Fun Lovin' Criminals-Come Find Yourself (1996)


 

Artist: Fun Lovin' Criminals

Title: Come Find Yourself

Label: EMI/Silver Spotlight Records

Format: CD

Cat #: CDP535703

Year of Release: 1996

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1996 Columbia House Club edition

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date:4/28/21

Sell Price: $2.99

Discogs Last Sold: 5/4/20 $2.98

Low: $2.98

Median: $2.99

Average: $2.99

High: $2.99

Current low price: $2.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:7

Have/Want: 31/8

Where Sold: Caledonia, MI

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: Record club close out late 90's or early aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Stick 'em up boys, it's the Fun Lovin' Criminals!

No record screams mid-90's Marz Bar NYC more than this one.  Constantly blared on the jukebox, with watered down Jamisons and alternating round  "buybacks" in hand, the hits just keep on coming.  "Scooby Snacks," "The Grave and the Constant," "Smoke 'Em," "Bombing The L," with it's "Smoke On The Water" nick/interpolation,  "Bear Hug," and of course "The Fun Lovin' Criminal" were played relentlessly there for a good 5 years.  Since that is the peak era of that bar, I have a bit more of a kneejerk appreciative nostalgia for this in a Pavlovian manner

I definitely got this from a record club either Columbia House or CDHQ in a close out discount section a few years after this came out.  Why not add this barroom classic to my collection on the "cheap."  Nowadays, it is still a cutout dollar bin find somewhere.  I don't know how many people actually cared about it outside Marz Bar.  It was a minor commercial hit peaking at 144 in it's 12 week run on the Billboard album chart.   Some of the tracks are non-Marz hits for good reason, but there are more wins per capita than almost anything else this side of the king of the genre, House of Pain.

Despite being couched in a Brooklyn hip-hop setting, this falls into a more "alt-rock" category and aesthetic. The out of place track "We Have All The Time In The World" ventures into a straight alternarock zone with Mazzy Star/Chris Isaac inspired guitars with the hip hop drums.  Normally I would hate this shit, but hell I've heard quite a bit worse.  With catch phrases like "we've got the crazy crew, you think you coming we say na na na, we've got the block locked up!" or "Smoke 'em! Smoke 'em! Smoke 'em if you got 'em!" make this subliminal soundtrack worthy.

If you ain't got 'em, then you hit rock bottom.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bob Dylan-Blood On The Tracks (1975)

Image
  Artist:  Bob Dylan Title: Blood On The Tracks Label: Columbia Format: SACD Cat: CH 90323 Year of Release: 1975 Country and Year of Edition: US 2003 SACD Promo sticker over barcode Sell Price: $12.20 VG+/VG+ 7/15/24 Discogs Last Sold: 7/7/24 NM/VG+ $8.99 Low: $3.00 Median: $11.63 Average: $12.38 High: $27.00 Current low price: $1.99 F/G+, $9.98 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 27 Have/Want: 334/242 Where Sold: Ypsilanti, MI Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Purchased: promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No "I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form..." "And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn..." Bob's public precursor to his own divorce has taken a strange turn in the public narrative over the years, whether reflecting domestic tranquility or turbulence.   Beyonc é  might tell you she flips pancakes or boils an egg to Blood On The Tracks on a Sunday morning.  Jakob Dylan might rail that these lyri
Read more

The Byrds-Live At The Fillmore-February 1969 (2000)

Image
  Artist: The Byrds Title: Live At The Fillmore February 1969 Label: Columbia/Legacy Format: CD Cat #: CK 65910 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000 Listed Condition VG+/VG+: hole punch in UPC Sell Date: 5/6/24 Sell Price:$3.75 Discogs Last Sold: 4/25/24 $7.87 VG/VG Low: $1.75 Median: $4.24 Average: $4.28 High: $7.87 Current low price: $2.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 30 Have/Want: 524/45 Where Sold:Charlotte, NC Time it took to sell: 12 years Where and When Bought: early aughts not sure where in NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No One of those releases that looks great on a shelf, but it took me 24 years after buying it to get around to paying any attention to this excellent live recording.  I guess that means I should force myself to read David Fricke's liner notes as well.  Sweetheart Of The Rodeo came out August 30, 1968 only 8 months after The Notorious Byrd Brothers and Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde came out a week before these show
Read more

Bob Dylan-Bob Dylan (1962)

Image
  Artist: Bob Dylan Title: Bob Dylan Label: Columbia Format: LP Cat #: PC 8579 Year of Release: 1962 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1970's reissue Listed Condition VG/VG+ Sell Date: 5/2/24 Sell Price:$8.93 Discogs Last Sold: 3/5/24 NM/VG+ $9.00 Low: $3.98 M/VG+ Median: $12.49 Average: $12.81 High: $24.99 M/NM Current low price: $12.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16 Have/Want: 285/176 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: Worcester used That's Entertainment mid 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "You're No Good!" the 3 year old Reverse Collector proclaimed to his mother.  "David! That's an awful thing to say!  Go to your room!"  I was just saying what was on the cover of the Bob Dylan song list on the album I had.  I was a fluent reader by age 3, as opposed to simply memorizing text my parents read to me when I was 2.  I understood the concept of "Good" and "Ba
Read more