Brian Eno... Here Come the Warm Jets

Released: January 1974
Recorded: September 1973 at Majestic Studios, London
Length: 42:01
Label: Island
Producer: Brian Eno
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OK seriously this album has got to be one of my favorites of all time... I have to listen to Here Come the Warm Jets in part to pick me up or in its entirety at least one a month, Its just that good.

Weird new sounds almost always catch my attention, when I hear them for the first time. "Baby's on Fire" is a song that caught my attention when I first caught it. At the time I was spending allot of time just digging into music that was obscure (2004), and when I found this I was blown away. Nothing at the time was appealing to me, none of my favorites or any of that shit they were playing on the radio.

And when "On Some Faraway Beach" played in its rotation I thought I had found the song that would be the end song to my autobiographical film... you know the kinda that ends the movie and goes into the credits. Its not depressing or anything like that it just seems to transcend and that makes me feel hopeful. This song is just soo beautiful and it really made me fall in love with Brian Eno's music.

Then to end strongly with "Here Come the Warm Jets" just really set the tone with me. And apparently it had set the tone for a generation, a generation that would not appreciate or really acknowledge till the 90's. Every part of this song can be broken into a certain influence on a band from the vocals and guitars that are still heard today. This one is an album that I can't give enough credit to.

There aren't enough words to say how much I love this album...
 So all I can say is PASS IT ON

Also don't forget Lee @ the Pinata Hour


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1. Needles in the Camel's Eye (Eno, Phil Manzanera) 3:11
2. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch 3:04
3. Baby's on Fire 5:19
4. Cindy Tells Me (Eno, Manzanera) 3:25
5. Driving Me Backwards 5:12
6. On Some Faraway Beach 4:36
7. Blank Frank (Eno, Robert Fripp) 3:37
8. Dead Finks Don't Talk (arr. Paul Thompson, Busta Jones, Nick Judd, Eno) 4:19
9. Some of Them Are Old 5:11
10.Here Come the Warm Jets 4:04

Fishbone...Chim Chim's Badass Revenge

Released: May 21, 1996
Recorded: at Indigo Ranch Studios In Malibu,California
Length: 68:32
Label: Rowdy Records/Arista Records
Producer: Dallas Austin and Fishbone
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I've been sitting on this one for a while Chim Chim's Badass Revenge... or least I have been in my head. Fishbone is one of those bands that I'm not really a fan of their style, I'm talking about Ska people. But Fishbone has always been more than a Ska band to me because they mix all kinds of crazy stuff.

For example listen to "In The Cube" and if you don't hear the obvious Funk in it, your some kind of moron. Even the lyrics strike me as something that Parliament-Funkadelic would write. Funky lyrics and something of a higher message about life. It reminds me of the Funkadelic line that goes "What is soul?, I don't know, Huh, uh Soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper".

More Funk came to me in the track "Psychologically Overcast", that's the soul of the whole song. Even the hook sounds hella Funky and it only gets better when Busta Ryhmes. That part right there really caught me off guard, because it didn't seem like something would ever happen. But then you think about it, both Fishbone and Busta Ryhmes were both doing bigger things when this one came out, way back in 1996.

Sometimes a funny line in a song makes the song for me, like the song "Alcoholic" where they say "scratch the record" followed a few lines later with "burn the spaghetti". Those two lines make me laugh every time I hear them.

So again I'm gonna leave you with an album that is great and that you should "PASS IT ON"


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1. "Intro" 1:41
2. "Chim Chim's Badass Revenge" 4:27
3. "In The Cube" 8:32
4. "Beergut" 3:39
5. "Interlude 1" 1:57
6. "Psychologically Overcast" 5:06
7. "Alcoholic" 4:43
8. "Love...Hate" 6:44
9. "Interlude 2" 1:08
10. "Riot" 0:56
11. "Monkey Dick" 4:35
12. "Sourpuss" 7:14
13. "Rock Star" 5:09
14. "Pre Nutt" 3:11
15. "Fight For the Nuttmeg" 10:30

Ninja Academy... Bra'ka dOm

Label: Independent
Recorded:Hard Drive Studios in North Hollywood, CA.
Released: September 3, 2005
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If there was ever was an album that has been overlooked by the world it would have to be Ninja Academy's Bra'ka dOm. It has a simple concept, Drum and Bass... but its done well enough that you forget that its only 2 instruments. It just kicks ass all the way around even if you don't notice till the end, that you liked it

Just hearing the track "Your Kung Fu Sucks!" makes you want to jump and do something crazylike. This is probably the first song that I heard from them, years and years ago, the video made me laugh.

