Elephunk

Monkey Business As with their last hit, Elephunk, Black Eyed Peas' new disc Monkey Business is a joyful cross-genre journey with musical props to hip-hop, rock, folk, funk, and pop. The reason the Black Eyed Peas have audience appeal that crosses over many styles is because the band members are ...	The Dutchess If you thought Black Eyed Pea-sized bites of Fergie might be all you could handle--that a full plate of Fergie is possibly too much for any discerning musical palate--The Dutchess might change your mind. For here the lumpen lady throws caution to the wind and threads her pop need...	Fourplay	Mercury Falling	Gaucho The multiplatinum success of Aja made Steely Dan, the musical conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a household name. But that prosperity came bundled with a fateful triple-whammy for rock's dyspeptic duo: unrealistic commercial expectations, a critical backlash spawned by p...
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Black Eyed ApPEASment
"Sellout" is a word that I don't care to use very much anymore for several reasons. It has been used ludicrously in such situations as Bob Dylan switching from acoustic to electric guitars. Or when the overwhelmingly awesome metal band Mastodon had one of their songs played on one of Tony Hawk's video games. Come to find out they received no money for their contribution, but still the "sellout" cries abounded. Often people miscall artistic maturity "selling out". It's a fact of life, many people do not like to do the same things when they were younger. And yet when I look at the BEP, it is one time when the word that I hate to use anymore is the only one that applies. When the BEP started, they seemed like a credible hip-hop alternative to all the gangsta skullduggery cluttering the airwaves. Then something corrupted them - a little thing that was 365 days long called 1999. This was the year that vacuous bimbo pop took over with a heavily manicured iron fist. From there, it was all downhill. They hired their own uber-diva named Fergie, who by the way shares the same name as Al Bundy's favorite toilet. Not only was the music they produced bad, it took bad music to levels that could drive Chuck Barris into commiting seppuku. For example, "Let's Get Retarded" is a double entendre that both glamorizes alcoholism and insults the mentally handicapped. Maybe it takes a certain type of mean spiritedness to combine two forms of idiocy like that. Wasn't this the sort of crap they were initially against? But they weren't done yet. The slut anthem "My Humps" has Fergie bragging about her surgically enhanced protrusions. What is really sad is that she is NOT a sexy woman - not when it comes to her materialistic, trashy, and unoriginal persona. This song may not be on the album I am reviewing, but I am trying to make a point about how cynical and shallow the music industry is - and how they presume the music buying public is also cynical and shallow. Which maybe they are since they fail to live up to basic human decency by demanding something better. Whether you know it or not, you do deserve something better.

The Third Eye (Bonus Track) is one of the strongest tracks here.
Sexy, Labor Day (It's A Holiday), Where Is The Love? and Hey Mama also dominate in goodness. Latin Girls is somewhat of a misstep but even they are few and far between. If you like R&B, Rap and Pop get this. There is also a Rock-ish song called Anxiety that my cousin LOVED when this CD came out. 3.8 stars

Elephunk
Outstanding CD. Most CD's have only a couple of very strong songs and a number of medicore. Elephunk has only a couple of songs that aren't outstanding.

pumpin
I dont know what those all the people who gave it one star were thinking but it rocks i just got it and lets get retarded and hands up are some of the best songs it is a must have cd

One of the BEST of the year
This is one of the best CD's in my collection. Espically excellent if you like to pump the bass in your car.