Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece
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Artist: Cody ChesnuttEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Music Label: Ready Set Go
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Magic In A Mortal Minute
- With Me In Mind
- Upstarts In A Blowout
- Boylife In America
- B**ch, I'm Broke
- Serve This Royalty
- The Seed
- Enough Of Nothing
- Setting The System
- The Most Beautiful Shame
- Smoke & Love
- Michelle
- No One Will
- Batman vs. Blackman
- Up The Treehouse
- Can't Get No Betta'
- She's Still Here
- Can We Teach
- The World Is Comin'
- Brother With An Ego
- War Between The Sexes
- The Make Up
- Out Of Nowhere
- Family On Blast
- My Woman, My Guitars
- Somebody's Parents
- When I Find Time
- Eric Burdon
- Juicin' The Dark
- Five On A Joyride
- Daylight
- So Much Beauty In The Subconcious
- Daddy's Baby
- If We Don't Disagree
- Look Good In Leather
- Six Seconds
Free Music Notes for The Headphone Masterpiece
Free Music Review: Don't Be Mislead
Hit: 5 Stars
Coupled with understanding, this is some of the best music ever. The lyrics, the subjects, the attitudes, the philosophy, the psyche - it's all over the place! But the soul...the soul is right out there in the open. There's a few things you need to understand about this album. First - the fuzzy sound. Look at it from a musician's standpoint, especially a musician who produced his entire album with the exception of one instrument in one song. Fuzzy sound means originality. It's the hard copy. Not tinkered with, not refined. It's not the sound quality that counts - it's content. On even the fuzziest and most poorly produced of songs - what are we left with to enjoy. The soul of the musician. His words and his music. Fuzziness is not a bad thing here; not a production failure. It's a creative technique, a personal mark. This man gives us 36 songs. What recent pop music album can you recall that comes close to that song count? Most deliver one third the quantity and one eighth the quality. So - fuzzy is good. Next subject - the album is called The Headphone Masterpiece. It was literally created to sound best over a specific pair of headphones - a model of Sony's I believe. Anyhow, think about your truly favorite songs and when you really discovered what your favorite songs were; the songs you thought were most deeply musical, most meaningful. I'd be willing to bet it was when you had it in your CD player or your iPod. Usually playing music over speakers is for background music and not concentration. Thus, an album optimized for headphones and thus called The Headphone Masterpiece calls for reflection and concentration on the music. That's not all - as a musician I can identify, and hope to communicate to you, the spontaneity involved in the creation of a song. Many artists fit their ideas, beliefs and feelings into their musical style. Some artists, like Cody, let the soul choose its medium - be it gangsta' lyrics in ***** I'm Broke, tender sacrifice in No One Will, a childish reverence of fellowship in Up in the Treehouse, or absolute poetic anarchy in Daddy's Baby. This is a brilliant technique used by some of the best musicians [i.e. The Beatles] and remarkable and original individuals as well. Speaking personally - the first time I listened to this album, I felt like I was reading my favorite book. I literally was on a journey. I couldn't bare each song ending, but I couldn't wait to hear the next song. I couldn't believe what I just heard when it ended and I couldn't wait to hear it again. I made best friends with some songs and I was filled with hope that one day I could achieve everything that Cody Chesnutt achieved in making this album. This album is his soul turned inside out, recorded intimately in his most private place - the bedroom of his home - and then turned loose to us. Show me any other musician in the history of music that recorded an entire album themselves in their own bedroom. Don't be mislead by what magazines and MTV tell you what music is. Let yourself decide, but let yourself be led a little - give this album a try with some fresh understanding. Since everything about the album is so tru - a universal truth also holds true - if you get to know a person intimately, inside and out, good and bad - no matter who they are - you will never be let down. This album doesn't let down - it lifts up. I can honestly say that when I listen to the music of Cody Chesnutt - my serenity, outlook and hope skyrocket. I can't say enough good about this guy and this album. Give it a try - you won't be let down.
The Headphone Masterpiece Poster
Out of print in the U.S.! 2009 UK issue of this sprawling and critically adored two CD DIY milestone. Originally released in 2003, The Headphone Masterpiece was recorded with basic equipment at Cody's home on a 4-track tape recorder. Combining influences from Hendrix, Lennon, Prince and others, Chesnutt takes Soul and Pop music to places that no expensive studio could even pretend to. From hushed vocals to guitar workouts, The Headphone Masterpiece lives up to it's name. Features 36 tracks including 'Look Good In Leather' (as featured in the Lynx TV commercials). One Little Indian.When you put the word "masterpiece" in the title of your debut double CD, you'd damn well better be able to back it up. Thankfully, Cody Chesnutt has the goods. This precocious, sex-obsessed, spaced-out, spiritual singer is practically bursting at the seams with talent and ideas. With The Headphone Masterpiece, he delivers a homemade, lo-fi stew made of smooth funk, forceful rock, and gritty hip-hop, all topped off by the sweet-crooning voice of a great soul singer. Across 36 tracks, Chesnutt invites you into his psyche, and it's a unique journey to say the least, wending as it does from the weightiest of spiritual concerns to that morning's hard-on. So is it a masterpiece? Well, not quite. Even Mr. Chesnutt must believe that he's got better music still in him. But The Headphone Masterpiece is an ambitious opening salvo from an artist who may well take his place in the celebrated lineage that extends from Hendrix and Sly Stone through George Clinton, Prince, D'Angelo, and so on. Once he learns to harness his surging electricity, Chesnutt may offer us a true masterpiece--or even a few of them. --Marc Greilsamer
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