Saturday, January 22, 2005

Public Enemy : B-Side Wins Again (from Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos 12")




Public Enemy : B-Side Wins Again (Def Jam, 1989)

With this blog I intend to share some of my favourite non-album dope hip-hop tracks, obscure or not.

Of course I have to start with Public Enemy. B-Side Wins Again was first release in 1989 as a B side, before they included it to Fear Of A Black Planet. There are only a few differences between the two versions, they added a couple voices and pitched up the song. According to the back of the cover the song was recorded on January 15th, 1987.

The weird thing is that the Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos 12" is a melting pot of tracks from their first, second and third albums. While the single was release after It Takes A Nation Of Million To Hold Us Back, they included Too Much Posse from the first album.

Of course the B side is now widely known, the 12" is valuable for its nice artwork, with press clippings claiming the group belongs to a genre known as "Gangster Rap" !

Enjoy, and expect more (and rarer !) soon...


Public Enemy : B-Side Wins Again (Def Jam, 1989)


Je ne pouvais pas commencer ce blog sans ce morceau de Public Enemy. B-Side Wins Again est d'abord sorti sur la face B de Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos avant d'être inclus sur Fear Of A Black Planet. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de différences entre les deux versions, ils ont juste ajouté quelques cris et acceléré légèrement le morceau pour la version album. Si on en croit la pochette du maxi ce titre aurait été enregistré le 15 janvier 1987.

Ce qui est surprenant sur ce maxi fourre-tout est qu'on y retrouve des titres des trois premiers albums de Public Enemy. Bien que le single soit sorti après It Takes A Nation Of Million To Hold Us Back ils ont remis Too Much Posse, tiré du premier album.

Même si le morceau n'est plus vraiment une rareté, ce maxi est notable pour sa pochette, avec ces vieilles coupures de presse où PE est présenté comme un groupe de "Gangster Rap" !

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you checked out the remix of this track?, its phat and features on the game "Need for speed : Most wanted"

Artist: DJ Spooky and Dave Lombardo
Track: B-Side Wins Again feat. Chuck D
Album: Drums Of Death

Anonymous said...

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