![]() When I published my list of The 100 Greatest Nu-Metal Songs of All Time last year I figured individual songs was the optimal way to celebrate this wonderful and gory genre of music but the more time I spent with nu-metal the more my mind changed. It’s hideous, an affront to God, and you can’t look away. Constraints like ability, talent, genius, precocity- nu-metal just keeps on pushing, ugly founts of blood and guts all over the place, feathers and bone popping and cracking and squawking. But it keeps pushing, as hard as it possibly can, splattering off into gory shapes and colors. Meanwhile, nu-metal music hits its limitations like a pigeon striking a freshly cleaned window, a loud and muffled thunk to greet its failure. Bucket Of B-Sides Vol.Great and acclaimed music soars confidently through history like an arrow loosed by a bow, dipping and dodging gravity's limitations with the unruffled grace of an eagle in flight.Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ Soundtrack (2005).DJ Tony Touch – The Piece Maker 2 (2004).Bad Boy’s 10th Anniversary… The Hits (2004).Tunnel Rats Present… Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset (2003).Straight Outta Compton: N.W.A 10th Anniversary Tribute (1998).Wild Wild West Gang Related Soundtrack (1997).10th Anniversary: Rap-a-Lot Records (1996).The Flavor Unit – Roll Wit Da Flava (1993).The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor (1988).Rhyme Syndicate – Comin’ Through (1988).To top it off we have album one closer “Live from the DJ Stretch Armstrong Show with your host Bobbito ‘The Barber'”, a 12-minute freestyle session featuring Black Thought, Common, Pharoahe Monch, and Absolute. – appearances by aforementioned artists as well as the likes of Talib Kweli, Bahamadia, Rah Digga, Punchline, Wordsworth, Mike Zoot, Company Flow, Juggaknots and many more virtually guarantee top quality. But make no mistake, this whole compilation album is dope a.f. “Criminals In Action (C.I.A.)” by Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha, KRS-One, and The Last Emperor is one of the highlights, as are Mos Def’s & Q-Tip’s “Body Rock” and “Action Guaranteed” by O.C. Raw Hip Hop beats and scratches combined with clever and socially conscious lyrics – there are virtually no weak tracks here, and A LOT of standouts. 1 offers more than two hours of pure Hip Hop gold. A double album – with album #1 ‘hosted’ by De La Soul and album #2 by Kool Keith & Sir Menelik – Lyricist Lounge Vol. Crucially important in establishing the Rawkus movement, this album is a monument in underground Hip Hop. ![]()
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