Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking

pros & cons of hitchhiking

Track Listings

1. 4.30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)

2. 4.33 AM (Running Shoes)

3. 4.37 AM (Arabs With Knives and West German Skies)

4. 4.39 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 2)

5. 4.41 AM (Sexual Revolution)

6. 4.47 AM (The Remains of Our Love)

7. 4.50 AM (Go Fishing)

8. 4.56 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 1)

9. 4.58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)

10. 5.01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10)

11. 5.06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)

12. 5.11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)

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Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking

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Brilliant but...
Really great
A Masterpiece...If You Remember to Keep it Simple
The pros and cons of The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
The Pros And Cons Of Roger's "Pros And Cons"

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Roger Waters
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Tracks:

4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)
4:33 AM (Running Shoes)
4:37 AM (Arabs With Knives And West German Skies)
4:39 AM (For The First Time Today, Part 2)
4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
4:47 AM (The Remains Of Our Love)
4:50 AM (Go Fishing)
4:56 AM (For The First Time Today, Part 1)
4:58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)
5:01 AM (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking Part 10)
5:06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes)
5:11 AM (The Moment Of Clarity)

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With Eric Clapton's valuable assistance, Waters takes the concept album to new heights on this 1984 masterpiece, his first LP after leaving Pink Floyd. Each of the 12 songs represents a scene of a surreal dream (nightmare?), and Waters brilliantly captures the pendulum of emotions. Periods of serenity and clarity accompany frenzied and distorted passages of chaos and moments of great irony and humor. Along the journey, Waters confronts murderous Arabs in Germany, a steamy sexual liaison, mundane family life, bikers, truckers, housewives, and strangers. He sucks you into his vision by blurring the lines between what's real and what's part of the dream. Meanwhile, his use of recurring themes gives the work cohesion. As the mood shifts, Clapton's guitar perfectly accents Waters's story, whether with fiery electric explosions or delicate acoustic touches. -- Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant but..........2007-06-01

...ain't it about time we got some frickin' remasters of Roger's stuff??!? The artwork and liner notes are as fuzzy as the music is!!! What's up mego music corporation?!? What about a remaster with the 7" and 12" b-sides and stuff??? LONG OVER DUE!!!

Really great.......2007-05-21

I am a fan of Roger Waters, I just love this album. If you like "The Wall" and "The final cut", you will love for sure this cd. This is a conceptual album, so the same melody is repeated frequently. You will recognize some riffs of "The Wall" and this is no surprise, there is a rumour going on that both concept has been composed at the same time.
Both projects have been proposed to the rest of the band (Pink Floyd) and the other guys chosed to go on with "The Wall". After Roger left the band, he decided to record the other project he had in mind few years before. Erci Clapton is doin a great job at the guitar (this ain't a surprise !) I have the chance to meet Roger during the "Radio K.A.O.S. tour and he put is autograph on my "Pros and Cons" cd so this is a real keeper for me I can tell !

A Masterpiece...If You Remember to Keep it Simple.......2006-11-13

I won't take up your time trying to explain all the various nuances of 'The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking' but in a sense, don't try to think of this album as a mixed-up nightmare but rather a dream of a middle-aged man going through a mid-life crisis. Many musicians have written about mid-life crisis before (Pete Townsend's 'Slit Skirts' immediately comes to mind for some strange reason...but I digress).

The story essentially takes the main character through a dream which really turns into an odyssey. The trip only takes a short period of time (as dreams always seem to do...accomplishing so much in such a short amount of time) which is why I believe Roger Waters uses the dream sequences to pull everything together. The songs seem disjointed until you realize that dreams really are the same way (disjointed but understandable most of the time). The crisis the character goes through would be considered normal for a middle-aged man. Man goes through a marriage, with a job and kids, house in the suburbs, etc..., then starts to wonder if that's all there is.

Then comes the usual things used to replace that middle-aged curiosity...hot cars, fast women and not to be forgotten ... the guilt for even thinking about it. The character realizes that he is like every other person in the world, someone looking for answers and meaning in life. He realizes, in the end, that it becomes all about how you live your life. The answer, arrived at 'The Moment of Clarity', is fleeting (like so many dreams). For me, the answer is...it's not what value other people bring to your life, but rather what you yourself bring to the table that really matters.

If you keep the themes simple, you will find this album to be a great record of a part of the human condition. And you'll find this an album to listen to from time to time...finding new understandings along the way.

The pros and cons of The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.......2006-09-01

Awesome album!! For those of you who don't know too much about Pink Floyd, this is from the mastermind behind the "stories" of Floyd's songs. Roger wrote great lyrics while David supplied the awesome guitar riffs. This solo album of Waters is a must have of any Pink Floyd fan. I strongly recommend it!

