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Rating: If you're looking for the sound of Tricky's early records in this 2001 work, you certainly won't find it. The only points of contact with his recent past refer only to "Nearly God" for the multitude of collaborations present and for the enthusiastic spirit and energy that Tricky has put into it just like at the beginning of his career. This album represents a new starting point for Adrian Thaws in the true sense of the word, as many things have changed since his previous work "Juxtapose" (1999): new lifestyle (eats only organic), new record label (from the major Island to the indie Anti-Epitaph), and new manager. If this does not influence the creation of an album, I don't know what could!?
As stated in several interviews, Tricky expresses the desire to speak to anyone and not create, as in the past, musical discrimination; he wants to be more universal, not only for the variety of styles present in "Blowback" but also for the brightness of many tracks. New sounds are explored 360 degrees: Rock, Hip Hop, Raggamuffin' and, of course, the touch of Tricky's magic wand that makes the album utterly personal, unique, pure. An hybrid that by its very nature escapes any possible classification, just Tricky.
The beautiful piano of "Excess" opens the dance with the collaboration of Alanis Morissette and Stephanie Mckay; here Tricky gives us a more traditional piece than usual if only in its structure, complete with a chorus ("...i believe in people lying, i believe in people dying..."). The first single "Evolution-Revolution Love," featuring Ed Kowalczyk from Live and a talented Reggae artist Hawkman, sounds as if a sound war is just beginning. We find Hawkman again (and will find him later) in "Over Me" along with the album's undisputed first lady Ambersunshower, who duets with Tricky in the melodious and decadent lullaby "Your Name" ("...one live as two, two live as one under the mango tree...") and in the astounding "You Don't Wanna," sampling the quintessence of the electronic piece ("Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics). The sunlight arrives with the Californian sound due to the entrance of half the Red Hot formation: "Girls" is a piece in pure "Peppers" style, with Tricky clashing in a Hip Hop battle with Anthony Kiedis while Frusciante splits between this piece and the reprise of Wonder Woman's intro " #1 Da Five" with Flea on bass for an indisputably Funky track full of pure delirium. There are many tracks with Hawkman: "Give it To'Em" and "Diss Never(Dig Up We History)" are Raggamuffin' gems where the spirit of the Jamaican slums can be perfectly perceived, with a plethora of inhuman laments. "Bury The Evidence," the most beautiful piece on the album, releases a tension comparable only to "Pre-Millennium Tension" with the explosion of a Metal guitar towards the end, orgasmic. The cover of Nirvana's "Something In the Way" is even more distressing and claustrophobic and undoubtedly more of a "trip" than the original. Directly from the 80s, Cyndi Lauper sings in the polluted "Five Days," repeating incessantly ("...the five to fours i can't take it no more...") between electric shocks and blackouts. In "A Song For Yukiko," he duets with Yukiko Takahashi and sings in Japanese, cradled by a piano improvisation.
The beautiful cover by Anton Corbijn perfectly synthesizes the spirit of the album and the title (-to blow -smoke weed); indeed, passing the smoke from one mouth to another is a very "sensual and generous" gesture, just like this album.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Excess (04:46)
I believe in
Eye deceivin'
Bob 'n weavin'
I can breathe in
Make a wish in
Flower fishing
Moving vibration
Mild relation
I'm jamaican on your radio station
Got a curse in
Could be worse in
You first
In a hearse in
Good as dead in
Nothing left in
Nothing left in
Some be heading
I need a head rest in
And a feed from a warm breast
A man making hits
With my child-bearing hips
Underground like
Who's it sound like
You all sound the same
But you don't know my name
I believe in people lying
I believe in people dying
I believe in people trying
I believe in people crying
I believe in people balking
I believe in people talking
I believe in people breathing
I believe in people being
We all sound the same
You don't know my name
Rearrange and
Things don't change
Things remain
Feel the strain
Stress
Catch my breath
(There'll be a new tale of)
Get some rest
(He and I)
From the mess
(In fact any time)
I couldn't care less
(Every day)
Sugar cane
(Write fictional stories)
Is like smack to my vein
Shook fame
(If you want to)
But I don't complain
(On the street)
I believe in different reasons
I believe in breath through seasons
I believe when snow flakes fall
I believe in buildings tall
I believe in people bombing
I believe in people warring
I believe diseases coming
I believe that's why I'm running
Keep living
Keep living
You gotta ask
(There'll be a new tale of)
Before he attacks
(He and I)
You got the flats
(In fact any time)
Dub my sacks
(Every day)
You've got the city
(Writing fictional stories)
Move out of the country
I'm scrunching
(If you want to)
Friends that are punchy
(On the street)
I believe in people falling
I believe in people warring
I believe diseases coming
I believe that's why I'm running
I believe in people balking
I believe in people talking
I believe in people breathing
I believe in people being
Keep living(X6)
02 Evolution Revolution Love (04:14)
Tricky :
Now that you got it right
Bring love and itll make it alright
Bring love and well take it tonite
Now that you got it right
Who wants the sinner
Coming round for dinner
Who needs effects
Who needs to pay for sex
When they drop the bomb?
