CD Charts
Welcome to The CD Charts, here you will find all the latest and top selling Music cds available to buy online. You can search and locate the best selling Music cd's and have them delivered to the door. We have a large selection of Music all with reviews.
Back to Home Page > Go back a page
Music : Fear of a Black Planet
See Larger Image |
Fear of a Black Planet by: Public Enemy List Price: $9.98 CD-Charts Price: $7.97 You Save: $2.01 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
|
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731452344625 Format: Explicit Lyrics Label: Def Jam Manufacturer: Def Jam Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Def Jam Release Date: July 26, 1994 Studio: Def Jam Sales Rank: 5906 MPN: 523446 Disc 1:
Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: PE's third album is dense, heavy, and urgent as a bullet. Fear of a Black Planet single-handedly added half a dozen phrases to the language, and not just from Chuck D.'s troop-rallying bellow--Flavor Flav's "911 Is a Joke" is as catchy an indictment of urban policy as anyone has ever come up with. The Bomb Squad's music is complicated, challenging, terse, and totally funky, and Chuck matches it with one impassioned pronouncement after another: on Hollywood's racism, on miscegenation, on "real history / Not his story." The album ends with "Fight the Power," the group's ultimate statement of purpose, from its pounding, atonal sound collage to its furious politics. Put Black Planet on, and it's always a long, hot summer. --Douglas Wolk Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Rap that rocks, and rocks hardLike the last record, only even denser, angrier, and possibly better. In the span of just over an hour, they barrage you with swirling samples, funky bass, dance beats, and grade-A turntable work. A lot of the credit goes to the Bomb Squad, whose production makes this thing rock harder than most nominal "rock" record. They also make great use of sampling - for instance, check the raging adrenaline rush of the classic "Welcome to the Terrordome," which samples the Temptations' "Psychedelic Shack," "Pollywanacraka," which contains snatches of AWB's hit "Schoolboy Crush" and some innovative vocal samples, the funky "Anti-N***** Machine," which begins with a chaotic slew of samples, and the several sound-collage tracks spread across the album, which ... Read More: Rating: - UniqueThis was my second PE album, I only knew 2 tracks from the cd. I bought this cd just because of the name op PE, and what a buy! The Public Enemy style is unique. Chuck D with his raw voice and Flav with his more higher voice and light sense of humour, those two make a unique combination. Terminator X also makes the tracks immortal by mixing the beats with great samples and sort of solos in the chorus(like the drums in "Revolutionary Generation"). What also makes them unique is the "odd" tracks they make like the song "Pollywanacraka". A nice beat with a voice that actually seems to speak, but still telling the story in style. This cd contains also a pair of awesome pieces of rap history tracks like Fight the Power, Power to the People, ... Read More: Rating: - Easy listening for the Black Intellectual...Without a doubt, THE BEST Rap record made in the nearly 30 year history of the genre. Few rap albums have come close to this gem, let alone touched the lyrical content & the raw abstract production of the Bomb squad. PE was damn serious & the genius of Flava Flav gave the message a perfect balance. PE was doing for rap in the late 80s & early 90s what Stevie Wonder did for Soul Music in the seventies. After "It takes a nation" exploded on the scene, they took it to the next level with 'Fear'. There was a pivotal moment in rap music in the early 90s where the music was moving toward consciousness or gangster ignorance. Artist like KRS-One, X-Clan, Queen Latifah and other artists were 'kicking the science' & there was a pride ... Read More: Rating: - Timeless Classic From Public Enemy!What more can be said 18 years later from when this "Fear Of A Black Planet" album that hasn't been said already? This has been a vital part of hip-hop and music history in general with hall of fame songs like "Welcome To The Terrordome", "911 Is A Joke", "Burn Hollywood Burn", "B Side Wins Again", and "Fight The Power" which displayed Public Enemy at its peak conceptually and artistically, this is something that's gonna be remembered from many generations to come, one love, real music forever! Rating: - Five freakin' stars.Now this is how it's done. This album still gets constant rotation in my CD player. A classic album by talented guys who actually had SOMETHING TO SAY. A true classic. Too bad NWA's style of gangsta nonsense had to win out in terms of mainstream influence, because hip hop could have become the new intelligent protest standard of music. Too bad indeed. But, for a short time, there was Public Enemy and their ilk. Get it. |
|