Jon Spencer - Acme
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Artist: Jon SpencerPerformer: Ralph Farris
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Calvin
- Magical Colors
- Do You Wanna Get Heavy?
- High Gear
- Talk About The Blues
- I Wanna Make It All Right
- Lovin' Machine
- Bernie
- Blue Green Olga
- Give Me A Chance
- Desperate
- Torture
- Attack
Music reviews of Acme
Music Review: It's about time someone played some Rock n Roll
Rating: 4 Stars
This record comes at you immediately telling you just what its got and what it's gonna do. The opening track declares "this is blues power" and it'll knock you on your head bobbin ass. This time around Mr. Spencer has intrusted a couple of different knob turnin' genius for this massive mix of Blues and Rock n Roll overflowing onto some of the fattest beats the Beasties' never used. Among the super producers are indie hero Calvin Johnson, noise monger Steve Albini, and Dr. Octagons' supreme D.J. Dan the Automater. The Automater's hip hop influence is abundant on a tracks like the hyper speeding shout-out closer "Attack" and the groovin "Talk About the Blues" where everyone's fair game. While Albini mans the controls for the Stones like ramblers "Magical Colors", and the shuffling and shifty "High Gear". At times Acme sounds like two different records till you realize it's merely your poor expectation of what rock records have become. As he states plainly "I don't play no blues, I play rock n roll" we'll regardless of it genre crossing blizzard it's about time someone did.
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Cd in very good condition. Jewel case has a few scratches. Ships 1st class.Yet another mess of colors (emphasis on mess) from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion that defies any particular grounding. This time, with Acme, the trio's fifth full-length, the frayed punk tones are replaced by more of a Beasties/Beck/Dust Brothers/white-guys-gone-phat sort of thing, where rat-a-tat beats and bone-crushing, speaker-frying bottom ends collide with shards of sweet soul, gospel, country, blues, and even some pummeling stoner rock as well as Spencer's own wacked-out Presley-Jagger vocal spew. Including the knob-twiddling participation of Steve Albini, Calvin Johnson, and, predominantly, the Automator (rapper-rocker Andre Williams gets the title of executive producer, whatever that means), Acme is an orgy of noise that occasionally even resembles actual songs. Certain to dazzle some, certain to scare plenty more. --Neal Weiss
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