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Blow Your Headphones
Herbaliser Headphones albumcover.jpg
Studio album by
Released11 March 1997 (1997-03-11) [1]
StudioTrain Trax Studios
Genre Hip hop, trip hop [2]
Length71:52
Label Ninja Tune
Producer Jake Wherry, Ollie Teeba, Jonny Cuba, Kaidi Tatham, Malachi
The Herbaliser chronology
Remedies
(1995)
Blow Your Headphones
(1997)
Very Mercenary
(1999)
Singles from Blow Your Headphones
  1. "New + Improved / Theme from Control Centre"
    Released: 1997
  2. "The Blend"
    Released: 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Rating-Christgau-neither.png [3]
The Evening Post Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Muzik 7/10 [5]
NME 6/10 [6]
Spin 8/10 [7]

Blow Your Headphones is the second studio album by The Herbaliser. It was released on Ninja Tune in 1997. It peaked at number 24 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. [8]

Contents

Critical reception

In 1999, Ryan Schreiber, the founder and then-editor-in-chief of Pitchfork , wrote that "...Blow Your Headphones was pretty decent, but it was kinda crappy for a Ninja Tune record." [9] In 2015, Fact placed it at number 33 on the "50 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time" list. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Opening Credits"1:29
2."The Blend" (featuring What What)4:46
3."Another Mother"6:47
4."Excuse Me"1:11
5."Ginger Jumps the Fence"5:01
6."Put It on Tape"3:42
7."New + Improved" (featuring What What)3:58
8."Mr. Chombee Has the Flaw"4:17
9."Intermission"1:01
10."Saturday Night" (featuring Fabian & Big Ted)5:06
11."Shocker Zulu"5:15
12."Hardcore"4:30
13."Shorty's Judgement"5:45
14."More Styles"1:40
15."A Mother (For Your Mind)" [a] 6:37
16."Bring It" (featuring What What)3:59
17."Theme from Control Centre (Reprise)"4:40
18."End Credits" [b] 2:15
Japanese edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Mr. D.J. (Vocal Radio Edit)"5:54
2."40 Winks (No Sleep Vadim! Mix)"5:36
3."New + Improved (Wiseguys Remix)"4:05

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK R&B Albums (OCC) [8] 24

Notes

  1. uses samples of songs by artists: [10]
    Lord Finesse feat. Marquee (1995)
    Skalpel (2000)
  2. uses a quote of Timothy Leary: [11] from Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations adapted from "sutra I" of the Tao Te Ching. [12] [13]

References

  1. 1 2 Cooper, Sean. "Blow Your Headphones - The Herbaliser". AllMusic . Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact . Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. Christgau, Robert (15 October 2000). "The Herbaliser". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s . Macmillan Publishing. ISBN   9780312245603.
  4. Houlahan, Mike (13 March 1997). "Album takes the cake for quirky". The Evening Post .
  5. Braddock, Kevin (May 1997). "The Herbalizer: Blow Your Headphones" (PDF). Muzik . No. 24. p. 112. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  6. Goldsmith, Mike (1998). "The Herbaliser: Blow Your Headphones (Ninja Tune)". NME . Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  7. Green, Tony (October 1997). "The Herbaliser: Blow Your Headphones (Ninja Tune)". Spin : 144–145.
  8. 1 2 "Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40: 30 March 1997 - 05 April 1997". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  9. Schreiber, Ryan (20 April 1999). "The Herbaliser: Very Mercenary Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  10. "The-Herbaliser". Rodliffe Accounting Ltd, 1 Canada Square, London: whosampled.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  11. Leary, Timothy. Five Psychedelic Prayers adapted from the Tao Te Ching (PDF). maps.org/research-archive/psychedelicreview/n07. p. 16. the flow of energy here it is nameless timeless speed of light float beyond fear float beyond desire
  12. Leary, Timothy. Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations: II - 1 That Which Is Called The Tao Is Not The Tao. Kumaon Hills, Almora, India, !965 Millbrook, New York, 1966.
  13. Lao Tze. The Great Tao Foundation of America (ed.). Tao Te Ching Chapter One. World I-Kuan Tao Headquarters, El Monte, CA. Tao" "that can be spoken of is not the Constant Tao. The name that can be named is not a Constant Name.
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