Artist.......: Lee Scratch Perry
Album........: Panic In Babylon
Label........: Narnack
Genre........: Reggae
Catnr........: 7037
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Sep-26-2006
str.date.....: Aug-22-2006
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
cd1
01. Rastafari 04:12
02. Purity Rock 04:59
03. Pussy Man 05:19
04. Fight To The Finish 06:30
05. Voodoo 06:19
06. Panic In Babylon 07:37
07. Perry┤s Ballad 06:31
08. I Am A Psychiatrist 05:21
09. Inspector Gadget 2004 03:51
10. Are You Coming Home ? 05:09
11. Baby Krishna 05:16
12. Greetings 05:02
13. Devil Dead Live 04:38
cd2
01. Panic In Babylon - Dave Sitek 07:32
(TV On The Radio)
02. Purity Rock - DJ Spooky (vocal version) 04:29
03. Purity Rock - DJ Spooky (instrumental) 04:28
Runtime 87:13 min
Size 122,1 MB
Release Notes:
Yes, he's a genius, and yes, he's probably
certifiably nuts, and yes, that combination of
genius and insanity has now yielded several decades
of absolutely brilliant (if notoriously
inconsistent) music. And yes again, it's true that
most of what has come out under his name in the
last seven or eight years has been a big
disappointment. But the latest album from Lee
"Scratch" Perry is a brilliant return to form. On
Panic in Babylon he's teamed up with the White
Belly Rats, a Swiss reggae band with an uncommon
ability to simultaneously stir up rich, dense
reggae grooves and put the focus squarely on Perry
and his sometimes incoherent, sometimes brilliant,
sometimes hilarious ravings. Things come together
in a perfect storm of reggae power on "Fight to the
Finish," with its gorgeous chorus and
stomach-churning dubwise groove, and on the
ferocious "Baby Krishna," on which a swinging
one-drop beat underpins Perry's invocations of
Hindu deities, American presidents and Babylonian
destruction. Not everything is equally brilliant ù
"Pussy Man" is one of Perry's most threadbare
conceits ù but when he invites you to "have a Perry
salad/For this is Perry ballad" halfway through the
album, you'll be more than willing to take him up
on the offer.