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I Am The Messiah

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MC Honky Format: Audio CD

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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.

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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

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AlabamaHotPocket

We Want More Genius MC Honky

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023

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Great CD. MC Honky is a pimp.

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Peter Moreland

Awesome Eels!

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2022

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Awesome Eels! nuff said

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Sleepyhead

Amazing, fresh, I'm in love---

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2003

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MC Honky really is some kind of messiah--the word genius doesn't quite seem to define him. After months of musical boredom---this wonderful cd made it's way onto my cd player yesterday and I can't stop playing it. Check this out if you like early Beck--I think he's a better comparison than the Eels are. But to compare MC to anyone is not totally possible either--just buy it and listen, you'll see.

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Jimi Jac

In the Lap of the Gods

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2015

I think drawing from the same creative well as Beck’s “Odelay” (E even sings a bit of “Where it’s at” on “Three turntables..”, although Beck also sampled the song).
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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jbembe

Quirky and Lovely

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2003

So, some of my favorite albums contain the weirdest music available, such as Incredible Moses Leroy (Electric Pocket Radio), Beck singles (Halo of Gold), Grandaddy (Our Dying Brains) to name a few. Well this album certaintly fills out my need for more of the quirky music in my collection. Like a Duck is great (check out the video online) and is quite a musical jubilation. Should we discuss Beck influences? Besides the obvious 3 turntables and 2 microphones, Hung Up has the same sort of sweet flow that Beck's "Clock" has, oh yeah. What a Bringdown is another Highlight, as well as "My Bad Seed" -I'm kinda stuck on "My Bad Seed" actually. "The Baby That Was You" is extremely weird, and almost sounds like it samples a NIN song of all things: The Perfect Drug. While the lyrics are beyond stupid, the song works just by juxtaposing the NIN beat with the lyrics and some other cool effects (barking dogs, crying babies, cell phones, lalala choirs, etc.) The rest is kinda filler: "Soft Velvety 'Fer" is a weird monologue with someone leaving messages on answering machines like the scene found in Swingers, but the culprit is a female in this one and the stuff is much more strange. The album is a skewed mess of randomly cool music, check it out.

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Adam P Boots

regarding questions about the Eels and MC Honky

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2007

This is taken from Wikipedia: "MC Honky is a stage persona whose only album release is I Am the Messiah. Although supposedly a middle-age disc jockey from Silverlake, California, MC Honky is promoted by and widely considered to be Mark Oliver Everett (or "E") of Eels. Aside from their commercial association, it has been noted that "E=MC Honky" bears some relation to E=mc²."

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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Jessie

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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2003

oh my, this is SUCH a wonderful album. it mixes that lovely eels goodness in with weird old self-help recordings. Koool G Murder's appearance in "a good day to be you" is hilarious, "sonnet no. 3" is rocktastic, and the album is overall really fun and well made. it just makes me happy. I feel like E has more freedom when not under the name eels, and he's really wonderfully creative on "i am the messiah"....... *cough* I mean...he would be if it were he that made the album. MC Honky is not E. MC Honky is a former janitor. I swear...

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Jimi Jac

In the Lap of the Gods

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2015

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Leonard pink

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2021

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Great cd

Mr Philip B Keber

So enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019

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This is classic CD a must

kw.

Tolles Album

Reviewed in Germany on February 24, 2013

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Als Eels-Fan schaue ich immer wieder mal nach älteren Werken von Mark Everett. Diese sind zumeist unbezahlbar, aber dieses Album ist nicht nur bezahlbar, es ist auch enorm gut gelungen. Jeder Eels-Fan wird daran seine Freude haben.

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james darren finnerty

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2016

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good quality cd ,speedy delivery ,great

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