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Back To The Old School - Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel |  | Artist: Grandmaster Flash
Label: Sequel
Category: Music
Buy New: £18.79
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Seller: Sooshy Sounds
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 125773
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.7 x 0.9
EAN: 5023224330529
ASIN: B0000255Z1
Release Date: March 29, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Freedom | | • | Birthday Party | | • | Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel | | • | Showdown | | • | It's Nasty (Genius Of Love) | | • | Flash To The Beat | | • | Message | | • | Scorpio | | • | Message (2) | | • | New York New York | | • | Rhymes And Dope | | • | White Lines (Don't Do It) | | • | Jesse | | • | Beat Street | | • | We Don't Work For Free | | • | Step Off | | • | Pump Me Up | | • | Mega Melle Mix | | • | King Of The Streets | | • | Vice | | • | Street Walker | | • | Supper Rappin' No 1 | | • | Trinidad Spot | | • | She's Fresh | | • | It's A Shame | | • | Internationally Known | | • | Hustlers Convention | | • | Truth | | • | World War 3 | | • | New Adventures Of Grandmaster | | • | Freestyle | | • | Black Man | | • | Drug Wars | | • | Kick The Knowledge | | • | Gangster Movies | | • | Ghetto Life | | • | DC Cab |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Kool Herc was the first hip-hop DJ, and Afrika Bambaataa had a better record collection but Grandmaster Flash was the first turntablist--the first DJ to play the wheels of steel like an instrument. Working with the first MC supergroup--the Furious Five, the Wu-Tang Clan of their day--Flash charted the course of hip-hop for years to come. This collection charts Flash's many highs, from "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" to "Scorpio", "White Lines" to "The Message"; but at 37 tracks, there's plenty of room for Flash's lesser-known works, only some of which are of more than archival interest. Though Flash's hits can be found on any number of packages, iBack to the Old School/i puts them in a context that makes them all the more impressive. i--Randy Silver/i
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| Customer Reviews:
 Adventures on the Wheels of Steel August 17, 2002
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
For anyone wanting to get Grandmaster Flash and the FF's tracks, this collection is the one to buy. First of all, because it doesn't miss any of the essential ones out; secondly (very important) because each track here is FULL LENGTH, not an edit; and thirdly because you get a number of interesting tracks as well as the great ones; and fourthly because it's cheap. (One-CD compilations often have edited versions, though these are sometimes interesting -- e.g. the version of "White Lines" on "The Greatest Rap Album of All Time" which has a long build up and then cuts to the late verse "Athletes reject it ...".)pThis would be worth buying for "White Lines (Don't Do It)" alone. There's also the famous "The Message". And of course the first DJ edit track, "Adventures ..." The first Furious Five release "Super Rappin' No. 1" is excellent also: one of the old-skool 12-minute monsters -- the beat and disco-bassline going on and on till the break of dawn. (The rapping on this is almost more impressive than on any other track.) The other two early releases are as good -- "Freedom" and "The Birthday Party". As is "New York New York".pSo that's 7 great tracks, including two or three that announced something that had never been heard on record before. The rest of the set never scales the heights of "Super Rappin", "The Message", "Adventures..." or "White Lines", but then, what does? There are lots of other good pieces, with plenty of get-down moments -- the battle with the Sugarhill Gang "Showdown", the synth hook of "It's Nasty", the Furious-Five-only pieces "Jesse", "Beat Street", "Step Off", "King of the Streets", the electro-vocal of #8220;Scorpio#8221;, and the ending of "Mega-Mel Mix".pThen there's the wack stuff, including Flash on a manually-operated drum machine in "Flash to the Beat" (it'd be good to sample, though), the limp Melle Mel collaboration "Vice", the "New Adventures...", which isn't by Flash but does include a squelch used as a drum (so the Prodigy weren't so original in using breaking glass as a beat!)pBut those #8220;historical#8221; tracks are forgotten when you listen to the real block-rocking tracks. Short of hearing the tapes of the block parties this is as close as we can get. (There are teeny snippets from block parties on Grandmaster Flash#8217;s 2002 album #8220;The Official Adventures ...#8221;) Hearing some of the early tracks you get the sense of hip hop being born -- Flash choosing the right beats, and perfecting/inventing the methods to mix them, and the Furious Five perfecting the rhymes and tag-team style of rapping that would overlay them. If you#8217;ve liked any old skool track you#8217;ve heard, buy this.
Flash and his furious5 take you back to the old skool. March 10, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Back in the day, 1981, hip hop burst onto the scene and provided a whole new window for young black people to express themselves and get up out of the ghetto. Flash is argubly the man who started Hip-Hop when at the age of 12 he soldered his first set of decks together and started to mix and scratch records. Take this and add five young enthusiastic black guys and you have a lethal combination bound to create something fresh and special. The album is a tribute to everything black in the 80s and the songs prove this with a concoction of party, hard-hitting, and tell-it-like-it-is tracks. You can't but enjoy the way Flash drops 1 vicious tune after another whilst the boys rap about everything from what its really like in the ghetto to how pretty they are. Everything thats Hip-Hop has spawned from these very tracks, so get up and pay attention - its history your listening to.
Some good classics but some not so good tracks as well December 20, 1999
matt@no66.freeserve.co.uk
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Although having some of the classic Grandmaster Flash songs it does have some of the less enjoyable songs. The first CD really takes your breath away as you sit back and listen to Adventures on the Wheels of Steel. However, as you scroll through the other tracks you can't help feeling that some have only been put there for padding. Still a good CD set for fans of Old School Hip-hop.
 NOT WHAT IT SEEMS September 4, 2006
J. Stewart
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
br /I started DJ'ing with with Sugar Hill imports as a staple in my record bag from 1980 onwards.
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br /The trouble with these retrospective GMF and the FF compilations is that in reality the important DJ influence of Grandmaster Flash only actually appears on a few of the early tracks included here. Too many of these ex-Sugar Hill Records compilations lead one to believe that he was involved in such big hits as "The Message" and "White Lines" - which he was not.
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br /I think that the only track that really makes a mark is the seminal "Adventures......" - can you believe that was 1980 and basically mixing in real-time. Thankfully, since those genre busting days, Flash has cut his own niche and you can find them offered on Amazon.
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br /New listeners note - if you want a flavour of Flash's unique and very slick DJ'ing skills, go for the albums that are specifically him (sans the Furious Five). However, if you want a lot of quite throwaway raps, often over others' more interesting original breaks e.g.
br /"White Lines" is based on "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid.
br /"It's Nasty" on Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love"
br /then buy this.
br /If you do buy it, I recommend looking at the credits in the brackets on the tracks you like, as in some cases you may get to find out who the original is by and get their better albums too- that's right - like buying those "Sampled" compilations that dig out the original tracks and save visits to second hand stores or recorder finder sites.
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br /By the way, "Piano" is missing of this CD - a cheeky little use of looped Isaac Hayes, which to be frank is the only good thing about the track. Buy the album "To Be Continued" on VINYL and play it at 45rpm instead of 33 - old school style!
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br /So all in all, there is not much of an Adventure on the Wheels of Steel on this CD, more of a day-trip into DJ skills before launching into bad hairstyles and shouty raps whilst kicking the Technics 1200'S off the stage.
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br /Cowboy is missed, though.
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