import and then over here, which has not been matched by any other hip hop album since.It had a lot to live up to when inevitably contrasted with 'A nation of millions', but was none the less seminal for the advent of hip hop into the 90's and beyond. 'Welcome to the terrordome' set the scene as an uncompromising and inevitably controversial first release that proved in my opinion to be perhaps P.Es greatest hour. When hip hop needed credence and a cornerstone for a new decade, 'Fear of a black planet' provided just that, and P.E delivered the funk. The bomb squad were reaching unattained heights in the use of sampling, and Chuck D's lyrical dexterity was peaking, combining with genuinely provocative content, without the use of shock tactics for the sake of it. In essence, along with KRSONE, P.E were providing dynamic, socially relevant hip hop which transcened cliche and hype. Despite lacking the singular bombs of their former masterpiece, this album was certainly an almagamation of concepts, which remains innovative and classic today, and the production has stood the test of time, as well as any other album from that era. There was a feeling that P.E. would never again get as good as this, but this was enough to hold aloft as what the future was meant to sound like.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was never really into hip-hop/rap during the late 80's and early 90's...I was more of a metal/indie kid at the time. But then one day in mid-1990 I heard a tape of this album in a friend's car and its no understatement to say that it changed my life (or at least, my musical habits, which pretty well was my life at the time). Admittedly, it took alot of listening to get into it, but it was the sheer dynamism of the music that blew me away. Other reviewers have talked about the production, the samples, the lyrics, intelligence, attitude and invention - and they are all absolutely right. What also needs to be emphasised are the hooks - there are tracks on this album that, given time, will sink into your memory and stay there forever. It is, frankly, a staggering piece of work which makes the hackneyed posturing of punk (i.e. the Clash, to which PE get compared to alot in terms of "revolutionary" content) look sad, limp and reactionary in comparison.
If I had not heard this, I would never have been turned onto techno, soul, funk, rave (and of course, rap)...all the glorious genre's that a sad, white indie kid tended to avoid at that time. I suppose to listeners today, it might sound dated (in production terms) but then, so do The Beatles. Its one of my favourite albums ever and in my humble opinion, one of the all time classics. Put it this way, when I played it to a thrash metal-fixated friend of mine at the time and raved on about how it was the "rap equivalent of heavy metal", he just gave me a funny look and said "you've changed". I never saw him again. But he was right - I had changed. "Fear Of A Black Planet" was (and still is) that powerful.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the most uncompromising albums ever. Way ahead of its time, nothing in Hip Hop before or since has ever come close to matching the sheer intensity of the songs here. Probably one of the greatest albums ever but (as others here have noted) it's not an easy listen - so probably not for those wanting a nice happy melody!
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The brothers work it out.....
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