That 3rd Jungle Brothers Album
faux_rillz
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What is the 2008 SoulStrut consensus on this one?I've always felt that it was unfairly hated upon.Seems like a BATMON record...
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1 of 3 tapes I considered breaking after purchase (ODB's 2nd was another, and I forget the third).
has some merits.
Its a "pull out once a year to see if it's got better" record
In this case, I waited about ten years.
I don't know if it's gotten better--since I always kind of liked it--but I don't think it's gotten worse, either, unlike a lot of records from that era.
I thought he started the thread when I saw your reply from the Main Index!
experimental but
Agreed.
I like the acid they were on or something, for that album. I've been rocking it since it dropped.
40 below trooper was pretty stooopid. the video made it worse.
dont remember much else
how do ya'll feel about the outtakes from the original rejected version of this record? IMO they are indeed very crazy although maybe not as "genius" as one would hope.
I dug/dig this song. The rest of the album...well, I haven't heard it in many years, but I remember not liking it.
Actually a remix to one of the album cuts, I think.
yeah, it's the q-tip remix and it was/is dope. it really the only good thing to come from the album. . .
didn't this album spawn that whole wordsound/broken beat era?
i kinda remember taking a bunch of acid and listening to this and that first new kingdom record for a while... haven't heard either in years (or dropped acid, for that matter).
Did anyone ever cop that "Crazy Wisdom Masters" 10" EP that surfaced in the late 90's? I think it had four or five songs from the sessions they did with Bill Laswell. As far as I recall, these sessions were supposed to be for the third album, but were never officially released. I always got the impression that "J Beez Wit The Remedy" was an attempt to find a halfway point between the Laswell-produced experimentation and the more familiar JBs sound.
I liked it a lot when it came out. I had it on CD and purged my CDs years ago. I have 2 12s: on the road (eh) and 40 below. the 40 below 12 has a great remix that i still play out a lot.
As far as 3rd albums by the main Native Tongues triad, I'd put it at #3. Still worth a revisit.
JBEEZ VALIDATED!
Also, this just in: the boy Noz invokes German Industrial Coil in discussing it.
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Actually, I will ride for the whole first side.
Book Of Rhyme Pages followed by My Jimmy Weighs A Ton, a very good look.
1993 was a corner-turning year and this was an apt soundtrack for me personally.
Incantations for mind-garden ministrations.
It's still good, but the context will never be the same. We judge this album in light of later Hawaiian shirt Hip-House lifestyles.
I'll keep pitchin' 'em if you keep hittin' 'em.
Agreed--it must be considered in the context of its time and it is also important not to let one's view of it be tarred by subsequent whiteboy excursions into the world of glitch hop.
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I will admit to enthusing over a drum and bass remix of a JBeez track circa 1998
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This poast will self destruct in approximately 45 seconds
As far as I am concern, no sheepish admissions are necessary if you are talking about that Aphrodite track. It is a slow-burning, well-built track, and is still good to work out to. You can leave the self-destruction to Heavy D.
What might be embarrassing?
Having bought the soundtrack to Senseless just in order to have that Jungle Brother (True Blue) drum n bass track. That's what I did.
Yeah, that's the one--might it have been you who put me onto it?
Damn, it is crazy to think that there was an era in which the soundtracks to Wayans brothers movies featured Jungle Brothers drum and bass remixes.
I should really listen to the 12" again before making statements of this kind but I seem to recall preferring the Terranova remix of True Blue which I wish I had the vocabulary to describe without resorting to descriptions of bass rattling and speaker thumping.
Huh?
What are you talking about?
I don't like drum and bass or jungle--but I can at least respect jungle.
It's no big deal...but I'm talking about you making it your policy to stick your nose up at drum-n-bass...but then admitting that you like(d) Jungle Brothers drum-n-bass 101.
But yeah, what is the point of me trying to clarify what the 3 things are out of a million that you actually like without feeling some sort of embarrassment, whether your own or for others, over?
Good heavens.
I have no idea what you're blathering about this time, but it should be clear even to you that somebody who feels genuine embarassment about something doesn't advertise it on a discussion baord. My reference to the poast self-destructing before anybody could read it was--how do you say?--facetious, a concept that I've noticed you struggle with.