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I've had the 12" single of Rappin Rodney since it first came out in the early 80s, and have been waiting 25 years for it to get mastered onto CD, so I was thrilled when I saw it was included on "Greatest Bits." Well, I don't know if a bad master tape was used--or a bad cassette! Yes, that's how bad the mastering sounds. The ENTIRE songs sounds like it's being played through a tunnel with a flange effect, there's bad tape hiss, and the end of the song completely truncates instead of fading smoothly. It ain't rodney who 'can't get a break' when it comes to this song on CD. It's the fans...

contains
What's In A Name (3:07 - from album Loser a.k.a. What's In A Name)
Am I Too Fast For This Table (13:30 - from album No Respect)
I Tell With Bars I'm Never Lucky (11:58 - from album Rappin Rodney)
No Respect At All (11:24 - from album I Don't Get No Respect)
Funiculi Funicula (2:31 - from soundtrack Easy Money)
Rappin Rodney (5:09 - from album Rappin Rodney)

Features extended portions of his 3 biggest albums, plus 3 more cuts.
Also, see his 20th Century Masters CD, which is made up almost entirely of different material than this CD, mostly from his early album Loser, along with a different segment of his 1980 album No Respect.