Who will stay calm
Blood would spill
Who would you kill?
Ed kowalczyk :
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
(has just begun)
Has just begun
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
Has just begun
Hawkman :
Walking down the street with my little rude gun
Top of my gun pocket for fun
Block on my tongue
Top of my earth
Tip of my birth
Top of my earth
Tip of my breast
Top of my chest
Tip of my guess
Ive got the singles
I got the jingles
Bet you eat pringles with chris kringles
Walking on the road with my little rude gun
Ed kowalczyk :
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
(has just begun)
Has just begun
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
Has just begun
Tricky :
Stepping on the street with my little rude girl
Tip of my toes
Top of my world
Top of my earth
Top of my rock
Tip of my block
Now that you got it right
Bring love and Ill make it alright
Bring love and well take it tonite
Now that you got it right
Ed kowalczyk :
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
(has just begun)
Has just begun
Hawkman :
She was born in the ghetto
Outside the bronx
In a project blocks
Where time stands still
It dont tick it dont tock
Top of my sun
Keep all my love
Top of my chest
Tip of my breast
Top of my earth
Walking on the road
With my soul in my hand
Tip on my toes
Top of my span
Ed kowalczyk :
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
(revolution has just begun)
Has just begun
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
Has just begun
Just begun
Just begun
Ed kowalczyk :
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mind
This revolution
(has just begun)
Has just begun
Now that I understand this right
Let me take it to the mike
This revolution
(has just begun)
Has just begun
Now that youve got it right
04 Girls (04:23)
Tricky:
Girls, Boys
Girls wish you never had boys
They grow up to be bad boys
Cry I've never had boys
Never seen your dad boy
I've never seen my dad boy
Without the Roy
And when my career stops kicking
I'm gonna stick him
Anthony Kiedis:
Rock-a-dub now let me show you where it's at boy
Just a puppet and you grew into a fat boy
Make a dog and you chase another cat boy
Blow it up and let me show you where its at boy
Tricky:
Girls wish you never had boys
They grow up to be bad boys
Cry I've never had boys
Never seen your dad boy
I've never seen my dad boy
Without the Roy
And when my career stops kicking
I'm gonna stick him
Anthony Kiedis:
Staring through the sun tell your devil beware
I am not the son of your family affair
Baby breaks away and I've got my face in my hand
Genetics from my gun, trust me I don't care
Tricky:
I don't need no man
Little boys
Anthony Kiedis:
Rappa rouser, bappa bouser
Shake it for me baby let me step into your trousers
I allow this
Come on baby let me take to the houses
I allow this
This is now and you better bow this
This is now and you better bow this
This is now and you better bow this
Anthony Kiedis & Tricky:
Staring through the sun tell your devil beware (jamaica's skirts and blouses)
I am not the son of your family affair (he didn't rob his houses)
Baby breaks away and I've got my face in my hand (fuck the biological)
Genetics from my gun, trust me I don't care
Tricky:
I don't need no man
Little boys
Tricky:
I'm not a fire starter
Cause I'm a little smarter
Smarter than the average bear
I don't care family's there
John Frusciante:
Rock-a-dub now let me show you where it's at boy
Just a puppet and you grew into a fat boy
Make a dog and you chase another cat boy
Blow it up and let me show you where it's at boy
Anthony Kiedis & Tricky:
Staring through the sun tell your devil beware (jamaica's skirts and blouses)
I am not the son of your family affair (he didn't rob his houses)
Baby breaks away and I've got my face in my hand (fuck the biological)
Genetics from my gun, trust me I don't care
I don't care
(repeated)
06 #1 Da Woman (02:42)
She's malicous
as some delicious
supersticious super susupicous
Wonder woman(x4)
You just rewind
And you just be fine
you just be fine
and you just be mine
you just rewind
you just be fine
you just be mine
and you just be mine
John Frusciante:
Chorus:
You show me everything
You feel me everywhere
You pretend that you care
Do you care?
