Ian Brown - Illegal Attacks

the first single from Ian Brown's new album is almost with us. Illegal Atatcks is a very funky duet with Sinead O'Connor, and you should buy this record or cd. if you click on the name of this post, you will be taken to a very nice site where you can purchase the two 7" singles of it as well as the CD single for a most excellent price.

what's my take on the single? well, of course i have heard it (ahem), i managed to find it and give it a play as soon as possible. it is very funky and has an awesome instrumentation display, but...........well, this is Ian Brown, and thus the "political statement" being made by the song is, shall we say, heavy handed and rather ham fisted. whereas it is difficult to argue with the sentiment or the morality of what the man is saying, and he rarely if ever speaks anything but the truth, sometimes you just wish he could be a calorie or two more subtle and symbolic in what he has to say.

that said, this is an Ian Brown record, and thus you should either own a copy of it or you should not have a stereo.

in the words of the great one,

call the bomb squad, man...........