Welcome to My Dream (+2 bonus tracks & video) [Enhanced, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

MC 900 Ft. Jesus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B0000931QV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,914 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Falling Elevators

2. Killer Inside Me

3. Adventures In Failure

4. The City Sleeps

5. O-Zone

6. Hearing Voices In One's Head

7. Dali's Handgun

8. Dancing Barefoot

9. Meat Beat Manifestation #2

10. Killer Long Version

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual...in a good way., May 5, 2003

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:L. Miller (Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to My Dream (Audio CD)

MC 900 Foot Jesus was (is?) Mark Griffin, a Texas musician who created some fascinating jazz-electronic fusion before basically disappearing in the mid-90's (creatively, not in a bassist-from-Iron-Butterfly-way). He was classically trained (played trumpet for a while in the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra,masters in music from...UT-Austin? Texas A&M? Sorry, can't recall) and it showed in all of his singles and albums.

His moniker was from an incident involving Oral Roberts, (keep your smart remarks to yourself) a Pentecostal minister who once had a vision of a 900 foot tall Jesus giving him encouragement over fundraising efforts to build a medical center when donors were hard to find.

He (the rapper, not Oral Roberts) did like to sample but always laid a nice beat around it, <SOAPBOX>unlike Poof Dummy who calls copy&pasting a Led Zeppelin song into an incomprehensible rap "inventing the remix."</SOAPBOX> This is the second of from what I can tell are three albums (along with a lot of singles and remixes).

This album is really hard to describe. More techno than jazz, more jazz than modern Chemical Brothers flavor of techno. Maybe if the Prodigy had been a jazz combo with a sample box or if Moby liked jazz a little more.

The album ranges from nice atmospheric numbers like "Falling Elevators" to dark raps like "While the City Sleeps" and "The Killer Inside Me" to interesting, funny, but not really categorizable stuff like "Adventures in Failure".

I had a tape of this album but wore it out with repeated playing. I see there's a new mastered version coming out today (serendipity?), I will buy it, hopefully they have not Jackassified the dark lyrics. It's perfect music for those rainy summer days of indeterminate purpose or long drives, something to be listened to over headphones while staring out the window (for those who have that luxury).

Five stars. Check it out.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alternative Hip Hop: Must Have, November 5, 2005

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Drew Duece-Tre "D23" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to My Dream (+2 bonus tracks & video) (Audio CD)

I have to admit, my exposure to MC 900 FT Jesus was one of random chance. It was back in the day when most record stores didn't have a RAP section and the term HIP HOP had yet to become ubiquitous to the genre.

I was living in Boston and my friends and I would spend time browsing the RAP section at Tower records. Two of us picked up "Hell with the Lid Off". To this day, it still amazes me that the rap section is where this album ended up being classified.

This was also a time when true hip hop fans broke down and analyzed the beats, samples and lyrics. After the dissection was complete, my friends and I were all blown away at the complete uniqueness of the album. (I mean, really... who else was layering rough, killer hip hop beats under the incoherent ramblings of a mental patient?!)

I continued to follow the musical career of MC 900ft Jesus with the purchase of "Welcome to My Dream". The album begins with the Miles Davis influenced track "Falling Elevators". It's a song in which the lyrics are equally as haunting as the music. WARNING: Paranoid schizophrenics - avoid listening to this song for the first time while driving on the highway!

Next, the "Killer Inside Me" paints a vivid tail of a serial killer hunting his/her prey. The juxtaposition of this song right after, the spoken word, Elevators provides a great insight into the contrasting styles of this artist and made me wonder - was I listening to the music of a genius or a certifiable Lee Harvey Oswald-type?

My favorite track is the "City Sleeps". I recall living in NJ and listening to Howard Stern interview MC 900ft Jesus about this song, because it had generated a fair share of early 90's hysteria due to the story line of an arsonist on the prowl. The combination of rap, 808, jazz and the perfectly placed sample of "lit `em up like the 4th of July" create a song that sounds as fresh and creative today as it did the day this album dropped.

Right after this album came out, I had the pleasure of seeing MC 900ft Jesus live in NYC at the Limelight. Although unaccredited on subsequent album, DJ Zero performed with him. The show mixed live trumpet playing, rap and a liberal mix of a pre-Scott Wielend use of a bullhorn. It was a musical treat that culminated with DJ Zero's turntable-IZM skills of cutting up the Poor Righteous Teachers sample "...cause...cause I'm on top of this" as he literally climbed on top of the table as he cut the lyrics with his hands, elbows and knees.

I recently began dumping my CD collection to my IPOD and spent the better part of 20 minutes on the genre field attempting to place this album and MC 900 ft Jesus' others. Ultimately, I opted for "UNCLASSIFIABLE" - and that's a great thing.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Different, but very good, February 20, 2004

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t-boogie "spokesman of the streets" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to My Dream (+2 bonus tracks & video) (Audio CD)

I first heard of this guy on alternative radio stations back in 1989. I remember really liking it because it was pretty off the wall, and it was the kind of angry music that walked the tightrope between sincerity and irony way before the days where irony permeated nearly every facet of our lives. This guy was a little too ahead of his time, I think audiences of today would appreciate him.

He's got the vague angry-at-the world feeling of a Linkin Park or Eminem, beats that range from funky wah-wah to sinister electronic thumping, and funny storytelling in the form of absurdist rap. There are quite a few brilliant moments on the album, particularly the monologue on "Dali's Handgun."

All in all, this is a pretty fun and bizarre album that doesn't take itself too seriously, yet is still of great quality.