Blowback [Import] [Limited Edition]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Limited edition reissue of 2001 album includes bonus CD featuring seven rare & unissued Tricky songs, 'Excess' (Radio Edit), 'My Head' (prev. unreleased - performed by Costanza), 'Five Days' (Instrumental Version), 'Suffocating' (demo), 'Divine Comedy' (taken from 'Mission Accomplished' EP), 'Your Name' (Instrumental Version) & 'Unofficial' (prev. unreleased - performed by Phatt Black & Tricky). 2002.

BlowBack
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Buy it.
  • making you wait..
  • a great album
  • Dense, haunting
  • disappointment
 BlowBack
Tricky
Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005LNH1
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

  1. Excess
  2. Evolution Revolution Love
  3. Over Me
  4. Girls
  5. You Don't Wanna
  6. #1 Da Woman
  7. Your Name
  8. Diss Never (Dig Up We History)
  9. Bury The Evidence
  10. Something In The Way
  11. Five Days
  12. Give It To 'Em
  13. A Song For Yukiko

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Since the release of his debut, Maxinquaye, Tricky fans have wondered when he would or could match the nightmarish splendor of that trip-hop masterpiece. Blowback may not entirely appease the Tricky faithful, but it is the Bristol innovator's most satisfying album in a while. With Maxinquaye's surreal sonics lurking around its edges, Blowback is wonderfully schizophrenic, cavorting through robotically muted ragga, surging funk rock, nauseous, sample-mangled ballads, and bizarre versions of songs like the 1930s standard "Your Name" and Nirvana's "Something in the Way." In fact, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morrisette, Cyndi Lauper, and Live's Ed Kowalcyzk along for the ride, Blowback is Tricky's Tommy, delivered through the mouths and muscles of the stars.

Blowback blows up with the arena-rock anthem "Evolution Revolution Love," featuring Kowalcyzk's familiar croon, while Tricky sings backup in a maniacal murmur. The ragga songs, which are dank and claustrophobic, are upended by the queasy flash metal of "Bury the Evidence." Finally, the trudging programming and Japanese vocals on "A Song for Yukiko" make an enigmatic gurgle that sums up Tricky's beautiful, bewildering creation. --Ken Micallef

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Buy it........2007-04-18

Good CD. This is 2007 and it is not necessary that every track on a CD be great, because you just rip the best tracks to your iTunes and delete the bad ones. Simple. I'll buy a CD for one track, if it's hot enough.
Now on this Tricky piece, I would keep tracks 1,2,4,8,9,10,12,and 13 and delete the rest. Use the AIFF (un-compressed) setting on iTunes.

5 out of 5 stars making you wait.........2006-06-21

on tricky's album blowback [2000], he pairs himself with the likings of anthony keidis and flea of the red hot chili peppers, ed kowalcyzk of live, alanis morissette and even cyndi lauper. that's one of the pleasures of being a beat mastermind, you can imagine absolutely anyone's vocal techniques to your music and make it happen. flowing on the waves of punk rock mixed within soulful background vocals and guitar chatterings, tricky grew from his pure trip hop roots to share a part that has never been seen before.

in the hot summer of 2000 seeing tricky perform with a full band feeling the songs of his album blowback vividly live in front of me put all his music on a completely different level. whether it was right or wrong, it felt hard to deny the intense attraction and mystery to each vampire melody. warm from the sun still on a high from seeing the show, there would be days of driving with friends upon lost roads in the woods of new hampshire laughing and staring at everything that went along to this soundtrack. drifting through the calmness of new england air, the surprise of sudden curves in emerald tree-lined roads... listening over and over again to the sensual duet between tricky and cyndi lauper, the way their different patterns came together almost made absolutely every detail fall into weird perfect sense. it still does.


dont stop//yr gonna break my heart

5 out of 5 stars a great album.......2006-03-13

I approach this album basically the way I approach Blood Sugar Sex Magik or Ten or something along those lines, in other words a pop/rock record. I really didn't like it when I first got it, most likely because I am a huge Massive Attack fan and was hoping for something in that vein. I listened to it once and was underwhelmed, shelved it for about a year. Then I randomly decided to give it another go when all my other CDs weren't doing it for me, and discovered it to be hugely enjoyable, interesting, and all-around excellent album. The songs are basically structured like pop songs, voiced by a plethora of guest singers. The music has a distinct and original character to it. It's not the psychadelic wash that most electronic music is, the songs are focussed and direct. But they are far from being trite rock/pop tunes, the production is very contemporary and the vocals are diverse and energetic.

