ALL-TIME 100 ALBUMS PHOTO ESSAY
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By
Josh Tyrangiel
Published: November 13, 2006
YEAR RELEASED:
1988
LABEL:
Def Jam/Columbia
ARTIST:
Public Enemy
TIME 100 ALBUMS PODCASTS
PODCAST:
Welcome to the All-TIME 100 Albums - the musical compilations of the last half-century that need no introduction. That said, listen in below as music critics Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light introduce the list and talk about the top albums of the 1950s and '60s.
PODCAST:
We know. Twenty-nine of the 100 greatest albums of all time come in the 1970s, and Pink Floyd isn't there. Play this podcast to learn why we picked the titles we did, and if you have something to say, tell us about it using the talkback link below.
PODCAST:
Maybe it's a Sign O' The Times that you're listening to critics' audio recordings about great music, but this podcast about how we chose the best albums of the 1980s really is a Thriller. Give it a listen below.
PODCAST:
Here's music even the younger set will know by heart. Listen to selected clips from the 1990s through present day as music critic Josh Tyrangiel discusses his picks.
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Chuck D. scared the hell out of America's white parents with lyrics that praised Louis Farrakhan and a delivery that made retributive black violence seem inevitable, rational and—egad!—cool. His deeply felt and commercially calculated radicalism was best expressed in "Bring the Noise" and "Rebel Without a Pause", whip-smart, reference-filled songs saved from pretension by Flavor Flav, rap's greatest hype man, who even makes the prison break in "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" seem like daffy fun. Producers Bill Stephney, Hank Shocklee, and Terminator X—known as The Bomb Squad—laced every track with siren-wails and funk explosives that ratcheted the tension ever higher.
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Archive
With a hot new album, the rap group Public Enemy raises its message of social outrage to a blistering pitch
Public Enemy, which performs what might be called classic rap, returns with a new target for its anger -- gangsta rappers
The Commissioner of Rap recalls the early days and forecasts the future of hip-hop
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