Sharkey's Machine (Explicit Version) (2004)

Product Summary Label: Koch Entertainment UPC: 00823979002024 Release Date: 5/25/2004 Buy.com Sku: 60631835 Item#: MKC5NC Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Warnimg Up For A Scissor Fight ~ Sharkey 2. Fuzz - (with Cannibal Ox) ~ Sharkey (Rap) 3. Phone Sex - (with Cherrywine) ~ Sharkey 4. Little Cabin Song - (with Zooks) ~ Sharkey 5. If It Fits ~ Sharkey 6. Summer in the City (Lovin' It) - (with Jean Grae) ~ Sharkey 7. Skateboarder's Blues - (with Zooks) ~ Sharkey 8. Typical Day in Sunny Washington, DC, A - (with The Graykid) ~ Sharkey 9. Slo-Mo In The Grotto ~ Sharkey 10. Here We Are - (with Billy Moon) ~ Sharkey 11. Icewater ~ Sharkey 12. Meltdown - (with Zooks) ~ Sharkey 13. All For Nothing - (with Grand Puba) ~ Sharkey 14. Song 20 - (with Billy Moon) ~ Sharkey 15. Snobird - (with The Pharcyde) ~ Sharkey 16. Zooks vs. Connery ~ Sharkey 17. Something's Got to Give - (with Billy Moon) ~ Sharkey   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info As hip-hop has become the de facto sound of this current millennium, we should be thankful to those who have made the form more interesting than the formulaic salvo of MTV rappers and their seemingly regretful genius producers who drag us into their banal odes to themselves with arguably the freshest sound to back up otherwise empty boasts. Kill the rapper has never felt more appropriate. Fortunately, moves are being made to remedy this, as "hip-hop" artists like cLOUDDEAD and Diplo have pushed further away from the center on highly recommended releases this year. How does Sharkey fit into all of this? Not as well as one might have hoped. Clearly the Babygrande connection made roping in top-notch spitters like Jean Grae and Grand Puba from Brand Nubian an easy task. Although, one might wonder if they didn't approach these spastic cuts as a test to their ability to flow over anything, regardless of its lack of serious thump. For Sharkey doesn't seem capable for making a track with any real bounce or pop. Instead, half-finished lessons in sampling diarrhea plague this record. Hip-hop was founded on picking the tightest grooves on old records and repeating them to infinity via two turntables, and later, a single sampler. It's hard too tell if Sharkey missed this class. Or if his choice source material is just flawed from jump street. One thing is for certain. Featuring your pals Zooks from your other band to goof-rap like Sean Connery must have only been funny for a moment. Given the weeks or months needed to record and release an album, it's amazing someone didn't speak up and point out when the joke was over. ~ Joshua Glazer   Associated Artists and Works Monster Maker ~ C-Rayz Walz Various Artists   Technical Info Release Date : 05/25/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 20 Label : Babygrande Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00823979002024    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray