1. No Competition (1988)
2. The R (1988)
3. Musical Massacre (1988)
4. To The Listeners (1988)
5. Just A Beat (1988)
6. Follow The Leader (1988)
7. Microphone Fiend (1988)
8. Lyrics Of Fury (1988)
Back in the 90s when I got a CD player with a programming function, one of the first albums I re-sequenced to my satisfaction was Eric B. & Rakim's Follow The Leader. Haven't you ever heard of an unofficial tracklist murderer? This was a death penalty that I'm servin' up. Follow The Leader has the greatest opening 3 song run in the history of Rap music which means that the album's other highlights tend to be get forgotten. So, what I did was whittle the album down to 8 songs, reorder the tracklist so it starts with the 4 killer songs from the latter half of the album and ends with the aforementioned greatest opening 3 song run in the history of Rap music. Betwixt both sets of songs is the instrumental Just A Beat which functions as a breather/bridge between Rakim raining down his magic. And there we have it, Follow The Leader reduced and rearranged into a sequence which makes far more sense to me as an album. This version of the album is official Martorialist canon because I put it on one side of a 90 minute cassette tape which lived rent free in my Walkman for most of the 90s.
If I were feelin' adventurous, I might end the album with Eric B. Never Scared. By adventurous I obviously mean masochistic.
6 comments:
Nice idea. Absolutely elite level rapping on the title track that never appears on those "top 20 GOAT verses" lists complied by Internet dickeads because its from the 80s.
The 80s don't exist to such internet dickheads. Fuck them.
A mate of mine would leave out rap interludes and skits, which ruined a bunch of great songs that were mixed in with them.
The bootleg tape I had of Efil4zaggin was missing the last couple of songs. Didn’t hear the complete album until years later.
The good old days of bootlegs.
In all the years I've owned a CD player (1992-present), I never once programmed in different track sequences. I'd just hit the skip button on duffer tracks when copying albums to cassette for my walkman.
Has Robbie Ettelson given up his Unkut blog? Or has he just forgotten to renew the domain name?
To programme or not to programme. That is the question.
Robbie posts on Substack sometimes. He's probably just forgotten to renew the Unkut domain.
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