Reviews (page 12 of 12)
Terminator X I think was a great DJ for the time. Chuck D’s rhymes, while strongly political, are weak and have no bite. I don’t even think he was very good compared to others of the time and he has 99% of the lyrics. Flav is overrated as a hype man. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos I probably enjoyed most on the album but feel no need to ever listen to it again even.
Some interesting social commentary in some lyrics and cool to hear the sources of some (now) old school slang. I wouldn't choose to listen again. "Caught, Can I Get a Witness" resonated with me.
Für meine Ohren unerträgliches Album, dass ich zur Vermeidung von chronischen Kopfschmerzen nach 5 Songs abrechen musste - das ist der bislang (nach 385 Titeln) tiefste Tiefpunkt im Mariannengraben.
no ess para mi
only 1 because there is no 0
No
really hard for me to listen to this era of hiphop
Complete shite
Dure it's great for people who like hip hop, i happen to abhor this genre. There is no melody of any kind in sight, the main instrument is traffic noise and alarms, and it's basically the same song 15 times over.
Talk about noise!!
Boring then. Boring and dated now.
⭐ She watch Channel Zero?!
Rap is not my thing, but I generally reasonably like old school rap. I didn't really like this album though. So many beats are just so so screechy. No real cool songs, although one sampled Angel of Death and Sabotage, which was unexpected.
I’ve made a conscious decision to stop listening to the rap/ hip hop albums. Beats mean nothing to me and I don’t care about the stupid shit they’re running and that seems to be the basis around which all these recordings revolve. Life’s too short.
What a piece of shit. FLAVA FLAV the worst. Is Public Enemy a one trick pony sort of situation? Because Bring The Noise seems to be on every record. Good song... But come on guys. And I'm beginning to think Chuck D has very limited flow. FLAVA FLAV can not rap. His writing is kindergarten level. Bullshit album.
No, not for me.
I’m not a fan of this album. The songs all sound similar to one another. I don’t get why it’s on the top 1000 list.
Listening to rap makes me want to plug my ears and run the other way.
Clearly these guys are skilled, but it's hard to enjoy the music when they seem to be actively shooting themselves in the foot at every step. The SFX soundbites include this very grating high-pitched loop that shows up relentlessly in most of the tracks. There's extremely little in the way of melody, harmonies/interesting chord progressions, any kind of acoustic or rhythmically engaging percussion, variation within or between the tracks, and so on. The album is essentially a 58-minute wall of angry political yelling and drums. Often hip-hop can make up for the lack of harmony and melody with complex rhythms, sampling from tracks with many acoustic/melodic instruments, or backing vocalists – but in this album, Public Enemy doesn't appear to do any of those. These factors are very distracting from what's presumably an important political message. Apparently this album was meant to be, thematically, the hip-hop equivalent of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On". The latter pulled this off much better in just about every way. It Takes A Nation Of Millions... gets slight bonus points for being ahead of its time in the genre, but not impressively enough to push this beyond the 1/5 it deserves. 1/5 Key tracks: none
Not a rap fan
Rap is not my thing
Nicht meine Richtung
Groupe inconnu. Et qui aurait dû le rester. Les morceaux sont très répétitifs, sans aucun intérêt musical. Arrêt au 3eme morceau. =>1/5
God this type of rap is boring
If it’s poetry put it in a book so I can read and follow it. It’s not really music beyond a rhythmic beat and, sorry, it’s definitely not my jam…
Хренатень.
Viel Krach. Überhaupt nicht meine Musikrichtung. 1/5
Didn't like it
Not my thing…
I tried to listen as if I was hearing it for the first time but I just really don’t like this music style.
Don’t, don’t, don’t believe the hype. This is a (0.7*s) album. Almost every song has an incredibly annoying, constant high pitched beep or squeak in the background making it difficult to listen to. There are only two good songs; Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos & Security Of The First World. Yo, the rest of the dog shit you can put on your toast.
I'm surprised by how much of a struggle it was for me to get through this whole album; it's actually quite long, very repetitive, and downright annoying at times. My memory of them was better than it is after this listen. I understand the impact, the social commentary of the time, and the importance of this album for hip-hop but I no longer believe the hype. Time was not good to them at all, this sounds hella corny and weak in the 2020's. It's not raw, it's whack. Flava literally says "chicka chicka" over a high pitch squeal while someone mashes a keyboard beat machine for an hour. It's a "No" for me dawg.
not my jam
I was shocked to see that the global rating for this album was higher than 3.0. That was truly awful— some of the worst that rap has to offer. I await the day “YEAHH BOIIII” finds itself erased from my memory.
"Socially conscious" my ass.
I said this about another public enemy album but many san andreas songs theyre good in that game but as an album its not good. I didnt like anything but those few songs and I would never listen to this album again
Hip Hop. Hard pass. 1/5
This just... isn't for me. I couldn't finish it so it's got to be 1/5 really.
