Best song on Tricky's 'Blowback'

Great, way underrated record. Voted for "A Song For Yukiko." Could have gone with maybe 5 or 6 others.

Another vote for "...Yukiko."

(listened to "For Real" from the last record on the way to work this morning)

I wonder how many votes you're gonna get. "For Real" is the last good thing he did, and probably the best he ever did. God, I love that song.

Some days I think that "Bombing Bastards" may be the best thing he ever did (or at least his best since the Maxinquaye days). Why in the world he decided to leave it off Juxtapose is beyond me.

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Xgau's repping for this record wasn't enough to make me like it:

I have no idea whether this will prove the smash Maxinquaye wasn't--well, actually I do, but I promise to keep it quiet if you do. For sure he's presented his new label with his first song album since then. Where once were textures you could write a poem about now are textures you can hang a tune on. And forget P.J. Harvey for clout, this one's got the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Alanis Morissette and, uh, Live and Cyndi Lauper--all of whom sound fabulous. Yes, he's still very down in the mouth. With him, that's a matter of principle. But his defiance is more coherent, his mysticism more visionary. And if it's not gauche of me to mention it, he rocks and does a Nirvana song, not necessarily at the same time. A

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I loved Blowback...it's the only other Tricky album to blow me away. Probably because it's his first record to not try and imitate Maxinquaye. Then Vulnerable imitated Blowback and totally sucked (the Maxinquaye imitations are better because Maxinquaye is an infinitely better record). Voted "Dig Up We History." Gorgeous palm-muted lines once you adjust to the toaster guy. Ditto the Nirvana cover.

"Excess" is pretty badass too. You have to love how Alanis Morissette only got hired for vaguely Nusrat-sounding "haunted" vocals at the end of her career (see also Dave Matthews' "Don't Drink the Water," an unnecessarily melodramatic but a rare token of relevance in the DMB cough, "catalog")

Even Tricky himself underrated this one. IIRC, he complained that the guest spots were thrust upon him. Maybe I'm being naive but the project seems too unwieldy for it to have happened that way. Me, I think it's a sensational popification of Maxinquaye and a healthy redirection after three increasingly scrapey-sounding albums under his own name. Unprincipled advocator of postmodernism that I am, I simply cannot resist a Eurhythmics rip followed by a Wonder Woman rip followed by a...well, "rip" doesn't work here but interpolation of a Tin Pan Alley tune best performed by Margaret O'Brien and Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis, arguably the greatest classical Hollywood musical ever made. Then of course there were all those irresistible guest spots. And Ambersunshower whose own album was another underrated gem.

The bad mouthing this album received was particularly annoying since he went on to make his blandest (and last, right?) album to date. The only great track on Vulnerable was the final one, the name of which I forget. As usual, I wonder - how does this man put food on the table?

Missed the poll but would've voted for "#1 Da Woman." Get it? "One Da Woman?"

oh and for some reason it seems older than it actually is. I would've pegged it as a 1998 release. Not sure if that means anything....