| Perry, Lee "Scratch" / End Of An American Dream, The |
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| Album: | End Of An American Dream, The | Collection: | Reggae | |
| Artist: | Perry, Lee "Scratch" | Added: | Nov 2007 | |
| Label: | Megawave | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-11-11 | Pull Date: | 2008-01-13 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jan 6 | Dec 30 | Dec 23 | Dec 16 | Dec 9 | Dec 2 | Nov 25 | Nov 18 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 16, 2014: | night court Disarm | 4. | Jan 19, 2008: | New World Disorder Memories | |
| 2. | May 24, 2008: | The Twilight Zone Disarm | 5. | Jan 02, 2008: | Eran Mukamel (sub) Shazam | |
| 3. | Feb 07, 2008: | Happy Hour Disco Cats | 6. | Dec 30, 2007: | New World Disorder I Am New Yorker |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2007-11-13 | ||
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Lee “Scratch” Perry – The End of an American Dream Reviewed by Sadie O., 11/8/07 Funky jazzy dubby skanky laid-back UTTER MADNESS. Sweet, quite mellow musical grooves from the great dubmaster, and train of thought improvisation from the nether regions of a truly strange brain. Is he a wise fool or a great swami or just smoking bales and bales of pot? Who cares? I just pity whoever doesn’t get to play this record as soon as possible… Most lyrics are pretty undecipherable at any speed, but – FCC on track 10. I like 9 and 14 best, but they’re all just MAD… 1. 4:54 ***downtempo funk skank, mellow, laid-back vocals almost skat extemporizing. A few stops and starts. 2. 0:22 church bell, electronic squawks, bit of diatribe. 3. 5:43 **downtempo and mellow but bouncy riddim, sad lyrics with lots of echo, American Babylon self-destruction. 4. 5:01 ***somewhat unstructured intro for almost a minute, then uptempo electronic dancehall riddim, very stoned vocals. Soft echoes and bleeps for last several seconds. 5. 0:11 random bit 6. 4:40 ***quite slow dancehall skank, extremely minimalist, completely bizarre lyrics. Monks will be at the party tonight… Bacteria, apparently, will NOT. Gets quite funky as it goes along. 7. 5:00 ***brief spoken intro, downtempo funky groove, layered vocals. Don’t try to make sense of this unless you’re on acid. Fades several seconds from end. 8. 0:28 riot sounds and recitation. 9. 5:15 ****hip hop groove with funky one-drop beat. Somebody repeats “New York”, and when he stops, Lee Perry talks wildness. Stops and comes back with more urgency. Vocal echoes for last half minute. 10. 6:50 FCC: “shit” ***uptempo and complex electronic dancehall groove, rubber band sounds. 11. 5:34 **slow, rather funky skank, lots of nonsense. No, I mean even more than all the other tracks – seriously! 12. 5:06 ***funky jazzy something (maybe it’s just cause he keeps saying “jazzam shazzam”….) Electronic critter dying at end, as far as I can tell. 13. 5:33 ***bongos, crows, coughing, midtempo dancehall skank. 14. 4:48 ****brief intro, then downtempo electronic funk skank, great voodoo insanity lyrics. 15. 0:12 Lee Perry is NUTS. 16. 4:49 ***guns, scratching, samples, jazzy funky groove… | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Disarm | 9. | I Am New Yorker | |||
| 2. | Are You Ready? | 10. | Teddy Bear | |||
| 3. | The End Of An American Dream | 11. | Hallo Jamaica | |||
| 4. | One God Rain | 12. | Shazam | |||
| 5. | So Be It | 13. | Memories | |||
| 6. | I Will Be There | 14. | Vooba Skooba | |||
| 7. | I Am The God Of Fire | 15. | Cats Bats Rats | |||
| 8. | The Lord's Prayer | 16. | Disco Cats |