#88 Seven Great Moments in Musical History That Helped Spawn a Horrible Genre (part II)

4. Urband Dance Squad - 1989
Hollands finest!
The Urban Dance Squad (from now on UDC) was a Dutch band hailing from the pittoresque city of Utrecht. The UDC was a band that successfully mixed the rock, with the hip hop ever since the late '80's.
Fronted by rapper Rudeboy the band had a pretty good streak especially considering the fact that they... well they were Dutch! I don't think that since the the Golden Earring and besides a lot of Eurohouse (sorry about that) there has been a music group from Holland that gained so much popularity outside of the Netherlands.
It makes me feel somewhat proud.
The singles collection below obviously is a best off. My favorite song: Demagogue


Singles Collection Download.



5. Anthrax and Public Enemy - 1991
Public Enemy and Anthrax seems like an odd combination. That's apparently what Chuck D thought at first as well when Anthrax requested to co-operate on a track. But when Chuckie found out that Scott Ian was wearing PE shirt 24-7 he deiced to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The song basically is Anthrax covering PE's Bring the Noise in their very own thrash metal way. The song has Scott Ian doing some of the rapping on the track and features both Chuck D. doing some of his parts and Flavor Flav throwing in a couple of his trademark "Yeaaaaaahhhh boooooiiii's".

What I've always wondered however is whether Chuck D and the guys knew about Scott Ian's (yes the white dude doing the rapping) side projects. Just one year prior to recording this track Scot worked as a producer, back up vocalist and guitar player for M.O.D.'s debut U.S.A. for M.O.D. An amazingly great thrash record, I'm not to judge, but with slightly "racist" lyrics.
In other words... I think Scott Ian is the first person to be

a. white
b. bald
c. able to use the N-word

while still recording with Public Enemy. Chapeau!





6. Rage Against the machine - RATM 1992
This might mainly be nostalgia, but Rage Against The Machine's self titled 1992 debut is simply great. It has the Led Zep riffage by a guy who can also make his guitar sound like scraching turntables, a pretty good frontman / rapper and an amount of energy that created an earthquake by all the people doing that weird "jump-up and shake your head dance' at Hollands Pinkpop festival in 1993.




7. Judgment Night - 1993
Judgement Night is considered one of the biggest stinkers in cinematic history and even though it had a pretty sweet cast with the likes of Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Junior and Dennis "I'm an Asshole" Leary, it did pretty much stink.
The soundtrack, that initiated collaborations between the 'who's who' in early 90's alternative rock and rap, however is something different. Again this might be nostalgia, but Helmet teaming up with House of Pain and Ice-T teaming up with Slayer should be enough to give any, then 15 year old music minded adolescent, a music boner.

It's not said that that the entire record is great. I mean Boo Ya Tribe (who the fuck are these fat freaks) & Faith No More, if anything is just weird and the Dinosaur Jr and Del The Funky Homo track is the worst of both acts combined.
As a whole this record is amazing and should be downloaded and enjoyed while smoking great amounts of weed and drinking colorful alcoholic beverages.

Download The Judgement Night Soundtrack here.



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