From the Swamps [Explicit Lyrics]

From the Swamps [Explicit Lyrics]

Track Listings
1. Imagine That [Radio Edit]
2. Camouflage Down
3. Go Down - Master P, Silkk the Shocker
4. I Still - C-Murder, Krazy
5. Handle Your Business - Tim Smooth
6. Back Up off Me - Magic, Master P, Snoop Dogg
7. We Untouchable - S.A.C. Mafia
8. Dat Fire - Ms. Tee
9. Getting Paid
10. Soldier Boy - Ms. Tee
11. Baddest [Radio Edit] - Fiend
12. Respect My Mind - Big Ramp
13. Make It Happen - Soulja Slim
14. Fire Boyz and Girlz - Krazy, Master P
15. Fire - Magic
16. Bad M-F - Partners-N-Crime
17. Slow Down - Mia X, Snoop Dogg
18. Hustla Returns - FILA Phil

From the Swamps,The Dirty South Boyz,Don't Even Trip Ent.,Dirty South,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop

From the Swamps [Explicit Lyrics]
Snakebite:Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • McCABES #9 - STAN RIDGWAY Sun May 6th, 2007
  • Stan's got a lot of great ideas..
  • A quirky masterpiece
  • Grade: Incomplete -- needs work
  • Stan's Excellent Experimentation
Snakebite:Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs
Stan Ridgway
Manufacturer: redFLY
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. Barbeque Babylon
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  5. Anatomy

ASIN: B00022AEES
Release Date: 2004-04-09

Tracks:

  1. Into The Sun
  2. Wake Up Sally (the cops are here)
  3. Afghan/Forklift
  4. King For A Day
  5. Your Rockin' Chair
  6. Monsters Of The Id
  7. Running With The Carnival
  8. Crow Hollow Blues
  9. Our Manhattan Moment
  10. That Big 5-0
  11. God Sleeps In A Caboose
  12. Throw It Away
  13. My Own Universe
  14. Classic Hollywood Ending
  15. Talkin' Wall OF Voodoo Blues Pt.1
  16. My Rose Marie (a soldier's tale)

Amazon.com

Like that of many artists who came of age in the '80s, Stan Ridgway's career has often been unfairly haunted by an endless groove of MTV overexposure that's turned perceptions of his music into something akin to a skipping record. Indeed, the veteran L.A. singer-songwriter once groused he'd likely spend his twilight years onstage in a newly liberated Havana casino lounge, crooning "Mexican Radio" to blue-haired former new wavettes. But this savory trove of songs ranks with Black Diamond as one of the best albums Ridgway has recorded since his muscular reemergence as an indie artist in the mid-'90s. Mining the same electro-acoustic vein as Anatomy, Ridgway has refined his nervous balance of traditional folk-blues and ironic-modernist instincts even further here, shrewdly casting the material in a three-act dramatic structure that sharpens its dramatic focus. The usual suspects of Stan's compelling musique noir herein feature seedy, if oddly sympathetic miscreants (the wry toe-tapper "Wake Up Sally [The Cops Are Here]," "Running with the Carnival"), a familiar musician all too wise to both his past and future ("That Big 5-O," "Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues"), and a blue-collar warehouse worker moving mysterious cargo Middle Eastward (the dour "Afghan Forklift"). His balladeer instincts may draw him to personal interludes both bittersweet ("Our Manhattan Moment") and elegiac ("Into the Sun," "My Rose Marie"), but it's when Ridgway fuses his Johnny Cash/Ernie Ford/Mose Allison fetishes with his own compelling personal ethos (the haunting, harmonica-seasoned "God Sleeps in a Caboose," a headline-timely, appropriately creeped-out cover of Allison's "Monsters of the Id") that Ridgway again confirms his status as one of America's most consistently original songwriters and performers. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

Echoing southern swamps and talking beercans. Lonely soldiers and voodoo chain gang ghosts. Midnight mystery trains and singing tumbleweeds. Sixteen new two fisted tales from the Wall Of Voodoo mastermind. Produced by Stan Ridgway Engineered by Baboo God

