my loving wife bought me both the friends ep and la cucaracha for Xmas
she is great

where do members of this tribe fall on those two albums? I like them overall, but they make me feel conflicted. On the other hand, that conflicted feeling was the very reason my roommates and I used to have the pod, pure guava and godweensatan in the multi-cd player on shuffle and repeat for days, weeks, months, our entire sophomore year...

the friends ep is more consistent, but it isn't as cool as la cucaracha, it's more sort of got this trendy gay german discotheque feel, no really I heard a voice in the background counting "ein, svei, trei..." So if I ever go to a gay German dance club, they better freaking play "friends" while I'm there or i'll start a brawl.

but since the chances against that are astronomical...

the first half of la cucaracha is awesome. the mariachi rocker on the first track, the blue balloon, the trippier-and-slightly-less-dance-club version of friends, all the way through the fruit man which has that sort of pretending-to-be-jamaican pure guava feel. then spirit walker, what is that shit??? it's all new age with no edge. a little bit new age with an edge I can take, like some of the stuff on Quebec, but i think spirit walker is the new song I will skip every time it starts. there's some ok stuff after that, it's all over the place; for example, just the one song "woman and man" is all over the place: the beginning sounds like it should have been rehearsed some more, then the drum jam is cool and the band comes in to save the song. final track "your party" i do like but I really wish he had at least made the chorus rhyme!!!

there's my roll up, what do all the rest of y'all think?