Spellbound
Cool King Chris
Performed By
Cool King Chris
Album UPC
884502082500
CD Baby Track ID
19553
Label
Magnolia Moon Tunes
Released
1999-01-01
BPM
97
Rated
0
ISRC
uscgj0923984
Year
1999
Spotify Plays
17
Writers
Writer
Fred C. Michael
Pub Co
Magnolia Moon Tunes
Composer
Fred C. Michael
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceEasy Clear
Rights Controlled
Master
Rights
Easy Clear: Master
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - North Carolina
Description
There are very few physical CDs of this album left which has made it collectible. There will not be anymore made as the masters were lost! - "Brazened, eccentric Pop garnished with a touch of pyschedelia"
Notes
“You may have heard it before but never in quite this manner. Cool King Chris is pop music’s contribution to Yin and Yang, and his two disparate personalities would make even the most learned Freudians scratch his or her head and grab their DSM. His Yin will remind you of another Chris…Breetveld (of The Breetles) with his over the top, yet utterly catchy structures. On “Dr. Prozac” Chris asks “Dr. Prozac where is my Xanax?” Not bad considering psychiatrists often prescribe Prozac and Xanax together. Then, however, he asks for Ritalin and Valium to go along with the other meds. Umm, no Chris we want you around so you can do more songs like the melodic rocker “Love is Strange”, the early Split Enz meets Spongetones (!) “Heard it Before” and “Oh no Here She Comes”, which grafts an infectious, doo-woppy intro to a goofy mania featuring Veruca Salt (the character not the band) sound bites. Twisted brilliance!
For his Yang, Chris takes his heart down several beats on “Everything’s Alright”, a slice of Harrison-esque psychedelia with some simple Eastern (United States) wisdom that would put the Maharishi to shame. There’s also “Flowers on Your Grave” another mystical ballad on which you can definitely hear Jamie Hoover’s production influence along with some amazing harmonies and nifty bass lines, and “Days Go By”, a janglefest with some dizzying vocals that will be harder to shake than a pesky nephew. The final track “Come as You Are” combines both elements of Chris’ personality. It sounds like it’s being played at 30 RPM and is full of existentialist pearls, silly laugh tracks and other amorphous effects.
Throughout all of this mayhem and meditation, Heard it Before will grab onto you and never let go. Chris is definitely cool…and he is definitely king!”
- David Bash
- Amplifier Magazine – issue # 18
For his Yang, Chris takes his heart down several beats on “Everything’s Alright”, a slice of Harrison-esque psychedelia with some simple Eastern (United States) wisdom that would put the Maharishi to shame. There’s also “Flowers on Your Grave” another mystical ballad on which you can definitely hear Jamie Hoover’s production influence along with some amazing harmonies and nifty bass lines, and “Days Go By”, a janglefest with some dizzying vocals that will be harder to shake than a pesky nephew. The final track “Come as You Are” combines both elements of Chris’ personality. It sounds like it’s being played at 30 RPM and is full of existentialist pearls, silly laugh tracks and other amorphous effects.
Throughout all of this mayhem and meditation, Heard it Before will grab onto you and never let go. Chris is definitely cool…and he is definitely king!”
- David Bash
- Amplifier Magazine – issue # 18
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