Sunday, February 19, 2012

Fishbone...Chim Chim's Badass Revenge

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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





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