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Track Listing
1. Salutations
2. Jump Around
3. Put Your Head Out
4. Top O' the Morning to Ya
5. Commercial - (1)
6. House and the Rising Son
7. Shamrocks and Shenanigans
8. House of Pain Anthem
9. Danny Boy, Danny Boy
10. Guess Who's Back
11. Commercial - (2)
12. Put on Your Shit Kickers
13. Come and Get Some of This
14. Life Goes On
15. One For the Road
16. Feel It
17. All My Love
18. Jump Around - (Pete Rock remix)
19. Shamrocks and Shenanigans - (Boom Shalock Lock Boom/Butch Vig mix, remix)
| Details | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Everlast, Danny Boy O'Connor (vocals); D.J. Lethal (scratches).
Producers include: D.J. Lethal, D.J. Muggs, Ralph Tha Funky Mexican.
With their brawling take on golden-age hip-hop (the drunken yang to Cypress Hill's blissed-out yin?), proud-to-be-Irish-American trio House of Pain could easily have been a tired cliché. However, with acrobatic, learned lyrics and dexterous beats farmed from bop, blues, and deep funk, the L.A. band of Everlast, Danny Boy, and DJ Lethal turned out to transcend predictability. While best known for "Jump Around," the frenetic sing-a-long that surprised even the band itself by becoming a #3 pop hit, the threesome's 1992 debut offers a vast array of styles ranging from the sly, hazy "Shamrocks & Shenanegans" to the sinister "House of Pain Anthem" to the sweetly lively "Top O' The Morning To Ya."
Industry Reviews
3.5 Stars - Good Plus - ...a very solid and at times exceptional album...imagine if LICENCED TO ILL wasn't an upper middle class Jewish thing but rather a working class Irish thang...the atmosphere is like that of a cross between a frat party and a bar room brawl...
The Source (09/01/1992)
3.5 Stars - Good Plus - ...With a groovy swagger, this collection of hard-core hip-hop tracks offers many moments of technicolor snap and crackle...
Rolling Stone (10/29/1992)
3 Stars - Good - ...their music is of the dense, hard-hitting school of hip hop...the group have absorbed black rap's musical lessons and create a satisfying platform for their above average deliveries...
Q (12/01/1992)
6 - Good - ...contains some creative and accomplished rap music...
NME (11/07/1992)
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