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| 4th set. Bring The Noize w/Anthrax, Shut Em Down, Can't Truss It, Nighttrain, By The Time I Get To Arizona, more. |
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| 1 Lost at Birth |
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| 2 Rebirth |
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| 3 Nighttrain |
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| 4 Can't Truss It |
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| 5 I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga |
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| 6 How to Kill a Radio Consultant |
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| 7 By the Time I Get to Arizona |
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| 8 Move! |
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| 9 1 Million Bottlebags |
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| 10 More News at 11 |
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| 11 Shut 'Em Down |
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| 12 A Letter to the New York Post |
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| 13 Get the F*** Outta Dodge |
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| 14 Bring tha Noise [Version] |
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Album Review
Coming down after the twin high-water marks of "It Takes a Nation of Millions" and "Fear of a Black Planet", Public Enemy shifted strategy a bit for their fourth album, "Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black". By and large, they abandon the rich, dense musicality of "Planet", shifting toward a sleek, relentless, aggressive attack -- "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" by way of the lessons learned from "Millions". This is surely a partial reaction to their status as the Great Black Hope of rock & roll; they had been embraced by a white audience almost in greater numbers than black, leading toward rap-rock crossovers epitomized by this album's leaden, pointless remake of "Bring The Noise" as a duet with thrash metallurgists Anthrax. It also signals the biggest change here -- the transition of the Bomb Squad to executive-producer status, leaving a great majority of the production to their disciples, the Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk. This isn't a great change, since the Public Enemy sound has firmly been established, giving the new producers a template to work with, but it is a notable change, one that results in a record with a similar sound but a different feel: a harder, angrier, determined sound, one that takes its cues from the furious anger surging through Chuck D's sociopolitical screeds. And this is surely PE's most political effort, surpassing "Millions" through the use of focused, targeted anger, a tactic evident on "Planet". Yet it was buried there, due to the seductiveness of the music. Here, everything is on the surface, with the bluntness of the music hammering home the message. Arriving after two records where the words and music were equally labyrinthine, folding back on each other in dizzying, intoxicating ways, it is a bit of a letdown to have "Apocalypse" be so direct, but there is no denying that the end result is still thrilling and satisfying, and remains one of the great records of the golden age of hip-hop. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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