Universal Mind Control (Explicit Version) (2008)

Artist: Common
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Product Summary
Label: Universal Music Group
UPC: 00602517836914
Release Date: 12/9/2008
Buy.com Sku: 209027531
Item#: M4EW4P
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Universal Mind Control (UMC) ~ Common
2. Punch Drunk Love - (featuring Kanye West) ~ Common
3. Make My Day - (featuring Cee-Lo) ~ Common
4. Sex 4 Suga ~ Common
5. Announcement - (featuring Pharrell) ~ Common
6. Gladiator ~ Common
7. Changes - (featuring Muhsinah) ~ Common
8. Inhale ~ Common
9. What A World ~ Common
10. Everywhere - (featuring Martina Topley-Bird) ~ Common



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Common has done this sort of thing before--namely, coming up with a record so different in tone and musical style it confounds fans and critics alike. The unchecked experimentation on ELECTRIC CIRCUS had his public polarized and left some wondering if Common's future work would be anything like hip-hop. This time around, on his eighth LP, the Chi-town lyricist once again bucks expectations, with 10 tracks of Bambaataa-esque electro courtesy of the Neptunes and Mr. DJ. This is original hip-hop--as Pharrell's "Planet Rock"-inspired hook on the opening title cut should proclaim loud and clear for those old enough to remember. On the lyrical front, Common is as captivating as ever. In between the lusty club-bangers and throw-your-hands-up anthems, he comes correct with a lofty, extended-metaphor take on the Obama era ("Changes") and an inspired homage to Biggie ("Announcement (Sped Up)"), where he and Pharrell rework some of the notorious one's most memorable lines.

Musical Guests
Kanye West
Cee-Lo
Pharrell Williams
Muhsinah
Martina Topley-Bird

 
Entertainment Reviews
Common - Universal Mind Control - CD Review
By: Jordan Richardson - Blogcritics.org Reviews
Published on: 1/13/2009 6:54 AM
Common’s Universal Mind Control is the consequence of one of hip-hop’s truly intellectual minds listening to one too many Will Smith records. Designed for the summer but released in December 2008, Common’s eighth record is an odd compilation of Neptunes-produced cuts....read the full review

 
Compilation Appearances
Whiteboys (Explicit Version)
Musical Massacre (Explicit Version)
1st Born Second (Explicit Version)
Fight To Win
Experience: Jill Scott (Bonus Tracks)
Experience: Jill Scott (Clean Version)
Soundbombing III (Explicit Version)
Brown Sugar
Timeless: The Singles Collection (Explicit Version)
College Dropout (Explicit Version)
College Dropout (Clean)
Take 'em To The Cleaners
Beautiful Struggle
Beautiful Struggle (Explicit Version)
Grind Date (Explicit Version)
Decade
Best Of
Late Registration (Explicit Version)
Late Registration (Clean Version)
Chapter 3:flesh
Afrique
Mtv Unplugged
2k6 Tracks
Flo' Ology
Rising Tied (Explicit Version)
Home Grown Guide To Understanding V1(Explicit Version)
Home Grown Guide To Understanding V1(Explicit Version)
Rising Tide/the(clean)
Rawkus Records:classics(Explicit Version)
Unpredictable (Explicit Version)
Rawkus Records:classic Cuts
Unstoppable V32 0106
King (Explicit Version)
KING (Clean Version)
My Homies Part 2 (Explicit Version)
Dave Chapelle's Block Party / O.s.t. (Cln)
Hip Hop:gold
Entourage (Explicit Version)
Mad Skillz(Explicit Version)
Mtv My Block: Chicago (Explicit Version)
Freedom Writers (Explicit Version)
Jill Scott Collaborations
Ancestry In Progress(Bonus Tracks)
Introducing Joss Stone
Introducing Joss Stone(w/ Bonus DVD)
Definitive Collection
Jazzmatazz 4:hip Hop Jazz Messenger B
Chicago Lp
Afromentals Number Twenty
Jazzmatazz Back To The Future Mix Tap(Explicit Version)
Rising Down
Rising Down(Explicit Version)
LAX
LAX (Clean)
Essence Music Festival Volume 1
LAX (Bonus Tracks)(Explicit Version)
Theater Of The Mind(Explicit Version)
Theater Of The Mind
Back On My B S(Explicit Version)
Back On My B S(Explicit Version)
Back On My Bs(Limited Edition)(Explicit Version)
Dillanthology I:dilla's Production Fo
Change Is Now: Renewing America's Promise
Lines Vines And Trying Times
Man On The Moon:End Of Day (Explicit Version)

 
Associated Artists and Works
T.I.
King [Edited] [Limited] ~ T.I.
King [PA] [Limited] ~ T.I.
Commonication: The Smooth Jazz Sessions To The Mus ~ Various Artists
Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 12/09/2008
Original Release Date : 2008
Catalog ID : B-001198602
Label : Geffen Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00602517836914

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.94)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[R]ap's deep thinker wanted to make club bangers. So he got the Neptunes to shape this sexed-up set."

Spin (p.102)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Common dazzles with the back-to-the-future motif 'What a World'....UNIVERSAL MIND is primarily a a rhythmic celebration, paying tribute to Afrika Bambaataa and Jonzun Crew jams."

Billboard (p.45)
- "'Announcement' benefits from a slinky beat that lets the MC breathe....'Gladiator' is a great old-school brag rhyme..."

XXL (Magazine)
(p.105)
- "Promptly starting the party, Common spaces out to futuristic synths on the lively title track, a frantic, genre-blurring adrenaline rush..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.106)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Cee-Lo collaboration 'Make My Day' is winningly dreamy, and both mixes of Kanye-duet 'Punch Drunk Love' 'make for fine, treacly bedroom music."

  
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