20 Years On: Ultramagnetic MCs' Funk Your Head Up

ANU · Post by **ANU** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:25 pm

good read

http://thequietus.com/articles/08259-ul ... ur-head-up

Freezy Pazzy · Post by **Freezy Pazzy** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:01 pm

Merci ANU! La p

ANU · Post by **ANU** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:08 pm

kikou jee

Freezy Pazzy · Post by **Freezy Pazzy** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:14 pm

(Tu sais qu'ils te cherchent sur l'ABCDR? Je crois que tu leur manques lol)

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:58 pm

i feel like if you aren't borkenese you don't belong in this thread. that said, i love this album.

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:59 am

yall my boys and all but

English.

I love this unreleased version of pluckin cards:
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undeniable classic
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so many memories attached to this song.

Freezy Pazzy · Post by **Freezy Pazzy** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:09 am

Philaflava wrote:i feel like if you aren't borkenese you don't belong in this thread. that said, i love this album.

Nah Gloss, come on. Take a seat & have a beer. It's a small world, you know.

And I agree, dope article about a dope (And pretty slept-on) album.

Freezy Pazzy · Post by **Freezy Pazzy** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:10 am

Makes me think it would be a perfect album for Traffic to reissue as a double CD, with every singles & instrumentals included on the second disc.

vaporized2 · Post by **vaporized2** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:47 pm

even on the duds (the odd attempt at swingbeat, 'I Like Your Style';

by far the best track on there IMO

ANU · Post by **ANU** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:50 pm

that guy also wrote a piece on nice & smooth second lp that was very much on point : http://thequietus.com/articles/07634-nice-and-smooth

Tim Burton · Post by **Tim Burton** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:49 pm

Freezy Pazzy wrote:Makes me think it would be a perfect album for Traffic to reissue as a double CD, with every singles & instrumentals included on the second disc.

I second that!!

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:01 pm

vaporized2 wrote:
even on the duds (the odd attempt at swingbeat, 'I Like Your Style';
by far the best track on there IMO

I strongly disagree, but I disagree with this too, so don't worry about it:

the thoroughly rotten 'Porno Star'

I always loved that beat and thought the song was funny as hell back then. It still is comical, imo, and I'm sure that's what they intended. Not that i can sit through 7 minutes of it though.

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:07 pm

Tim Burton wrote:
Freezy Pazzy wrote:Makes me think it would be a perfect album for Traffic to reissue as a double CD, with every singles & instrumentals included on the second disc.
I second that!!

I don't know who has the rights to what though. Black Pegasus put out the og versions of Pluckin Cards(the one i posted earlier in this thread) and Mechanizm Nice on a 2LP that was kind of a "some new stuff from different people, some rare ultra stuff" mixed up album in 2010.
http://www.discogs.com/Ultramagnetic-MC ... se/2337372
Probably worth having just for that og version of Pluckin Cards though. I haven't copped nor heard really much else from this album.

harbourmc · Post by **harbourmc** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:49 pm

"'Stop Jockin' Me', which just doesn't really work"

whoooooa,,,i have to stop him right there.

i like ced on there but i can see people being kinda whatever over his verse,,but that beat is ill and keith is goddamn hilarious on that..

"back in the day, see you never had the time,
to come to my house and let me tell you that i rhyme"

"lisa, pamela, angela, renee,,,the girls who shoplift, and steal every day"

and the whole phone shit. so classic.

Y@k Bollocks · Post by **Y@k Bollocks** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:25 am

harbourmc wrote:"'Stop Jockin' Me', which just doesn't really work"

whoooooa,,,i have to stop him right there.

i like ced on there but i can see people being kinda whatever over his verse,,but that beat is ill and keith is goddamn hilarious on that..

"back in the day, see you never had the time,
to come to my house and let me tell you that i rhyme"

"lisa, pamela, angela, renee,,,the girls who shoplift, and steal every day"

and the whole phone shit. so classic.

Word! That's one of my favourite tracks on the album!

They're playing in London soon, but I dunno if i'm going. Isn't their live show a shambles?

More Gravy Please · Post by **More Gravy Please** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:21 pm

Freezy Pazzy wrote:Makes me think it would be a perfect album for Traffic to reissue as a double CD, with every singles & instrumentals included on the second disc.

Agreed. Would also be great to have the original versions of the tracks on a bonus disc to hear the way the album was meant to have sounded before bullshit Mercury made them tone it down. Hence, the original, harder versions of 'MC Champion' & 'Message From The Boss' etc wiping the floor with the tamer "official" album versions.

Which brings me neatly on to two questions...does anyone have a full length version of the original 'MC Champion', that doesn't fade out during the middle of "James' " verse? And, does anyone know who this "James" guy actually was/is?