The Agent Of Truth Music Blog
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
MF Doom feat. MF Grimm – Tick, Tick……
I took a
blind listen the other day to MF Doom’s album “Operation Doomsday” and
unearthed a pleasant surprise. Disclosure: The Beatles are the be all, end all
for me when it comes to any music, how does this fit in with this track? MF
Doom eloquently samples, and loops at various speeds The Beatles track “Glass
Onion” on Tick, Tick. The lyrics are so, so I must say but the beats generated
with Glass Onion being the backdrop are fitting and done tastefully. The pace slows
and quickens the pace with the hook,
Cause I'mma slow it up, speed
it up, slow it up, speed it up
Mettle Finger's feed beats Grimm Reaper eat 'em up
Speed 'em up, slow 'em up, speed 'em up, slow 'em up
Brainsick, Tick, Tick, Tick, MF blow it up
Slow it up, speed it up, slow it up, speed it up
Mettle Finger's feed beats Grimm Reaper eat it up
Speed 'em up, slow 'em up, speed 'em up, slow 'em up
Brainsick, Tick, Tick, Tick, MF blow it up
Mettle Finger's feed beats Grimm Reaper eat 'em up
Speed 'em up, slow 'em up, speed 'em up, slow 'em up
Brainsick, Tick, Tick, Tick, MF blow it up
Slow it up, speed it up, slow it up, speed it up
Mettle Finger's feed beats Grimm Reaper eat it up
Speed 'em up, slow 'em up, speed 'em up, slow 'em up
Brainsick, Tick, Tick, Tick, MF blow it up
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Santana - Santana (Debut Album) {MOFI Vinyl}
“Perfect
Timing”, this phrase is thrown around freely but it couldn’t have been more
apropos for the San Francisco jam-band Santana in the summer of 1969. Santana
had their coming out party at the Woodstock Music Festival and around the same
time Santana’s self titled debut album was released. If there was ever a
perfect time for a debut album, it is was the time Santana was released.
Santana had an audience of nearly a half a million people at their disposal at
Woodstock and fresh debut album waiting at the stores for these new fans.
Chances are many of the people who were at Woodstock especially the local crowd
may not have heard of Santana unless they were in the bay area to catch one of
their shows.
Santana
is such a strong debut album, it is a melting pot of genres including rock,
Latin, blues and soul. There is a hit single “Evil Ways” which peaked at #9 on
the Billboard Hot 100 charts which introduces Santana to an even greater pop
audience on AM radio. The album is also loaded with some short stirring
instrumental jams concluding with the epic “Soul Sacrifice”.
Carlos
Santana absolutely shines with his diverse guitar playing with many blues and
jazz undertones. Keyboardist and vocalist Gregg Rollie just tears it up on
“Persuasion” and my favorite the intense and bluesy “You Just Don’t Care”.
Santana
is not an audiophile gem by any stretch but the Mobile Fidelity vinyl is great.
A nice clean analog sound and it gives a true live feeling to the music, you
feel the band is right there with you in your listening room. The vinyl is a
high quality 180 gram pressing, flat and dead quiet and is mastered from the
original stereo master tapes, still hear a bit of that tape hiss on the quieter
tracks but that is what you want, no noise reduction, just a good clean
reproduction of the master.
Santana
peaked at #4 on the Billboard Album Charts and was designated by Rolling Stone
Magazine as 149th Greatest Album Of All Time.
Tracklisting:
Side One
1. "Waiting" (C. Santana, G. Rolie, J.
Areas, D. Brown, M. Carabello, M. Shrieve) – 4:07
3. "Shades of Time"
(C. Santana, G. Rolie) – 3:13
4. "Savor" (C.
Santana, G. Rolie, J. Areas, D. Brown, M. Carabello, M. Shrieve) – 2:47
Side Two
1. "Persuasion" (C.
Santana, G. Rolie, J. Areas, D. Brown, M. Carabello, M. Shrieve) – 2:36
2. "Treat" (C.
Santana, G. Rolie, J. Areas, D. Brown, M. Carabello, M. Shrieve) – 4:46
3. "You Just Don't
Care" (C. Santana, G. Rolie, J. Areas, D. Brown, M. Carabello, M. Shrieve)
– 4:37
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
My last post was referring to the most known anti-drug songs,
“Kicks” by Paul Revere & The Raiders, now I am on to what I consider the
most glorifying drug song “White Rabbit” by The Jefferson Airplane. White
Rabbit is a sorted trip of Alice and her time in Wonderland. Alice
In Wonderland is meant to be a children’s story which for all intents and
purposes is, but there scenes of psychedlia within the story that are present.
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
White Rabbit is short, concise and to the point and does it
sound like a great trip that someone would go, all you need to take is those
pills that make you big and small. There is a literal interpretation within the
story where Alice takes these substances to get big and small but in
the drug world you take that drug and you are on the high but eventually that
high brings one down and you are back to your normal life or being small. The
rest of the track goes through some of the other characters of Wonderland which
are relevant to the song but is the clear message of the track is in the first
verse, take those pills and you will go on a wild ride but your ride will be
taken while awake and not in a sleepy dream that Alice thought up. The song was
a tremendous success for the Jefferson Airplane having a peek chart position of
#8.
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