The vocals also are not the typically pleasant-but-vapid deliveries common to electronic music. The tense beats and FX add unusual depth to the singing; also the MCing by Tricky and Hawkman put against the pop verses of other singers instantly pushes the album into its own area of style and originality. It's like uptempo ragga trip-hop rock.

Another key sign that you have a good album on your hands is if there is a low number of regularly skipped tracks. I find this CD so entertaining to listen to, the only track i'm ever compelled to skip is the one wih Ed Kowalczek (spelling?), whose vocals on the album don't impress so much as others. The Chili Peppers songs are awesome, funky head-banging teched out madness. Other favorites of mine are "Over Me" and "Diss Never", both of which bring a ragga/dancehall vibe to the proceedings. "Bury The Evidence" is a masterpiece of atmosphere, sort of reminds me of the Deftones, darkly cinematic and very wide and deep in the mix. Also worth noting is the unnerving cover of Nirvana's "Something In the Way", droned and groaned by Hawkman. This inclusion I think solidifies the fusion of very contemporary trip hop/dance/electro with the attitudes of good old-fashioned 90's hard rock.

The diversity of the album is really what makes it I think. Obviously the songs are well-executed as well, but what keeps things interesting is the blend of so many different styles and approaches. We get everything from straight-up rock on "#1 Da Woman" to synthy, programmed trip-hop on "You Don't Wanna", and peppered all through the album are the dark growling words of Tricky and dub-style vocal drops by Hawkman. It's really just interesting and entertaining stuff to listen to, if you are a trip-hop die hard than you may be turned off however, this is coming from more of a pop/rock songwriting direction.

4 out of 5 stars Dense, haunting.......2004-10-19

I think this album is Tricky's most "focused" work, cleverly-crafted songs that produce a vivid, dark landscape that is quintessential British trip-hop at its best. This record grows on you, and the Nirvana cover "Something in the Way" is brilliantly executed, a subliminal masterpiece that Kurt Cobain would be proud of. "Song for Yukiko" is great, and it reminds me of the U2 song "Ito Okashi" from their "Passengers" CD.

3 out of 5 stars disappointment.......2004-06-23

I bought this cd because it is Tricky. I love all his solo albums because they are so unique and challenging. For me I don't like his collaborations and this is no exception. My favourite track is "A song for Yukiko" which is the only Tricky song on the album.
Asteroid/Blowback
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    		Asteroid/Blowback
    Asteroid , and Blowback
    Manufacturer: Fuzzorama
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000F5GKV8
    Release Date: 2006-05-22

    Tracks:

    1. Supernova
    2. Anagram
    3. Hexagon
    4. Sim-Sala-Bim
    5. Walk Alone
    6. The Big Trip Beyond
    7. Holy Skies
    8. Autumn Leaf
    9. Fairy's Dance
    10. Cosmic Dust
    11. The Arquitect
    12. Invisible Touch

    Album Description

    ASTEROID is a band that has already made themselves a name over the world with their heavy, progressive, 70's inspired rock. A groove that is impossible to resist. Unforgettable melodies mixed with huge riffs. BLOWBACK always hits the bull's eye with their mix of 70's rock and fuzz rock. When this band turn their amps on you will be nailed against the speaker begging for more. Here you got riff-o-mania that no one is safe from. Fuzzorama Records. 2006.
    Rondo/7 Phases/Blowback
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      		Rondo/7 Phases/Blowback
      Merzbow , and Kim Cascone
      Manufacturer: Sub Rosa
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      Release Date: 2004-06-22

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      Track III
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      ASIN: B00005Y1ES
      Release Date: 2001-01-15

