Heavy Metal Soul By the Pound

Artist: 24-7 Spyz
Label: What Are Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 744626002023
EAN: 0744626002023
ASIN: B000001HZQ

Release Date: 1996-09-24

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Untypical modern music by people of African descent
Underappreciated, overlooked, dismissed, & unheard of gems

Tracks:

Spyz In Da House
Love And Peace
Yeah X 3
If I Could
Burned
Simple Minded Simon
Eyes Don't Lie
Interlude
El Lame
Earth And Sky
Free To Be
Let Your Fancy Flow
Crushonya
No Hope For Niggaz
Love For Sale
Clique
Save The World

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This Is...24-7 Spyz!

Customer Reviews:

Spyz are back!!!!.......2004-07-23

You heard what I said...the Spyz are back!!!! Check out www.24-7spyz.com if you don't believe me. What ever you do, if you don't own this CD, get it! This is one of the greatest CD's ever produced. I have been a HUGE fan of the Spyz since day one. I thought Strengh in Numbers was the true word until I heard HMSBTP, it truly redefined the genre for me. Jimi finally freed the band by becoming the lead singer. His voice fits the music better then P-Fluid and even Jeff Brodnax. Doug Pinnick of King's X was a great guest vocalist on 2 of the songs. This CD best expressed the range this band has. Too bad the label had little pull, "If I Could..." could have been a huge single, but Spyz got little air play. I can only hope they get back in the studio now that Jimi and Rick are togather again. We need more!!!!!!

Heavy Metal Soul by the POUND!!.......2002-12-30

This is a great CD. It features Jimi Hazel and Rick Skatore on
vocals. It comes across as a heavy metal soul CD as the title explains. "Eyes dont lie" and "Crushonya" are great examples
of what Jimi and Rick want to convey to us musically. This CD
also features one of the greatest voices in the history of rock,
Doug Pinnick of KINGS X. This is their last CD as sadly they
broke up after it's release. This is phase 3 of 24-7 Spyz and
it is the last to feature Joel on drums. It starts off rather
crunchy and smoothes itself out into a great blend of silk
and molten metal.

All hail the gods of funk!.......2001-12-21

I was fortunate enough to see Spyz live in Colorado Springs when HMSBTP came out. Even though the audience consisted solely of some 10 hardcore fans in a seriously dive bar, the boyz played like it was Mile High Stadium packed to the roof.

That same balls-out attitude is exemplified in this album. Spyz hold nothing back, especially their contempt for shallowness and ignorance( for example, "El Lame"). Rock with true attitude and intelligence... a rarity in today's bubblegum AOR-dominated scene. If you don't have HMSBTP in your collection, you're simply missing out.

One of my favorite albums.......2001-10-27

If I could give this album more that a 5 I would. This album is very thick. it has a song for almost every mood. I can't think of a dull moment in the album. Jimi Hazel steps up to the mic this time. He works very well as a front man. It feels like there wasn't any conflict making the album. It seems like the whole band just clicked and pumped out this massive album. Pick it UP!

PHAT........2000-08-11

If you are a fan of bands like Fishbone or Living Color you need to give these guys a shot. For an entire raging half of an album, they serve up soulful funk-metal like no other band can. If thats not enough, they manage to lure the legendary King's X vocalist Doug Pinnick over for an absolutely nasty vocal exercise on "YeahX3" and especially "Love and Peace." (For those of you still clinging to KX's underground Christian years, you had best cover your ears) "Simple Minded Simon" is practically prog-rock, with crazy guitar and bass dynamics and tightly-structured rhythms. Another treat is the sweetly melodic power ballad "Eyes Don't Lie", a song about spousal abuse. Then, the slow-funk of "Interlude" comes on, and you realize, wait, this is a CONCEPT album. For the next five songs the Spyz become a pure funk and soul outfit. The scary thing is they do it WELL - just listen to the funky wah-guitar workout by Jimi Hazel on the end of "El Lame." "Earth and Sky" is a soulful workout that appeared on 24-7's major-label swansong in 1992. The mix here sounds identical to the one on that album. "Crushonya" is another gorgeous power ballad, and probably one of the strongest songs on the album. Then, just when they are beginning to overstay their welcome, the Spyz do what you are almost daring them to do, which is to effect a marriage of the two disparate genres that separate the sides of this album. "Clique", and the bawdy "Love for Sale" are nice workouts, but its the song "No Hope For Niggaz" that really takes the cake, where lead singer and bassmaster Rick Skatore laments the "lack of black" in hard rock, and then to prove the point he rattles off a whole bunch of black musicians you need to be aware of. Its THE sublime album moment on an album full of sublime album moments. The introspective "Save The World" seems like an odd choice to close what is an unrelentingly intense and spiritual album. A minor complaint : There's some fat that could have been trimmed. The inclusion of "Earth and Sky" from _This Is...24-7 Spyz_ is questionable, and the unintentionally hilarious "Let Your Fancy Flow" with its mock Barry-White-isms could have been left off.

CAVEAT EMPTOR : I know you will want to check out more of these guys' limited and hard-to-find catalog, but be aware that 24-7 Spyz is also the name of a cheezy dance outfit. Don't buy anything on the ZYX label as it is a group of completely different artists.

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