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Artist Ben Harper
Title Fight for Your Mind (Redbook CD – 68:08)
Year of Release 1995
Record Label Virgin Records
Genre Pop/Rock
A little Pop, and little Funk, lots of great acoustic music to make your Logans shine.
This is Ben Harper’s 3rd release, and it’s my favorite for 2 reasons – The recording and the music. I also like his “Diamonds on the Inside” album, but I find the recording a little too bright for my taste/system. This album is over 68 minutes long, so you certainly get a lot of music for your money.
The disc starts with “Oppression”, where Harper is standing up for “the tired and the weak” and then tells this evil force “You will learn to fear me”. Social commentary with a Reggae feel.
“Gold to me” is a song with a good bass line that gets my feet tapping and gets me turning up the volume.
“Burn One Down” is a well recorded song with different drums, guitars, mostly acoustic that sounds very nice on my system. Great tune if you can get past the reference to smoking pot: “Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend. If you don’t like my fire than don’t come around, ‘cause I’m gonna burn one down.”
There are other really good songs on this album, and listening to it is a bit of an experience, as the music varies so much in character throughout. Some social commentary, some pretty basic acoustic pop, and some of it is Harper just doing his thing. As with most Ben Harper material, you sense he’s putting his heart and soul into his music.
The disc ends with “One Road to Freedom”, and although it may have been an afterthought or a “throw in”, it’s one of my favorite songs on the album. Very simple, Harper strumming an electric guitar, soft drums and accompanying bass. It almost sounds like a few guys just hanging around your listening room and decided to play a little music. “In my life I have been blessed. And I have been cursed. There are so many roads to travel. There’s just one road to freedom.”
I recommend this album as a more funk / less Pop alternative to those of you who enjoy Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Dave Matthews (more Rock), etc.
Oh yeah – Sorry if my review reads like a 5th grader wrote it. It’s not easy!
Mike
Title Fight for Your Mind (Redbook CD – 68:08)
Year of Release 1995
Record Label Virgin Records
Genre Pop/Rock
A little Pop, and little Funk, lots of great acoustic music to make your Logans shine.
This is Ben Harper’s 3rd release, and it’s my favorite for 2 reasons – The recording and the music. I also like his “Diamonds on the Inside” album, but I find the recording a little too bright for my taste/system. This album is over 68 minutes long, so you certainly get a lot of music for your money.
The disc starts with “Oppression”, where Harper is standing up for “the tired and the weak” and then tells this evil force “You will learn to fear me”. Social commentary with a Reggae feel.
“Gold to me” is a song with a good bass line that gets my feet tapping and gets me turning up the volume.
“Burn One Down” is a well recorded song with different drums, guitars, mostly acoustic that sounds very nice on my system. Great tune if you can get past the reference to smoking pot: “Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend. If you don’t like my fire than don’t come around, ‘cause I’m gonna burn one down.”
There are other really good songs on this album, and listening to it is a bit of an experience, as the music varies so much in character throughout. Some social commentary, some pretty basic acoustic pop, and some of it is Harper just doing his thing. As with most Ben Harper material, you sense he’s putting his heart and soul into his music.
The disc ends with “One Road to Freedom”, and although it may have been an afterthought or a “throw in”, it’s one of my favorite songs on the album. Very simple, Harper strumming an electric guitar, soft drums and accompanying bass. It almost sounds like a few guys just hanging around your listening room and decided to play a little music. “In my life I have been blessed. And I have been cursed. There are so many roads to travel. There’s just one road to freedom.”
I recommend this album as a more funk / less Pop alternative to those of you who enjoy Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Dave Matthews (more Rock), etc.
Oh yeah – Sorry if my review reads like a 5th grader wrote it. It’s not easy!
Mike