Det är så man får kräks.
nope
Would rather listen to the Birdie Song all day than suffer this.
Well, I made it through a couple of "songs".
Still not a rap fan
also niet mn vibe
No.
Awful. I don’t need bad, loud, hateful, violent music.
Lots of high pitched whining Jump Around noises. Very repetitive beats and lyrics. Not enjoyable nor interesting. Rebel Without a Pause could be used for torture.
Nope
Not for me
Sh-t album 😂 😂 🤣 😂
Still passing on rap......
Could not finish. Just not interesting.
Hip Hop von Public Enemy ist wohl ein „Muss“…. Aber absolut nicht mein Geschmack
I like chuck d’s flow & delivery. While I respect the groundbreaking status of the album and what the political lyrics might mean to some, I can’t say I actually enjoyed listening to it. Probably would be a 2 ⭐️ if it weren’t for that talentless hack flava flav interjecting his annoying “yeah boiii”s enough that it made me want to turn it off.
Taladreo cerebral
Schlimm
Not my type of music
I'm not usually a rap person, but the first song on this album seemed unusually promising. A more playful style, a second voice adding interest, and, dare I say, hints of a melody in the background. As the album progressed I tried to stay hopeful, but was quickly driven to insanity by the repeating high-pitched noises in the background of Every. Single. Song. I turned this one off halfway through.
I miss the music.
aweful
Respectfully, I hated this.
I was dreading the day, the first HipHop/Rap album would show up. Turns out, it was justified. Did not enjoy.
Not for me
Man I hated this album for real. Flava Flav sucks. Chuck D was good though. This album pissed me off though.
This album just made me racist
I expected to hate this, I’m not a hip hop fan. But, I only disliked it, so that’s something I suppose. But I’m barely 2/3 the way through, and not sure if I can make it through the whole thing. I tried pulling up the lyrics to see if that helped…. It didn’t. The Wikipedia article says they “set out to create the hip hop equivalent of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get On”. I think I’ll pull up that classic to flush this one out of my brain. 1/5
I can't do this genre.
Another hiphop shit show.
So dated it’s bordering on unlistenable… this is the sort of thing that should never see the light of day outside of musical museums. I get it, it’s historically an important album but I would be surprised if this didn’t already sound pretty dated by 1992… maybe even before
An entire album of blaming others for their own broken culture: what a novel concept. Musically, there were no hooks to this. Lyrically....blah blah blah.
Entirely unrelatable
It's so heavily over-produced that it's really hard to listen to. The lyrics seem really good! At least when I can hear them. Unfortunately, it just kind of sounds like bad, over-produced hype music, though.
The first track was a live concert which reminded me of a time when people used coaches' whistles to make noise. The music is a mashup of mixed 90s music with rap, and lots of record scratches. It is interesting to hear how rap has evolved to its current form.
didn't listen. not into it.
Rap tekee usein jazzista sulatettavampaa, koska se tiivistää sen parhaita variaatioita toistuviksi melodiapätkiksi. Tämä duo sen sijaan toisintaa jazzin mukakekseliään kakofonisuuden yksitoikkoisen rapin muotoon. Oliko tämä nyt kolmas yritys ymmärtää? Toivottavasti ei enää tarvitse yrittää uudelleen.
I hate this
Nah, nao consigo ouvir esse tipo de musica que o meu vizinho curte
Not my favorite, but didn't mind it. Interesting to think back to when Flava Flav was more than a meme
Teveel beats op dit album bevatten een irritant hoog geluid. Eigenlijk zijn vrijwel alle beats op dit album op hun eigen manier nogal vermoeiend. Daardoor kan ik er niet echt van genieten. En dan ook nog een uur lang. Als album is het niet prettig. Ik kan hier onverwacht weinig mee. Ik wilde het eigenlijk zelfs afzetten, maar heb het toch doorstaan. 1 a 2 sterren.
Too many artificial repetitive noises. Had to skip a few songs because of this. Did not enjoy this album.
Nty
Hip hop del duro-horrible.
Second album by Public Enemy on this list, and for the second time I think there has been a generational gap. Lyrics are as relevant as ever, which shows not much positive change has happened since late 80s in (american) society. If you would release the lyrics to the whole album as a poesy tome, then we have a bestseller on our hands (with exaggeration of course). When it comes to music, beats, tempo, flow or whatever else, unfortunately it doesn't hold that well. I had a real problem to keep my focus on the song, on the lyrics or anything else. Every time it felt dragged, unnecessary, and just simply tiring. I'm not saying that it is worse than modern hip-hop, which is not true, by the way, but from my perspective the music just has nothing in common with the message, and that makes it really hard to swallow in one sitting. I really tried, gave few chances to couple of the songs, but I just couldn't do it. I'm sorry, but Public Enemy is just not a group for me.
