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Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age

The fifth album, with the group's only American top 40 single.
Public Enemy, 1994

Released
23 August 1994
Label
Def Jam

The title is a reverse mondegreen of music in our message. Def Jam released it on 23 August 1994, with a cover by Mark Texeira. It debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200 with 56,000 copies sold in the first week, and went gold in October. The first single, Give It Up, peaked at 33 on the Hot 100, the group's only American top 40 hit. Def Jam moved from Sony Music to PolyGram before the release, which hurt sales, and negative reviews in Rolling Stone and The Source appeared a month before the sales week.

Other notices were warmer. Q gave it four stars and Melody Maker called it a stunning return to form, while NME placed it 20th among its albums of 1994.

Track listing

  1. Whole Lotta Love Goin on in the Middle of Hell3:13
  2. Theatrical Parts0:28
  3. Give It Up4:31
  4. What Side You On?4:07
  5. Bedlam 13:134:07
  6. Stop in the Name ...1:21
  7. What Kind of Power We Got?5:31
  8. So Whatcha Gone Do Now?4:41
  9. White Heaven / Black Hell1:06
  10. Race Against Time3:21
  11. They Used to Call It Dope0:30
  12. Aintnuttin Buttersong4:23
  13. Live and Undrugged, Pt. 1 & 25:55
  14. Thin Line Between Law & Rape4:45
  15. I Ain't Mad at All3:25
  16. Death of a Carjacka2:00
  17. I Stand Accused3:57
  18. Godd Complexx3:40
  19. Hitler Day4:28
  20. Harry Allen's Interactive Super Highway Phone Call to Chuck D2:55
  21. Living in a Zoo Remix3:38

More from Public Enemy

Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987), It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), Fear of a Black Planet (1990), Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991), He Got Game (1998)

Sources

  1. Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, Wikipedia