| | Ghetto Gothic |  | Artist: Melvin Van Peebles
Label: Shodown
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 333605
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 801078101121
EAN: 0801078101121
ASIN: B00005AVNG
Release Date: March 27, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Blinded By Your Stuff | | • | On 115 | | • | My Love Belongs To You | | • | There | | • | Greasy Lightin' | | • | Lilly Done The Zampoughi Everytime I Pulled Her Coatail | | • | Same Ole Raggedy Song | | • | The Apple Stretching | | • | Just Don't Make No Sense | | • | Quittin Time |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Essential work from the inventor of Rap January 8, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Before rap music had a name, Melvin Van Peebles was a pioneer of the form in the late '60s, when he released BRER SOUL, AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH and AS SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK on A&M Records. With GHETTO GOTHIC, Melvin's tunes are enhanced by an instrumental background which makes the scenes he creates more vivid than ever. "The Apple Stretching" is as good of a picture of everyday life in New York City as you can find, and listening to it is truly uplifting. "Lily" is a hip-hop remake of his '60s classic, which is also true of "It Just Don't Make No Sense." "There" contains a melodic undercurrent that will stick in your mind forever. The mark of a great innovator is that his work seems as 'cutting edge' today as it was in the beginning. Give GHETTO GOTHIC a spin and see what I mean. Then let's hope all of his vintage albums get a domestic reissue.
 Same ole raggedy voice June 20, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a decent enough album. Melvin Van Peebles doesn't have a great singing voice, but most of the lyrics are spoken, anyway. He tells evocative tales of life as a black man in New York City. It's definitely not for everybody, but if you are into this sort of thing, you will probably enjoy it.
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