| TOMMY BOY STORY VOL.1, THE |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 550021
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227001810
EAN: 0081227001810
ASIN: B000EPFCWM
Release Date: April 25, 2006
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Disc 1
| • | Planet Rock - Baker, Arthur | | • | Play at Your Own Risk - Baker, Arthur | | • | Looking for the Perfect Beat - Baker, Arthur | | • | Cheap Thrills - Baker, Arthur | | • | Why You Treat Me So Bad - King, Jay | | • | Play That Beat Mr. D.J. - Miller, John | | • | I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock & Roll) " - Glitter, Gary | | • | Renegades of Funk - Baker, Arthur | | • | Pack Jam - Jonzun, Michael | | • | Tommy Boy Megamix - Baker, Arthur | | • | Pacific 0101 - Massey, Graham |
Disc 2
| • | Jazzy Sensation - Nix, Kenton | | • | Salsa Smurph - DeJesus, Carlos | | • | Let Me Love You - Lundy, Stevie | | • | Rock the House (You'll Never Be) - Joseph, Larry | | • | Lisa's Coming - Moran, Tony | | • | Running - Konar, Murat | | • | People Hold On - Black, Matt | | • | How Do I Love Thee - Owens, Dana | | • | Louder Than Love - Gardner, Joey | | • | What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Robb, Paul | | • | Come Baby Come - K Seven |
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Starting in 1982 with the release of Afrika Bambaataa's groundbreaking Planet Rock, Tommy Boy Records grew from one of many small, independent record labels to become one of the most influential urban music imprints of the 1980s. The Tommy Boy Story Vol. 1 keeps its focus tight, only looking at key releases from Tommy Boy's 1982-1988 era. However, there may be confusion, since Tommy Boy has no less than half a dozen different "greatest hits: compilations already out, many of which include the same songs. What distinguishes The Tommy Boy Story is its willingness to include a more holistic breakdown of the different genres that Tommmy Boy has promoted, meaning that it's not unusual on here for Bambaataa's disco-licious "Jazzy Sensations" to rub up against the Jonzun Crew's electro-funk classic "Pack Jam," or the Hi-NRG smash, "What's On Your Mind" by Information Society. The diversity and inclusiveness help give Story a more distinguished profile. But for the true Tommy Boy fan, this may not offer enough new angles to attract your eye. --Oliver Wang
Album Description
Indie powerhouse Tommy Boy records was born in Tom Silverman's NYC apartment in 1981 when the entrepreneurial trade mag publisher began releasing the best of the demos crossing his path. He struck gold with the label's revolutionary debut, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force's "Planet Rock." One of the only 12" singles ever to sell 600,000+ copies, it laid the foundation for the genre-defining house that Tommy built. Tommy Boy and its stable of stars led the way as the first wave of hip-hop's artistic translation of urban street culture bcame a mass-appeal phenomenon. With repeated high-charting crossover success, Tommy Boy earned almost 80 gold and platinum citations, and the label's groundbreaking grooves are essential pillars of hip-hop, as evidenced in this new collection of many of their greatest early tracks.
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| Customer Reviews:
 I HATED this stuff back in the day May 16, 2007
1 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had the misfortune of being in my latter high school years when this stuff came out. By 1982-83, the beautiful, harmonic, and melodious Soul music of my youth was replaced by this ultra-syntesized soulless high-tech drek which I considered the dawn of the "dark ages of black music." Being able to distinguish between nostalgia and what was actually good, I'm one of the few who does not look on my HS years as any golden age of music.
When Tommy Boy and other record companies found out that (for some strange reason), young people were willing to pay money for what was essentially low-quality pre-programmed beats set to some silly chanting, R&B went on a long downhill slide until the recent advent of the neo Soul movement.
As for the "songs," "Planet Rock" was not awful for what it was. The beginning which simulates Bambaataa chanting to the cheers of a partying crowd makes me smile, and he adds some of his infectous personality in this which is unusual for such mechanical music.
"Pack Jam" like most of these other "songs" (?)is just a bunch of nothing. Some studio techincians calling themselves the "Jonzun Crew" (few of them were actual bands) chanting the title to some undistinguished programmed beats. "Play at Your Own Risk" is only distinguished by the incredibly witless chant near the end (Woof woof, hey buddy buddy-hey buddy buddy). Yes folks, once upon a time it had gotten THAT bad. We also get to ridiculous new lows with "Rock the House (They'll Never Be)" which the fools chant "Dig it, a dig it, a dig it, a get on down-ROCK THE HOUUUUSSE!" over and over. Back in the early 80s, this kind of junk made you want to chase after the kids who played this trash loudly on their boomboxes with baseball bats!
Fortuantely, such ignorant "music" (?) is now largely a deservedly forgotten memory and has (wisely) not reappeared in any kind of misguided nostalgia. Only hardcore hip hop historians and people too young to have had good taste when this stuff came out would buy something like this. May those days of ear pollution be gone forever like that other musical scourge of that time called heavy metal and one day, gangster (c)rap will join them.
 Great old school - a gift for my husband January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a child of the 80s, perhaps its nostalgia that makes this stuff still so good to me. But another part of me will always believe that the originals will remain top notch. This is one of the best compilation CDs I've ran across.
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