''Gumbo Millennium'' is the second album by the American rock band
24-7 Spyz
24-7 Spyz (pronounced "twenty-four-seven spies") are an American rock band from the South Bronx, New York, formed in 1986, originally consisting of Jimi Hazel (born Wayne K. Richardson) (guitars), Rick Skatore (born Kenneth D. Lucas) (bass), Ki ...
, released in 1990.
The album peaked at No. 135 on the
''Billboard'' 200.
Critical reception
The ''
Chicago Tribune
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'' wrote that "Peter Fluid`s elastic, soul-fired phrasing is comparable to Bob Marley`s, and guitarist Jimi Hazel blends the fluidity of Wes Montgomery with flamethrower riffs worthy of Eddie Van Halen."
[ The '']Los Angeles Times
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'' thought that "some crushing metal cuts, inventive jazz-rock hybrids and touching soulfulness are obscured by uninspired filler and especially by plain ol' goofing off that should never have been let out of the studio."[
'']Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...
'' wrote: "Employing an uninhibited stylistic palette that seems to reflect whatever springs into the Spyz’s collective consciousness at any given moment, ''Gumbo Millennium'' winds up retreating to opposite corners of relatively serious hard-rock (still with pungent political/personal lyrics, but now employing a thick, hardened metal-cum-hardcore sound) and flaky digressions that don’t really add up to an album."The New Yorker
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'' called the album " a definitive document of the lack Rockmovement and a good definition of it."
Track listing
# "John Connelly's Theory"
# "New Super Hero Worship"
# "Deathstyle"
# "Dude U Knew"
# "Culo Posse"
# "Don't Push Me"
# "Spyz on Piano"
# "Valdez 27 Million?"
# "Don't Break My Heart!"
# "We'll Have Power"
# "Racism"
# "Heaven and Hell"
# "We Got a Date"
# "Some Defenders' Memories"
Personnel
* P. Fluid: vocals
* Jimi Hazel: guitar
* Rick Skatore: bass
* Anthony Johnson: drums
References
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1990 albums
24-7 Spyz albums