The Message (Vinyl 2xLP) Prints

The Message (Vinyl 2xLP) PrintsThe debut studio album of American hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, originally released in October 1982 on Sugar Hill Records and featuring arguably the most influential hip hop single of all time in "The Message", together with "Scorpio" one of the greatest electro recordings ever produced. A gritty, plain spoken and vividly cinematic portrait of black street life in New York circa '82 and a fascinating time capsule of rap's

and the seeds for such future funkadelic epics as 'maggot brain' and 'wars of armageddon' can be traced to the album's longest compositions

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"Cruisin' To The Park

The players include Plunky Nakabinde and Lon Moshe who take your mind out of the cosmos with crazy reed and percussion solos

Overseen by Prince

The album also includes the articulate 'Hyacinth House' and boastful 'Lizard King'

Originally released in 1960

recorded and mixed by Green over the past two years

Amazing stuff from bassist Eldee Young and drummer Isaac "Red" Holt

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" Choices from the earlier session like "My Funny Valentine" -- arguably the definitive version of this oft-recorded song -- and "There Will Never Be Another You" work much

groove-oriented rhythm section