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Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

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I heard a pretty good (recently done) cover of Public Enemy's, "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" this afternoon on BBC radio. At least I think it might have been good. I only heard part of it. Does anyone know what the name of the band might be? I tried finding it on google, but didn't have much luck.

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Originally posted by rbmorris
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"... Does anyone know what the name of the band might be?
Elric & The Melnibonerians.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Elric & The Melnibonerians.
You're kidding?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Elric & The Melnibonerians.
Nice link 🙂

Varg, Bosse is using the story of Elric in a sort of word association game format. He's too clever for his own good 😛

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Originally posted by Starrman
Nice link 🙂

Varg, Bosse is using the story of Elric in a sort of word association game format. He's too clever for his own good 😛
Um, okay, thanks. 🙄
Back to work...

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Originally posted by rbmorris
I heard a pretty good (recently done) cover of Public Enemy's, "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" this afternoon on BBC radio. At least I think it might have been good. I only heard part of it. Does anyone know what the name of the band might be? I tried finding it on google, but didn't have much luck.
I think I'm right in saying Rage Against the Machine did a cover, could it have been them?

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Originally posted by rbmorris
I heard a pretty good (recently done) cover of Public Enemy's, "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" this afternoon on BBC radio. At least I think it might have been good. I only heard part of it. Does anyone know what the name of the band might be? I tried finding it on google, but didn't have much luck.
tricky did a cover of it years ago, off the album 'maxinquaye'. it was simply called 'black steel', and featured martine topley-bird on vocals. any help?

edit: you say it was a recently done version - the tricky one is about 10 years old now...

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Originally posted by rbmorris
I heard a pretty good (recently done) cover of Public Enemy's, "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" this afternoon on BBC radio. At least I think it might have been good. I only heard part of it. Does anyone know what the name of the band might be? I tried finding it on google, but didn't have much luck.
Most of the BBC shows have a link to the show playlist for every day. Maybe you should check that. Try the show first if you know it, or else search playlists on the BBC site.

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no reason to cover a great song such as the pe version. what's the point?

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Originally posted by runninfiend
no reason to cover a great song such as the pe version. what's the point?
listen to the tricky version and you'll find out 😉

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Originally posted by Edwardipov
listen to the tricky version and you'll find out 😉
The Tricky version is great. I don't think that was what I heard on the radio though, unless it was a remake or something. Tough tune to cover. I can see how RATM could do a decent job with it, but very few other bands could pull it off.

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there was only one public enemy. i stand by that version. "it takes a nation of millions to hold us back" is one of the top 5 hip hop albums ever.