Hits (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rap & Hip Hop  »  Old Skool
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• Release Date: January 1, 1999
• Label: Flashback Records
• UPC: 081227595623
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106394943
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #96050 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2971 in Rap & Hip Hop (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop Bestsellers)
• #54 in Old Skool (See Top 100 Old Skool Bestsellers)

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Audio Remasterers: Dave Schultz; Tim Edmondson.

Part of the Collectables label's budget "priceless collection" series, this is a typical overview of the Sugarhill Gang, though it's not all that close to definitive. No-brainer inclusions like "Rapper's Delight" (a five-minute edit or the 15-minute original), "8th Wonder," and other charting singles like "Kick It Live from 9 to 5," "The Lover in You," and "The Word Is Out" are featured. Unlike some budget anthologies, this one just doesn't cut it since the track selection is questionable otherwise. (Both "Apache" and "Showdown," for instance.) Discs put together with a little more care -- such as Rhino's The Best of Sugarhill Gang (1996) or the same label's briefer The Essentials (2002) -- would be preferable to this. ~ Andy Kellman

The Sugarhill Gang only released a couple of hit records in their heyday, and from those, only a couple of hit songs, not the least of which is the now ubiquitous "Rapper's Delight," which is of course included here on Flashback's ten-song best-of compilation. Because of the relatively small repertoire, one would think that a collection such as Hits would be sure to include all of them, but surprisingly both "Apache" and "Showdown," the latter with Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, are left out, making room for the lesser-known "Down Beat" and "On the Money." All in all, it's an acceptable album, but as the Sugarhill Gang's songs don't always wear well with time and often seem corny and trite, the reason for excluding the tracks people actually know in turn for ones they don't is perplexing. Better to go for the 1996 Rhino compilation The Best of Sugarhill Gang instead. ~ Marisa Brown

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