What Happened to Television?

Greyboy Allstars - What Happened to Television?

What Happened to Television?
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Artist: Greyboy Allstars
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Music Label: Sci Fidelity Records
Soundtracks:
  1. V Neck Sweater
  2. What Happened to TV?
  3. Still Waiting
  4. Deck Shoes
  5. How Glad I Am
  6. Back in the Game
  7. Left Coast Boogaloo
  8. Old School Cylons
  9. Knowledge Room
  10. Pigeons Under Water
  11. Give the Drummer Some More

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Free Music Review: Great party music! They got it right this time.
Hit: 5 Stars

Stumbled upon this group, in particular this CD, tunneling through Amazon's nested referrals to alternative top 40 funk. This is one to get.

Unfortunately the rest of their work does sound like the kind of generic sounding funk music you would've heard provided as ambience walking into a Chicago bar or off road night club back in the '70's.

What Happened To Television changes that up considerably and creates a more distinctively upbeat almost quirky, fresh and unique sound to this style of music. The vocals and melody structure included on this album is what sets this CD apart from the rest of their work. How Glad I Am seems like a trippy retro, almost tongue in cheek homage to '70's local truck stop AM radio by way of CW McCall. And the scratchy James Brown and party style Sly and the Family Stone vocals makes you want to just get down and shake your booty.

I would say this album has quite a few hits that would improve upon current musical tastes and styles provided on today's top 40 and even give 'em run for their money if they would just play it over broadcast radio. Not going to hold my breath on that ever happening which is why I seek out new music with some originality here at Amazon.

This is definitely a keeper. I only hope and wish their next album has the same unique and quirky sound as this one because this is the only one I'm going to buy from them so far.

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The Greyboy Allstars deal out healthy slabs of retro-funk, tempered with a cleanliness of production that leaves no note out of place (nor too venturesome). Fans expecting a rowdier outing after the band's ten-year hiatus will be disappointed by the many forgettable instrumentals that lope along on the blurry edge of lethargy ("Still Waiting," "Back in the Game," and the title track), but the upshot is that such ephemeral fare allows the tracks sandwiched in between to stand out like hits. The album is at its strongest when, as in opener "V Neck Sweater," song structures unfold in teasing succession, one instrument revealing and then concealing a riff that only later enjoys complete exposure when the full band finally digs in. Guest vocals by Inara George and the Living Sisters help the cause, as in lead single "How Glad I Am" (made famous by Aretha Franklin and others). Despite a number of unsuccessful attempts, Karl Denson's flute finally gets the supporting instrumental it deserves in "Old School Cylons," and moments like these blanch the efforts of contemporaries trying to create a similar throwback with samples, leaving the Greyboy Allstars' live instruments with an unshakable upper hand. --Jason Kirk

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