Raising Hell (Deluxe Expanded Edition) [Extra tracks]

Run D.M.C. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 6, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000ANVP92
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,154 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Peter Piper

2. It's Tricky

3. My Adidas

4. Walk This Way

5. Is It Live

6. Perfection

7. Hit It Run

8. Raising Hell

9. You Be Illin'

10. Dumb Girl

11. Son of Beyond

12. Proud to Be Black

13. My Adidas [Bonus: A Capella version]

14. Walk This Way [Bonus: Demo version]

15. Lord of Lyrics [Bonus: Demo version]

16. Raising Hell Radio Tour Spot [Bonus]

17. Live at the Apollo Raw Vocal Commercial [Bonus]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Run-DMC's 1986 rap masterpiece, Raising Hell, storms out of the musical gate. One of the albums that defined the transition from the old school to the new school, with its heavy rhyme sequences layered on top of drum-machine beats, and an assortment of pulse-quickening record stabs thrown in for good measure, it's relentless. The late-'80s lyricism of MCs Run and DMC is not as complex as that of today's microphone mathematicians, but that was never the point--what they lack in finesse, they more than make up in intensity, authority, and flat-out lung power. The fact that almost every line of "Peter Piper" has become the hook of another hip-hop song is a testament to the power of these originals (the "not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good" line alone has been used in countless turntablist routines). The roots of rap/metal fusion are in here, too, with songs like "It's Tricky," "Walk this Way," and the title cut making use of distorted rock guitars and pounding drums, while "Proud to Be Black" helped launch the Afrocentric-conscious rap era of the late '80s. And "My Adidas" prefigured the brand-name fetishism that hip-hop is just beginning to get over. When it comes to beats, bumps, and b-boy bravado, there has never been anyone else like Run-DMC, and this album shows why. --Joe Schloss

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A cornerstone of Hip-Hop June 11, 2000

By Jeffrey Harris

Format:Audio CD

When "Raising Hell" was released in 1986, it literally took rap music from being an underground phenomenon to setting it on the course for mainstream success and acceptance. The first rap album to go multi-platinum, top ten on the pop chart, and helped pave the way for the Beastie Boys huge success with "Licensed To Ill" which was released just three months after this album(and Run and D co-wrote "Paul Revere" and "Slow and Low"). Most importantly, there are the songs. "Peter Piper", "My Addias", "You Be Illin'",and "Walk This Way" which was responsible for helping revive Aerosmith's flagging career. This reissue also sounds much better than the original CD pressing. You can't call yourself a real hip-hop fan if you don't own this album. One of the very best of the genre.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This is it April 15, 2002

By "gersh2k"

Format:Audio CD

Before the days of the internet, I had to fly down to New York to pick up the latest 12" singles. When the Peter Piper/My Adidas single was released, it was blowing up parties everywhere, and I can remember the anticipation waiting for the new album. By chance I was in NYC the day that Raising Hell was released, and I remember seeing it/hearing it in a record store in Manhattan, and I just flipped. Everything about it was awesome. Finally a rap group that was doing it big!!! Raising Hell was so different, so tight, and it had such a live feel to it!!!

It was comparable to when the first Run DMC album came out, and me and the crew were like "What the heck is that?" If the first album said "New school is here," this album said "we're staying!!!"

Definitely an album that no hip hopper should be without. I'm finally buying the CD because all my vinyl copies have finally worn out, and this copy is for the archives.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Rap Album of All Time February 25, 2000

By A Customer

Format:Audio CD

I had this tape 15 years ago, loved it, lost it. I finally bought the CD again recently, and it's about my favorite album again. It makes me stomp, shout, and laugh. These guys are the masters of NY rap, also great comedians and just righteous in all respects. A MUST.