Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity Artist: Vernon Reid
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074646739624
EAN: 0074646739624
ASIN: B000002BD9


Release Date: 1996-06-04

Mistaken Identity


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Tracks:

  1. CP Time
  2. Mistaken Identity
  3. You Say He's Just A Psychic Friend
  4. Who Are You? (Mutation 1)
  5. Lightnin'
  6. The Projects
  7. Uptown Drifter
  8. Saint Cobain
  9. Important Safety Instructions! (Mutation 2)
  10. What's My Name
  11. Signed Fictitious
  12. Call Waiting To Exhale (Mutation3)
  13. My Last Nerve
  14. Freshwater Coconut
  15. Mysterious Power
  16. Unborne Embrace

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Vernon Reid really likes noise!.......2006-03-15

Actually that title line I've used is somewhat of a quote. It was Martin Popoff - reviewer extraordinaire - that made the point that Reid really likes noise while reviewing a Living Colour album (Type from memory).

Anyway, since I thought Living colour were totally awesome in a range of ways when the chance came to pick this up cheap I leapt at it.

Which proves the adage - always look before you leap!

This is nonsense. It's worse than nonsense because nonsense might be funny. This isn't. Get yourself a drill and drill a hole through the door of your car. The scraping and screaming sounds will give you an idea of what this CD will sound like if you unleash it on your stereo. Beyond experimental into just plain pathetic.

Right down to the cover - and as for the fold out it is 20% Living Colour style and 80% like some first year graphic designer did it on a computer he didn't know how to use. And as for the stuff actually written on it? Try "To God in all manifestations I deeply bow". No problem with the sentiment on my part - but what on earth would someone put that on their album for? Or how about the credits? Vernon Reid: Guitars both real and imagined, whispering.

Luckily many years later he went back to LC and they gave us a great reunion/comeback disc that swats this gunk aside. Get yourself the entire LC catalogue instead of spending cash on this!

5 out of 5 stars A hidden gem.......2005-12-05

I agree with most of the postings here, although I have a VERY DIFFICULT time finding how anyone could find this cd garbage! This is an INCREDIBLE CD! Vernon loses his mind and combines funk, avant=garde (ornette colemanish) jazz and triphiphop in a way that just gells! While this cd is now 10 years old, I have been playing it and letting folks know about it for at least 9 of those years! (lol) First, DJ Logic shows off his chops on "mistaken identity" where Vernon is understated, yet shows what being a true guitarist/musician is all about. CP Time has segments that make Jimi Hendrix proud. Psychic Friend takes typical rock playing to another level with the odd metered break. AND it gets better from there! If you like living colour, if you like jazz/rock/hiphop/funk, this is a good cd to pick up. IT ROCKS!!!!!!! This is a VERY GOOD CD! VERY GOOD! Reid has chops and shows them. Reid is interested in taking the MUSIC somewhere else, and again, HE SHOWS IT! Reid has many influences which spotlight his depth as a musician/guitarist, and HE SHOWS IT! Enough said!

5 out of 5 stars IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS.......2004-12-20

THIS IS THE BEST CD OF 1996. LET ME TRY AND QUALIFY THIS STATEMENT. THIS CD HAS THIS MANY MUSICAL GENRES IN IT: FUNK, JAZZ-FUSION, ROCK, BLUES, WORLD MUSIC, REGGAE, NEW AGE, COMEDY AND SPOKEN WORD. OUT OF 17 SONGS, 13 SONGS RECEIVED A 5 STAR RATING FROM ME. THE REASONS FOR THIS ARE AS FOLLOWS: THE BASS IS BOOMIN'; THE FUNK IS OVERFLOWIN'; THE GUITAR WORK IS BLAZIN'; THE GROOVE NEVER STOPS. AND THE MUSICIANSHIP IS OUTSTANDING. I WAS COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY BY THIS CD, AND YOU WILL BE TOO. UNFORTUNATELY I COULD ONLY GIVE THIS CD 5 STARS. IT REALLY DESERVES 10!!! TAKE IT FROM ME, THIS IS THE BEST CD YOU WILL BUY THIS YEAR OR ANY OTHER YEAR. SATISFACTION IS MOST DEFINITELY GARANTEED.

1 out of 5 stars This album is such garbage,AMAZON's critics didn't rate it.......2004-02-18

Anticipation was high as hell,getting a solo vibe from LIVING COLOUR's axeman VERNON REID,couldn't wait to have my ears blown away by V.R's wicked ways. To make a long story short,I let a friend borrow the CD,I haven't asked for it back. Where was the rest of LIVING COLOUR when Vernon attempted this waste of glass? BISCUITS sounds like a JIMI HENDRIX classic compared to this. Go ahead,diss my review. VERNON REID is still the man (one of my favorite axeman next to JIMI,PRINCE,KENDALL JONES,DR. KNOW,etc...). I just don't know where he is going here...do you?

4 out of 5 stars

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