Bring the Noise

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For the television series, see Bring the Noise (game show). For the 2013 M.I.A. song, see Bring the Noize.

"Bring the Noise"
Hip hop[2]
Length3:45
LabelDef Jam
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)The Bomb Squad
Public Enemy singles chronology
"Rebel Without a Pause"
(1987) 		"Bring the Noise"
(1988) 		"Don't Believe the Hype"
(1988)

"Bring the Noise" is a song by the American

Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
chart.

The song's

Eric B, LL Cool J and, unusually for a rap group, Yoko Ono, Sonny Bono and thrash metal band Anthrax, allegedly because Chuck D was flattered about Scott Ian
wearing Public Enemy shirts while performing Anthrax gigs. Anthrax later collaborated with Chuck D to cover the song.

The song's

siren sound effects and other industrial
noise.

Critic

Blood Ulmer and On the Corner, as gripping as it is abrasive, and the black militant dialogue-as-diatribe that goes with it is almost as scary as "Stones in My Passway" or "Holidays in the Sun".[3] "Bring the Noise" was ranked No. 160 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time
.

Samples

The recording begins with a sample of Malcolm X's voice saying "Too black, too strong" repeatedly from his public speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference on November 10, 1963, in King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan entitled Message to the Grass Roots.

As a sample in other songs

"Bring the Noise" has been sampled in many other songs; among them "Much More" by

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic by Prince samples Chuck D's voice saying "Once again, back, it's the incredible" in its chorus and also features an appearance from Chuck D himself. This same sample is used on Fat Joe's album All or Nothing on the track "Safe 2 Say (The Incredible)". Rakim's 1997 single "Guess Who's Back" also uses the same sample. The game Sonic Rush samples the beginning of "Bring the Noise" in the music for the final boss battle. In addition, Ludacris' hit "How Low" samples Chuck D's "How low can you go?" line. In 2010, it was sampled by Adil Omar and DJ Solo of Soul Assassins on their single "Incredible". LL Cool J used a sample of Chuck D's line "I want bass" during the final verse on the song "The Boomin' System" from the Mama Said Knock You Out album. Also, the lines "[To save] face, how low can you go" and "[So keep] pace how slow can you go" in Linkin Park's song "Wretches and Kings" on their album A Thousand Suns (which is also produced by Rick Rubin) refer to Chuck D's line "Bass! How low can you go?".[4] Francis Magalona
's 1993 songs "Ito ang Gusto Ko" and "Meron Akong Ano" both sample "Bring the Noise".

Additionally, Public Enemy sampled the song themselves in several other songs on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, including the lines "Now they got me in a cell" and "Death Row/What a brother knows" in "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" and the lines "Bass!" and "How low can you go?" in "Night of the Living Baseheads".

Anthrax version

"Bring the Noise"
Single by Anthrax and Public Enemy
from the album Attack of the Killer B's (Anthrax album) and Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (Public Enemy album)
B-side
ReleasedJuly 9, 1991
Genre
Length3:34
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Anthrax singles chronology
"In My World"
(1990) 		"Bring the Noise"
(1991) 		"Only"
(1993)
Music video
“Bring the Noise” on
YouTube

Thrash metal band Anthrax recorded a version of "Bring the Noise", which sampled the vocals from the original Public Enemy recording.[5] Chuck D has stated that upon the initial request of Anthrax, he "didn't take them wholehearted seriously", but after the collaboration was done, "it made too much sense",[6] and it was eventually included on both the Anthrax compilation Attack of the Killer B's and as the final track on Public Enemy's own Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black album.

The song's release was followed by a joint-tour featuring the two groups, with shows ending with both groups on stage performing the song together. Chuck D went on to say that shows on the tour were "some of the hardest" they ever experienced,[6] and that at the start of the tour, Anthrax "commenced to destroy, slaughter and wipe the fuckin' stage" with Public Enemy as the opener,[7] forcing the group to not only up the intensity of their set, but to innovate by having a dedicated light board operator - a first in hiphop.[7] According to Chuck D, the show intensities eventually began to even out,[7] and when the two bands joined on stage for "Bring the Noise", "it was shrapnel".[6] Anthrax first played "Bring the Noise" live in 1989, two years before the Public Enemy collaboration was released, and it has been a live staple ever since.[8]

The recording was ranked No. 12 on

WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW, WWE WrestleMania 21, WWE Day of Reckoning, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 and Rock Band 4
as DLC.

