RE: US 3

Michael Aregood (maregood@comcastpc.com)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:04:12 -0400


I bought the single and i haven't been able find the urge to play it
out. I don't know what i was thinking when i listened to it and still
forked out the cash for it. I don't think i can use any better
adjectives to come up with a more accurate description.

Sophmoric, dull, and robotic pretty mutch sum it up.

Argo

> ----------
> From: Steve "Chili" Grebanier
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 1997 11:09 AM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: US 3
>
> OK, I just picked up the new US3 album and I have to say it "NO SIR, I
> DON'T LIKE IT!"
>
> Man, talk about a sterile, rigidly sequenced, poorly produced,
> uninspiring, and stilted sophmore attempt. Complete with dull rap,
> boring solos and robotic grooves.
>
> Now, I'm not saying I totally loved their first outing, but it was
> good
> and compared to this, it's a masterpiece!
>
> It's a shame, because (for some reason) this is one of the few acid
> jazz
> projects that the "mainstream" media actually pays some attention to.
>
> Man, it could be so much more! Lord knows why Blue Note gives these
> guys
> access to their vaults, insted of someone who understands "groove". (I
> guess it's because their 1st album was the highest selling album in
> Blue
> Note history)
>
> Nuff said
>
> Chili
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