Welcome To The Terrordome appreciation
DocMcCoy
"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
The recent PE thread and, more specifically, the Monch cover (which I really like, btw) made me go back and revisit this for the first time in a while.Turn it right up.If this record makes me nostalgic for anything, it's for a time when hip-hop records could still genuinely startle you; when your boys would ask, "You heard that new PE yet?", and it'd be heads shaken in disbelief and breakfaces all round. Possibly even more than "Rebel Without A Pause", this is the one. It's nearly twenty years old, and its impact hasn't diminished a jot. Even as a comparatively old man, when I hear this now it still makes me want to smash the room up or something. I'd occasionally hear people describe PE as "black punk rock", and I'm fairly certain I've used similarly facile and reductionist terms to try and pin them down in the past, but really, PE only ever sounded like PE. Was there any real precedent for this in mainstream black music? Disembodied fragments of noise flying all over the stereo picture, Flav's bizarre non-sequiturs, the Bomb Squad straight wildin' on the boards, Chuck's declamatory store-front-preacher-meets-street-corner-teacher rhyming, and the whole damn thing just getting right up in your face like what. No wonder Mike Tyson used to use it as his intro music. File under: one of the greatest records ever made.
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yes!
" got so much trouble on my mind
I refuse to lose
Here's your ticket
Hear the drummer get wicked..."
Yo! Bumrush The Show (1987)
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988)
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Fear Of A Black Planet (1990)
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Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (1991)
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My all time number one get hype i wanna smash some shit up and relive my youth song.
if it was not for this album i would not be posting on this board today, i would not be listening to the music i listen to today.
I cannot overestimate the effect this band has had on my life.
Public Fuckin Enemy.
Welcome To The Terrordome is my shit.
There was a reason that it was Iron Mikes choice.
I think it is. I think Nation of Millions tops Fear of a Black Planet overall (though not by much), but to me, "Terrordome" is PE's pinnacle. There's nothing about that song that isn't fucking facemelting, and I think that damn near every part of it became an instant rewind at some point (I distinctly remember a phase where I could constantly rewind that one bar that comes in during one of the later hooks where it strips down to just one high-pitched guitar note and the kick and snare--just perfect).
PS : I often listen to PE when i got the blues.
You sound European
and the Rebel took it up a notch
Fight the Power was/is an anthum
Terror "to your" Dome was like - holy shit, can dudes outdo Nations.
amazing jam- but for me it's "Rebel without a Pause". Voted most popular song when Iwas in 7th grade.
Dude, where you at?
Also I remember "Hollywood Burn" being a hit when it came out... sayin'
big daddy kanes verse on that song is totally goosebump raising. and when he finishes with that seriously angry 'burn hollywood burn'...oh shit.
ill cosign on 'nation' as best PE album overall (and a top 20 album evar in any genre), but terrordome as THE p.e. track if you can only have one.
20 years later and I STILL know all the words.
i was also never one to put much up on my bedroom walls until the fear LP came out and i pinned that poster up on my wall. the record store around the corner from me gave it to me as a gift. it was also the first record i got shouted out on (well the b/w promo one anyway) and was beyond excited due to that.
in high school my boy dore got a pe baseball jersey made in the phillipines with the logo on it and everything! shit was dope.
Yeah, I remember going down to the store the day this came out on a cassingle and copping it, putting it in my walkman and being blown to bits. I went to a party that night and gloated about having it, and my boys were like "Oh shit, let me hear it. LET ME SEE IT."
Reminds me of when new releases used to be an EVENT, even MORE than an event. Also,
You are correct.
And then just when u thought that was it.....
Shut 'Em Down - Pete Rock Remix
And don't dare tell me to
wattstax.
"...ms. carla thomas" is the next line, if my memory serves...
1) quit the rap game
2) come all the way out the closet
3) both
Yet another case of me listening to something 100 times and not noticing something screamingly obvious
what's up with the version without the backwards high pitched noise layer? it was mostly just the drums knocking really loud and the beat would cut out at the end of a bunch of chuck's lines? i had it on some weird DMC record pool sampler. does anyone know what i'm talking about? i don't remember it being on the 12"
Yeah, I'm pretty that version is the Terrorbeat on the 12" (and maxi-cassingle
Hands down one of the greatest songs of all time.