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Sancho's Turn-Ons - Crazy Town - V. 1.0
Nov. 25, 2000
by SANCHOWILL
Welcome one and all to the resurrection. The prophecies
have been fulfilled. Sancho has returned to inherit the
underground. I’m sure that many of you reading this are
unfamiliar with my work, for those of you that are
familiar with it…rush it to the next paragraph. OK, the
low down in Five words. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC!!!!! I
will hook ya up with the freshest, tightest, and most
talented musical artists and bands immerging on the rock
scene (term used loosely). Get the music before the
radio does, or at least before the radio absolutely
crams it down your throat to the point that you’re sick
of it. For my re-introductory column here, you will
notice the sub-titles above each paragraph. This is a
“one time” thing just to show you the basic format of my
column. Anyway, read on to get the complete concept.
My Artist/Band Discovery
First off, I wish I could apologize for not turning you
on since the conception of this website, but frankly
there hasn’t been shit worthy of a “turn-on” in a long,
long time. I’ve been hard pressed to turn you on to “A
Perfect Circle”. Definitely a noteworthy band, but I
just don’t see them getting much bigger than they
already are. However, I did recently see an interview
with their drummer, I forget his name but do your
homework and you can figure it out. Anyway, he’s played
for numerous bands. Some more notable ones are “The
Vandals” and “Devo” among many, many others. I was quite
impressed. Anyway, I’m not turning you on to them. Nope,
not this time. This time your “turn-on” is “Crazytown”.
Anyone who lives here in the L.A. basin and listens to
106.7 KROQ has probably heard their single “Butterfly”.
I haven’t really listened to KROQ in the past couple
weeks but last time I checked in, that song was on the
“Let’s play the fuck out of this song and make everyone
come to hate it” play-list. Luckily for me (and you),
before I could become deterred by heavy rotation, I
caught on to this bands groove immediately. I had a
feeling that there was something special about this band
straight up, so I went directly to Napsterland and
downloaded a couple more of their songs. You know, songs
the radio will NEVER play. (sidenote: you will come to
learn that I’m not too fond of the way most radio
stations conduct themselves by abusing and/or misusing
their power. And that goes for MTV too.) Anyway, I gave
the freshly downloaded songs a listen. Afterward, all I
could say is “gimme more” . So I took full advantage of
Napsterville (while it’s still free) and got the rest of
their debut CD, “The Gift Of Game”, downloaded onto my
hardrive. Now I’m proving to myself that I’m a total
freakin’ hypocrite (but on a higher level) because
Crazytown is now in heavy rotation at my house. I’m
cramming them down my own throat. But hey, at least I
put the entire CD in heavy rotation, and for good
reason, they fuckin jam. Damn, ok…… I’ve been going on
about my personal discovery experience and I haven’t
even given any thought to tell you what their style is
like.
Get To Know The Band
As you already know, the band is named “Crazytown”. This
7 piece band call the mean streets of metropolitan Los
Angeles home. I’m guessing that’s somewhere on the west
side of L.A.. They don’t look like they’re from South
Central or East L.A.. Anyway, They have a very
interesting, intense, and catchy style. The vocals, for
the most part, can be dubbed as rap. (personal thought:
I’ve come to the conclusion that the degree of what you
might personally call “rap”, has a direct correlation to
how “white” you are. Don’t be offended by that, it’s
merely a white boyz observation of other white boyz.
Equally, age has a lot to do with this notion.) As I was
saying, the “rappy” lyrics sing mostly about partying
and “da bitches” and are heavily responsible for setting
the ”get down and party hardy” tone of this disc. The
lyrics are honestly good and really catchy. They lay
perfectly over the hard and heavy edged guitars,
interesting sounds, scratching, and hip-hoppish, at
times almost funkadelic, rhythms and melodies. The
musical arrangements help to separate this band from all
others and shine bright. The instrumental side of their
music could stand on its own. It’s that good, so good
that you’ll find yourself bobbing your head along with
the music. (and hopefully your girlfriend’s too) In my
opinion, and this whole column is my opinion, it’s a
must have for the upcoming winter house parties and I
wouldn’t be surprised one bit to see it carry on even
stronger into the spring and summer of 2001as their fan
base grows and they creep into superstar status. I’m
predicting that as the weather starts warming up again,
you will hear Crazytown blaring out of peoples cars
driving down the street.
The Single "Butterfly"
And the most important thing of all
Sound Samples Samples of all Crazytown songs are
available in wav. and Real Audio format
TURN SANCHO
ON!
@ http://www.crazytown.com/The Single “Butterfly” |
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