UPC: 887254727026
Format: CD (2 disc)
Release Date: Oct 30, 2012
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Liner Note Author: Bill Adler.
Recording information: The Funhouse (08/05/1983).
Photographers: Michael Ochs; Josh Cheuse.
The Essential Run-D.M.C. is no small consolation for being unable to obtain all of the group's albums. Indeed, something of this scope -- following many single-disc overviews -- has been necessary for a long time, as Run-D.M.C.'s catalog is too deep to be sufficiently summed with one disc. Across two discs, there's every necessary Run-D.M.C. single and album cut, including the classics "Hard Times," "It's Like That," "Rock Box," "King of Rock," "It's Tricky," and "Down with the King." The set pays tribute to DJ Jam Master Jay by closing disc one with "Pause" (featuring the man's first appearance as an MC) and by closing disc two with a seven-minute mix of "Jam Master Jammin'" (which went unreleased until the 2005 reissue of King of Rock). Bill Adler, pioneering hip-hop publicist and author of Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-D.M.C., provides quotable-crammed liner notes. ~ Andy Kellman
Recording information: The Funhouse (08/05/1983).
Photographers: Michael Ochs; Josh Cheuse.
The Essential Run-D.M.C. is no small consolation for being unable to obtain all of the group's albums. Indeed, something of this scope -- following many single-disc overviews -- has been necessary for a long time, as Run-D.M.C.'s catalog is too deep to be sufficiently summed with one disc. Across two discs, there's every necessary Run-D.M.C. single and album cut, including the classics "Hard Times," "It's Like That," "Rock Box," "King of Rock," "It's Tricky," and "Down with the King." The set pays tribute to DJ Jam Master Jay by closing disc one with "Pause" (featuring the man's first appearance as an MC) and by closing disc two with a seven-minute mix of "Jam Master Jammin'" (which went unreleased until the 2005 reissue of King of Rock). Bill Adler, pioneering hip-hop publicist and author of Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-D.M.C., provides quotable-crammed liner notes. ~ Andy Kellman
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Sucker M.C.'s (Krush-Groove 1)
2 - They Call Us Run-D.M.C.
3 - Peter Piper
4 - Rock Box
5 - Beats to the Rhyme
6 - Ooh, Whatcha Gonna Do
7 - Dumb Girl
8 - Mary Mary
9 - School of Old
10 - King of Rock
11 - Together Forever (Krush-Groove 4) [Live at Hollis Park '84]
12 - My Adidas
13 - Hollis Crew (Krush-Groove 2)
14 - Back from Hell
15 - Pause [12" Version]
Disc 2:
1 - Down with the King
2 - Walk This Way
3 - Christmas in Hollis
4 - Hard Times
5 - Here We Go [Live at the Funhouse]
6 - Come on Everybody
7 - Ave.
8 - Run's House
9 - It's Tricky
10 - Tougher Than Leather
11 - You Talk Too Much
12 - You Be Illin'
13 - It's Like That
14 - Jam-Master Jammin' [Remix, Long Version]
1 - Sucker M.C.'s (Krush-Groove 1)
2 - They Call Us Run-D.M.C.
3 - Peter Piper
4 - Rock Box
5 - Beats to the Rhyme
6 - Ooh, Whatcha Gonna Do
7 - Dumb Girl
8 - Mary Mary
9 - School of Old
10 - King of Rock
11 - Together Forever (Krush-Groove 4) [Live at Hollis Park '84]
12 - My Adidas
13 - Hollis Crew (Krush-Groove 2)
14 - Back from Hell
15 - Pause [12" Version]
Disc 2:
1 - Down with the King
2 - Walk This Way
3 - Christmas in Hollis
4 - Hard Times
5 - Here We Go [Live at the Funhouse]
6 - Come on Everybody
7 - Ave.
8 - Run's House
9 - It's Tricky
10 - Tougher Than Leather
11 - You Talk Too Much
12 - You Be Illin'
13 - It's Like That
14 - Jam-Master Jammin' [Remix, Long Version]