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Come Find Yourself (Import) (CD)

By: Fun Lovin' Criminals

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Come Find Yourself (Import) (CD) Album By Fun Lovin' Criminals
1   Fun Lovin' Criminal  
2   Passive/Aggressive  
3   Grave And The Constant  
4   Scooby Snacks  
5   Smoke 'em  
6   Bombin' The L  
7   I Can't Get With That  
8   King Of New York  
9   We Have All The Time In The World  
10   Bear Hug  
11   Come Find Yourself  
12   Crime And Punishment  
13   Mathadonia  
14   I Can't Get With That (Smoove) (CD)  
15   Coney Island Girl (CD)  
 

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Review

NME (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #21 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.
Rolling Stone (4/4/96, p.60) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...using samples, loops, and scratches--with standard funk bass and beats--FLC stake a larger claim on
hip-hop tools than G. Love [& Special Sauce] ever attempted..."
Q (7/96, p.110) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...a vibrant splatterfest of urban hip hop, full of stomping beats, razor sharp ribald lyrics, fresh and frazzled samples and a compellingly crunchy set of melodies....They play fast and loose with wise-guy iconography against a crisp and bouncy backbeat..."
NME (6/29/96, p.54) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Where there should be grimaces, there are grins. Where there should be realism, there is surrealism....shooting out increasing bizarre shades of nonsense...as blissfully screwed up as it is listenable..."

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Fun Lovin' Criminals: Huey (vocals, guitar); Fast, Steve.
Recorded at Steve Rosenthal's Magic Shop, New York, New York from April 25 to May 20, 1995.
COME FIND YOURSELF, the debut record from this New York alternative-rap trio, is equally a product of the post-Beck and post-"Paul Revere" worlds. Alluding in their musical blueprint to the "Loser" folkie, Criminals Huey, Fast and Steve sculpt tracks driven by live drums and guitars, yet whose smooth, rock-ist samples are the songs' true calling cards--"Bombin' The L" spotlights a refrain from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird," and "Crime And Punishment" is built on "Sunshine Of Your Love."
Lyrically, instead of stringing together pop-culture-weary non-sequiturs, FLC adopt the jokey, faux-gangster posturing of the Beastie Boys' classic LICENSE TO ILL--leading to quasi-classic lines like "La-di-da-di/Free John Gotti," the chorus to "King Of New York." The result is a head-nodder of an album that'll make any listener question whether to laugh along or call the cops--and that's precisely the point.

Album Description

The Fun Lovin Criminals debut release, COME FIND YOURSELF, is both a catchy love letter to the trio's New York City roots and a mid-90s rap rock party album. Vocalist and guitarist Hugh Morgan, keyboardist and bassist Brian Leiser, and original drummer Steve Borgovini met at New York City's famed Limelight nightclub in the early 90s, and started as a stand-in for bands who failed to show up. From that point on, Fun Lovin Criminals cultivated their hip-hop beats, bluesy rhythms, and pop-culture themed rhymes. Heavily dominating the lyrical content are references to gritty urban living, samples from Tarantino movies, and send-ups of organized crime, as exemplified on the track "King of New York," boasting the sing-song chorus "La Di Da Di, Free John Gotti." Even though the band touches on dark themes, the music is energetic and funky enough to keep it from being too subversive. In the end, COME FIND YOURSELF is a perfectly crafted summertime party album.

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