Grandmaster Flash - Essential Cuts

Essential Cuts is essentially a Grandmaster Flash "best-of" which, as a U.K. import, might be a little harder to find (particularly in the U.S.) than the most widely distributed Grandmaster Flash compilation, Rhino's Message From Beat Street. Although there's some track variation, there's not much difference between them in quality. Some might even prefer Essential Cuts owing to the inclusion of "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" (which somehow missed the cut for Message From Beat Street) and a slightly longer track listing, Essential Cuts boasting 13 tracks to Message From Beat Street's 11. Read More