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars McCABES #9 - STAN RIDGWAY Sun May 6th, 2007.......2007-05-07

Ex-Wall of Voodoo leadman turned Singer-Songwriter extraordinare Stan Ridgway ROCKED McCabe's Guitar Shop with his blend of alt. roots-rock music and more on Sunday, May 6th, 2007. It was by far to me the most 'electric' performance at McCabe's and his 'band' was simply electrifying as well. His guitarist was wired, so was his pianist-organist and violinist.. well, let's add the drummer as well (Five folks on the small McCabes' stage was a sight to see) Being my first time to a Ridgway concert, I was pleasantly surprised at his twisted humor in between sets (then again, many of his songs are that way as well) It made me at times go to the point of laughing so loud I would had to leave. His music from 'Snakebite' was as wild as the music and wicked bantor on stage - He played "Wake Up Sally (The Cops are here)" and I was laughing to the point of tears (he made strange facial movements on stage while performing) "King For A Day" Was his tribute to the non-sense we call the local modern-day televised car chase (a wild wide in a stolen car that ends up on local TV with the car smashing into the side of a house (Sounds familiar??) and "Running With The Carnival" (Those sound effects are still ringing in my ears) - I have to say the 90 minutes went VERY quick and before we knew, he was back for the encore...He did "Beneath The Green Tree" to make some 'stiff point' - The hightlight for me was when he did that song from 25 years ago that we all know all too well from his 'Wall of Voodoo' days "Mexican Radio" - The house went down at the end of the song with Stan raising his guitar screaming "25 years - I'm branded - damn this song --- I'm branded" (A clue here, folks??) Most folks out there know Stan just for that song, I can see why he feels a bit differently - For true music lovers we love Stan for his quality SOLO stuff that stand out. For those who just have 'Wall of Voodoo's greatest hits' and are reading this, please get this album and do yourself a favor. Overall, one of the best concerts I've EVER experienced at McCabe's and I got very lucky & met Stan after the concert (with Sharpie in hand) and..he was just as funny after the show (I guess that's his personality - that's cool..he's kinda like me) I also spoke to his guitarist Mike as well for a bit before Stan came down. I will most certainly see him when he comes back - you should too. It's a concert you won't forget =.) Peace - Joe "Bear"

3 out of 5 stars Stan's got a lot of great ideas.........2006-04-21

and this collection shows just what an inventive, brilliant, writer he is.

That said, a lot of the songs on this album bump into his limitations as a vocalist. While his lyrics and musical puns make me laugh, some of his vocalizations make me wince.

5 out of 5 stars A quirky masterpiece.......2005-10-07

Stan Ridway's music almost defies description. Using a variety of instruments (including a glockenspiel, mellotron and a 2-string jawbone!)Ridgway and his group of players has created a wonderful bit of Americana. Tales of escaping criminals bedeviled by cops and a noisy dog, a crack smoking daddy on a rampage, and life in a carnival are given inventive musical settings that really have no equivalent. If you want to know what happened to Wall of Voodoo from Ridgway's perspective, "Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues Part I" gives you an interesting take on the situation and you follow that with "My Rose Marie" that sounds so authentic you'd swear it was Civil War balled as opposed to a Ridgway original. I've always liked Ridgway's solo stuff, but I feel this one is where all his strengths as an artist come together.

3 out of 5 stars Grade: Incomplete -- needs work.......2005-08-07

Listening to this record is a bit frustrating for me. Some of it calls to mind the best of Stan's past work, namely his albums Partyball and Anatomy. Yes, there are some fugitive songs here. Stan gravitates toward the dark underbelly of society for his subject matter. Yet, somehow this batch of miscreants seems a little more conventional, a little more sane than his usual cast of characters. Sadly, that makes them less interesting.

