Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats 1981-96 [Enhanced]

Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 17, 1998
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Tommy Boy
• ASIN: B00000DHUN
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Planet Rock [*] - Afrika Bamabaataa & Soul Sonic Force

2. Everything's Going to Be Alright - Naughty By Nature

3. Doowutchyalike - Digital Underground

4. Plug Tunin' (Are You Ready for This) [12" Version] - De La Soul

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Disc: 2

1. Jump Around - House Of Pain

2. Uptown Anthem - Naughty By Nature

3. Jealousy - Club Nouveau

4. Cheap Thrills [12" Version] - Planet Patrol

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Disc: 3

1. O.P.P.

2. Go Stetsa I [12" Remix]

3. Me, Myself and I [*]

4. Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Boom Shalock Lock Boom) [Butch Vig Remix]

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Disc: 4

1. Gangsta Bitch

2. Hip Hop Hooray [*]

3. Potholes in My Lawn [12" Version]

4. Pack Jam (Look Out for the OVC) [7" Version]

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Disc: 5

1. Jump Around [Jason Nevins 2000 Mix][*]

2. Wrath of My Madness [DJ Premier Remix][*]

3. Talkin' All That Jazz [Dimitri from Paris Remix][*]

4. Me, Myself and I [Badmarsh and Shri Remix][*]

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hip Hop History, November 8, 2001

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats 5: 1981-1996 (Audio CD)

Tommy Boy Records is, along with Def Jam, the seminal hip hop labels. This box set features the label's biggest hits, but presented in a classic mix tape fashion. There is no chronological order to the songs, each of the four disk's songs segue together into one long mix. This makes for some great listening and the beats are still slamming especially on the remix disk that boasts some great work by the all-time best, DJ Premier.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With The Exception Of Def Jam's 10th Anniversary Set..., June 18, 2004

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Ervin Griffin (Bluefield, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats 1981-96 (Audio CD)

This collection from Tommy Boy is by far the greatest collection of hip-hop music out there! It has everything! As I recommended elsewhere, get this along with Def Jam Music Group Inc.: 10th Year Anniversary and The Hip Hop Box sets and you will pretty much have all the old school rap (the essentials at least anyway)! On its own, Tommy Boy Greatest Beats an important piece of hip-hop history!

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5.0 out of 5 stars If U like old school hip-hop..., June 15, 2002

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Victoria Lyles (San Diego, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats 1981-96 (Audio CD)

For anyone who is a hip hop fan, PICK UP THIS COMPILATION!!! I've listened to all five discs and let me tell you, this compilation iss off the hook! The bulk of these songs take me boack to my junior and senior high school days. You may be lucky to find the albums that these songs are on, but just in case you're not, this compilation is the next best thing. Put it this way: I took the CD set to work to play on my CD player, and I had co-workers 1) asking to borrow one of the CDs for the day, and 2)doing some of the break dances from back in the day :). Keep up the good work, Tommy Boy!