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      1. Bodybags
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      9. Execution
      10. Consumer Society
      11. For Whom The Bells Toll
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      Album Description

      Track III is the first album from the hardcore punk band Blowback. The songs were recorded in New York City on the week of September 11, 2001.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Blowback.......2002-04-28

      I was lucky enough to see Blowback at a show in Roxbury, MA the other night and they blew the place away. Very angry political punk rock. I recommend this c.d. to all punks/\/\/\///\\/\/\//

      5 out of 5 stars hardcore punk rawk.......2002-03-09

      blowback rocks! this kinda sounds like the cro-mags or something.... mad riffs and good variety. the recording is a little weak but not bad for a new band.

      4 out of 5 stars Protest Music.......2002-02-13

      These guys are pretty sick. The vocalist sounds possessed but the politics are dead on. Good punk/metal/core.
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        Tricky
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        Binding: Audio CD

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        Lo-Tech Solutions to Hi-Tech Problems
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          		Lo-Tech Solutions to Hi-Tech Problems

          Manufacturer: Cityscape
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000CA6LVU
          Release Date: 2004-09-07
          Blowback
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            		Blowback
            Tricky
            Manufacturer: Cutti
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            ASIN: B00005J4SS
            Release Date: 2001-06-29

            Tracks:

            1. Excess
            2. Evolution Revolution Love
            3. Over Me
            4. Girls
            5. You Dont Wanna
            6. Number 1 Da Woman
            7. Your Name
            8. Diss Never (Dig Up We History)
            9. Bury The Evidence
            10. Something In The Way
            11. Five Days
            12. Give It To Em
            13. A Song For Yukiko
            14. Evolution Revolution Love (Marlon-Maddog Remix)
            15. The Hawkman Is Coming

            Album Description

            Japanese edition of 2001 album. Featuring Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper & The Red Hot Chili Peppers among the guests. 15 tracks including two bonus tracks, 'Evolution Revolution Love' (Marlon Maddog Remix) & 'The Hawkman Is Coming'.

            Album Details

            Japanese Version Feauturing a Bonus 'evoluton Revolution Love (Marlon:maddog Remix)' and 'the Hawkman is Coming.'
            BlowBack
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              		BlowBack
              Tricky
              Manufacturer: Anti
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

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              ASIN: B000063CXV
              Release Date: 2002-07-25

              Tracks:

              1. Excess
              2. Evolution Revolution Love
              3. Over Me
              4. Girls
              5. You Don't Wanna
              6. #1 da Woman
              7. Your Name
              8. Diss Never (Dig Up We History)
              9. Bury the Evidence
              10. Something in the Way
              11. Five Days
              12. Give It to 'Em
              13. Song for Yukiko

              Album Description

              Limited edition reissue of 2001 album includes bonus CD featuring seven rare & unissued Tricky songs, 'Excess' (Radio Edit), 'My Head' (prev. unreleased - performed by Costanza), 'Five Days' (Instrumental Version), 'Suffocating' (demo), 'Divine Comedy' (taken from 'Mission Accomplished' EP), 'Your Name' (Instrumental Version) & 'Unofficial' (prev. unreleased - performed by Phatt Black & Tricky). 2002.
              Lies
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                		Lies

                Manufacturer: String Break
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

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                ASIN: B000CA6XWC
                Release Date: 2004-11-23
                Blowback: Musical Selections And Commentary [EP]
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                  Tricky
                  Manufacturer: Hollywood
                  ProductGroup: Music
                  Binding: Audio CD

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                  ASIN: B000NXAI24

                  Product Description

                  Blowback: Musical Selections And Commentary! Features Music And Commentary By Tricky! TRACKS: 1. Excess [1:16]; 2. Commentary 1 [0:21]; 3. Commentary 2 [0:33]; 4. Commentary 3 [0:11]; 5. You Don't Wanna [1:32]; 6. Commentary 6 [2:04]; 7. Evolution Revolution Love [1:23]; 8. Commentary 7 [1:13]; 9. Girls [1:27]; 10. Commentary 8 [1:23]; & 11. Your Name [1:10].

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