B-Side Wins Again

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...artifical flav is not quite as good as the real thing..., 2005-03-22
I had to get this single, being a huge Meat Beat Manifesto and Public Enemy fan, and the track they picked was one of the best PE songs in my opinion. However, after giving the disc much play time, I still don't think that it stacks up compared to the original and is more of a novelty. Chuck D is at his best, but Flav is not present, and the vocoded or processed vocals compensate for his punch, but they seem to stumble or interfere most of the time. You can definitely hear the production of Jack Dangers through this track, but the repetition and predictability in the track are not indicative of his handywork. This may seem caustic, but I feel that if this were a dominantly Meat Beat or Jack Dangers single it would have been so powerful and funky that you could smell it! This version is alright...but the original is much better (on "Fear of a Black Planet").