The title of the Anthrax version is sometimes spelled "Bring tha Noise" or "Bring tha Noize".

Single track listing

  1. "Bring the Noise" – 3:34
  2. "Keep It in the Family" (live) – 7:19
  3. "I'm the Man '91" – 5:56

Charts

Public Enemy version

Chart (1988) Peak
position
US
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (Billboard
) 		56

Anthrax version

Chart (1991) Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] 10
UK Singles (OCC)[11]
 14

Remixes

In 2007, "Bring the Noise" was

2008 Grammy Awards. The Pump-kin remix appeared on his album Rock 'n' Rave (2008). The song was also used for the EA Sports game, NBA Live 09. Ferry Corsten only mixed one version which was released around the same time as Benny Benassi's remixes, it was released on February 26, 2008 on iTunes
.

In 2007,

Lento Violento, a style of Hardstyle
focusing on slow and hard sound.

Benny Benassi

  1. "Bring the Noise" (Pump-kin edit) – 3:37
  2. "Bring the Noise" (S-faction edit) – 3:32
  3. "Bring the Noise" (Pump-kin remix) – 6:38
  4. "Bring the Noise" (S-faction remix) – 6:57
  5. "Bring the Noise" (Pump-kin instrumental) – 6:38
  6. "Bring the Noise" (S-faction instrumental) – 6:57

Ferry Corsten

  1. "Bring the Noise" (radio edit)
  2. "Bring the Noise" (extended mix)

Gigi D'Agostino (Lento Violento Man)

  1. "Lento Violento Man" – Quoting

Other versions

The alternative metal band Staind covered "Bring the Noise" with Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst on the Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap 2000 compilation album. This version also appeared on the advance version of their 1999 album Dysfunction.

A remix of "Bring the Noise" titled "Bring the Noise 20XX", featuring Zakk Wylde, is a playable track in the video games Guitar Hero 5 and DJ Hero.

A traditional country version by Unholy Trio is included on the Bloodshot Records sampler "Down to the Promised Land".

An unofficial remix entitled "Bring DA Noise", (based on Led Zeppelin's – "Immigrant Song") was released for free download in 2005 by Irish radio presenter DJ Laz-e.

The 2012 video game Yakuza 5 features a track titled “Skankfunk - Vendor Pop”, which samples the ending of the Anthrax version of “Bring The Noise”, which plays during one of Tatsuo Shinada’s substories titled “Shinada’s Interview.”

Notes

  1. ISBN 9781442254497
    . Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  2. AllMusic
    . Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (March 1, 1988). "Significance and Its Discontents in the Year of the Blip". The Village Voice. Retrieved on 2010-09-05.
  4. ^ See also: A Thousand Suns; last accessed January 31, 2013.
  5. ISSN 1351-0193
    . p. 31: When did we record with Chuck? I have to tell you that Chuck and Flavor Flav never came into the studio. We got their vocals from [the master to] Bring The Noise and sat there without sampling technology and cut them into the track word by word until we made it work. I've never told anybody that because nobody's actually asked when we cut it together. It took forever. Our version was in a different key but in the end we were even more stoked with the results because it was so great.
  6. ^
    Behind The Music
    - Anthrax
  7. ^ a b c "Chuck D and Public Enemy/Anthrax "Bring the Noise"". February 13, 2015 – via www.youtube.com.
  8. ^ "Bring the Noise by Anthrax Concert Statistics". setlist.fm. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  9. ^ "VH1 40 Greatest Metal Songs", May 1–4, 2006, VH1 Channel, reported by VH1.com; last accessed September 10, 2006.
  10. Top 40 Singles
    .
  11. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
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