Same As It Ever Was
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Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 5012093551524
Label : Xl
Manufacturer : Xl
Publisher : Xl
Release date : 1994-06-01
Title : Same As It Ever Was
Format : Explicit Lyrics
Original release date : 1994-06-28
Studio : Xl
Number of discs : 1
Customer reviews
review by: date: 2002-02-02 rating:House of pain
House of Pain made a decent album here with mad beats, crazy and angry rhyming, similar to Cypress Hill (Muggs produced this album). Using this style of hip hop, Pain were a decent group before they split up when they did tracks like 'I'ma swing it' and the immortal 'Jump Around'.
The album opens up with the squeeking trumpet noise of 'Back from the dead'. Everlast kicks some decent lyrics on this track by starting off with "straight out the casket alive/ and open ya eyes/ can't ya see me? what the f--- is this madness?/ pick up my bones/ erase my name from off the tombstone". The fun really gets going with the head nodding 'I'ma swing it' which has a similar angry lyrical theme, "I make em jump n mosh/oh my gosh/just slam em in the pit/when i'm kickin' my sh--".
A lot of the other tracks on the album are all pretty much on the same lines as these and they do work.
But there are some that House of Pain have tried to take in another direction. 'Word is bond' is an attempt at being more gangster sort of like Mobb Deep. It has an appearance from DITC's Diamond D but his verse is wack, the beat is slow and dull and the whole track doesn't work. They try to show their softer side on 'Still got a lotta love' but is a TERRIBLE effort both lyrically and musically. The only one of these few that DOES work is 'It ain't a crime'; the beat is slow but good, Everlast's rhymes are simple and flow just as slowly but they are storytelling so the overall track is enjoyable.
The finale is not too good either. The earlier mentioned, 'Got a lotta love' and 'Who's the man' are not the best tracks you can hear on the album and the remix of 'On point' is worse than the original version (which is also on the album).
Overall though, this CD is enjoyable. Recommended to fans of Cypress Hill.
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