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Kurtis Blow: The Best of Kurtis Blow

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Artist: Kurtis Blow
Title: The Best of Kurtis Blow
Released: 1994
Label: Mercury Records
Time: 77:15
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Funky / Rap
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2000.12.20
Price in €: 6,10
Web address: www.johnabercrombie.com
Songs

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[1] Breaks (Blow/Ford/Moore/Simmons/Smith) - 7:48
[2] Christmas Rappin' (Blow/Blow/Ford/Miller/Moore/Smith) - 3:56
[3] Hard Times (Bralower/Moore/Simmons/Smith/Waring) - 4:39
[4] Starlife (Bralower/Moore/Swenson/Waring) - 5:24
[5] Tough (Ford/Moore/Simmons/Smith) - 6:50
[6] Daydreamin' (Blow/Jones/Moore/Smith) - 4:25
[7] Party Time (Blow/Bralower/Ford/Moore) - 6:46
[8] One-Two-Five (Main Street, Harlem, USA) (Blow/Bralower/Ford/Moore) - 5:12
[9] 8 Million Stories (Blow/Breck/Harris/Waring) - 7:46
[10] Aj Scratch (Blow) - 5:51
[11] Basketball (Blow/Bralower/Ford/Full Force/Moore/Waring) - 6:25
[12] America (Blow) - 4:38
[13] If I Ruled the World (Blow/Reeves/Scratch) - 3:55
[14] I'm Chillin' (Blow/Reed) - 3:40

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Kurtis Blow - Vocals, Producer

Sanford Ponder - Synthesizer
John Tropea - Guitar
Onaje Allan Gumbs - Piano
Dean Bailen - Guitar
Don Blackman - Piano
Jeff Bova - Special Effects
Brian Brake - Cymbals
Jimmy Bralower - Drums
Timothius Davis - Percussion
Trevor Gale - Drums
Seth Glassman - Bass
Dan Harris - Synthesizer, Guitar
Sam Jacobs - Percussion
Robbie Kondor - Synthesizer, Special Effects
Eddie Martinez - Guitar
Denzil Miller - Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards
David Reeves - Drums, Programming
Mark Rivera - Saxophone
Alonzo Robinson - Drums
Rick Ulfick - Piano
Tom T-Bone Walk - Bass
Anthony Brown - Conga
J.B. Moore - Guitar, Producer
Adam White - Narrator
Larry Smith - Bass, Background Vocals
Curtis Bedeau - Guitar, Background Vocals
Dennis "Fatz" Sterling - Bells, Roto Toms
Jaime Delgado - Guitar, Bongos, Conga, Timbales
Dean Swenson - Guitar
Gerard Charles - Synthesizer, Background Vocals

Alyson Williams - Background Vocals
Audrey Wheeler - Background Vocals
Dave Harris - Vocals (bckgr)
Robert Ford, Jr. - Background Vocals, Producer
Wayne Garfield - Background Vocals
Larry Green - Background Vocals
Cynthia Mizelle - Background Vocals
Denise Morgan - Background Vocals
Fonda Rae - Background Vocals
Lisa Fisher - Background Vocals
B-Fine - Background Vocals
Lucien George - Background Vocals
William Waring - Background Vocals

Bill Levenson - Producer
Robert Reed - Producer
Harry Weinger - Producer
Nelson George - Liner Notes

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1994 CD Mercury 522456
1994 CS Mercury 522456
1995 CD Mercury 5224562



While he made many groundbreaking singles, Kurtis Blow was never a consistent album artist, making this best-of collection his definitive artistic statement. Throughout the early '80s, Blow helped define what rap could do, and these tracks confirm his status as one of hip-hop's legendary acts.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide


Never Again...

It's a shame that I got this CD all scratched up. I had discarded it because someone in school (when I was in the 9th grade) made fun of me for having this CD because it was old school music. They were like "you listen to this stuff." Now, I am much older and wiser and I would've easily told them to go the hell. Let this be a word to everyone, listen to what you want to listen to, don't let other people dictate to you what's good, only you know. Anyways, on to the CD, it's full of all of my favorites such as the dance floor rocker "If I Rule The World," the sweet sounds of "Daydreamin'," "America," the socially poignant "I'm Chillin," (which I affectionately call "Transformers (More Than Meets The Eye)"), everybody's favorite "The Breaks" and the go-go-ness of "Starlife." This CD is worth the money and will conjure up images of good times and parties. Recommended.

Mecca Egypt from Gardena, California, January 30, 2000



Der Erfolg der weltweit ersten Rap-LP beruht hauptsächlich auf dem Megasong "The Breaks" (der auf dieser CD-Neuausgabe zusammen mit dem Partysong "Christmas Rappin'" erscheint). Obwohl Kurtis Blows Party-Raps es nicht gerade leicht haben über ein ganzes Album hin zu überzeugen, ist seine Gute-Laune-Musik doch ansteckend. Mit "Hard Times" lieferte Blow eine äußerst wichtige Vorlage für die erste New School of Hip-Hop, die einige Jahre später von Run-D.M.C. neu aufgenommen wurde.

Rickey Wright, Amazon.de
 

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