The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Controversial Negro [Card Sleeve] (CD, JAPAN)

1 December 1997

Toy’s Factory

TFCK-87126

01. Get With It 02. Can’t Stop 03. Son of Sam 04. Cool Vee 05. Afro 06. R.L. Got Soul 07. Blues X Man 08. Watermain 09. Love All of Me 10. Fuck Shit Up 11. Hot Shot 12. Skunk 13. Vacuum of Loneliness 14. Sticky 15. The Feeling of Love 16. Down Low 17. Dynamite Lover 18. Flavor 19. Full Grown
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NOTES:
Limited LP style gatefold card-sleeve issue of Controversial Negro which originally only saw a commercial Japanese release in 1997. The limited version has the exact same catalogue number and barcode as the standard CD issue and was issued with an Obi strip and inserts containing the same information (red insert with sleeve notes in Japanese and a 12-page booklet containing black and white images of the band). A 14 track version of this album was issued as a promo on CD in the UK and vinyl in the US. The last five tracks on the Japanese release were not featured on the US or UK promos but four of these were issued on the Australian Rocketship EP. An expanded edition was reissued in 2010 which includes an additional 10 tracks. The title for this album comes from the Public Enemy song Burn Hollywood Burn from their 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet. Towards the end of the track someone asks Flava Flav the following question: “Now we’re considering how do you for a part in our new production, how do you feel about playing a controversial negro?” The artwork used on the promotional version along with the title Controversial Negro was originally intended for Now I Got Worry.
SONG CREDITS:
Recorded live November 25, 1996 at The Hotel Congress in Tuscon, Arizona. Mixed by Jim Waters at Waterworks West Assisted: Saylor Breckenridge Live sound by Peter Arsenault All songs: Writers: Spencer/Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI except: 01. Get With It Writers: Explosion/Feathers Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI/C. Feathers Publishing, BMI 02. Can’t Stop Writers: Explosion/Nishita Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI/Fido Speaks Music, BMI 03. Son of Sam Writers: Luanda/Gee Published: Kapitalist Music, ASCAP 10. Fuck Shit Up Writers: Dub Narcotic Published: Gravedigger Blues, BMI 19. Flavor Writers: Campbell/Spencer/Explosion Published: Cyanide Breathmint Music, BMG Songs inc. ASCAP/Dirty Shirt, BMI
SLEEVE NOTES:
n/a
DETAILS:
ARTWORK: Photos: Christian Lantry and Ali Smith Design: David Warner and Jon Spencer Lettering: Take-shit and Akira BARCODE: 4 988061 871264 MATRIX: “TFCK-87126 1MS1 C 7Y IFPI L221”