The Pros And Cons Of Roger's "Pros And Cons".......2006-08-28

Having said goodbye to Pink Floyd with "The Final Cut," Roger Waters kicked off his solo career with 1984's "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking," a concept album about a sleeping man's journey through various dreams and nightmares (Roger also did "Music From The Body" back in 1970, but that was a collaboration with Ron Geesin). Like other reviewers have said before me, "Hitchhiking" is an album that I feel very two-sided about. On one hand, I appreciate Roger's ambitiousness with this work. It has it's powerful moments, and it also has two really great songs on it: the catchy title track, and the pounding rock of "Sexual Revolution." But Waters' overabundance of lyrics---reportedly 370 lines worth---is just too much at times, and much of it is rambled or screamed. With all those words, rambling and screaming, the music is hardly given any room to breathe (even special guest star Eric Clapton isn't allowed any *great* guitar parts to play here). Still, you gotta admire Waters' bravery with "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking." At the very least, it's an interesting album with an intriguing concept (and a nice cover, too---I gotta be honest!), but I think Roger could've made "Hitchhiking" a whole lot better with some much-needed musical and lyrical polishing. But being his very first solo album without Pink Floyd, perhaps Roger didn't want any additional help or advice in the composing department. Luckily for Waters, he would get right back on track with his next release, the excellent "Radio K.A.O.S." As it stands, "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking" is a decent, acceptable Roger Waters album. You may not play it all that much, but it's still worth having.

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A few words about the actual music:
Distinctive and evocative, this album initially challenges but ultimately entralls
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This is a great album if in the right mood.

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4.33 AM (Running Shoes)
4.37 AM (Arabs With Knives and West German Skies)
4.39 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 2)
4.41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
4.47 AM (The Remains of Our Love)
4.50 AM (Go Fishing)
4.56 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 1)
4.58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)
5.01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10)
5.06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)
5.11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)

Album Description

Import only remastered pressing. Sony. 2003.

Album Details

Roger Waters Solo Debut, the First Recording of his Post-pink Floyd Years. He is Joined by Fellow Guitar Legend Eric Clapton Whose Guitar Accents Help Bring the Brilliant Text of Water's Words to Inspire Vivid Imaginations.

Customer Reviews:

A few words about the actual music:.......2007-03-23

Other reviewers have aptly summarized the conceptual gist of the album, but I'd like to talk about the music itself.

The most striking thing about the music of this album is that, when stripped of dynamics, timbres, sound effects, and vocals . . . when reduced to mere chords and melodies . . . it is essentially the same song throughout! Eighty percent of the time, at least.

Only two songs ("Sexual Revolution" and "Go Fishing") are in a key other than A minor -- and those are both in E minor (which is arguably where Waters does his best work.) Only "Every Stranger's Eyes" and the title track have their own individual chord sequences and melodies, not repeated elsewhere. They're also the only tunes with accessible 4/4 rock beats. Every other song is in 3/4 (think "waltz"), and at the exact same tempo (near as I can tell, anyway.)

The rest of the material (which I don't mean to dismiss) rests on two or three repeating themes. Interestingly, the most common theme is a rhythm-guitar riff you might recognize from John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" (not the first time Waters borrowed from Lennon; compare "The Gunner's Dream" to "Isolation"). Oh, and just to add to the confusion, this was the year soon-to-be-ex-bandmate David Gilmour tried his hand on Lennon's riff with "Near The End" on his About Face album!

Another recurring theme is heard at the very beginning of the album, a little harmonium lullaby . . . but guess what: Change the key, the instruments, and the volume, and you've got the monster guitar riff from "In The Flesh" from The Wall! In "Go Fishing", you'll hear it again with saxophones, along with melodies from "Your Possible Pasts" and "The Fletcher Memorial Home".

Is this wrong? Is this bad? Not at all, in my estimation, because the arrangements display a magnificent range in adapting these themes to various moods. As others have indicated, the general "feel" of the album varies greatly, as does the instrumentation -- not to mention the progression of the lyrics. I just want to warn you that you MAY find yourself thinking, "But this is the same song again!"

Well, it's a *good* song . . . .

Eric Clapton, David Sanborn, and the female vocalists have already been praised -- and I agree -- but I must mention the one great player who's been overlooked: Drummer ANDY NEWMARK. One of the best in the business . . . who's worked with more stars than I can list. He really shines on this album. You can't make an album that's mostly in the same tempo interesting without a damn good drummer! Newmark syncopates and adds odd, assymetrical accents while keeping rigid time. The recording of these drums are perfect, too. Some delightfully menacing tom-toms on tracks like "Arabs With Knives" and "Sexual Revolution". (Aside from Newmark, Waters has worked with several great drummers since leaving Floyd, and it could be argued that loveable ol' Nick Mason is actually the worst drummer he's ever worked with.)