Into The Sun is a fine start -- about new beginnings. The music, the soaring synths and yearning in Stan's voice, delivers the goods. Other examples of atmospheric production that does justice to the songs: Monsters Of The Id, Our Manhattan Moment, maybe even Hollywood Ending.

But the carnival atmosphere of Running With The Carnival is a bit too predictable.

Talkin Wall Of Voodoo Blues is a chance for Stan to get some things off his chest about the old band, and how they all got screwed by the record business. The song itself is a bit monotonous, and lyrically not clever at all. "We made a lot of noise/For all the girls and boys/It was 1977/Now two are gone to heaven." Ahhhh, you get the picture. A lot of the rhymes on this record are a little forced, and often the words don't quite flow smoothly with the melody.

Wake Up Sally -- too sing song-y.

My Rose Marie is unusually sentimental for Stan Ridgway -- about a veteran who still pines for the gal he left behind when he went to war many years past. I thought the vocals on this song sounded a little too strained. A lighter touch was needed -- something like Stan's vocals on Partyball's Right Through You. And the synthesized orchestrations gave only a suggestion of the grandeur this song could have with acoustic instruments.

With tweaking of the lyrics, a bit of restraint on some of the cheap-sounding keyboards, more work on vocal phrasing and tone, sophisticated programming on the rhythm tracks, and you'd have a record that's a more complete artistic statement and less a glorified demo tape. That is how most of these songs strike me -- just shy of what's needed.

Other fans have obviously been wowed by the performaces on Snakebite. Perhaps they focused on some quality that I missed. I hear a lot of potential, but I can't quite give this record a passing grade. Songs: Need editing. Arrangements: Too simple. Sound: Production a bit primitive -- expand and enhance. I won't beat this to death. Amazon.com is offering a free download of Talkin Wall Of Voodo Blues. Get it. Compare it to with anything on Partyball, and you'll see what I'm complaining about.

5 out of 5 stars Stan's Excellent Experimentation .......2005-06-04

Since the first analog rhythm machines combined with the frenetic wall of voodoo to this latest excellent wonderbug Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive songs Stan is always experimenting in creating wonderful songs that are rich with literary and artistic tradition while at the same time warm and human.

If Stan Ridgway was not a songwriter he'd be a poet laureate, or great American novelist. His work is always narrative, but like a roadtrip, you never know where the story will take you.

In this release Stan seems to spread himself out geographically. This latest release takes in the Americana.
Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky-Tonks
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Real Slice of American -- and a Fun One
 Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky-Tonks
Brownie Ford
Manufacturer: Flying Fish Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000MR1
Release Date: 1995-03-22

Tracks:

  1. Don't Let The Deal Go Down
  2. Code Of The Moutains
  3. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
  4. Only A Message From Home Sweet Home
  5. Only A Hangman
  6. The Next Hear You Break May Be Your Own
  7. She 's Gone, Gone,Gone
  8. Burn The honky Tonk Down
  9. This Old House
  10. Satisfied Mind
  11. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
  12. Dusty Skies
  13. Frankie And Johnny
  14. Black Jack David
  15. Barbara Allen
  16. Swimming Hole/Cuckoo's Nest
  17. The Knoxville Girl
  18. The Burglar Man
  19. County Fair
  20. Jehoshaphat
  21. When The Work's All Done This Fall
  22. Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain
  23. Street Of Laredo

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Real Slice of American -- and a Fun One.......2001-06-11

This album was recorded when Brownie was in his 80s, and is a truly wonderful slice of raw Americana. If you like your folk music prettied up, this isn't going to work for you. But if you like it with stubble and tobacco juice and a bit of barroom humor, I can't think of a better album. Ford's gravelly singing is full of life and spirit and he is sharp, focused and energetic throughout.

