Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age [Explicit Lyrics, Import]

Public Enemy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 1994)
• Original Release Date: August 23, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
• Label: Polygram UK
• ASIN: B0000024IB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,955 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #59 in Music > Imports > Rap & Hip-Hop

Track Listings

1. Whole Lotta Love Goin On In The Middle Of Hell

2. Theatrical Parts

3. Give It Up

4. What Side You On?

5. Bedlam 13:13

6. Stop In The Name...

7. What Kind Of Power We Got?

8. So Whatcha Gone Do Now?

9. White Heaven/Black Hell

10. Race Against Time

11. They Used To Call It Dope

12. Aintnuttin Buttersong

13. Live And Undrugged Pt. 1 & 2

14. Thin Line Between Law And Rape

15. I Ain't Mad At All

16. Death Of A Carjacka

17. I Stand Accused

18. Godd Complexx

19. Hitler Day

20. Harry Allen's Interactive Superhighway Phone Call to Chuck D

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PUBLIC ENEMY'S ANGRIEST STATEMENT YET---GET IT NOW!!, May 28, 2001

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Lance Swanson "Lance" (Santa Clara, Ca, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Audio CD)

Of course, this Public Enemy masterpiece was dissed by critics upon its initial release, which is a shame because it is one of the fiercest statements about life in America ever made. Chuck D, Flav and Terminator X are in brilliant form on every track---and the themes are PE's most mature yet. Racism, slavery, economic slavery, inner city crime, the war on drugs, corporate government control, poverty, guns, gangsta rap---you name it, PE attacks everything about our violent country and encourages ALL PEOPLE to get together. "Give it Up" is an incredibly groovy anthem that was a massive hit all over the world but was not played by corporate radio in our country, too controversial and uplifting to the masses, I suppose. "What Side you On?" encourages people to be good, peaceful and loving---instead of hateful, evil and spiteful---all to a massive, pulsing beat. "So What You Gonna Do Now" is one Of Chuck D's funkiest grooves, and the furious rapper attacks the gangsta rappers who glorify violence and guns in their songs. One of PE's best cuts. "Ain'tnuttin Buttersong" comments on the violent nature of the National Anthem with incredible clarity and conviction, and asks the listener if he or she is aware of the meaning of the song, which glorifies the use of guns and bombs going off to win a war. Haven't we suffered enough unnecessary deaths at the hands of worthless politicians who send our poor kids off to be massacred in wars for no reason? Chuck's question is a valid one; the song questions singing a song that celebrates killing, thus condemning war in general. All in all, Public Enemy's MUSE SICK-N-HOUR MESS AGE is as grand as any hip hop album ever made. If you listened to critics who initially brushed PE off as a has been, shame on you. Listen to it and decide for yourself. This album belongs in any music lover's collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly underrated, June 23, 2000

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Michael Russell (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Audio CD)

Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age is an extraordinarily dense and confrontational CD, and the hip-hop press has no excuse for their shameful dismissal of it. They denounced it as tired, messy and behind the times, which must mean that it wasn't dumbed-down to fit the Chronic/Ready to Die sound that had taken over by 1994. Chuck D's hip-hop-Howlin' Wolf delivery is so fierce it still surprises me, especially in "Live and Undrugged," where he reaches a shamanistic fervor that few artists in all of popular music have ever achieved. PE moved away from their usual sample-heavy sound to an equally layered but even more chaotic mix, using far more live instruments and chants. Somehow, Chuck D manages to make himself heard loud and clear above this din. That his poison pen is directed as much at pathology within the African-American community as it is at racism against it may account for much of this CD's continuing unpopularity. "So Whatcha Gone Do Now?" is a lacerating critique of gangsta rap's glamorization of violence and an assertion of dignity that undoubtedly escaped all the music bigshots getting rich selling "Godfather"-style murder fantasies to white suburban kids. "Aintnuttin Buttersong" and "Hitler Day" make most of PE's previous antiracism anthems seem downright congenial by comparison. I was glad to hear that PE had outgrown their old sexist, gay-bashing ways ("beat up on a fagney" and other similarly stupid lyrics), even if their indictment of the World Health Organization for creating and disseminating AIDs is just loopy. Despite occasional flaws such as that, Muse Sick is as vital as It Takes a Nation of Millions or Fear of a Black Planet; to my ears, it's the most powerful mid-90s rap CD. Admittedly, it's very angry and difficult, although it is often spiked with humor; I especially loved "I can't believe it's not butter," a short sampling of that old Steam chant, "Na Na Na Na/Na Na Na Na/Hey Hey Hey/Goodbye," and a hilariously bad Ray Charles imitation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still great, still gives me goosebumps, July 1, 2005

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J. Gunnarsson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Audio CD)

I had this album when it first came out, was a big hip hop fan and this was one of my fave album at the time, along with Ice Cubes Predator. Unfortunatly I lost my copy in around 1996 and shortly after moved on to other music genres (thanks to the Wu Tang crappers), however recently I have been getting back into it, mostly the old stuff I used to listen to and listening to this album again gave me serious goosebumps. It's a great mix hip hop, rock and roll, jazz and soul (what kind of power you got?).