| Nasa / Spirit Of Apollo, The |
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| Album: | Spirit Of Apollo, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Nasa | Added: | Feb 2009 | |
| Label: | Spectrophonic | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-03-15 | Pull Date: | 2009-05-17 |
| Week Ending: | May 17 | May 10 | May 3 | Apr 26 | Apr 19 | Apr 12 | Apr 5 | Mar 29 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 02, 2013: | Happy Hour (Coverin' for PACC on Laobr Day) Way Down | 4. | Sep 05, 2011: | Happy Hour (Coverin' for PACC) Money | |
| 2. | Feb 05, 2013: | A Family Affair Gifted | 5. | Nov 05, 2010: | Everyday Commotion The People Tree | |
| 3. | Aug 25, 2012: | Feral Pop Frenzy N.A.S.A. Anthem | 6. | Sep 23, 2010: | Happy Hour Spacious Thoughts |
| Album Review |
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| Basil Reviewed 2009-03-06 | ||
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N.A.S.A. “The Spirit of Apollo” Chockfull of upbeat musical celebrations & jaw-dropping collaborations that stray from the “We are the World” template. Tracks often mix rapped verses, sung choruses & uptempo, tribal beats. The beats themselves will not blow you away but the unexpected collaborations will – kool keith and tom waits, Karen O and Ol Dirty Bastard (his last recorded track!). Just peak at the track list & you’ll find one of your favorite artists. CD as a whole has a party vibe that can wear you down, but multiple tracks deserve air time. NO FCC Start with 9, 10, 15 Basil baileyr@stanford.edu 1) Intro of split voice clips that describes the group’s goals 2) *Upbeat, funky piano, bass and drums w/ Jurassic 5 guest rhymes; “tasty little human beings growing on the people tree”; last 15s is just voice clips 3) *latin/reggae blend, steel drums w/ deep bass line; Byrne’s white boy crooning mixes w/ reggae raps; wish I heard more Seu Jorge in there… 4) E-40’s goofy, rapid rhymes start it; beat stays out of the way of lyrical exchanges 5) More sultry & slow than other tracks, nice feathery female vox 6) “gimme gimme gimme” in the chorus: annoying, avoid it! 7) :25 second track of voice clips & elevator music 8) *Karen O gives adds deranged vocals to the aggressive ODB verses, space pops & grungy guitar rifts in the background 9) ***starts out slow, love the girl “caw” echoes in the background: TOM WAITS & COOL KEITH – Tom growls w/ some heavy drums & dark piano behind him 10) *** Kanye West raps, Lykke Li sings the chorus & Santogold drives one of the best beats on the album; great whipping drums & outer space electro-pop noises 11) funky party beat, reggae male vocals; should be played on Wild 94.9 maybe not KZSU 12) * George Clinton rasps some funk alongside Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na deep rhymes 13) *eclectic beat fits the M.I.A. mold; good song but doesn’t do anything M.I.A. hasn’t already done on her own 14) **tribal RJD2; real mixed up with scratching & sound bytes; some Portuguese rhymes; ends with 20sec left 15) **Smooth flow on the rhymes, some scratching, upbeat with whipping snare drums 16) I like the Cool Kids’ style so I like this song but it won’t make your jaw drop 17) **15 min song is really 2 songs, the first lasting 4:20 mins w/o collaborations; communal chorus, tribal percussion w/ fluttery piano/flutes; use it for an upbeat background song! a. 2nd song starts 10:27 in – eastern influence, more chilled out than the rest of the songs and well worth it! Give it an audition; stops w/ :20s left | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Intro | 9. | Spacious Thoughts | |||
| 2. | The People Tree | 10. | Gifted | |||
| 3. | Money | 11. | A Volta | |||
| 4. | N.A.S.A. Music | 12. | There's A Party | |||
| 5. | Way Down | 13. | Whachadoin? | |||
| 6. | Hip Hop | 14. | O Pato | |||
| 7. | Four Rooms, Earth View | 15. | Samba Soul | |||
| 8. | Strange Enough | 16. | The Mayor | |||
| 17. | N.A.S.A. Anthem | |||||