Genre: Reggae
Original Release: 7/12/2004
1. Physically Critically
4:02
2. Press a Button
3:37
3. I Love Weed
3:47
4. Every Posse (Fly Down)
3:34
5. Keep Accusing Me
3:39
6. I'll Be Waiting
3:42
7. Champagne Bottle
3:45
8. Joey Joey
3:24
9. Wa-Do-Dem (Revisited)
3:35
10. Mean Dreams
3:44
11. Tek Wey
3:56
12. Politics
3:58
13. Pretty So
3:48
14. Let There Be Night
4:03
15. Nuh Lie Down
3:59
To call Eek-A-Mouse reggae's most beloved weirdo is not to take anything away from Lee "Scratch" Perry, who is, if anything, weirder but who is probably more respected than beloved at this point. Eek-A-Mouse has all of Perry's goofiness without any of the latter's tendency towards actual physical mayhem or his off-putting tendency to do things like drink gasoline and pray to bananas. Instead, Eek has satisfied himself with inventing a "bing-bing-boing" school of reggae scatting whose sounds continue to echo in the dancehall, and with projecting and perfecting a happy but inscrutable persona in a musical marketplace that doesn't generally know what to do with anyone who isn't either a glowering locksman or a chest-beating, chain-wearing dancehall don. He's never delivered the goods with any particular consistency, but when Eek-A-Mouse Read More
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