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Take Ecstacy With Me / Get Up

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If you're reading this review, you've probably already heard !!!'s breakthrough single "Me and Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard". This is that song's prettier cousin. Whereas Giuliani followed a grimy bass riff and a "boom-chicka-boom" chorus through 9 minutes of dancehall bliss, "Take Ecstasy With Me" meanders from that dirty disco beat to lush orchestration and back again in its 7 minutes and 41 seconds. At times, I almost could swear I was listening to a Doves outtake, but then that !!! sound crept right back in. As for the B-side, "Get Up", Nate Dogg has never sounded this good. !!! takes a pretty generic rap track, builds a new beat, makes the vapid lyrics not only listenable, but very danceable. Watch for it, coming soon to a club near you.
Overall, "Take Ecstasy With Me" isn't the greatest single to come out this year, but it will definitely get your booty moving, or at least your feet tapping, and isn't that why you're listening to this type of music in the first place?

The b side on this albumn is really amazing. I find myself listening to it over and over. It begins rather conventionaly, with a heavy beat and a convincing, unironic delivery of otherwise silly gangsta lyrics "I'm on my way to the liquor store With E-V-E and my nigga Roast".

With the stage set, !!! slowly and clevery begins to mutate the format of the song. Three minutes in, the tempo shifts gears into a hypnotic dance beat. It lasts long enough to be enjoyed until the guitar feed back overwhelms the dance beat and eventualy disrupts it. From 5 minutes on, the song devolves into near complete chaos.

Totally unrecognizable from the beginning of the song, the listener is jabbed at with angular guitars, feedback and mutilated vocals. This is all done on top of a driving primal drum beat that makes the song operate like its part of a tribal battle ritual.

I only hope that they continue in this vein if they release a full legnth. This, however could be a flash in the pan. !!!'s main weakness: Nic Offers corny and rude lyrics, were nicely replaced with Nate Dogg's this time. Though cover songs worked well for an EP, I can't imagine an entire album of cover songs being a good idea.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

but this is still a damn cool release by !!!. They seem to have been listening to a lot of Stone Roses and/or Happy Mondays lately, because both songs have an early 90s Manchester ("Madchester") vibe to them. This is a cool little twist to the !!! sound, and could be a sign of some pretty cool things to come. Definitely worth checking out.