Gesamtzeit: 55:28
Trackanzahl: 10
Veröffentlichung: 1993
Best.-Nr.: 474069 2
Orenda / S² / Sony Music
[01] When You Gonna Learn (Didgeridoo) (Kay) (3:48)
[02] Too Young To Die (Kay / Smith) (6:03)
[03] Hooked Up (Kay / Smith) (4:35)
[04] If I Like It, I Do It (Kay / Gelder) (4:52)
[05] Music Of The Mind (Kay / Smith) (6:22)
[06] Emergency On Planet Earth (Kay / Smith) (4:04)
[07] Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop (Kay) (4:07)
[08] Blow Your Mind (Kay / Smith) (8:32)
[09] Revolution 1993 (Kay / Smith) (10:16)
[10] Didgin' Out (Kay / Buchanan) (2:36)
Besetzung:
Jay Kay - Vocals [nicht genannt]
Toby Smith - Keyboards
Nick Van Gelder - Drums
Stuart Zender - Bass
Kofi Kari Kari - Percussion
Maurizio Ravalio - Pervussion
Glenn Nightingale - Guitar
Simon Bartholomew - Guitar
DJ D-Zire - Turntaple Wizardry
Gary Barnacle - Sax, Flute
John Thirkell - Trumpet, Flugel-Horn
Richard Edwards - Trombone
Mike Smith - Sax, Flute ([01])
Andrew Levy- Bass ([01])
Gavin Dodds - Guitar
Vanessa Simon - Backing Vocals
Linda Lewis - Backing Vocals
The Reggae Philharmonic - Strings
Wallis Buchanan - Yiddaki (Didgeridoo)
Produced by Jay Kay ([01]-[10]), T. Smith ([02], [08]), Mike Nielsen ([03]-[07], [09], ]10])
Engineered by Mike Nielsen ([01], [03]-[10]), Mark McGuire ([02], [04])
Mikxed by J. K. ([02]-[10]), Mark McGuire ([02]), Mike Nielsen ([03]-[10])
String arrangement: Gavin Edmonds ([01])
Strings written and arranged by J. K. / T. Smith / Jono ([05]) and J. K. / Jono ([09])
Backing vocals arranged by Vanessa Simon ([09])
Brass arranged by J. K. and Gary Barnacle ([09])
A thousand, no, million and one thanks to all the musicians, (still talented and funky) who have helped create this album, the radio stations who have vigorously supported the tunes, you know who you are, the television producers, the journalists whom I've met and talked to (eh?). I have to say you've been very good to me which I can't understand alt all, even tough you write some silly things sometimes, I mean, I might be naive but you must be thick if you've written my trainers are pink, when in your own picture they're green! Oh well, backlash next week then! I want to thank the ever lovelier Lisa L#anson and MTV (you're a star). I want to thank all the black singers and musicians who have supported the music and the message of Jamiroquai, some of whom indisputably deserve the chances I've had and didn't get them, and yet still don't bring petty colour issues into it; you are a credit to yourselves. Music is for everybody to enjoy. Come onyou record companies, sort your lives out. I want to thank all my friends and colleagues, notably Kevin and Tunji, Peter who runs the merchandise. Well done. Also thanks to Max Beesley, Brand New Heavies, Young Disciples, Vanessa Simon, Ray Shell, all at Strongroom, especially Luke. Thanks to Femi, Brother Marco, Demus, Norman Jay and all the rockin' London dj's who have got the bottle to support music which sometimes isn't always recognisable as dance music. Thanks to Muff, Lincoln, Mark, Alfe, Matt and everyone at Sony S2 for pretty much leaving me to my own devices, alright, and Jami and Emma, respect. Thanks to Guy Moot at EMI Publishing for having faith (no regrets eh!) Thanks to Eric Thompson, with whom we recorded the 1st demo "Then You Gonna Learn" at Greensleeves Studios, Dave Woolf and the Watchmen Agency, thanks to Acid Jazz and everyone in their team. No hard feelings, Eddie, I know, I'm almost as mouthy as you are!
Thanks to Mark McGuire and Mike Nielsen for sticking out the days into nights into days sessions. (Can we just nudge that vocal back again?) Ahhhhh...... I'm running out of time and space so if I forgot you I didn't, d'ya know what I mean? A massive thank you to you as always. Last but one I thank my mother whom I love very much, and lastly the great spirit, when you gonna learn, in the end, only he can win.
Man nehme: einen kräftigen Schuß Funk, dazu etwas Soul, Jazz und ein Stück 70er-Jahre-Disco, noch einen ordentlichen Rhythmus als Garnitur und lege dann munter drauflos.
Wirklich neu sind die Zutaten, aus denen die Jungs von Jamiroquai um Frontkappe Jay Kay ihre Musik mischen, also wirklich nicht. Aber - es kam an. Sony Music ließ sich sogar seinerzeit von der ersten Single dazu hinreißen, der Band einen Vertrag über acht (!) Alben zu geben - in einer Zeit der eher kurzlebigen Bands (und Verträge) eigentlich eine kleine Sensation.
Das erste Album mag ein kleiner Meilenstein gewesen sein und für den großen Durchbruch gesorgt haben - die Band hat aber später noch einige bessere Alben vorgelegt. Die moralinsauren Greenpeace-geprägten Texte (von denen man auch damals schon aufgrund der Vorliebe Jay Kays für flotte Autos nicht wußte, was man von ihnen zu halten hatte) und die letzten drei etwas langatmigen Titel des Albums, die anscheinend bei Jams entstanden sind oder doch zumindest in dolchige ausarten, mildern den Spaß ein wenig. Trotzdem kommt die Musik noch immer ausgesprochen munter und frisch daher.
