Zony Mash

Artist: The Meters
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 090771508713
EAN: 0090771508713
ASIN: B000076CXB

Release Date: 2003-09-23

Zony Mash

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Tracks:

Zony Mash [Mono Version]
I Need More Time [Mono Version]
Look of Love [Stereo]
Message from the Meters [Stereo]
Stretch Your Rubber Band [Stereo]
Soul Machine [Stereo]
(The World Is a Bit Under the Weather) Doodle-Oop [Stereo]
Good Old Funky Music [Stereo]
Sassy Lady [Stereo]
Borro [Stereo]
Groovy Lady [Stereo]
Meter Strut [Stereo]
Funky Meters Soul [Stereo]

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Album Description

For the first time anywhere—an entire album filled with vintage rarities and non-album B-sides by the Meters, all glittering gems by New Orleans' wizards of slinky funk. Available on both CD and 180-gram vinyl, Zony Mash finds the Meters at the top of their game with a rump-rolling concoction that will have you moving in three different directions at once!

Album Description

For the first time anywhere - an entire album filled with vintage rarities and non-album B-sides by the Meters, all glittering gems by New Orleans' wizards of slinky funk. Zony Mash finds the Meters at the top of their game with a rump-rolling concoction that will have you moving in three different directions at once! 13 tracks. Sundazed. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

For hardcore fans only.......2006-07-25

If you own the latest CD editions of the earliest Meters albums ("The Meters," "Look-Ka Py Py" and "Struttin'") which were re-released on Sundazed and Rhino in 1999 and 2001, you have already heard 6 of the tracks on this 37 minute long CD, which incidentally was released in 2003.
This is a collection of the bonus tracks which are available on the aforementioned albums plus 7 other tracks (the bonus track "Grass" from "Look-Ka Py Py" has been renamed "Sassy Lady.")
It is not a "best of" collection nor a proper introduction to the band. Furthermore the design of the disc is somewhat cheap, and the titles of track #12 and track #13 are listed in the opposite order.
The tracks "Zony Mash" and "I Need More Time" are both in mono, and there is probably good reason why some of the music on this CD was "lost." The material should be mostly of interest to very serious fans and/or biographers wanting to cover and comment on as much as possible in the group's past.
There are, however, a couple of really cool, funky, laid back, dirty, groovy tunes that anyone with a sense of rhythm will enjoy; "Stretch Your Rubber Band," "Doodle-Oop" and "Groovy Lady" are the real highlights and make 8-10 minutes of music worth obtaining this disc for if you are a fan of the group's early material and want more.

The Great Lost Meters Album.......2005-12-08

The Meters started recording for the Josie label in 1968, with their debut 45 ("Sophisticated Cissy") hitting the charts early in 1969. In all Josie issued three fine Meters albums, "The Meters" (May 1969), "Look-Ka-Py-Py" (January 1970), and "Struttin" (June 1970). By 1972 Josie had folded and the band had signed with Reprise, debuting that year with "Cabbage Alley," seemingly a radical departure in its range of rock and soul influences, and integration of vocals.
"Zony Mash" is a fine collection of Josie singles and outtakes. Eight of these tracks are from the four singles Josie issued after "Struttin'," during 1970-71 until the label's demise. As such it is something of an unissued fourth album for the label. "Zony Mash" provides a fascinating look at the group in transition between the mostly instrumental, seminal funk of the early work and the Warner Bros. era. Beautifully remastered, the funk is hard and heavy on the terrific opener and title track (featuring Nocentelli's wah-wah over Porter and Modeliste's aggressive rhythm), and elsewhere one can chart the group's evolution with each new single. Much of the material has a harder edge than the exquisite, almost minimalist funk of the early classics, and influences from Sly Stone to the Rolling Stones and Norman Whitfield's early '70s work at Motown (especially for the Temptations) are clearly evident. The structurally ambitious "I Need More Time", "Message From The Meters", "Sassy Lady", and "(The World Is A Bit Under The Weather) Doodle-Oop" - the latter a far tougher version than the one recorded for Reprise several years later - are all excellent singles that show the group both consolidating its instumental powers and moving in directions suggesting the Reprise era. Five additional tracks are outtakes from the three earlier albums. Like the best artists during what was a truly great era for black music, the Meters are able to explore new territory and maintain their fundamental musical identity. Anyone who has the classic Josie albums, now available in superbly annotated and remastered editions on Sundazed, will find "Zony Mash" to be an excellent addition to the Meters ouevre.

Great tunes from the funky meters!.......2003-10-26

The Meters are at the top of my list of all time funk groups. Zony Mash has several great singles which did not appear on albums like "Message from the Meters", "I Need More Time", "Good Old Funky Music". The Meters are starting to get the polish they would have with their Warner albums but still maintain the raw sound of their Josie sides. The Meters still sound like a New Orleans version of Booker T and the MGs; they are just beginning to add some more vocals to the mix.

Deciding whether to purchase this depends on how your collecting their stuff. If you've bought the two disc compilation "Funkify Your Life", this is not an essential purchase. You'll have the best tracks already and should look to albums like Rejuvenation and Cabbage Alley to fill out album tracks that didn't make that compilation. If you're a Meters completist whose been collecting the wonderfulr reissue series on Sundazed, this will be a nice purchase to round out the other fine releases and get some nonalbum tracks.

--SD

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