Kuti, Fela - Kalakuta Show (Opaque Blue Vinyl) Good For You

Kuti, Fela - Kalakuta Show (Opaque Blue Vinyl) Good For YouThis album was Felas full on sonic revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him and his compound in Lagos twice in 1974. The raids on his Kalakuta Republic were an attempt by the Nigerian police and army to silence Fela. Brought to trial on trumped up charges with no substantive evidence, the court dismissed the case, set him free, and made him an even larger hero to the people of Nigeria. The album narrative delves deeply in the

' 'Wang Dang Doodle' and 'Rockin Daddy' with a new flair

"I think the reason why is we basically took the songs we were writing and we vandalized them

most of which had featured Hooker on an electric guitar with his trademark reverb and stomping foot

particularly the sarcastic "Ronco Symphony" and "We're Not Adult-Orientated

The sound here

but this plan fell apart when it became clear that some dude with a wood chipper could really ruin our day

the albums are some of the most energized

MGMT is the band's most fully-realized

It was originally released in the United States by Mercury Records in November 1970

From San Francisco's First and Only Rock and Roll Band

Shot was their first major label release (for Capitol in 1996) and their first one without famed underground producer Steve Albini

and expressed a desire to record a collaborative album