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Cypress Hill - Elephants On Acid (New Album)

Started by Malcy, August 03, 2018, 03:20:12 PM

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Malcy



1. Tusko (Intro)
2. Band of Gypsies
3. Put Em in the Ground
4. Satao (Interval)
5. Jesus Was a Stoner
6. Pass the Knife
7. LSD (Interval)
8. Oh Na Na
9. Holy Mountain (Interval)
10. Locos
11. Falling Down
12. Elephant Acid (Interlude)
13. Insane OG
14. The 5th Angel (Instrumental)
15. Warlord
16. Reefer Man
17. Thru the Rabbit Hole (Interlude)
18. Crazy
19. Muggs is Dead
20. Blood on my Hands Again
21. Stairway to Heaven

Out September 28th. Heard some snippets a while back and like what I heard. New single Band Of Gypsies is out now.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=buxccDwjkdA

I was blasting Black Sunday the other week after a couple of tracks popped up on some Spotify automated playlist and I got hooked back in for about two days, loved it. Not a proper fan really, I don't know anything they did since but they really nailed a particular sound for a while there. Lots of fun.

checkoutgirl

Loved Cypress Hill, Black Sunday and Temples of Boom and being in my early to mid teens at the time helped but switched off around Cypress Hill IV (1998) and the final nail in the coffin was when they brought out that tune about getting a girl's phone number in 2004. B-Real just doesn't make sense as a Romeo character.

Around 1998 I was getting into techno and trance so I suppose I just moved on. They were only really good for me when they were rapping about hash and guns and I didn't want to hear that anymore. 1991 to 1996 was probably their peak relevance period. I don't even know what a Cypress Hill fan would look like in 2018. 

The reviews of this would have to be fucking amazing for me to want to go back to that particular well. I'm very nostalgiac for stuff in the 1980s when I was a little child but my nostalgia hasn't really reached my teenage years yet for some reason.

momatt

I wonder if they have any songs that mention weed on this one?

I rediscovered the first three albums a while ago.  Amazing production.  DJ Muggs is under-rated I reckon.

checkoutgirl

Quote from: The Boston Crab on August 03, 2018, 03:31:30 PM
I was blasting Black Sunday the other week after a couple of tracks popped up on some Spotify automated playlist and I got hooked back in for about two days, loved it. Not a proper fan really, I don't know anything they did since but they really nailed a particular sound for a while there. Lots of fun.

That album was nothing shoort of iconic. Along with House of Pain's first album it seemed to capture the respectable side of gangster rap for white suburbia. But they're brilliantly produced albums, no doubt about it.

Artie Fufkin

Black Sunday was one of about 3 albums that I bought due to the cover artwork only.
Glad I did.

Malcy

#6
They've always been one of those music acts that I might not listen to for a long time and then just listen to loads of them for a week or two.

The remix to Throw Your Hands In The Air is brilliant with Erick Sermon, Redman & MC Eiht.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNO6aR79PZ4

I have a Muggs album I picked up in a second hand shop years ago. Don't think I ever listened to the whole thing. Saw it the other day so might stick it on. He's a great producer.

BeardFaceMan

Are they still doing the metal stuff? The vast, vast majority of rap rock is awful,  but for me Cypress (along with Ice T, RATM and very few others) were one of the few bands to do it properly, Sen Dog in particular has an amazing metal voice.

Malcy

Another track off the album. Seems to have been out a year or so but I never heard it until a few days ago.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jDb2xNsa2YA

Rocket Surgery

Quote from: BeardFaceMan on August 03, 2018, 04:10:59 PM
Are they still doing the metal stuff? The vast, vast majority of rap rock is awful,  but for me Cypress (along with Ice T, RATM and very few others) were one of the few bands to do it properly, Sen Dog in particular has an amazing metal voice.

Oh yeah? I've deliberately avoided their stuff since reading they'd hopped on the rap/rock bandwagon in 2000 or so (fuck me that's a long time ago) due to my aversion to nu-metal, but I like a bit of Body Count and RATM so maybe I'll give 'em a go.

BeardFaceMan

Quote from: Rocket Surgery on August 07, 2018, 02:09:34 AM
Oh yeah? I've deliberately avoided their stuff since reading they'd hopped on the rap/rock bandwagon in 2000 or so (fuck me that's a long time ago) due to my aversion to nu-metal, but I like a bit of Body Count and RATM so maybe I'll give 'em a go.

A few of the tracks have a nu metal flavour but it doesnt really sound nu metally, I think its the production that makes a bit nu metally rather than the songs. I think the reason why their stuff worked is the same as Ice T, theyre genuine metal fans and they got actual musicians in to work with, treated it like a proper band. They were working with musicians from Fear Factory, System Of A Down, RATM so they were rapping over some good music. They did a live album too where they did metal versions of a lot of their old stuff, thats quite jolly if you like that sort of thing (I think metalheads like it and people who were fans of Cypress before they went metal hate it).

And for completeness sake check out SX-10, Sen Dogs metal band, I think they did some of the music for some Cypress stuff too, I think they were the band on that live album. Two recent bands are Prophets Of Rage (3 members of RATM, 2 from Public Enemy and B Real) and Powerflo (members of Biohazard, Fear Factory, Downset and Sen Dog), I suppose your enjoyment of those will come from home much you like those involved, the records pretty much sound how you would imagine they would.

Malcy


momatt

Quote from: Malcy on August 24, 2018, 12:14:55 PM
Muggs Is Dead

FUCK!
I thought you were sharing some bad news at first.

Phew!  Merely a nice headline-grabbing song title.

Malcy

Quote from: momatt on August 29, 2018, 09:49:35 AM
FUCK!
I thought you were sharing some bad news at first.

Phew!  Merely a nice headline-grabbing song title.

Caught me off guard first time I saw it!

B Real released this animated video last week around the same time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UymXovmh2p4


Malcy


jobotic

Saw them at the Phoenix Festival in 199something. Was good fun but I never liked the records because of those whiney voices they do and the endless songs about weed. Rap rock can fuck off anyway.

DJ Muggs did Ice Cube's We Had to Tear This Motherfucka Up though, so hats off to him forever.

momatt

DJ Muggs's new single with MF Doom is bloody good too.
Also features Kool G Rap and Freddie Gibbs absolutely killing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5jOg_VGMA
http://nodata.tv/162779

Muggs is a really under-rated producer I think.  The things he did with such limited equipment (and not that many records) on those early LPs is amazing.

Malcy

And another

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s-kiuzm_rCI

Quote from: momatt on September 17, 2018, 02:35:01 PM
DJ Muggs's new single with MF Doom is bloody good too.
Also features Kool G Rap and Freddie Gibbs absolutely killing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5jOg_VGMA
http://nodata.tv/162779

Muggs is a really under-rated producer I think.  The things he did with such limited equipment (and not that many records) on those early LPs is amazing.

Yeah the stuff with MF Doom is great and he really is an underrated producer

Malcy


Malcy

Listened to half of this before heading out today. Really like it. Did make me want to skin up though so I'll listen to the whole thing later.

Malcy

This album is really good. The production is superb. Defo benefits from a good sound system or headphones though. Reminds me of Temples Of Boom.