Track Listing

1. Tie Goes To The Runner
2. Hit Da Road Jack
3. Get Off My Back
4. Gotta Do What I Gotta Do
5. Air Hoodlum
6. Hazy Shade Of Criminal
7. Megablast
8. Louder Than A Bomb
9. You're Gonna Get Yours
10. How To Kill A Radio Consultant
11. Who Stole The Soul?
12. Party For Your Right To Fight
13. Shut Em Down

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46455 in Music
• Released on: 1995-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 56 minutes

CD Description
GREATEST MISSES is more than a re-visitation of Public Enemy's history. Released in 1992, in the wake of the Los Angeles riots, and containing original tracks, remixes, and assorted excerpts of dialogue and music, the album provides another cohesive and powerful soundtrack to America in the 1990s. "Hit the Road Jack" cleverly reworks the Percy Mayfield classic as a hardcore urban anthem. "Gett off My Back" is a bass-heavy anti-cocaine rap that highlights Flavor Flav's personal problems with drugs.
Between the tracks is a series ofsound bites that includes bizarre statements made by various media personalities regarding the intent of PE's music. These misinterpretations are addressed in "Gotta Do What I Gotta Do", where main rapper and lyricist Chuck D explains his motivations. Rounding out the new tracks is "Hazy Shade of Criminal", one of PE's most potent singles. Chuck D's literate rap, accompanied by Flavor Flav's lyrical punctuation, sits atop monster beats. The musically dense track also features Terminator X's signature scratching. Among the remixes, Flavor Flav's "Megablast" gets a heavy, filled-out sound, "Louder than Bomb" is made over with a proto-trip-hop backing track, and "You're Gonna Get Yours" moves Terminator X's scratching forward in the mix.

Customer Reviews

Cold chillin' in effect..
The big thing I love about Hip-hop is the potential for re-mixing. It must be one of the few genres where the new version almost always is better than the original. This is no exception...Megablast and Louder than a bomb all stand up to some further Bomb squad action and make a well set out selection. It even includes Shut 'em down as recorded on a famous late night teen program.

Even avid PE fans shouldn't touch this
Poor. Like a collection of badly recorded discarded demo tapes this album is a travesty from beginning to end. Chuck's pounding fluid lyrics are often inaudible above the general background distortions, even the classic "Shut 'em down" did nothing to alter the fact that this is a great collection of songs very poorly presented, a vain attempt to create an album when there wasn't one. Do yourself a favour, save your money.

An interesting addition to the PE canon
This is certainly an interesting collection of tracks from the masters of Rap and one for fans who perhaps didn't buy every 12" or single back in the day.
Not their finest work but theres plenty here for the completists amongst us who remember the siesmic shift these boys caused when they arrived in the British charts way back in 1987.
A welcome though insubstantial collection.