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Don Farrell
Reviewed 2006-09-25
Reviewed 2006-09-25
An 11 piece Afrobeat orchestra with a rowdy blend of African rhythms,exotic melodies, slamming percussion and monstrous horns. Great lyrics, great sounding female vocalist FCC #6
1: 6:31 fast prercussion & horns, female vocal fast fast perc. male spoken word in background.
2: 9:33 cool funk intro. heavy bass line Great wailing sax , perc., fem vocal in an African language.
****3: 4:52 cool fem vocal " Hey now, everyone is talking about the President" perc & horns.
4: 7:52 slower fem vocal & chorus in an African language and English, picks up pace well into it.
5: 8:33 mellow perc., fem vocal in English.
FCC ****6: 5:56 Great poetry/spoken word/cool fem vocal "yum yum ya ya drugging up the population is not against the law" FCC "she strips down and sits on a video camera so 30 million people can watch her cum/come?? on television" OK during SAFE HARBOR BEEP out @ 1:03- 1:04 during the day
7: 5:01 slower fem vocal.
****8: 10:23 male spoken word, George W & friends sound clips, cool perc & brass background then great fem vocal/poetry/spoken word at end a few seconds of silence then part of a speech by Martin Luther King.
D Farrell 09/2006
1: 6:31 fast prercussion & horns, female vocal fast fast perc. male spoken word in background.
2: 9:33 cool funk intro. heavy bass line Great wailing sax , perc., fem vocal in an African language.
****3: 4:52 cool fem vocal " Hey now, everyone is talking about the President" perc & horns.
4: 7:52 slower fem vocal & chorus in an African language and English, picks up pace well into it.
5: 8:33 mellow perc., fem vocal in English.
FCC ****6: 5:56 Great poetry/spoken word/cool fem vocal "yum yum ya ya drugging up the population is not against the law" FCC "she strips down and sits on a video camera so 30 million people can watch her cum/come?? on television" OK during SAFE HARBOR BEEP out @ 1:03- 1:04 during the day
7: 5:01 slower fem vocal.
****8: 10:23 male spoken word, George W & friends sound clips, cool perc & brass background then great fem vocal/poetry/spoken word at end a few seconds of silence then part of a speech by Martin Luther King.
D Farrell 09/2006
Recent airplay
Trouble
Bad Luck & Trouble (No Cover, No Minimum) — Jun 13, 2008
Flat Tire
Municipal Waste — Oct 23, 2006
Mr. President
No Cover, No Minimum — Oct 06, 2006
Mr. President
Subcutaneous Phycomycosis — Oct 03, 2006
Trouble
Sunshine ... in the Afternoon — Sep 29, 2006
Trouble
New World Disorder — Sep 26, 2006
Charting
2006-09-24 — 2006-11-26
Reggae/World
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Oct 29 | 1 |
| Oct 8 | 2 |
| Oct 1 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Frontlines | ||
| 2. | Trouble | ||
| 3. | Mr. President | ||
| 4. | Rebel Motion | ||
| 5. | We Never Sleep | ||
| 6. | Snack Nation | ||
| 7. | Flat Tire | ||
| 8. | No Agreement/Mlk |