The Message
by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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The Message is ranked as the best album by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five.
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The Message track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 01/14/2026 19:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,663 | 70/100 | |
| 12/09/2025 20:29 | Jakor | 5,350 | 70/100 | |
| 11/12/2025 23:34 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 | |
| 10/07/2025 06:16 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 | |
| 09/06/2025 05:11 | Proto | 4,159 | 33/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 72.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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Stand out tracks are their two UK hits "The Message"(8) and "Scorpio"(77). If "Dreamin'" and "You are" weren't on this album then it would have been a good EP.
rap. project street music as its finest some soul and funk as well
seb7 01/15/2021 02:48 | #264443
The first 4 tracks are very good and the track, The Message, is one of the greatest songs of all time. Dreamin and You Are are,
antonymously, some of the worst soul songs and worst songs PERIOD of all time.
Honestly, if tracks 5 and 6 just weren't in the album, this would seriously be one of the top ten albums of all time.
Graeme2 01/21/2019 19:27 | #230207
Run DMC didn't sound this good in '87, it was actually '83 when they released Sucker MCs and consequently made these dudes sound and look like they were from a bygone era. And by the time of Sucker MCs, they were. This album came out in October '82 and then Sucker MCs in March '83 which then ushered in the new school, subsequently kold krushing the disco rappers and Sugar Hill and stomping all over them with hard 808s, addidas and Def Jams...by July '83 Whodini had dropped their first album.
Ground breaking songs such as "the message" are paired with poor tracks leading to an uneven album.
HoldenM 10/24/2016 18:39 | #177374
A bit of filler on the back half, but holy hell is this a great record.
RoundTheBend 04/30/2016 21:17 | #164902
1982!!! That's all I gotta say.
Well ok, I'll say more: Holy Cow... this song is from 1982... it definitely sounds old school, but WAAAY ahead of it's time. Run-DMC didn't sound this good in 87.
Graeme2 04/16/2016 21:21 | #163944
C'mon. There's some classic/great tracks on here (message,Scorpio,it's nasty) but dreamin and you are, are just horrible. Stevie wonder they were not. Singles wise they were up there with the best of the 80s, album wise no.
This is old school hip-hop in a nutshell. I can't stop dancing.
8.5/10
Fav Tracks: It's a Shame, The Message
swhaze 06/02/2014 19:37 | #113553
I love this album. It is so innocent, so pure. The roots of hip hop.
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