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1988: Change My Pitch Up
| Artist | Song | |
| Mudhoney | Touch Me I'm Sick | |
| Beat Happening | Bewitched | |
| Didjits | Stingray | |
| Living Colour | Cult of Personality | |
| Was (Not Was) | Dad I'm In Jail | |
| Barry Adamson | Under Wraps | |
| Leonard Cohen | First We Take Manhattan | |
| A Guy Called Gerald | Voodoo Ray | |
| Rob Base and EZ Rock | It Takes Two | |
| Bomb the Bass | Megablast | |
| Hijack | Doomsday of Rap | |
| Cash Money & Marvelous | The Mighty Hard Rocker | |
| Ultramagnetic MCs | Give the Drummer Some | |
| NWA | Straight Outta Compton | |
| EPMD | Strictly Business (12" mix) | |
| BDP | My Philosophy | |
| Eric B. and Rakim | Follow the Leader | |
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I think I'm going to give up on the 'see here's all the groovy stuff that changed the face of music this year' spiel because it speaks for itself: hip-hop was AMAZING this year. And the next, actually; '88-'89 was like rap's '66-'67 or something. Not to detract from the first five tracks on this volume, which is a general cavalcade of boisterous crazy rock action shit. WOOOO!UPDATE, 12-18-02: Advice noted and acted on re the Pogues (see 1985).
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Follow the Leader .. maybe the greatest rhyme ever laid down!!!
has any one prepared the Nate Patrin honarary wing of AOTM yet? these debut mixes are absolutely brilliant.
Your shit is tight, Mr. Patrin. I like your comment about this year being rap's '66-'67...I think most heads consider 87-91 a golden age of sorts. Say, from "Paid in Full" to "Low End Theory"...which was a new beginning of some kind. You are aware that P.E.'s "Nation of Millions..." came out in '88 right? The best rap record of all time?
Oh yeah, 'Nation of Millions' is classic- but "Fight the Power" is my personal favorite PE track and it was released in *and* starts off with 'em yelling "1989!" so it's a given it's gonna be the leadoff track for that comp. And it will join MDC's "John Wayne is a Nazi" in my Duke-Bashing Hits of the '80s comp-within-a-comp.
what, no Jane's? tight series you got goin' though.
good pick on cybotron
I hate to tell you this, but "Clear" came out in 1984
I checked out the discography at http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/links/artists/model_500/discography/ and got kinda confused, I guess. Says here it was previously released as "Enter" (in... 1983?), but they give 1988 as the release date for "Clear". And both songs were put on the same compilation CD, so I don't even know if they're the same thing. Now my head hurts.
Well, that aforementioned discography was WRONG WRONG WRONG. Go figure, huh? Heh. Therefore Cybotron gets kicked to 1983 (which is when it was originally released) and have replaced it with A Guy Called Gerald, which is probably the best dance-music pseudonym imaginable. I have a feeling these mixes will be constantly evolving. Is that kosher?
If the rest of this mix wasn't so great I'd take you to task for using a cover for the Pogues entry when they have so many incredible songs. I suppose Honky Tonk Women flows better on this mix than one of their standards, but Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah would work too. :) The NWA track brings back memories of cruising through Newark blaring that incredible tape. This series of yours just keeps getting better.