Raising Hell

Painful. Every song sounded the same, and the lyrics didn’t do anything for me.

Außer Walk this Way nix drauf

Fair recognition must be given for the first commercially successful rock/hip-hop crossover in "Walk This Way", and one must acknowledge a certain originality in the work. But ultimately it's just people shouting at you over a backbeat.

It's incredible how far hip-hop has come in 40 years... because this album was unbearable. DNF

- sounds like stereotypical rap music - its tricky is instantly recognizable - I get it was iconic and new for its time but this just sounds corny and ironic - interesting they made a whole song about adidas - is walk this way a cover or original? - for me this is just straight up bad… - the beatboxing is trash lollll

Influential, yes. Do I want to listen to it in 2023, no.

While I respect the cultural impact of this album, I thought it was trash. The synth beats they used didn’t age very well in my opinion.

1 song. It’s rock not rap.

Run-D.M.C. dedicate an entire song to their perfectionism and follow it up with the sloppiest beatboxing ever recorded. Listen to the hits and then run. You Run-Da.Most.(you)Can away from this.

It’s so boring my watch stops.

I'm going to do my best impression of a Run-D.M.C song as a review: They choose to YELL, in uni-SON, every TIME, THEY END A SENTANCE, now tell me why (WHY), fans say and think (THINK), THAT THIS IS GOOD MUSIC (MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC) In all seriousness, this is much better than the other Run-D.M.C. album on this list, but it still gives me a freaking headache. I wanted to give a 2 but I literally can't out of respect for my ears.

Run DMC is so bad. How did people actually like this music? The terrible beats (guy just spamming cowbells or whatever that is), the choppy ass flow with EMPHASIS on every few words, and lyrics cornier than an Illinois farm make this so unlistenable. The only silver lining of this album is that it makes you appreciate how hip hop and rap have come so far since the mid 80s. This album should be left in the past and left off this list.

Not a rap fanq

not my jamb

STOP SHOUTING AT ME!

Really lame album. I never got the hype for this album. They are literally rapping nursery rhymes. Very edgy

Welp. Didn't enjoy this as much as Grandmaster Flash a few days ago. 1.5 stars

It's not for me. Sounds like beastie boys

Still not a rap fan. Recognized "Tricky"

Rap, más de lo mismo

Nope.

No thank you..

I occasionally listen to an ‘oldies’ radio station on my short drive to work. I’m not sure when my music or myself became old, but as the great songwriting duo Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen observed in their enchanting tune (famously covered by Frank Sinatra) ‘The September Of My Years’: ‘One day you turn around, and it’s summer. Next day you turn around, and it’s fall. And the springs and the winters of a life time, whatever happened to them all?’ Just for the record, I’m rather enjoying growing old. But back to the matter at hand, this ‘oldies’ station I sometimes enjoy. Now, I’m not talking about 90s grunge oldies (um hum, that’s 30 years ago, friends), or 80s new wave oldies, or 70s classic rock oldies. I’m talking the rock n' roll and R&B of the 60s and 50s. The real shit. And, unfortunately, often recorded/produced like shit. Because that’s the way things were back then. The studio technology was still pretty rudimentary, as well as the songwriting, and performances. A good friend of mine, hundreds of LPs ahead of me on this project, argued the value of Buddy Holly and the Crickets for its historical significance, and I agree. But he also honestly confessed that the record still sounds like shit, and on both sides of the studio glass, performance (including lyrics) and production. One has to remember context, though. For its time, Buddy Holly and the Crickets were revolutionary. And that’s where I’m going with Run-D.M.C. and 'Raising Hell.' I double dog dare you to listen to the likes of Kanye West or Eminem and then to this LP. Run and D.M.C. brag (and this LP is nothing if not bursting with braggadocio) about ‘Perfection’ on the last track of side one. But with elementary rhymes and missed beats (the fellas are too quick on the mic relative to Jam Master Jay’s scratching), this is hardly perfection. They should’ve named the song, ‘Deficient;’ no that’s a little harsh. How about ‘Middling,’ or in street vernacular, ‘middlin’.’ That would even rhyme well: Middlin- I’m just a chillin- I’m a superhero, I’m not a villain. I never claimed I could rap. Nor did you pay to read this review; so, clam up. (How’s that for an old expression?) The best thing on this LP is the production by the two very talented, and now famous (and getting old themselves) gentlemen, Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Rubin’s credits now include a tremendous variety of artists from Johnny Cash to Slayer! His work on Tom Petty’s 'Wildflowers' is exquisite. Listen for yourself. So 'Raising Hell’s' at least has that working for it. The worst thing: a close call between the sad, tired, drugged out Aerosmith collaboration on, ‘Walk This Way,’ (credited as the first rock/hip-hop fusion to significantly chart, but it would take another five years for LA’s Rage Against The Machine to show us what this should truly sound like), or whoever (maybe Jay, maybe Rubin?) is playing the horrendous lead guitar on ‘Raising Hell.’ When the devil and his minions popped up in Queens and heard Run-D.M.C.’s ‘Raising Hell,’ they took their pitchforks and went right back down to their demonic hood to wait for Slayer’s release that same year, 'Reign in Blood.' Slayer literally knows how to raise hell. I’d call the guitar playing on Run-D.M.C.’s song pure garage band, but that would be an insult to a musical genre I happen to love. ‘It’s tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time, it’s tricky,’ affirms Run-D.M.C. No argument here, guys. Your record’s proof enough. 1/5 (and that ain’t no jive, I’ve heard more buzzin from an ill behive)

WoW quelle œuvre qui vieilli mal!! Je suis sûr que le plus grand fan de l’album en 1986 n’est pas capable de l’Ecouter au complet aujourd’hui sans skipper. Même si on essaie de mettre l’œuvre en perspective sur ton époque on serait capable d’écouter l’album sans nausée. Si je suis le premier à chier mauve demain, ça reste de la marde. Je lévite: la toune d’aerosmith, une chance ils sont là Je l’évite; run de cette album la !!!

Meh. Not a fan of all the beats and weird noises. But also not too bad, some catchy/cool songs

Good