Не собираюсь даже слушать, первых песен хватило. Щас не 1988 и олд скул хип хоп не трогает
Didn’t age well. Bad samples. yyyyeeeeaaaaaa booooyyyyy gets old real quick
If beastie boys was bad
This is some hard core rap. A lot of anger that I cannot identify with.
The honour of being my first 1 - Congrats!
Rap isn't my thing.
Nope, I just don't like hip hop. Listened to about half of the first six songs and decided it's enough. For sure not the worst hip hop out there, but I still don't like it at all.
I’m disappointed. Never listened to this group but Chuck D is one of those hyped up figures so I assumed I’d hear something interesting. There was no variety throughout, just all the same tonally. Didn’t live for it, wasn’t impressed by it. Repetitive and dull.
Is it wrong to say that I find the usual big, loud "black attitude" just so tiresome? Today, arrogance and sassy loudness is celebrated, so long as it comes from a black person; people seem to think being "empowered" means being self-obsessed and obnoxious. Every song has this overblown, forced, pompous swagger that just gets irritating. Much hip hop suffers from this. It doesn't feel genuine, it really feels like the whole purpose of the music is to seem cool. I really think hip hop has to be the most pretentious genre out there. The definition of pretentious is: "attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed." Hip hop is all about style and attitude, not about substance or talent. By that I mean that it is usually not musically complex/deep to compose, nor does it take any technical skill with a musical instrument to perform. Sure, the lyrics take effort to write, but that's the only thing it has going for it. Since when was good music about lyrics? You might as well stick to poetry. After all, the music itself is often so simplistic; a 3 second beat is looped over and over for a whole 4 minute song. Wow, so impressive, guys. The music isn't even played by people, it's played by a machine. It doesn't take a musical genius to push buttons on a drum machine. Today a lot of hip hop is performed by computers; the only piece left for a person to do is rap. I'm sure someday soon computers will be able to convincingly rap, and all popular hip hop will be procedurally generated by AI. I love to listen to music that is written by skilled composers and/or performed by talented instrumentalists. Hip hop is the antithesis of this; simple repetitive music, no impressive instrumental work. Usually, anyway. I’m sure it’s enjoyable to many but I just don’t like it at all
vermoeiend om te luisteren, weinig variatie, beats pakte me niet
Nope. F
I don't even hate rap but this just sucks, sorry. Horrible beats - seriously, what's up with the wacky boing instruments in every song? They're a kazoo away from being actual meme music. "Security of the First World" sounds like video game pause music. An hour of my life that I'll never get back.
לא ממש יכול לתת ביקורת שמעתי כמה שירים בודדים לצערי, בגדול אהבתי אבל קשה לי לשפוט
I can't listen to music like this because there is no melody, just a beat. It's definitely interesting that this caught on, though.
Far too much yeaaaah boooy
Bu adam bana cikmasin artikkk
Niet mijn genre, en het overmatig gebruik van de 'Yeah Boy'-sample stoorde me mateloos. Ik had moeite om dit uit te luisteren 1*
1. Countdown til Armageddon - Completely an intro. I will never listen to this ever again. Pretty much a tornado warning the whole time. Rate - 1/10 2. Bring the Noise - Nothing special, won't be added to my playlist. Not bad, but eh. 5/10 3. Don't believe the Hype - Don't really like this one either. Pretty irritating noise heard throughout. Won't be added to my playlist. 5/10 4. Cold Lampin' with flavor 5. Terminator X To the Edge of Panic - What's with this rap group and GOD AWFUL screeching sounds? 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. yea boiiiiiiii, didn't like this album
Dogshit. sry, I did not have a good day lol
Would not recommend. Naaaaah boiiiiiii
YEEEEAAAAHHHH BOOOOIIIIIII BASS BASS BASS BASS
I don't get it. If you are going to pick 2 or 3 African albums for a list like this one, why would you go for the ones with the most Western influence, where the sophisticated intertwining rhythms characteristic of the best African music are blunted in favor of weak funk and jazz tropes and the distinctive sound palette of the various African countries is traded in for standard Western instrumentation, like a sub-Tower of Power horn section, and electric piano? That objection aside, there is nothing particularly wrong with Femi Kuti. It passes by painlessly enough. Femi Kuti is decent if unremarkable singer. The musicians are competent enough. But the music is a micron deep. There are no interesting rhythms to dig into. The horn section writing is unimaginative. Soloing is often a weak point in African music, and so it is here. Since the songs almost entirely of vamps, it's a whole lot of nothing. 2/5
I fuckin' hate it. Garbage.
Solo me molan dos canciones de public enemy y no están es este album :(
Yeeeeeahhh boooiiiii not really into it.
I don’t like rap/hiphop, so I quit after 2 songs.
Bedeutungsloser Schrott.
Not my thing
Not nice
not good
.