Colossal Head

Los Lobos - Colossal Head

Colossal Head
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Artist: Los Lobos
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-19
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Revolution
  2. Mas Y Mas
  3. Maricela
  4. Everybody Loves A Train
  5. Can't Stop The Rain
  6. Life Is Good
  7. Little Japan
  8. Manny's Bones
  9. Colossal Head
  10. This Bird's Gonna Fly
  11. Buddy Ebsen Loves The Night Time

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Free Music Review: "Do The Colossal Head!"
Hit: 5 Stars

I was in college in 1996 when this album came out. I purchased it and it became a staple on my college radio show for the next couple years. The band is incredible and the Mitchell Froom/Tchad Blake production added strange character to this eclectic group of songs. Standouts for me are the slow wah guitar driven "Little Japan" and the exuberant "Life is Good", which sounds like listening to a party from the apartment next door. I love the driving "Everybody Loves a Train" with its locomotive rhythm and roaring saxophone. "Mas Y Mas" is a barnburner of the highest order and you don't need to understand the lyrics to have a good time. Colossal Head may not stand up to Kiko as Los Lobos's best, but I still give it five stars for its adventurous spirit. So many albums that came out in 96 were stale, pallid, and forgettable and this was a fresh, lively shot in the arm.

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If Kiko was Los Lobos' unanticipated definitive statement, as in "You've got to hear this!" Colossal Head is its less focused addendum. It says: "Oh, yeah, and furthermore. The title track, a multi-textured grinder with a Middle Eastern string arrangement mixed in with baritone sax and blues guitar. "Life Is Good" is lazy, infectious '70s pop funk ? la War and Sly & the Family Stone "M?s y m?s" is an old-fashioned guitar wank that puts one in mind of the other crucial name in Latin rock--Santana. Los Lobos are known for their ensemble work, but this is just unstrained look-at-me showboating. When you've got David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, why not flaunt 'em? The occasional missteps ("This Bird's Gonna Fly," "Can't Stop the Rain") are just bland songs the band and coproducers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake dress up with the kind of offbeat production touches that worked so well with Kiko. --Steven Stolder

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