Click on player to the left to hear samples, promises have been made that you'll love it.....
I could disappear behind line after line after line after adjective heavy line on and on describing this Album (Rodriguez -
Cold Fact) with delicately turned phrases and go on and on to touch on the album as being sharp as a razor, wistful witty and sunny, catchy, inexplicably under the radar of The USA since being cut in 1970 by a Detroit Michigan Latino by the Name of Sixto Rodriguez (
Sixto being derived from being born the 6th child in his family). There could be a much more historically intricate presentation of the fact that this album has had cult status (if possibly still a bit "underground") in South Africa and Australia for a number of decades. It's easy enough to find out further intrigues (
here for more.....) but for this medium, I'm calling it good. You will see two different album art images, this is due to the varying releases and blahblahblah that you can
find out more if you please.
To Simplify: Listen to it. I've made it easy for you to get a taste.
Just check out the links below and godspeed on your musical endeavors.
Sugar Man begins the album and is infectious to say the very least.
Don't believe me? Go ahead and listen, prove me wrong, I'll live if you don't like it I suppose, but honestly I don't see that being a real issue.....
Silver Magic Ships and the "Sugar man" who seems to have all the answers.....
Track 1 off of Rodriguez - Cold Fact
Establishment Blues is the Fourth Track on the album.
Subterranean Blues style lyrical meanderings throughout the tune, though you never get the feeling it's a blatant rip off. It's a fun song to sing boys and girls, fun to sing along to indeed......
"Establishment Blues Or This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst"
Also sink your teeth into
I Wonder if you'd like a song with infinitely catchy lil rhthms that the kids can bop to, the squares can sway to, the rebellious can call to arms with, the type of tunes that the rest of us to walk to work listening to.
The bubbly, aerated and swinging bass lines of
I Wonder
Rich Folks Hoax is simply fucking great. What to say what to say? I know, howbout I just qoute some of the lyrics:
"The moon is hanging in the purple sky
Baby's sleeping while its mother sighs
Talking 'bout the rich folks
Rich folks have the same jokes
,
And they park in basic places
The priest is preaching from a shallow grave
He counts his money, then he paints you saved
Talking to the young folks
Young folks share the same jokes
But they meet in older places"
Fuck Yes Rodriguez; Fuck Yes......
This is the album I incessantly harass any poor soul within earshot of me at work into believing that this must be the best album ever recorded. This is an overstated presentation at all times, an overindulgence of simply wanting to share with others what has been shared with me, and the enthusiasm is sincere, and genuinely based in that childlike shit eating grin soul that this music makes you believe you have become aware of again, at least for a few fleeting moments. It can incite those big, 4am thoughts at any hour of the day. This is where its power lies. Not in some critique, or praise about musical merit or pedigree or whether or not this album is important or unoriginal or completely genius because in the long scope of life: who fucking cares really? It comes down simply to "listen to it. check it out. I hope you share my excitement over this." and really that's all there is to it. Some vague and blatantly indescribable cameraderie about a certain slice of music. I've provided the links to just a few of the songs as an attempt to make it easier for you all to board the ship with me, or set about prying off the planks.
You can click image below for a a pitchfork review......
"Don't try to enchant me,
with your manner of dress,
cause a monkey in silk,
is a monkey no less"
-Sixto Rodriguez
Track 1 off of Rodriguez - Cold Fact