Finally, I suggest it is here, on this album, where Roger Waters does the best and most-challenging singing of his career. Sure, he may have sounded more *pleasant* on "Shine On" or "Pigs", but this is where he challenged himself the most. Of course, you have to like Waters's "nasal scream" style of singing in the first place. He pushes it further than ever, into the range where most males would have to resort to falsetto. At the peak of "Every Stranger's Eyes", he doubles with the female singers to reach and sustain a high C; a very effective and magical technique. Then again, he masters those high notes without female assistance on "Go Fishing". Although he's written better material, he has never sung quite the same since.

I knock one star off this review because the concept is weaker than most of his work. Nevertheless, a unique and fascinating piece, held together with superb musicianship, arrangement, and production.

Distinctive and evocative, this album initially challenges but ultimately entralls .......2005-10-12

Sometimes a piece of work is so esoteric and eccentric that it defies categorization and comprehension. When Pros was first released in 1984, reviewers and listeners who like their rock music straight balked at having to deal with an album that was nothing like they had ever heard before. Well, almost never heard before. A year before Pros was released, Roger Waters, then still the primary force behind Pink Floyd, had created The Final Cut.

Together both albums occupy a singular place in music, and represent a totally new kind of approach to rock - one that struggled against the linear limitations of the form and strove to express a range and complexity of ideas and emotions within the confines of a 40 minute LP.

The Final Cut, essentially a lament to continuing war 50 years after the end of WWII, remains the more accessible of the two. Pros is far more personal, a seemingly disparate and unsettling journey into the depths of human consciousness and sub-consciousness. The album follows a sequence of dreams and nightmares a man, clearly Roger Waters himself, has in the course of one night. In a deft touch that helps make this point, every song has a time prefix to show the time the man has the dream.

This concept serves as an excellent vehicle for Waters to create what he himself has said is his only album about only sex. But it is sex in its deepest and fullest sense, and Pros explores the fears, fantasies, and challenges of middle age: from dreaming about seducing bright-eyed young hitchhikers, to divorce, loneliness, depression and, somewhat strangely for Waters, the redeeming power of love.

Apparently Waters wrote this album about the same time as The Wall and presented both ideas to the rest of Pink Floyd. That the band chose The Wall is easy to understand, for, as band members later confessed, they felt awkward about working with material that was so intimate. Waters was going through a hard time between 1977, when Animals was released, and 1984, when he broke with the band. In-between, he also got divorced and struggled with some personal issues that he still has not spoken about publicly. But the cliché that pain produces passion is true, and this period was amongst the most creative of Waters' career.

If Waters was exorcising his personal demons through his music, then Pros is where a lot of them collected. The album begins with a guitar lurch that has to be among the most dramatic openings of any rock record. As the song-cycle progresses erratically, shuttling between vitriolic screams, nervous brooding and placid passages that show a gentle side of Waters that remained obscured on earlier albums, they create a nervous tension and sense of foreboding that invade the entire album.

In many ways this is vintage Waters: dark, intense, and evocative. But the one difference is that unlike earlier Waters albums that dealt with broad issues, this time the lyrics are precise, blunt. They don't rhyme as the did on Dark Side of the Moon, and comparing Pros to this 1972 classic is like comparing a Dali dreamscape to a Manet landscape. Waters' verses in Pros are sharp, asymmetrical and at first it seems as if the wordsmith in him didn't quite do the job. But as one settles into the album, especially after a number of listens, one appreciates the dark edgy lines, the ingenious symbolism and the powerful imagery it creates.

Given the album's fixation on sex there's plenty of deep breathing, moaning and grunting. But beyond that there is a sense of urgency and sensuality to the music lurking just beneath its somewhat perplexing exterior.

Waters voice also sounds different from the way it did on previous Pink Floyd albums, and here it has a drier, more somber quality. Waters half-speaks, half-recites his lyrics rather than sings them, and in keeping with the albums startling shifts in dynamics, there are also sections in which he does some of his best singing.

Musically, the roots of Pros are pure blues. But, like Wish You Were Here that is also rooted in a slow blues rhythm, the blues blood in this album sometimes becomes unrecognizable because of the variations Waters takes it through.

The sound on many songs is sparse, much like The Final Cut, and at first listen a lot of the material sounds like just filler. But Waters makes the best of the few notes and harmonies that frame many of the songs with his traditional attention to musical detail. The timing on the album is excellent, and the arrangements, sound effects and instrumentation Waters uses combine to give all the songs poignancy and weight. The 3 or so more traditionally structured songs on the album, such as Sexual Revolution and the title song, simply explode through your speakers. These tracks are the closest Pros gets to previous Floydian albums, excepting The Final Cut, though here the sound is tighter and less atmospheric, so space rockers will be disappointed.

