No need to impress anyone, not going to release a single on Track 12, just a do as you feel and have at it type. Don't Let Me Down is the type of f you track that a bunch of 24-25 year olds start to close out an album with. Many people think that Down was the first release off of the self-titled album, but I'm fairly certain it was Don't Stay Home. The song aspires to more than it is, leaving you empty when you feel like you just heard a hit.
Simple, yet succinct drum beat kicks off Don't Stay Home. I know they reference Barnum and Bailey, so that's something. but what the hell are they saying? I get the peppered sonic assault, but brodels and nazz? Is this a birds and bees story? Are they two strip clubs, like the ones in Girls Girls Girls? Make an instrumental, add a little vocal, take it to the stage and make the people go loco.įiled under solid groove. I mean, it literally calls out the whole point of the song. This is the type of song where my Alpine deck would just kick back to radio randomly, like it knew that 311 wasn't living up to it's own hype. Repeatedly got skipped on the old Sony Discman. Released within a year of each other, they both addressed the prevalence of mid-90s gun violence. Guns (Are For Pussies) could be, but probably isn't, considered a call-and-response to The Offspring's Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated). Hive is the type of song that you want blasted over the gym speakers before your High School JV basketball game, especially if you are the away team and you took over that town's PA system. HiveĬ-c-c-c-coming like a nightmare! Martinez and Hexum vocally slay Hive like the two-headed, fire-breathing 90s rap-rock dragon that they are. Down may have charted a bit higher, but if you polled the average music fan, I'd bet All Mixed Up was their 311 jam. Sometimes the simplest things are successful. 311 follows the 4th track ballad formula with All Mixed Up. How do these guys remember all of these parts? I mean, Sexton can just bang away and keep up with P-Nut, and Hexum doesn't really need to play, but those two, they are what makes this band incredible. Jackolantern's Weather puts the Mahoney/P-Nut riff factory into an endless loop. Visceral lyrics that a mid-stage teenager could really relate to. Random ends with an Ill Communication feel. One question I've always asked myself is who the soundboy is that they reference. If the blue album was your first intro to 311, specifically from hearing Down on your radio station, then Random threw you for a loop, mostly because you were expecting a lot more rap-rock than this. The most impressive part of Random is the fantastic guitar riff by Mahoney. Like a bottlerocket, Down gets the fireworks show of the self-titled album started with a (just under) 3 minute explosion.Īll the requisite rap moves are there, chill, uhhs, come back in, and the fantastic reference to his holiness, Dolemite. Let's forget that ever happened, both their ranking and the album in general. However, the clowns over at Willamette Week place it second, right behind the absolute trash that is 1997's Transistor. A platinum selling effort, the blue album should be considered their all around best foot forward. The self-titled album is the best thing 311 ever put out, despite a strong contender in the form of their debut album, Music.ģ11 released it's self-titled album 7 years after the band's creation.
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Over time, Transistor has developed a cult following and become a fan favorite, eventually leading to the band performing the album in it's entirety on August 6, 2011, in front of over 10, 000 fans.Can you believe that the self-titled 311 album was released only 4 years after Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and less than a year after Pearl Jam's Vitalogy? The boys from Omaha sure know how to mix it up. It's the deep cuts that you play over and over again, trying to catch the meaning", they conclude that the album is "one of a kind". Commenting that "the singles aren't what make Transistor great. The album was retrospectively received positive by Consequence of Sound, comparing it to The Beatles' album Sgt. While still utilizing their alternative rock sound in many songs, Transistor saw 311 moving away from the hip hop-influenced sound of their previous albums for more of a reggae-influenced sound, as shown in songs such as "Prisoner", "Inner Light Spectrum", "Running", "Rub a Dub", and "Stealing Happy Hours". Transistor is 311's longest album and is the only 311 album to contain more than 16 tracks. The album saw a change in musical style as fewer songs feature rapping in comparison to the band's previous albums. Transistor is the fourth studio album by 311. Double 150gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket.
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