Biota Bondo

Artist: Iffy
Label: Lightyear
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 085365445123
EAN: 0085365445123
ASIN: B00005LMN0

Release Date: 2001-06-19

Biota Bondo

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Tracks:

Double Dutch
Can O Cape
Hi-Life
Sweet Stuff
Georgina
Original Greenlight
The Citation
Da Blink
Joyrider
Larva Rae
Superbad Girl
Proof
Maskman

Product Description

Excellent condition, includes the original Cd, case, and paperwork, First Class shipped, ask me for my CD List! :D

Customer Reviews:

Hit and Miss, But Always Interesting.......2006-09-18

I was forced to buy this album on the strength of some very intriguing cuts I'd heard on the intrawebs, which has now become my primary stimulus toward musical impulse buying. (Previously, I'd walk into Ye Olde Music Shop and basically buy two of whatever they happened to be playing at the moment.) Was this a wise choice? My basic rule is that if you can get three really good tunes off an album, you've come up with a winner. Let's judge the results.

The opening track, "Double Dutch", has a quite snappy drive and very adroit vocals. The trouble is, I have no clue what the lyrics mean. "Those practiced eyes drift with great accuracy / Co-stars elated on dull currency / Like children waiting for a nurse's touch / Ring out the spoiled yarns ya love so much". In fact, a lot of the songs on this album feature this sort of borderline gibberish. It sounds good, it scans well, it rhymes nicely, but it often takes a Soul Coughing stream-of-consciousness approach of "Hey, these words sound cool--let's jam 'em together and see what happens!" Lyrics aside, perhaps one reviewer said it best when he noted of this song that it "sounds like it fell off a Sugar Ray album, and thought better of getting back on".

The next four tracks aren't great, they aren't terrible, they have a few nifty quirks, but they just don't work for me.

The next winner comes with "Original Greenlight", a slowed-down number with, again, nimble vocals, albeit often eschewing any consonants. It comes off great, although I still wonder quite what "an ambassador's first child" has to do with it all. Much less what this passage means: "Ya gotta ya de ya filp to the folppy, they suck up all the H2O, get dizzy on toppah." I wish that was just my transcription, but it's straight from the liner notes.

Another couple of minor tracks follow, then we come to what I find to be the core of the album, kicking off with "Joyrider", a fast-paced rocker where the lyrics are recorded rather less mushily and make vaguely more sense. Nice backing vocals by Gwen Matthews. Next up is "Larva Rae", a country-inflected tune with some Mexican border influences, a lap steel guitar, and a few horn flourishes. "Yonder came down my way, Hell came out to play." Indeed.

"Superbad Girl" is the best cut off the album and just flat-out jams. If this won't get you dancing, you are probably already six feet under. While this was a big commercial success, the group might be a little embarrassed by it, since they don't mention who provided the female vox on the liner notes.

"Proof" is just great fun and great funk bordering on loving blaxploitation. "Seriously, K, what's up? What are you thinkin'? This lowball hustling, you're never gonna recoup on the streets hassle. Tick tock, tick tock, tickety tock, tickety tock. Baby, your time's up."

The final song, "Maskman", is okay, but a little of a downer note to end the album on.

Iffy is a Minneapolis-based producer collaboration, and this particular album was a transatlantic effort, thanks to fileswapping over the Internet. The trio did excellent work in balancing a polished sound while also maintaining a certain loose and unpredictable rawness. Musically, they provide an entire smorgasbord of musical genres over the course of the 15 tracks. Highly recommended.

Prepare to feel really nice........2005-11-25

Even the dark tracks on this one leave you with a feeling that all is well with the world. If you want to just chill out and feel good for once, listen to this album. It's a mish-mash of sounds that move rhythmically over kjustinj's free-verse poetry. From reading about their much heavier background in the Minneapolis punk scene, I'm surprised at how mellow this album is, while still having a lot of pure substance. Every track on this CD should be on heavy radio rotation right about now. And I certainly hope that they are still around, making music this good.

Suprisingly Good........2004-08-10

Yes, Superbad Girl was played on a K-Mart commerical and that's why I bought it. When the commerical came on I was always dancing to it. It said it was buy Iffy. I bought this CD and I was pleased with this purchase. There were many other songs to dance to.

A Little Bit Of Everything.......2003-10-23

To write a review of this album I don't know where to start. Hm..... Well first off let me say this album NEVER EVER gets old. I've had it for about a year and a half and it never gets old and I can't imagine it getting old anytime soon.

Iffy's sound is so unique it is unlike anything out there. It is a fusion of rock (tracks like: Can O Cope,Da Blink), pop (tracks like:Double Dutch) , dance (The Hi-Life) and even some hip-hop thrown in. This music is just so fun and layered with all kinds of sounds and different instruments like bongos.

My favorite tracks are: The Hi-Life (which just has a very good chorus and you'll be singing it all day) and Da Blink (which again has a great sing along feel and probably the heaviest track, if you can even say that).

Overall this is a fun, different album that will keep you singing with it all day long.

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