This isn't one of those archival albums that you listen to because you think it's important to understand the roots of American music, but simply a great and enjoyable record. "Burn the Honky Tonk Down" and "This Old House" are probably my favorite tracks, but there are many wonderful moments, including a number of folk standards given Brownie's lively treatment. The excellent liner notes are by songwriter Rodney Crowell.
From the Swamps
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • From the south
 From the Swamps
The Dirty South Boyz
Manufacturer: Don't Even Trip Ent.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005QXFD
Release Date: 2001-11-06

Tracks:

  1. Imagine That (Radio) - Calico
  2. Camouflage Down - L.O.G.
  3. Go Down - Silkk The Shocker
  4. I Still - Krazy
  5. Handle Your Business - Mystikal
  6. Back Up Off Me - Master P
  7. We Untouchable - Sac Mafia
  8. Dat Fire - Mafia Click
  9. Getting Paid - Sporty T
  10. Soldier Boy - Ms. Tee
  11. The Baddest (Radio) - Fiend
  12. Respect My Mind - Big Ramp
  13. Make It Happen - Soulja Slim
  14. Fire Boyz & Girlz - Krazy
  15. Fire - Magic
  16. Bad M-F - Partners-N-Crime
  17. Slow Down - Snoop Dogg
  18. The Hustla Returns - Fila Phil

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars From the south.......2003-05-17

What up this kevin an I an from the south an you no how we do it down here.
The Kings of Cajun: 15 Stomps from Swamps
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Kings of Cajun
 The Kings of Cajun: 15 Stomps from Swamps
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Music Club
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000J8OF
Release Date: 1999-06-22

Tracks:

  1. Pine Grove Blues - Nathan Abshire
  2. Les Flammes D'Enfer - Belfa Brothers
  3. Amitie Casser - Horace Trahan
  4. Hackberry Hop - Paul Daigle, Mike Doucet & Rober Elin
  5. La Danse De Mardi Gras - Balta Brothers
  6. Valse De Coeur Casser - Paul Daigle & Cajun Gold
  7. Paper In My Shoe - Boozoo Chavis
  8. Lemonade Song - Nathan Abshire
  9. Si Tu M'aimes - Vin Bruce
  10. Les Vevves De La Coulee - Beausoleil
  11. Jolie Blonde - Belton Richard
  12. I Can't Forget You - Badeaux & The Louisiana Aces
  13. Broken Hearted - John Delafose
  14. Hold My False Teeth (And I'll Show You How To Dance) - Comey Doucet
  15. You Used To Call lMe - Clifton Chenier

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Kings of Cajun.......2000-01-20

Several old favorites that can also be found on other Cajun collections ("Pine Grove Blues," "Les Flammes d'Enfer," etc.) with good remastering of the older sides. The pick of the crop, though, may be Horace Trahan's "Amitie Casser", which I haven't seen collected elsewhere. On the strength of this example, I'm looking forward to hearing Trahan's CD "Osson Blues."
Tales from the Poison Swamps
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Tales from the Poison Swamps
    Z'EV and the Brooklyn Shields
    Manufacturer: Surf Ave
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00008FQOK
    Release Date: 1995-10-27

    Tracks:

    1. Flatbush Avenue
    2. Fancy Nancy
    3. Long Cold Nights on Coney Island
    4. Trackless Train
    Me and Marie
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Me and Marie

      Manufacturer: Walking Blues Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
      Folk RockFolk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
      ASIN: B00007FPJY
      Release Date: 2002-11-10

      Tracks:

      1. Edge of Goodbye
      2. Count on Me
      3. Look What Love Has Done
      4. Back In Time
      5. Me and Marie
      6. The Beer Song
      7. Along Comes A Woman
      8. Ain't That Your Baby
      9. She Still Loves Me
      10. Phony Diamond Ring

      Album Description

      "Me and Marie is a beautifully crafted record originally born out of a basement. It's got electric guitars, acoustic guitars, a little dobro, and a little fiddle. "Me and Marie displays fantastic songwriting steeped in the roots of American music. It may remind you of Bruce Springsteen or Lyle Lovett or Creedence. Maybe it reminds you of Greg Brown, then again it might not remind you of anything you've heard before. No matter, you are going to love it either way
      Survival Tactics
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Survival Tactics

