Name: It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah - Black Grape
Brand: Black Grape
SKU: 0008811122447
Price: 7.94 EUR
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Artist

Black Grape was started by vocalist/bandleader Shaun Ryder and dancer Bez of Happy Mondays after the dissolution of that group in 1993. Shaun and Bez added Kermit (2) and Ged Lynch, both of the hip hop group Ruthless Rap Assassins (who were associated with Hulme/Manchester's baggy movement), as second vocalist/rapper and drummer, respectively, and also guitarist Paul Wagstaff from the baggy/madchester/indie-dance group Paris Angels. Gluing the sound together was Danny Saber, a talented and prolific producer/remixer/multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, California. The combination of this supergroup of musicians essentially assured that resultant sound would fuse together the drugged- and thugged-out baggy attitude of the Mondays with a denser, brighter electronic and hip hop production style, and very well-produced rhythm tracks. Sonically, Black Grape emerged fully formed: harder-edged and brasher altogether than the Happy Mondays; elements of funk, hip hop, electronic, and soul, all of which were present in the previous group's music (but to a lesser extent) became far more saturated and less understated in the new group's style. One British music journalist of the time rather enthusiastically described Black Grape's debut album as "the party Prince was describing in the song '1999'."

Tracks

A1 Reverend Black Grape 05:12

A2 In The Name Of The Father 04:21

A3 Tramazi Parti 04:45

A4 Kelly's Heroes 04:22

A5 Yeah Yeah Brother 04:10

B1 A Big Day In The North 04:10

B2 Shake Well Before Opening 05:40

B3 Submarine 03:50

B4 Shake Your Money 04:13

B5 Little Bob 05:33

Releases

Formats

Cassette, CD, Vinyl, CDr, File

Labels

Geffen Records, Western Thunder Records, UMC, Radioactive, Radioactive , Universal Music Catalogue

Countries

Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe

years

1995, 2016

Members

Danny Saber,Shaun Ryder,~~Ged Lynch~~,Carl McCarthy,Mark Berry (2),Paul Wagstaff,Paul Leveridge,Che Beresford