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April 7, 2023
The word is Great

Black Grape's debut album “It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah” 1995

#BlackGrape was the next venture for pals #ShaunRyder and #Bez following their previous #Madchester band #HappyMondays. They updated their sound, interweaving heavier rhythms with dabs of Jamaican flavor and #HipHop, giving it a cut-and-paste feel even when not using actual samples, but the music was just as jubilant. It’s #psychedelic! It’s a party! It’s what I like to imagine #JeffersonStarship might have become if they hadn’t fallen to the perils of #70s #California. Speaking of…I’ve always taken the album title as a reference to Ryder’s on-and-off addictions, but I’m also pretty sure he was still using back then; maybe it was aspirational. But there would be plenty of time in the next millennium for dealing with such things.

1999? Shit, I wanna party like it's #1995.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prLFqx1fR-k

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https://open.spotify.com/track/4TMpvTgL8C0N149ErdG12M

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Shaun Ryder explains how the title for the Happy Mondays album 'Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)' came into existence.

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Shaun Ryder got a haircut in Havana, Cuba, on December 2nd #otd in 1995 and Kevin Cummins was there to capture the moment #ShaunRyder Shaun getting shorn #KevinCummins #Cuba #Haircut #HappyMondays