Instumentals most of the time can either kick ass or just be tedious. But listening to "Hunt for the Manipurans" makes it seem like playing Ninja Gaiden and your really living it. For the most part its smooth and subtle till after sometime it just kicks in and tears you up out of nowhere.

Usually I do a third song with a video, but I couldn't find one that wasn't ridiculous and moronic... so I'm just gonna have to direct you to the bands website. There is a link to them a few paragraphs back so enjoy.

But if you were interested in the song I wanted to list, it was called "Ninja Ho Down". I love that song, I remember when I first saw them way back when they played this song, and they had some dude on stage dressed in a robe that just said "if you smoke like me you be high everyday". That made me laugh so hard, not to mention that the rest of the band was all dressed like ninjas during the whole show. Well except for the girl that dressed up like a Geisha and did a fan dance when she wasn't playing the Taiko drum. Literally one of the most memorable shows I have ever seen in my life.

I wish they would comeback... so that is why I'm gonna ask that my friend Lee of Pinata Hour fame have them on his show.

Also don't forget that good music is everywhere but on the radio or TV... so having read this remember to PASS IT ON


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Indo-Ninja - bass
Outdo-Ninja - drums
Kendo-Ninja - electronics (tracks 2, 4, 6)
Gongis Khan - Intro

1.Intro 00:35
2.Kung Fu Grip 00:45
3.Excuse Me 00:24
4.Your Kung Fu Sucks! 01:26
5.Neckface 03:32
6.Insects 03:32
7.Pay No Attention To The Man, Behind The Man, Behind The Man 03:35
8.Und Keine Eier 00:42
9.Fenster's Theme 02:01
10.Hunt For The Manipurans 03:19
11.You Do The Math (gururum gururum) 02:35
12. Ninja Ho Down 01:36
13.Jungle Wabbit (Episode I) 01:14
14.Lord Escalator 03:56
15.Consequence 02:38

2Mex... Gloria was a Kroqer

Released:2006
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OK so this weeks choice is by an artist that I've reviewed before 2MEX, but what this guy does is insane. 2MEX blows my mind every time I hear something new from him, who does that anymore? With this one Gloria was a Kroqer he did more of a mash-up than sampling.

"So many more words" mashed up with Weezer's "Say it ain't so" was the first time I had actually heard a mash-up that was decent. And with those lyrics is really took me back to being a dumb kid wishing and pining for some one that doesn't care anymore. the line that always gets me and seems like a cleaver stab back at the situation is "saw you at the show, You pretended that you never knew me, I don't know I guess ill act like I rented you like a movie".

2MEX tends to write about relationships that don't work and the angst of life. But he does it with a cleaver back hand complement. Just listening to 2MEX's choice to mash-up with on "Silly Girl", The Descendents was a great choice... I would have never thought anybody would ever mix punk with hip hop ever in my life.

The Best track on this one most definately have to be the mash up with The Talking Heads. I love that band and those lyrics for "Naïve Melody"... just blow my mind. It almost seems the way that this song was written, was as though they all wrote it together, Good Stuff.

Don't forget Boys and Girls to listen to The Pinata Hour Featuring my homie LEE


Remember to PASS IT ON when your done listening to this one.
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1 Naïve Melody (2Mex Vs. Talking Heads) 4:56
2 Beautiful Freak (Eels Cover) 4:29
3 So Many More Words (2Mex Vs. Weezer) 4:54
4 Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor (2Mex/Eels) 3:13
5 Silly Girl (2Mex/Descendents) 1:57
6 Before You Say No (2Mex Vs. Weezer) 2:43
7 Oddessy Honestly (2Mex Vs. The Cure) 3:36