- +Mad Professor/Massive
Attack: No Protection: This is a British rap producer's remix
of Massive Attack's Protection album, less one cut. A tribute
to an album that deserves tributes. Excellent. It was my introduction
to Massive Attack, for which I am grateful. (see below)
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- +Massive Attack:
Protection; Mezzanine: These two albums are wonderful. Of the
two, I prefer the earlier, Protection, but both are excellent.
Their first album, Blue Lines, is seminal and not bad, but in
comparison, it is lacking. Massive Attack are three guys: a Jamaican
rasta, a British funkster/rapper and a white rapper and they use one
or two women as vocalists on several of the nicer cuts. A clean, somewhat
simplistic but talented, blend of all the background influences.
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- Monk, Thelonius
w/ Charlie Rouse: Monk's Dream: His happiest, most playful album.
Keyboard technique at a forty-five degree angle to Schirmer.
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- Mothers of Invention:
We're Only in It for the Money: While Absolutely Free
may contain "The Ritual Dance of the Great Pumpkin" and Freak Out
may contain "Trouble Comin' Every Day" and "Help! I'm a Rock," this
is the most inventive of the first four albums before Zappa became obsessed
with unconscious lower extremity body functions. Underlines his childhood
fascination with the works of Varese (see below).
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