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One Step Ahead of the Spider

MC 900 Ft. JesusAudio CD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)


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  • Audio CD (June 28, 1994)
  • Label: Warner Bros / Wea
  • ASIN: B000002MPW
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,333 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 
1. New Moon
2. But If You Go
3. If I Only Had a Brain
4. Stare and Stare
5. Buried at Sea
6. Tiptoe Through the Inferno
7. Gracías Pepé
8. New Year's Eve
9. Bill's Dream
10. Rhubarb

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A cool, restrained, acid-jazzy, and ultra-hip label debut for Texan beat poet Mark Griffin, who previously made two albums for Nettwerk. With its chorus and insistent beat, the loser's lament "If I Only Had A Brain" could follow Beck up the charts. "Buried At Sea" is more typical of his stylistic approach--recited narrative, sax squonks, and a nouveau beatnik ambience that suggests Laurie Anderson on a hip-hop tip. Don't miss "Bill's Dream," a superb instrumental reminiscent of prime Weather Report. --Jeff Bateman

 

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If I only had a brain is my theme song...., October 18, 2000
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One Step ahead of the Spider was the first album I ever liked independent of any outside influece. I never heard it on the radio, MTV, or out of any friends or relatives collections. My older brother bought it mistakenly and I fell in love with it. He ended up giving me his copy as a birthday present about 6 years ago and I still have the same copy. It is one of the most overplayed CD's in my collection and is now the most prized (since the uncensored version of Body Count's "Cop Killer" became MIA.)

This is not Spoken Word. This is not Hip Hop. This is not Rap. This is not Jazz. Anyone who has heard the album knows that these statements are entirely true and false. MC 900 Ft Jesus gives us the paradox in music form; soulful, emotional as great art should be, yet deliberate, every note, every word inits proper place. Perfect parts cynicism and intelligence create an album that, while not timeless (sure people have done it better since this one was made.... but did anyone do it before this was made?) is enlightening enough to be in any open-minded musical fan's library.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow, quite odd, February 5, 1999
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I've never heard any of his other stuff, but I bought MC 900 Ft Jesus' "One Step Ahead Of The Spider" just to hear "If I Only Had A Brain", which in itself is worth the purchase. Being an odd song in the first place, I didn't know what to expect of the rest of the record. Allthough I only bought it last week, it has already become one of my favorite discs. The combination of funky hip-hop beats, jazzy melodies, and peculiar coffee-house poetry/lyrics help make this cd one of the most original in my collection of 1,500.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I have seen the future, April 7, 2003
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Keir H. Fogarty "funkarty" (fort collins, colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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The song Bill's Dream on this album introduced me to Miles Davis (its a cover of "in a silent way")--and when I discovered the genius of Miles through MC 900, I thought "typical"--why? because Miles was one of the premier explorers of jazz (along with St. John Coltrane)--he invented an entirely new vocabulary in jazz--MC 900 Ft. Jesus, or Mark Griffin, needs to be recognized for what he has brought to the musical vocabulary of music--he combines such homages to the past as "Stare and Stare" and "Bill's Dream" with daring new excursions into the frontiers of jazz's vocabulary--people call this hiphop, but I really think that Mark Griffin is more of a jazz musician influenced by hiphop and techno/industrial--just as Miles Davis was influenced by rock and roll to create fusion--the one thing I would lament on this album, even though I like the track, is that I think "If I only had a brain" might have sprung from pressure by American records on MC 9-0-0 to come out with a hit single--notice that MC 9-0-0 hasn't come out with a record since this one? thats sometimes the story of an artist and a label having differences in opinion--the artist can't do what they want, they can't get out of their contract--and so they stop making music--we then become deprived of a unique and important voice in modern music--regardless of its record company woes, this album is still a daring excursion into the borderlands of the jazz format that largely succeeds--not to mention MC 9-0-0 has some of the most clever, intelligent lyrics of modern music
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