Unfinished Monkey Business

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 19 April 2013 - 9:20pm

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Artist:

Ian Brown

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a_132

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Year:

1 998

Release-year:

1998

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Track-listing:

Intro Under The Paving Stones: The Beach*My Star*Can't See Me*Ice Cold Cube*Sunshine*Lions*Corpses In Their Mouths*What Happened To Ya Part 1*What Happened To Ya Part 2*Nah Nah*Deep Pile Dreams*Unfinished Monkey Business

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Nominator:

Rich

meeting-ID:

m_50

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

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Short-title:

monkeyBusiness

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Thursday, 23 May 2013

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Wikipedia-URL:

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

2

6

A tricky album to review now as it already sounds so dated, but putting it into its original context I don't think this is a bad offering. The album picks up from where the Roses were at their best with My Star and Can't See Me being typical Roses '89 style tracks.

Overall though I think the album does run out of quality. The backing musicians can't match what he was used to, and in turn his vocals don't get the protection they previously got, and it all sounds a bit exposed. Quite listenable, but not memorable.
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Sounds a bit unfinished indeed, Monkey Man!

7

6

A bit of a mess, sounds like it was tossed off in a week, with some of the worst drum machine 'programming' i've ever heard. But there are also glimmers of how good he can be - which is basically to sound like The Stone Roses.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

There are no monkeys in England

3

2-6-12

The more enjoyable tracks on here I found to actually be those in a more typical Stone Roses style – if you know my views on Stone Roses then you'll probably realise that isn't exactly praising this album. But I also probably wanted to dislike this more than I managed to, which I guess is.

He did try a few bits and pieces of ideas – random bits of drum machines / sequencing, an ill-fitting Garbage / Dubstar cast-off (Lions, which I find almost unlistenably bad), along with the more typical stuff – which made the feel overall a bit sketchy and even half-arsed, at times. The album as a whole felt a bit like someone unsure of a direction to take their work. The stronger / more typical pieces don’t quite do it for me anyway, lyrics like 'She’s got corpses in here mouth / but she’s still holding hands with you' say nothing to me about my life, to coin a phrase. Really nothing much to recommend on this one.