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Track Listings
| 1 | Sonnet no. 3 (Like A Duck) |
| 2 | Hung Up |
| 3 | The Object |
| 4 | A Good Day To Be You |
| 5 | Baby Elephant Rock-a-bye |
| 6 | What A Bringdown |
| 7 | Only A Rose pt. I |
| 8 | My Bad Seed |
| 9 | The Devil Went Down To Silverlake |
| 10 | Soft Velvety 'Fer |
| 11 | The Baby That Was You |
| 12 | 3 Turntables & 2 Microphones |
| 13 | Only A Rose pt. II |
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While MC Honky's origins lie in the playful fringes of alt rock, I Am the Messiah crosses over into downright goofiness. Mixing post-big beat dance with cocktail lounge-style clichés, Honky (an nom de plume for a veteran recording artist) manages both the anything-goes spirit of Beck and the weird science of Esquivel. None of it is remotely serious and occasionally becomes tiresome in its overzealous drive to be clever. Still, Honkys soulfulness and strong songwriting comes through in even the deeply silly "A Good Day to Be You" and "What a Bringdown." Honkys musical gifts are just as obvious here as in his other gig, and the effortless fun he serves up on Messiah should appeal to attentive fans as well as casual newcomers. --Matthew Cooke
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(Spinart) I Am the Messiah is a bold statement for a debut artist but it might make slightly more sense when you realize that youre actually hearing seasoned veteran, E of the Eels. Under the moniker MC Honky, E displays a masterful, if not messianic ability to splice dance beats, samples, live instrumentation and vocals into comical, absurd and sometimes heartrending tracks. "A Good Day to Be You" instructs fragile egos "Look into the mirror, its a good day to be you, aww yeah" as strings swell and cascade. "Soft Velvety Fer" captures the opposite mood. The vocals are an answering machine message left by a neurotic woman (who sounds like the woman on the Eels "Manchild" from Beautiful Freak) who wants to quit taking the anti-depressant Zoloft. Set to jazzy percussion and guitar, the womans plight is ridiculous until her fear of her own mind becomes palpable and unnerving. Whatever name its under, E manages to illuminate lifes dark comedy.
Christina Saraceno -- From URB Magazine
Product details
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 3.3 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Spin Art
- Date First Available : January 17, 2007
- Label : Spin Art
- ASIN : B00008KAAG
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #291,075 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,002 in Experimental Rap (CDs & Vinyl)
- #5,869 in Pop Rap (CDs & Vinyl)
- #121,668 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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So lots of samples, voice-over type narrations, with E does singing some regular type vocals, but the musical bed is very Eels, full of the melodies & musicianship you expect from an Eels albums.
So even though it’s classed as an E side project, if you like the music The Eels you will enjoy this album, in fact if it had been released as Eels album not many eyebrows would have been raised.
I wonder if that the guy on the album cover is E's father.
It is also my understanding, given that I work for a company that has a music company attached to it, that there are quite a few people I work with whom claim to know for "a fact" that MC Honky is indeed Mark Oliver Everett (Aka E) of the Eels (who consequentially basically IS the Eels because they have had a semi revolving cast of "other" musicians and he's the main mainstay)...
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So lots of samples, voice-over type narrations, with E does singing some regular type vocals, but the musical bed is very Eels, full of the melodies & musicianship you expect from an Eels albums.
So even though it’s classed as an E side project, if you like the music The Eels you will enjoy this album, in fact if it had been released as Eels album not many eyebrows would have been raised.
I wonder if that the guy on the album cover is E's father.
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