I fit to fall through time
I knew you weren't mine
I shine light through the sky
One thing I try and try
Capture my world
I'll lose love when I force the flew
Being will never be
Honey remmember me
Tricky:
So tuck you hair behind you ears,
Your tears and your silly fears
I'll be your teddy bear
you choose the clothes I wear
For you I'll suffer much pain,
sharp glass my brain,
For you I lose, lose my focus
For you I swim, swim in locusts
John Frusciante:
Chorus
Everytime I am you
I feel forever changed,
Posing along the beat,
Keeping the chemistry
I way myself right down
Always I never found
I'm raging off so tight,
Feeling low feeling high
Chorus
Tricky:
Here I remain
She don't know my name
Would she love me
If I had real fame
I feel bad pain
Here come that rain
I don't complain
She's too complex
Tell me your name
Is that your real sex
07 Your Name (03:39)
Your name
Tricky and Ambersunshower:
If you like-a-me,
like I like-a-you
And we like-a-both the same,
I like-a say,
this very day,
I like-a-change your name.
'Cause I love-a-you
and love-a-you true
And if you-a love-a-me.
One live as two,
two live as one
Under the mango tree
If you like-a-me,
like I like-a-you
And we like-a-both the same,
I like-a say,
this very day,
I like-a-change your name.
'Cause I love-a-you
and love-a-you true
And if you-a love-a-me.
One live as two,
two live as one
Under the mango tree
08 Diss Never (Dig Up We History) (02:52)
Diss never
Hawkman:
A yes a little boy come try and diss way
I must say one little different and case
And with so little force right now try and come this way
A marathon a go put it to waste
Them want no more
They shoulda dug up we history
Cause war them live them shoulda now
That it no safe
Ex amount a body da is unsolved mystery
It just a phone call close the case
But when them missing
Them can hold bad man responsible
But a true that a bad man job is invisible
But when them missing them can hold marathon responsible
But a true that a bad man job invisible
But after me da pan me corner chill
Here so little boy a injured and killed
They must want issued and feel well
Well so little boy don't even have no will
Unfortunately we take care of them bill
Then never have a find them information skill
Now no batty boy find that ill
But when them missing
Them can hold bad man responsible
But a true that a bad man job is invisible
But when them missing them can hold marathon responsible
But a true that a bad man job invisible
A yes a little boy come try and diss way
I must say one little different and case
And with so little force right now try and come this way
A marathon a go put it to waste
Them want no more
They shoulda dug up we history
Cause war them live them shoulda now
That it no safe
Ex amount a body da is unsolved mystery
It just a phone call close the case
But when them missing
Them can hold bad man responsible
But a true that a bad man job is invisible
But when them missing them can hold marathon responsible
But a true that a bad man job invisible
09 Bury the Evidence (04:55)
Tricky:
(Hawkman in the background)
I can picture it now
You in your car
Left the bar
Playing Big Part
Keep up complainin�
It's probably rainin�
Keeping complaining
It's probably raining
You're gonna visit your car
It's one of my peeps
With a blow to your head
Is that what you need
You're probably bleeding
Is that what you needed
You're probably bleeding
Just like a movie
Just like a movie
Just like a movie
Life doesn't move me
Life doesn't move me
I keep with you now
Here in your car
Left the bar
Playing the Big Part
Keeping complaining
It's probably raining
It's one of my peeps
With a blow to your head
Is that what you needed
What you needed
What you needed
You caught me breathing
It's just like a movie
Life�s just like a movie
It's like a movie
Just like a movie
It doesn't move me
Move me
Move me
It doesn't move me
Life doesn't move
It doesn't move me
Move me
It's like a blow to the head
It's like a blow to my head
It doesn't move me
Move me
Move me
Move me
It doesn't move me
It's like a movie
Just like a movie
Blow to the head
Life�s like a blow to the head
What you needed what you needed what you needed
Life�s like a blow to the head
It's that what you needed
Is that what you needed
What you needed
A blow to the head
Move Me
Move me
It doesn't move
It doesn't move
It's like a movie
Movie Movie
Just like a movie
It doesn't move me
It's like a movie
10 Something in the Way (03:27)
