King of Rock (Deluxe Expanded Edition) [Extra tracks]

Run D.M.C. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 6, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000ANVP8I
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,493 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Repackaged digipak reissue of 1985 album featuring extensive sleeve notes & rare photos. Nine tracks including 'King Of Rock', 'You Talk Too Much' & 'Can You Rock It Like This'. Arista. 2003. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars King of Rock!!, July 23, 2011

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S. Rivers "jazz lover" (Richmond, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
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I remember this back when I was a teenager. It always brings back great memories for me. They were the New Jacks on the block back then. These young rappers today don't have a clue as to what it took to do what they did back then. Cuts like "You Talk To Much" and "Can You Rock It Like This" are awesome cuts ... the beats are tight. And then there is the classic "King Of Rock" ... what can I say. I still bump it like it's fresh out the box.

5.0 out of 5 stars Rum DMC Won't Stop Rockin', January 24, 2010

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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Here it is! Run DMC's creative manifesto. Sure they're only on their second album but at the same time you can tell in a few seconds there's no chance of sophmore slump here; they use every new recording and new idea to expand on the last and are creating a trail for hip-hop to follow each time. This is the beginning of the Run DMC sound that everyone became aware of with their follow up to this,the blockbuster Raising Hell. The sound has those hard rocking 808 drum machine beats,Jam-Master Jay's hyperspace scratching and plenty of that rocking guitar they were known for but,at the same time wheras their debut was more or less trying to take one kind of sound and turn it into an album lengh concept this one has Run DMC takling different kinds of beats and rhythms and expaning their language. The songs here are funky,rocking and the rhymes are clever and,much as on LL Cool J's Radio from the same here have very recognizable song structures. The title track says it all for them. They're not in the same exact field of the day the way Michael Jackson and even Kool & The Gang had become but they were still part of the game and were ASSUMING their status rather than nipping around for it and they "wouldn't stop rocking 'til they retired". "You Talk To Much" is a really witty song backed up by this kind of new wave-funk jam where they remarking on one of those people who can talk the talk but never walk the walk and end up being one of those people who "never shut up". "Jam-Master Jammin",""You're Blind" and the confident "It's Not Funny" find the crew continuing to tinker with their rock/rap hybrid where as "Can You Rock It Like This" ups the tempo and rocks right out in a funky way...right along with things like Prince's Minneapolis sound. Pointing to the diversity of this album "Roots,Rap, Reggae",maybe with few realizing it baught the Jamaican connection back into hip-hop especially since reggae was a genre without which we could have no hip-hop to due it's talk singing style. So there's a lot of history in that tunes concept. "Darryl And Joe (Krush Groove 3)" brings back the new wave funk groove back to the equasion. The demo "Slow And Low" is just Run DMC's rapping over the 808 beat and you also get a very on the spot sounding version of "King Of Rock" from Live Aid and those are the two best bonus tracks. The first three Run DMC albums have the advantage of EACH being a new addition to the hip-hop genre in and of itself as they were getting their legs and it's also really entertaining all the while.

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely one of the BEST Hip Hop Albums, April 28, 2009

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Reginald Coleman "Afro68" (Cedar Hill, TX) - See all my reviews
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I do not own this particular version of "King of Rock". My first exposure was in '84 when my boy had the cassette. We played the hell out of it. I was still new to rap, being from TX. Fast forward to '86 after "Raising Hell" came out, I had to own all Run-DMC's joints. CD's were just starting to come out, but hadn't really caught on. Well I was stationed in Japan and they were light years ahead of the US as far as music. So I was able to get all 3 joints on CD in 1987. And I still have them today. Can't read the liner notes because they're in Japanese. This album stays true to it's name....every song goes hard. But then they cap it off with "Darryl and Joe"....listen to it on a good system and it'll give you goosebumps