Public Enemy were in town this Labour day weekend to do one of those shows where they play a full album. Tonight it was to be their 1988 album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. At least thats what was advertised. Public Enemy had their own game plan though. The band blazed through a selection of cuts which was heavy on It Takes A Nation but did hit alot of their other albums. They even played a track from their new album Most Of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamp which was released this year. Here is the set list from Sunday's show according to the internet:
1.Louder Than a Bomb (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-1988)
2.Rebel Without a Pause (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-1988)
3.911 Is a Joke (Fear Of A Black Planet-1990)
4.Welcome to the Terrordome (Fear Of A Black Planet-1990)
5.Show 'Em Whatcha Got (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-1988)
6.Bring tha Noize (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-1988)
7.Don't Believe the Hype (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-1988)
8.Cold Lampin' (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-1988)
9.Terminator X to the Edge of Panic (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us
Back-1988)
10.Can't Truss It (Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black-1991)
11.He Got Game (He Got Game-1998)
12.I Shall Not Be Moved (Most Of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamp-2012)
13.Harder Than You Think (How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their
Soul?-2007)
14.Night of the Living Baseheads (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-
1988)
15.DJ Lord scratch (N/A) scratching Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit from
Nevermind
16.Flavor Flav On Drums (N/A)
17.Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man (Fear Of A Black Planet-1990)
18.Too Much Posse (Yo! Bum Rush The Show-1987)
19.Shut Em Down (Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black-1991)
20.Black Is Back (How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???-
2007)
21.Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us
Back-1988)
22.Fight the Power (Fear Of A Black Planet-1990)
The highlight for me was hearing Don't Believe The Hype. This was probably the second hip hop 12 inch record I picked up back in 1988 brand new from Carnival Records in downtown toronto for the bargain price of 5.99 (thats how much new 12 Inch US Imports went for back then). What was weird was having the band cut out lyrics throughout the night referencing Terminator X. Terminator X retired back in the late nineties and they have a new dj called DJ Lord. All and all a blazing show.
Did you know they now do group-ons for concerts? I picked up my ticket for this show through a group-on that got me into the show for 15 dollars. What a deal for 2 hours of music from the pioneers of hip-hop. If someone hadn't retweeted the group-on I would have missed this epic show.
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