Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
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Artist: EverlastEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1998-09-08
Music Label: © 1998 Tommy Boy Music
Soundtracks:
- The White Boy Is Back
- Money (Dollar Bill)
- Ends
- What It's Like
- Get Down
- Sen Dog
- Tired
- Hot To Death
- Painkillers
- Prince Paul
- Praise The Lord
- Today (Watch Me Shine)
- Guru
- Death Comes Callin'
- Funky Beat
- The Letter
- 7 Years
- Next Man
Music reviews of Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Music Review: Less rap/rock and more rap, rock...
Rating: 4 Stars
Back in the late 90's, with the rise up of bands like Limp Bizkit, the genre mixing rap/rock became the `in' thing and wound up being the only thing you heard on the radio. For a spell, it was interesting and fun, but after a while it just got old. Some have tossed Everclear's debut solo album aside, considering it just another rap/rock album, but what I appreciate about this album over time is that it is less a rap/rock album and more an album that features rap and rock.
Songs like `What It's Like' and `Ends' are clearly acoustic rock, while tracks like `Funky Beat' and `Money' are clearly rap.
This way, the album as a whole still feels strangely relevant, even eleven or so years later.
Over the years Everlast has continued with this formula, providing us with standout album after album. While I feel that this debut album contains some of his finest work, I also feel that this may be his weakest overall album. Trying to find himself in this new venture, some of the songs tend to sound almost cheap and generic, and some sound far to similar to one another. Everlast soars when he strips things down and allows his raspy voice to milk over acoustic strings, but he can surely rhyme with the best of them, and he proves that on quite a few tracks here.
Yes, this is predominantly rap.
For me, `Ends', `What It's Like' and `Get Down' are three of the best songs Everlast has ever recorded. `What It's Like' in particular is still stunning today, poignant and emotionally stirring. I remember when he came out with this I was stunned. It was a smart and brilliantly crafted song that reached so many people and continues to remain relevant and engaging. `Ends' was the follow up single, and it played off of the style that Everlast was toying with. If you buy this album thinking the entirety is going to run this way, you are wrong. These are the standout songs because no other song here is like them. `Today (Watch Me Shine)' comes close, but it doesn't quite `get' there. `Seven Years' takes us to a upbeat, bar like atmosphere, and it works on many levels. Everlast's voice is perfectly suited for this kind of music.
Just so we are clear, rhyming on a song does not constitute rapping.
`Get Down' is Everlast at the top of his hip-hop game, and `Hot to Death' is right up there. Slick beats, powerful vocals and tight lyrics. Of the rap on the album, these two are the highlights. For me, `Money (Dollar Bill)', `Tired', `Pain Killers' and `Funky Beat' are just forgettable, `Pain Killers' less so (reminiscent of an early Eminem track to me). `Funky Beat' sounds far too dated (even for 90's) and the chorus to `Death Comes Calling' is just horrible. Some of these songs tend to start sounding too familiar, too similar (beat wise) and so they run into one another and become rather generic sounding. `Praise the Lord' is a step up from these, and comes closest to `Get Down' and `Hot to Death' as being truly noteworthy (I love the backing prayer-esque vocals).
`The Letter' is just, well, there, but it's not bad.
I like the way Everlast goes out, `Next Man' being a nice way to sum up the album. Everlast wraps his vocals around the beat beautifully and delivers a message that helps us know him (or the him he wants us to know) better as an artist and a person.
I don't get the need for the interludes (there's nothing wrong with them but there's nothing to make note of either), and the opening `The White Boy Is Back' is ridiculous and trashy and just, well, stupid.
Personally, this is a must-own album because it really established Everlast as an influential artist breaking away from his past and taking his music to another level. He built on this and continued to deliver music we want to listen to. I respect this artist and the place where he started from (well, he started in House of Pain, which is respectable in itself, but I was referring to this album). It is a tad uneven, and it has it's share of filler, but the aging quality of tracks like `What It's Like' easily earn this album a B grade from yours truly.
My ranking:
1) What It's Like
2) Get Down
3) Ends
4) Hot to Death
5) Today (Watch Me Shine)
6) Praise the Lord
7) Watch Me Shine
8) Pain Killers
9) Next Man
10) The Letter
11) Money (Dollar Bill)
12) Funky Beat
13) Death Comes Calling
14) Tired
Description of Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
When you think about it, House of Pain really were ahead of their time. Tracks like "Jump Around" may have been light on the content side, but they delivered in the production department--they played with sounds in the same way that Missy Elliott and Timbaland have popularized, and they crossed over to a rock audience long before Puffy ever tried it. On Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, Everlast's second solo album, the opening is an appropriation of "The Fat Boys are Back"; a couple of songs favor a sensitive folk-rock touch, with Everlast on guitar; and others reach back for House of Pain's best rock-influenced sounds. Though plenty of others have rhymed over rock and folk tracks, Everlast has a good feel for it and his songs are solid. If this isn't a career album, it's damn close. --Randy SilverWhen you think about it, House of Pain really were ahead of their time. Tracks like "Jump Around" may have been light on the content side, but they delivered in the production department--they played with sounds in the same way that Missy Elliott and Timbaland have popularized, and they crossed over to a rock audience long before Puffy ever tried it. On Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, Everlast's second solo album, the opening is an appropriation of "The Fat Boys are Back"; a couple of songs favor a sensitive folk-rock touch, with Everlast on guitar; and others reach back for House of Pain's best rock-influenced sounds. Though plenty of others have rhymed over rock and folk tracks, Everlast has a good feel for it and his songs are solid. If this isn't a career album, it's damn close. --Randy Silver
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