Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Demagogue
2. Good Grief!
3. No Honestly!
4. Alienated
5. Candy Strip Exp
6. Selfsufficient Snake
7. Chitchat, (Some)
8. Burnt up Cigarette
9. Selfstyled
10. Mugshot
11. Hangout
12. Downer
13. Demagogue
14. Demagogue
DISC 2:
1. Mugshot
2. Good Grief
3. Some Chitchat
4. Boyz in Bandz
5. On the Downlow
6. Brainstorm on the U.D.S.
7. Prayer For My Demo
8. Alienated
9. Candy Strip Experience
10. Demagogue
11. Selfsufficient Snake
12. Hangout
13. No Honestly
14. Downer
| Details | | Producer: | Phil Nicolo, Stiff Johnson | | Distributor: | Navarre | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes a bonus live disc from the PERSONA NON GRATA tour.
Urban Dance Squad: Patrick "Rude Boy" Tilon (vocals); Rene "Tres Manos" Van Barneveld (guitar); Silvano "Sil" Matadin (bass); Michel "Magic Stick" Schoots.
Recorded at Ridge Farm Studios, Sussex, England and Studio 4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Urban Dance Squad: Rudeboy (vocals); Tres Manos (guitar, lap steel guitar, background vocals); Sil (bass guitar, sound effects, background vocals); Magic Stick (drums, background vocals).
The Urban Dance Squad's penultimate album was also its most heavily metal-influenced. "Demagogue," the album's opener and centerpiece, is an utterly bracing concoction of raw-throated rap and spare, bright metal guitar, all underlaid with minimalist funk drums. That formula remains basically unaltered throughout the rest of the album -- "Good Grief," "(Some) Chitchat" and "Selfstyled" all step to the same stripped-down hip-hop beat. It starts sounding pretty samey by the end, of course, but taken in measured doses, the funky beats are guaranteed to move your booty, while the roaring guitars clear your sinuses. It's too bad DJ DNA was no longer in the band by this point; his turntable scratching would have given a welcome additional dimension to the sound. Bonuses abound: like the original release, this one features two hidden tracks, one a remix and the other a live version of "Demagogue." This reissue also adds a bonus live disc. ~ Rick Anderson
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