Greatest Hits

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Are Run-DMC the most important group of the past 25 years? Well, if you believe that hip-hop is the most significant musical development in a quarter century, what other conclusion can you draw? Though they may not have been responsible for the birth of rap, the trio from Hollis in Queens represents the genre's coming of age. They were the ones who brought what was largely a regional street phenomenon to the masses. The rhymes, the beats, the style, the attitude--Run-DMC introduced it all to the world.

Focusing mostly on the group's first three albums--each of them a cornerstone of rap music--this 18-track collection is a reminder of a time when rap enjoyed a kind of childlike innocence: their boasts are forceful but not angry; the beats are simple but exciting; the overall effect (fuelled by heavy-metal riffs) is edgy and aggressive, but not violent or destructive. But most of all, it's fun. In the 1990s, rap artists would take Run-DMC's ideas to wide extremes, but the roots of this next generation--gangsta rap's street realism, political rap's social agendas, rock-rap's antagonism--are found right here. Run-DMC--like almost all pioneers from Elvis to Louis Armstrong--suffered a period of irrelevancy when they were looked upon as quaint or outdated, but their time will come. Rest assured, this is not 80s retro kitsch. --Marc Greilsamer

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2004-08-16 rating:
Run dmc greatest hits
This rap trio should have no need to bring out a greatest hits.!
this is something artists do to get extra cash or coz they aint got no more material...any run dmc fan has already got all these tracks on their other albums...RUN DMC are amazing for what they did to rap/hip hop and will always be remembered by those of us that appreciated them....R.I.P....JAM MASTER JAY... u always was my fav homes..sorry your gone bruv

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review by: jweatherall41 date: 2003-06-22 rating:
dont bother with this just buy raising hell
I'm a massive run dmc fan, and this for me was a big let down.

Yeah its got all the best on, but also some crap, the remix for its tricky, whats that about? Also the first song its like that the remix, wheres the original?, even Run admitted he didn't like that.

You are better just buying raising hell.

In less your just buying because its more convientant, than buying it for the music.

R.I.P. Jam Master Jay

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review by: krystal2583 date: 2003-04-25 rating:
Run DMC :o)
When Jam Master Jay was shot down last year, rap music suffered its most significant loss, more significant even than Tupac and Biggie - because Jam Master Jay was part of the greatest rap group of all time.

In the early eighties, when hip hop was peopled by flashy funksters in high suede boots and gloves glittering all the way to the elbow, rapping to the beats of live bands, Run DMC preferred to play it raw. Just Jam Master Jay with his turntable, some hardcore rhyming from rappers Run and DMC, the three of them simply all in black, leather jackets, sneakers, and fedoras. They weren't trying to look like George Clinton or Bootsy Collins. They rapped about reality, about the streets, and looked the same as the stories they told.

And it worked. Run DMC made every commercial breakthrough for rap music: they were the first to get a gold and platinum album, the first to be nominated for a Grammy, and the first to be featured on MTV. They also created the genre's most sustainable subgenre, rock rap, paving the way for such rockers as Limp Bizkit, the Beastie Boys and Linkin Park. No wonder they've warranted not one but two greatest hits collections.

In nineteen tracks this focuses on the pivotal material between 1983 and 1988, scorchers such as 'Walk This Way' (that resurrected the careers of ageing rockers Aerosmith in 1986), 'My Adidas', 'King of Rock', 'Sucker MC's', 'Peter Piper' and 'Rock Box'. And, unlike the consummate Run DMC collection, 'Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1991', this brings us up to date with some newer, though less weighty material, such as 'Down With The King' and the Jason Nevins remix of 'It's Like That' (a 1998 UK number one). Perhaps in another effort to boost their profile, following their ill-fated comeback a couple of years back, we're also given the sadly dispensable dance remix by Jacknife Lee 'It's Tricky 2003', which, frankly, is nothing more than a mustard burp to the original.

But this is most surely a must-have for the serious hip hop fan, a top-notch selection of tunes, a legend of a band, and also, something of a goodbye. With Jam Master Jay behind us, and the failed comeback, and Run and DMC's tendency now to appear only in other people's videos, this does seem to mark the end of a career for the guys that made rap change the world. And oh, but what a career that was.

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review by: Moonewalker date: 2003-04-21 rating:
THIS CD RULES!
Every tune on here is good, with great beats and rhymes on here, my favorite is definitely It's Tricky or It's like that feat. Jason Nevins. The new It's tricky isnt as good as the old one but still is good, so what are u waitin' 4 BUY IT NOW!


review by: date: 2003-04-20 rating:
R.I.P to Jam Master Jay !
Run DMC and Ex - Jam Master Jay....Run ? This Comes Shortly after the Excecution of Jam Master Jay which Is Hence DMC Greatest Hits ! Is this the End Of The Hip Hop Rockers who Managed to Haul Hip Hop from the Streets of Brooklyn to Mainstream with their Back then Controversial Collaberation with A White Rock Group ? But Boy Did they Pull it off ! Collaberations with Jason Nevins Brought us The Break Dancin " It's Like That ", These are the Two Anthems that Have given Run DMC such Worldwide success. This Is Run DMC ! If you have all their First 3 Albums Then Leave this Here, but If u Don't then this'll Give you A Taste of Run DMC at it's Best "

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