Something in the way
( nirvana cover )
Hawkman :
Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And all the animals I have trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off the grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
It's okay to eat fish
'cause they don't have any feelings
Something in the way
Something in the way
Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And all the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off the grass
And the drippings from my ceiling
It's okay to eat fish
'cause they don't have any feelings
Something in the way
Something in the way
Something in the way
Something in the way
11 Five Days (04:22)
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
Five days
I ran a wolf across highways
In the early spring (don't stop you're gonna break my heart)
The rest of my days
Should I stay should I pray
That I'm here now clear now
Live with the fears
To extend my tears
Shed no have no
Undecided
Five days in which I can't wait now (I need you)
Can't wait now (you needed me)
Bet you can't wait now (whatever happened to compatible two)
Making you wait now
I ran a wolf across highways in the early spring
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
Have I the meanings
I don't think I'm cheating
I create like the windy city (Don't go)
But the drums spread (I told you so)
Here we go with the games now
Maintain now
Might as well have you down now
Five days that you can't wait now (no need to smile)
Making you hate now
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
The five to fours can't take it no more
Bet you can't wait now
Making you wait now
Don't go I told you so
After what you've had
That look on your face you rat
When you talk like that
I just want to get you back
12 Give It to 'Em (03:07)
Voice:
(next message)
Yo, rick, what kind a message you leave over the phone sky
shut up shut up.. murder.
(end of message)
Hawkman:
Bad man give it to them anywhere
From a badness them go program
Them better prepare
Im the hawk with the eagle we no have no fear
Them no have so read ma lips or pull up a chair
(repeat 3 times)
Tell them when shot a tear
Me tell so punk prepare
Having nuclear what we have up in gear
Nuff liquor shot up
....
Bad man give it to them anywhere
From a badness them go program
Them better prepare
Im the hawk with the eagle we no have no fear
Them no have so read ma lips or pull up a chair
(repeat 3 times)
Tricky:
(next message)
Stress for free (? )
They wanna stretch to see
They wanna see the dark
They wanna leave a mark
Dont wanna hear them scream
I wanna lie in my wet dream
Dont wanna go too far
Dont wanna drive my car
Dont wanna die too soon
So I like people to provide with room (? )
Dont wanna move too quick
You wont suck my ....
Dont wanna see strip bars
Dont wanna live in cars
You love to live in large
Live in credit cards
Id like to talk and walk
Id like to move walk (? )
Hawkman:
Bad man give it to them anywhere
From a badness them go program
Them better prepare
Im the hawk with the eagle we no have no fear
Them no have so read ma lips or pull up a chair
(repeat 3 times)
(end of message)
13 A Song for Yukiko (04:10)
A song for yukiko
Yukiko takahashi:
(in japanese)
Tricky :
So if you would put a dress on
Unless you put the stress on
Tuck your hair behind your ears
Your tears, your silly fears
I'd be your teddy bear
You'd choose the clothes I wear
For you I'd suffer much pain
Sharp glass migraine
For you I'd put a stress on
For you I'd put a dress on
For you I'd lose my focus
I'd swim in swarms of locusts
For you I'd swim with ease
Save the planet
Leave the trees
For you I'd put a dress on
A dress to impress on
John suzuki:
(in japanese)
Slowly
Act like you know me
Slowly
Act like you know me
Tricky:
Slowly, slowly
Act like you know me
Slowly, slowly
Act like you know me
So if you would put a dress on
Unless you put the stress on
Tuck your hair behind your ears
Your tears, your silly fears
I'd be your teddy bear
You'd choose the clothes I wear
For you I'd suffer much pain
Sharp glass migraine
For you I'd put a stress on
For you I'd put a dress on
For you I'd lose my focus
I'd swim in swarms of locusts
For you I'd swim with ease
Save the planet
Leave the trees
For you I'd put a dress on
A dress to impress on
John suzuki:
(in japanese)
Tricky:
Slowly, slowly
Act like you know me
Slowly, slowly
Act like you know me
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