I’m beginning to grouse at stores and companies calling their various sales “stimulus packages,” as if cheaper laundry detergent or chicken fingers can help me with my dying Roth IRA. I can’t, however, get Mr. Grumpypants at what Del the Funky Homosapien is up to with his so-called “stimulus package.” The Oakland MC and erstwhile Dinosaur, Jr. collaborator is offering free downloads of his seventh album, Funk Man, right here, and it’s even available in FLAC and Apple Lossless! I just started listening to it, and it’s already way better than most free things I get offered up via e-mail. The album sees physical release this Tuesday. [Del the Funky Homosapien]
Del The Funky Homosapien Gives It Away
April 2nd, 2009 // 15 Comments
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LOVE IT.
Smartest thing he could do. Seriously.
I was about to correct you, but there it is on the CD cover…when did he switch “Funkee” for the more pedestrian “Funky.”
@Chris Molanphy: Also, it used to be “tha Funkee”.
@Rob Murphy: I checked it a few times and went with the album cover.
That Del/Dinosaur Jr. track from Judgement Night soundtrack quickly grew to be my 2nd favorite on the album, right after the amazing “Fallin” with De La and Teenage Fanclub.
@drinkypuss: Agreed. Those were easily the two best in my mind.
Yeah I didn’t know he’d changed the spelling either until it was pointed out to me today.
Album is so much better than the lame effort he put out last year. Hooray for economic turmoil!
@Lax Danja House: I listened to it a copy of times, and I’d have to say it’s pretty good. I didn’t listen to last year’s so I don’t have any frame of reference. Do you find that the free-ness affected your opinion of it?
@Lucas Jensen: A COUPLE of times, not a COPY of times.
@drinkypuss: Don’t forget Sir Mix A Lot’s collab with Mudhoney.
I’m gonna put you in the mud, honey!
@Lucas Jensen: I wouldn’t say so- I listen to a lot of free albums and I tend to be fairly cynical. I think the free-ness might have affected his making of the album, if in fact he’d planned to make it free all along.
@Lax Danja House: Maybe he found it “freeing.” Haw haw. I think an artist’s work can absolutely be affected by the circumstances surrounding its production. Maybe Del felt liberated by taking the business side out of it. I haven’t heard the last few albums, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I think it’s pretty good.
Well there were eight years between Eleventh Hour and his two previous albums, so the weight of expectation probably played a part too.