![]() The one lone shining star of this whole release is Marley Marl’s revision of “Product of the Environment. The version of “3 Strikes 5000” here is inferior to the one that ultimately wound up on “Derelicts of Dialect.” The bloated CJ Mackintosh & Dave Dorrell reworking of “Brooklyn-Queens” removes all of the whimsical charm of Prince Paul’s original version. Unfortunately no one would be because this album is ASS BACKWARD in so many ways. I’m sure some clever mash-up artist could make that happen if they were motivated to do so. It has the same kind of energy as tracks Sever would produce for his own group Downtown Science with Bosco Money, and it honestly wouldn’t have shocked me if Money had made a cameo on the song. You have to go three deep into “ The Cactus Revisited” before anything of substance happens, and that’s the Sam Sever remix to “Wordz of Wizdom.” I don’t favor it over the original, but as a so-called “club mix” I can actually picture it getting people onto the dancefloor. The same can be said for Dave Dorrell’s revision of “The Cactus.” If they could record new verses for the revisit so could Dumile, so the new version is interesting but SUBPAR compared to the original. As much as I appreciate Serch offering a moment of silence for Yusef Hawkins, I can’t help but think some form of disagreement between Nice and Serch resulted in Dumile not being included. MC Serch has spoken at length about his bond with the late Daniel Dumile, who was better known at the time as Zev Love X from K.M.D., so his absence from this “lyrical remix” feels like a slap in the face. If you subscribe to the fantastic, if ketchup and pig intestines turn you on, if trashy movies get you wet, then you've found your heroes.“The Gas Face (Remix)” is as good of a place as any to start. So, open your ears, squint your eyes, and lower your expectations. Harley Poe have previously released two albums on Chain Smoking Records and two full length albums plus one split (with The Dead Vampires) on Standard Recording Company. is the band’s first release pressed to vinyl. Banjo, melodica, and upright bass make these eleven creepy and kooky songs sound like campfire singalongs from a slasher film. Harley Poe’s latest album is Satan, Sex and No Regrets on which they return to the acoustic sound with which they started. That’s ultimately what horror is the fear of being killed.†Religion is a way for mankind to deal with the fear and inevitability of death. It can be cathartic, just like Christianity, or any religion for that matter. €œHorror is a study of humanity’s fear of death and the unknown. They all come from this heart and this mind.†“My art and music, whether it’s Calibretto or Harley Poe are all part of the same path. “There is no departure, no falling away or turning around,†Whiteford writes. More surprisingly, Whiteford does not view the break as disasterous. Besides the upper-middle-class frat-punks-in-rap-clothing shtick of the Beastie Boys and emissary/producer Rick Rubin, who both gained a legitimate, earned respect in the rap community, there were very few white kids in raps first decade who spoke the poetry of the. It might surprise some to find the first seeds of Harley Poe were planted while singer-songwriter Joe Whiteford fronted the Christian band Calibretto 13, whose turn toward monster-themed songs ultimately pushed their label to drop them. 3rd Bass - The Cactus Cee/D (1989) First pressing. In the band’s world, the vampires, werewolves, serial killers, and cannibals take center stage and become the protagonists onto whom we project our joys, our fears, and our failings. It’s not enough to say Harley Poe write songs about monsters.
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