Run-D.M.C. Deluxe Expanded Edition

Have never purchased a used disc - i was quite pelased with the outter cd case itself especially since it is not full plastic but that cardboard (lp like ) wrapped around the disc container. There was only a small wear (super minimal ) where the cover flips open -upon looking at the disc - no scratches at all and the liner notes look Brand new.Ok on to the Music -This just takes me back to day - to some of the most creative of that time - they really set the pace for what was to come from other artist with there mixing , out of sync off beat "beats"what a easier time that was . Peace

Coveted! What else can I say... I’ve wanted to add this Album to my collection since that fateful day in 1984! The limo pulls up to the club and out step The Godfather’s! Rock Box!

The classic first album. This is where it all started, some 15 years before Jason Nevins remixes, and 25 years before every Tom, Dick and Harry wore the t-shirts. Just get it.

I'm white. I grew up in a small town out in the sticks. At one time in that town there was one gas station, one restaurant (actually, it was a Dairy Queen), one grocery store, one hardware, and THREE bait shops. We had an absolutely huge school district with some kids living 20 miles away from each other, yet there was only one black student in my graduating class and even that was unusual.When I was probably a sophomore in high school, I was scanning through the radio stations late at night and ran across a black station broadcasting out of Cleveland. They were playing ten and fifteen minute long stretches of music put together by DJs from any number of rap records, to be played in clubs. This was the first time I'd ever heard rap music (yes, I'd heard "Rapture" by Blondie... doesn't count), and I was blown away by it. I started listening every night, taping the mixes and bringing them to school. I got to know some of the artists by their raps... Dr. Jeckyll and Mister Hyde, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash. You couldn't buy the stuff anywhere near me, at least that I knew of.It really opened up a new world to me... inner city youth culture, breakdancing, "bombing" trains, competing with each other. The Cleveland DJs who made the mixes that I listened to on the radio were also competing with each other, trying to come up with the best stuff and talking trash about each other in the studio. It was unlike anything I had heard before... and arrestingly creative. That's probably what I liked most about it.The first complete rap album I ever got my hands on was Run D.M.C.'s debut, which I was partially familiar with from the club mixes... although the mixes played records over top of one another, shuffled with all kinds of other songs, sometimes repeating just a snippet of what was a great song. A friend had borrowed the cassette, and in turn let me borrow it. It was about this time that rap was really becoming popular, with artists like Whodini and the Fat Boys, but Run D.M.C. seemed a lot more developed. Their trademark trading off of the vocal parts made already strong songs even better.My favorites to this day are "Hard Times" and "Wake Up", but virtually every track is great. "Rock Box" isn't one of my personal picks, but it's noteworthy for its use of hard rock guitar. "It's Like That" has fantastic lyrics ("You should've gone to school, you could've learned a trade, but you laid in bed where the bums have laid, now all the time you're crying that you're underpaid... It's like that and that's the way it is").The thing that strikes me about the music now is that it was clever and funny, and the message was positive. Not because Congress passed a law saying it had to be, not because parents and parental advocates demanded it, but because it was made by sincerely positive people who wanted to make things better. A few years later the genre would get a lot more commercial, complex, and (sadly) profane. The music on this album is minimalist by comparison, but to me it seems far more authentic and purposeful.

It's virtually impossible to talk about hip hop and not refer to Run D.M.C.. For me, as a DJ, they pioneered how important the MC/DJ relationship was. You could essentially compare this in rock'n'roll terms to the lead singer and the lead guitarist (Led Zeppelin or Van Halen could be perfect examples of this). I have no qualms about stating that in my humble opinion Run D.M.C. was the greatest hip hop act of all time. There are obviously others but none stand out to me as much as Run D.M.C.. In this self titled first album you can feel and hear the raw sound of their rhymes, something you rarely get in today's world of hip hop. Here are my thoughts and track ratings on this ground breaking debut album;1. Hard Times 7/102. Rock Box 7/103. Jam-Master Jay 8/104. Hollis Crew (Krush-Groove 2) 8/105. Sucker M.C.'S (Krush-Groove 1) 7/106. It's Like That 10/10 (A true classic, unforgettable)7. Wake Up 7/108. 30 Days 7/109. Jay's Game 8/10While not impervious to the test of time, this album is still ten times better than any modern day hip hop. Sure it sounds dated, raw and even sometimes corny, however keep in mind it was released over 25 years ago. If only today's hip hop acts would take notes from Run D.M.C.. Maybe then we'd have more rap music worth listening to. 4 stars today, 5 stars in 1983.

This could possibly be the best RUN-DMC album ever made. You can hear the hunger and freshness in both emcees voices in every song. I was 14 yrs. old when this record came out and I was hooked immediately. No skips needed for this album. I can still listen to this album today as if it was still 1984.

Life is often time categorized a memoriable event. The emergence of Run-DMC onto the Hip-Hop Scene was such an event. Run and DMC were the Micheal Jordan and Scottie Pipen of that hip-hop era. Their rhymes and lyrical styles perfectly complemented each others vocal skills and on stage personas. The ebb and flow, yin and yang is evident in their music; finishing each others flows, one giving the other room to flow as the other waits to hurl the vocal javilin that will finish the kill.Sucer MC's revolutionized rap. Speeding up the drum machine just a second; did for Hip-Hop what James Brown did for Soul and Miles Davis did for Jazz. That beat, complimented by Run's vocal diatribe, takes any true Hip-Hop fan on a lyrical and musical revolutionary journey.Lastly, we can't forget the DJ. In the beginning, it was about the music. Jay's skills as a turntable master spew forth like a errupting volcano on Jay's Game. On the Raising Hell album, Peter Piper, is a signature Jay cut, with his time, scratching and electic musical combination.

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Spettacolare album di un duo meraviglioso.ogni traccia piena di energia,ritmo. Ogni traccia vien voglia di ballare. Consiglio per qualvosa di diverso dal genere comune.

Classic

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