Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit about hip hop. In the late 80s and early 90s hip hop ruled my musical life. During this often called 'Golden Era' I discovered so much incredible music. As I am slowly replacing the CDs I've had for twenty-five plus years with vinyl copies, I'm going to talk about some albums that had a really important impact on me during some very formative years.
I wrote about the original pressing of this album at length a few months ago. You can go here to see what I wrote in full: https://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/2023/04/boogie-down-productions-live-hardcore.html. In a nutshell, while live albums are not typically something that I drawn too, this is one of the few out there that has always been special to me, particularly because it was the only way for me to hear any of the songs from Criminal Minded for a few years. But the CD was long and in order to make is fit on vinyl, they cut songs from the tracklist as opposed to making it a double LP.
I'm not sure what prompted it exactly, but in 2004, Jive corrected this issue (mostly) and rereleased the album as a double LP, finally including every song from the CD on vinyl. Why they did this as a white sleeve DJ copy instead of a fancier reissue, I'll never know. But at least I finally have all of the songs on vinyl. Plus, I do have the artwork from the original pressing that I wrote about before, so I have everything that there is, it's just split across two releases.
Would I buy it a third time if a proper double LP reissue with full artwork was released? I'd like to be fiscally responsible and say no, I wouldn't need to pick up yet another version of this. But I think anyone reading this knows me well enough to know what the real answer would be...
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