One Step Ahead of the Spider

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Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox". One Step Ahead of the Spider is the third album by MC 900 Ft. Jesus, released in 1994.[1][2] According to some advance CD copies, the album was originally titled Loony Tunes.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The album includes "If I Only Had a Brain", for which a music video was made that showed MC 900 Ft. Jesus reading an advertisement on selling brains. It peaked at No. 25 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.[3] The video was directed by Spike Jonze and was included in a Beavis and Butt-head episode.[4] MC 900 Ft. Jesus promoted the album by touring with Consolidated.[5]

Production

MC 900 Ft. Jesus was influenced by the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew.[6] He employed more of a band sound on One Step Ahead of the Spider; he spent six months listening to all the takes before adding vocals to his favorite tracks.[7][8] Vernon Reid played guitar on "Stare and Stare".[9] The album cover art is by graffiti artist Greg Contestabile.[10]

Critical reception

Template:Music ratings Trouser Press wrote that "Griffin's connection to hip-hop is gone: the music of 'New Moon' and 'Tiptoe Through the Inferno' are free-flowing jazz in which voice serves as just one of the instruments."[11] The Calgary Herald likened the album to "a spoken word Burroughs meets Don Was when he Was (Not Was)."[12]

The Los Angeles Times determined that "the record's balmy and organic grooves are far from the electronic dance pulse of previous records, and now he steeps his hip-hop sensibilities in minimal, goatee-stroking jazz."[13] Rolling Stone called MC 900 Ft. Jesus "desperately wack, browbeatingly outre."[14] The Indianapolis Star concluded that "while Griffin's hip-hop sensibilities may run closer to New Age, he delivers lyrics with a cadence that shifts between those of a finger-popping, beatnik poet and a world-weary commentator on race relations."[15]

Track listing

(All songs written by Griffin, except where noted.)

  1. "New Moon" – 11:41
  2. "But If You Go" – 5:39
  3. "If I Only Had a Brain" – 3:46
  4. "Stare and Stare" – 6:58 (Mayfield)
  5. "Buried at Sea" – 4:46 (Griffin/Rollins)
  6. "Tiptoe Through the Inferno" – 4:50
  7. "Gracías Pepé" – 3:42 (Caldwell/Griffin)
  8. "New Year's Eve" – 3:43
  9. "Bill's Dream" – 8:15
  10. "Rhubarb" – 3:11

Personnel

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References

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