        Manufacturer: Extra Strength Entertainment
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B000CAJL3A
        Release Date: 2004-12-07
        Lowcountry Dub
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          		Lowcountry Dub

          Manufacturer: Level Green Recording Company
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B000CAD7TE
          Release Date: 2004-10-12
          Better Off Dead
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • Boogie Picking
          • A fun record by a band I'd never heard of before
          		 Better Off Dead
          Better off Dead
          Manufacturer: GarageLand
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Blues | Styles | Music
          Blues RockBlues Rock | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
          ASIN: B00000JSC5
          Release Date: 1998-03-01

          Tracks:

          1. Boogie Disease
          2. She Like That Chicken
          3. Bald Headed Baby
          4. Leave Married Women Alone
          5. Liquor In The Front
          6. Vibrator
          7. Get On The Whiskey
          8. I Dig The Girl
          9. Lesbian Blues
          10. What Did I Do Last Night?
          11. List Of Things To Do
          12. Kleptomaniac
          13. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
          14. When World's Collide
          15. Walking Blues

          Album Description

          With songs like "She Like That Chicken," "Get On The Whiskey," and "Vibrator," Better Off Dead's self-titled debut on Garageland Records serves up 15 heaping helpings of smoky, greasy, extra rare, home-cooked treats that go equally well with red- or white-labeled beer. The band cites numerous influences and inspiration ranging from multiple gin and tonics to inadequate sexual performance (though these may be somehow related). The album sounds like a late night roadtrip where you stop for gas, cigs, and coffee at a Quickie Mart only to discover that you've stumbled into a wild eviction party being held by the proprietors.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Boogie Picking.......2001-06-21

          I purchased this CD, because an old friend of mine was in the band. "Here you go buddy, don't ask for any more favors." When it arrived in the mail I toss the thing, cardboard and all, into the back seat of my car, and I'm off to run some errands. Now, I'm not afraid to admit to you that I have a problem: I can't seem to stop listening to those same three CDs that have been in my car since October, 1999. Nevertheless, I pop in that Guns and Roses for about the one millionth time. Just when Sweet Child O Mine hits its opening crescendo, I've had it. Too much repetition in my life. At the next traffic light, I'm going to pull it from the backseat and listen to Better Off Dead. The disc opens with Boogie Disease, and it is working on my rundown psychie. I am grooving all the way to the Post Office. Next, I need to return some clothing, (father's day error) which is my least favorite chore. She Like That Chicken is a good way to go. Nice song, road-house blues style, and it successfully puts a smile on my face. By the time the song, Liquor in the Front hits me, I'm no longer smiling. I am laughing. I'm laughing so f-ing hard that I sideswipe a telephone pole. Now I have the blues, because I have another errand to run. It's just the normal blues not the Lesbian Blues, track 9, a down and dirty ditty that is truly a gem. In fact most of the tracks included in this fifteen count are gems. The self titled Better Off Dead is a rocking rebellion from the depths of Northern New Jersey, the blues capitol of New Jersey. Do yourself a favor, order yourself a copy, Get on The Whiskey and Get on The Fun.

          4 out of 5 stars A fun record by a band I'd never heard of before.......1999-08-06

          I took a chance on these guys based on a review in Blues Access Magazine. I'm glad I did. Has a real raw, upbeat boogie, almost rockabilly feel and the lyrics are a blast. Sounds like they'd be a lot of fun to see live.
          [4 CD SET / 73 RAP TRACKS] From the Swamps [EXPLICIT LYRICS] / Best of Beyond Real [Explicit Lyrics] (2 CDs) / One Million Strong
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            		[4 CD SET / 73 RAP TRACKS] From the Swamps [EXPLICIT LYRICS] / Best of Beyond Real [Explicit Lyrics] (2 CDs) / One Million Strong

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            ASIN: B000HJH8BS

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