It Takes A Nation Of Millions (1988) ( )

Artist: Public Enemy
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Label: Uni/def Jam
UPC: 00731452735829
Release Date: 5/2/1995
Buy.com Sku: 60115908
Item#: MM3Q4V
Format:  CD

Song Listing

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

(P) 1988 Def Jam Recordings
(C) 1988 Def Jam Recordings

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Public Enemy: Chuck D, Flavor Flav (vocals); Norman "Terminator X" Rogers (scratches); Professor Griff (background vocals); The Security Of The First World.
Additional personnel: Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee (programming); Johnny Juice Rosado (scratches); The Black To The Future Sample Stars (background vocals).
Engineers include: Nick Sansano, Matt Tritto, Chris Shaw.
Recorded at Greene Street Recording, Chung King House Of Metal, New York, New York, Sabella Recording, Roslyn, New York & Spectrum City Studios, Hempstead, New York.
Personnel: Fab 5 Freddy, Harry Allen, Flavor Flav, Oris Josphe, Erica Johnson, Professor Griff, Chuck D (vocals); Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee (programming); Johnny Juice Rosado (scratches, turntables); Norman Rogers (scratches); Terminator X (turntables).
Audio Mixers: Keith Boxley; DJ Chuck Chillout; Rod Hui; Steven Ett.
Recording information: Chung King House Of MEtal, New York, NY; Greene Street Recording Studio, New York, NY; Sabella Recording, New York, NY; Spectrum City Studios, New York, NY.
Photographer: Glen E. Friedman.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Eric "Vietnam" Sadler; Flavor Flav; Professor Griff; Terminator X; Chuck D.
The title says it all. In 1988, when this album was released, Public Enemy's music cut with a wholly revolutionary edge. Rarely has fear, anger, paranoia and anxiety been so masterfully compressed onto a record's grooves. The Bomb Squad's artistry is the keynote to the hard, lean delivery, while Chuck D's supremely pointed lyrics leave no stone of the black experience unturned. It is not comfortable listening, but on tracks such as 'Don't Believe The Hype', 'Night Of The Living Baseheads' and 'Rebel Without A Pause' the listener is left in no doubt that they are facing a fantastically potent force.

Producer: Carl Ryder; Carl Ryder; Hank Shocklee

 
Artist Overview
In the late 1980s, Public Enemy connected the dots between politics, soul music, hard rock, marketing, turntablism, and rhyme, and turned hip-hop into an urban global youth movement. PE's pioneering albums are heralded as avant-garde artworks whose disparate sample sources combine into a gloriously chaotic mosaic of polyphony and African-American unrest. Powered by Chuck D.'s political fury, enlivened by Flavor Flav's antics, and made controversial by Professor Griff's ethnocentrism, Public Enemy influenced virtually every rapper who followed in their wake.

Artist Influences
Bad Brains | Charles Wright | Funkadelic | Gil Scott-Heron | Grandmaster Flash | Grandmaster Melle Mel | James Brown | Kool Moe Dee | Kurtis Blow | Miles Davis | Ornette Coleman | Parliament | Run-D.M.C. | Schoolly D | Sly & the Family Stone | Stetsasonic | The Clash | The Last Poets | Treacherous Three

Artist Contemporaries
Beastie Boys | Big Daddy Kane | Boogie Down Productions | De La Soul | EPMD | Eric B. & Rakim | Gang Starr | Jungle Brothers | LL Cool J | Poor Righteous Teachers | Slick Rick | Ultramagnetic MC's

Artist Followers
Biohazard | Cypress Hill | DJ Spooky | Fatboy Slim | Ice Cube | Limp Bizkit | N.W.A. | Rage Against the Machine | Sister Souljah | The Chemical Brothers | The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy | The Prodigy | Urban Dance Squad | Wu-Tang Clan


 
Compilation Appearances
Bark At The Moon (Bonus Tracks)
10th Year Anniversary
Def Jam Greatest Hits (Explicit Version)
Scary Movie
Don't Sleep
Old School Rap Vol.06
Scratchology
Rock Vs Rap
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Soundtrack (Explicit Version)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (w/ Bonus DVD) (Explicit Version)
Shifting Gears (Explicit Version)
xXx: State of the Union (Explicit Version)
Essential Hip Hop Vol 3
Essential Hip Hop Vol 2
Essential Hip Hop Vol 4
ESSENTIAL HIP HOP 5
ESSENTIAL HIP HOP 7
MASTERCUTS BAR GROOVES
Hard Truth Soldiers Vol 1
Express Yourself:soul In The 20th Cen
Hip Hop:gold
Bring That Beat Back(Explicit Version)
Hip Hop Essentials (Ltd) (Box)
Stomp The Yard
Ultra Trance 07
Ultra 2008
Louie Devito Presents Pacha
Tribb To Jb
Ultra Music Festival Vol 2
Dance Factory:ultimate Dance Hits V1
Club Hits 2008
Body Of War:songs That Inspired (ost)
Pineapple Express (Original Soundtrack)
Paris Presents:hard Truth Soldiers V1(Explicit Version)
Def Jam Recordings: 25th Anniversary Box Set

 
Associated Artists and Works
Moby
Moby
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Bring That Beat Back [PA] ~ Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 05/02/1995
Original Release Date : 1988
Catalog ID : 527358
Label : Def Jam (USA)
Number of Discs : 2
Runtime : 57m : 51s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : AAD
UPC : 00731452735829

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (11/89)
- Ranked #12 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey.

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.110)
- Ranked #48 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Loud, obnoxious, funky, avant-garde, political, uncompromising, hilarious..."

Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics - "...In any context, a revolutionary work..."

Spin (12/03, p.122)
- "...NATION OF MILLIONS lived up to its hype and then some..."

Q (10/01, p.44)
- Ranked #47 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"

Q (9/95, p.132)
- 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...the greatest rap album of all time, a landmark and classic...."

Q (p.140)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "Packed full of loud, obnoxious classics....You really should own this by now."

Alternative Press (11/00, p.144)
- Included in AP's "10 Essential Political-Revolution Albums"

Alternative Press (8/01, p.112)
- Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums".

Alternative Press (7/95, pp.76-77)
- Ranked #6 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...After IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK, rap couldn't just be stupid and boom and yelp--it had to have production values and 'relevance'..."

Vibe (12/99, p.158)
- Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Vibe (6/02, p.108)
- Ranked #1 in Vibe's "Top 10 rap albums".

Melody Maker (7/22/95, p.35)
- Bloody Essential - "...I hadn't believed it could get harder [than YO! BUM RUSH THE SHOW]. Or better....It was like being beaten over the head in four/four time with a skip..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(6/00, pp.124-5)
- "...Responsible for the angriest polemic since The Last Poets....[They] revolutionized the music, using up to 80 backing tracks in the sonic assault....to these ears PE sound like the greatest rock'n'roll band in history."

NME (Magazine)
(9/25/93, p.18)
- Ranked #5 in NME's list of The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s - "...[IT TAKES A NATION...] drags punk, rock, and hip-hop screaming towards the end of the century....Definitive..."

NME (Magazine)
(10/2/93, p.29)
- Ranked #9 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

NME (Magazine)
(7/15/95, p.47)
- 10 (out of 10)
- "...the greatest hip-hop album ever....this wasn't merely a sonic triumph. This was also where Chuck wrote a fistful of lyrics that promoted him to the position of foremost commentator/documentor of life in the underbelly of the USA...."

  
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