Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em

Hammer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 2, 1990)
• Original Release Date: February 20, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002UVD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,524 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #73 in Music > R&B > New Jack

Editorial Reviews

13 Tracks - 1. Here Comes The Hammer 4:32 2. U Can't Touch This 4:17 3. Have You Seen Her 4:44 4. Yo!! Sweetness 4:37 5. Help The Children 5:19 6. On Your Face 4:32 7. Dancin' Machine 2:56 8. Pray 5:13 9. Crime S

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Album that launched Hammer to mega-stardom, February 3, 2003

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Patrick L. Randall (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em (Audio CD)

MC Hammer (and later, just Hammer) was one of those musical performers who can be likened to a shooting star. He burned brightly for a brief moment and then flamed out. Unlike other performers who had this fate befall them, Hammer's disappearance was not because of drug problems or any violent criminal issues. He simply stopped making good music. Yet, for the brief period he was on top, he was among the brightest of the stars in the musical sky.

"Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" was his second album, but the first to truly make an impact on the music charts. "Can't Touch This", a rap-dance track that borrowed liberally from funkmeister Rick James' hit "Super Freak", ignited the frenzy of fans clamoring to hear his music on the radio and in clubs. He continued to churn out hits with his remake of the Chi-Lites "Have You Seen Her" and with his 'signature' tune "Here Comes the Hammer" (The 'signature' tune being a device employed by many rappers in the late 80's and early 90's to announce their arrival on the hip-hop scene with in the form of a music track on their debut album. See Snoop Dogg's "Who Am I? (What's My Name?)" for a good example).

The best track off "Please Hammer..." is "Pray". It's an inspiring track based in Hammer's gospel tendencies and borrowing its beat from Prince's "When Dove Cry". It's a fun track to listen to and the accompanying video is Hammer at his best. It was the second major hit off this album and helped push Hammer into the stratosphere of musical stardom. His stay there may have been brief, but oh what a ride it was!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YO!! SWEETNESS, July 27, 2003

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Jason Peterson (London, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em (Audio CD)

This Album is one of my favourites! Pure energy, dance, movin',
groovin',"Dancin, Dancin, HAMMER!!" I love it, and it's righteous too!! Some of the best artists like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and also MC HAMMER come straight out of the church, not staight outta Compton, and that's a good thing!
MC Hammer puts his gospel roots to good use in this doo-wop-um-bop classic. He speaks from the heart and does in his own righteous way. He spins, moves, shouts, raps and tears the house down! This album is one of the only albums that really gets me pumped and energized!! I cant really put a finger on what the music does, but it just gives me new energy.
Every song is great on this album.Here are my favourites,
U Cant touch this - Never overplayed, this song is tight!
Yo!! Sweetness - This song makes me want to shout HOOOOO!!!!!
On Your Face - This one is a gem. "Aint it funny that the way you feel shows on your face, and no matter how ya try to hide it, it'll state your case" That is so true.
DANCIN' MACINE - Forget about the Jacksons, this is the real thing!! I cant help listening to this song without groovin' on the spot! HAMMER!!!!!!!!!! Ughh!! love it!
Pray - This one is timeless! "Thats what we pray"
Crime Story - "Homeboy, You get no Glory!! And I aint givin em no proppers!!" Maybe all those studio gangsters should take a hint from the Hammer.......really!
She's Soft and Wet - Honest and straight to the point! We guys know what we want and Hammer is just bein real about it!
No song in history is as righteous and honest about this subject.
Most artists are just crude and vulgar when singin about it.
Work This - It took me a while to get into this one, but I really dig the energy in it!
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No wonder this Album is the biggest #1 Album of the 1990's
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em spent 21 weeks at #1. Most weeks since Princes' Purple Rain (24 weeks at #1)and as of 2003 no album has spent that long of a period at #1.Check the Billboard
books if you don't believe me.
This album is a Masterpiece that will live on for years to come.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Memories from a flash in the pan, July 23, 2006

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Ian T. Brown (Gladstone, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em (Audio CD)

So after I lost all of my CDs in a burglary, one of my friends helpfully thought to get my new music collection started with...MC Hammer! Popping it into the CD player reminded me why MC Hammer was super-cool for about a year and a half.

It's an uneven album. There are some great, if dated, songs on this album. "U Can't Touch This" really was good, and "Pray" has worn surprisingly well. On the other hand, some of the other songs, like "Crime Story" and "Have You Seen Her" are just plodding. And the album ends really weakly, with hardly any rapping on "Let's Go Deeper" and "Work This."

If you buy CDs for just one or two songs, there's some nostalgia value here, and you'll have the only car on the block with MC Hammer blasting out your windows. On the other hand, it's really not an album to listen to in its entirety, even if you're on a nostalgia trip.