That Waters used his hunting mate Eric Clapton to replace David Gilmour as guitarist on this album is now part of rock lore. Clapton's guitar work is masterful, and whether whispering or exploding into incendiary blues riffs, Clapton's guitar follows Waters erratic and innovative musical ideas effortlessly, giving perfect voice and tone to the range of moods the album demands. True, Gilmour's mournful, moving sound would have been more suited to the album, but Clapton's precise and fluid playing is a pleasure. People who attended the Pros concert tour said the music was even better live, though it was rumored Clapton found Waters' demands for precision tiresome. Still, the two remain good friends.

To compensate for David Gilmour's absence in the vocals department Waters makes extensive use of background singers Doreen Chanteer, Katie Kissoon and Madeline Bell, who rise exceptionally well to the challenge. Interestingly, Waters also makes extensive of the saxophone, the first time he has done this since Dark Side of the Moon. David Sanborn is the man he chose on this album, and what a good choice it is. In fact, Clapton, Sanborn and Michael Kamen, who co-produced the album and played piano on it, got along so well that they worked together to create the soundtrack for the movie Lethal Weapon.

Ultimately, it is the story Waters is trying to tell in Pros, and the message he is attaching to it, that make this album an essential part of any serious music lovers collection. When a man tears his heart out and places it on vinyl, as say Leonard Cohen does, it is hard not to sit up and listen. Pros may try our patience at first, but once inside this incredible work, it is hard to leave it, or have it leave you.

A Masterpiece!.......2004-09-10

This first outing by the founder of Pink Floyd is nothing short of a quiet masterpiece. The album works on many levels. Musically is very strong with Clapton leaving his mark. The lyrics by Roger Waters are poetic and written at the height of his writing powers. The fact that he wrote this at the same time as 'The Wall' may have something to do with it. Also, go to ROGER-WATERS.COM (Written in Sept. 2004) and hear two new songs by Roger Waters for FREE. These songs are written after a decade of silence.

Surface Skimmers Beware.......2003-11-11

I greatly appreciated the remastering of this album. My complaint from the very beginning was that the first run sounded okay, but that subsequent copies always seemed muddy. This CD goes a long way towards correcting that.

This album is not for everyone. If your first exposure to Pink Floyd was anything by Gilmour & Ezrin's "Pink Floyd, Incorporated", you'll be sorely disappointed by this album .If, however, you grew up listening to Pink Floyd with Roger Waters, you'll be okay. This is definitely not a Pink Floyd album. It was written around the same time as The Wall, so there are similarities, but purists would complain that it suffers from the absence of Gilmour, Mason and Wright (who for some purists were always the elements that rounded out Waters' pathos). Eric Clapton more than makes up for that.

I'm not going to claim that this album is easily approachable. It's not. It's a great album, but it's an immersive experience, and as such requires more of the listener's concentration that most people are comfortable with. I rarely put this album on unless I intend to listen to it in its entirety. Its scope is much more personal than most of Waters' other work, which is (Amused To Death, for example) more global. I would recommend approaching this album with an open mind. If you're looking for a quick shot of pop candy, talk to Mr. Gilmour. If you're looking for a work with a solid underpinning, then give this a chance. You won't regret it, and the remastering brings out a lot of the ambience.

This is a great album if in the right mood........2003-08-10

This album is one of my top ten favorites of all time. Better than any Pink Floyd album but the Wall. You need to be in the right mood to listen to this one. If frustrated or pissed off or just slightly angry at the world. Listening to this CD lets you vent and at the same time reconnect to the world by thinking of others. The music and the words have a unity of feeling. This album is not for everyone. Looking for cool party music or background music try something else. Want to have music to drive home by after a long day, This kicks but like few others.

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masterpiece
really I gave it 3.5 stars
Nice coffeeshop music!!

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masterpiece.......2004-07-24

this album is great, it's some downbeat glitch-hop, very smooth, technical, and groundbreaking idm. it has a lot of instrumentation, which makes it different from most idm, kinda like savath & savalas with the tricky glitch type beats. if you like autechre, boards of canada, prefuse 73/savath & savalas, ect. this album will not dissapoint. a must have for any idm fanatic.

really I gave it 3.5 stars.......2004-07-02

This is Ed Ma's first album and has drawn comparsions with the work of Prefuse 73. In my mind that's rather misleading but if we keep with this comparions "Crying over pros" is more like "Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives" than 2003's "Extinguised" albums. It has also drawn some comparisons to the work of Cex (check the Wire, 245).

The album could be described as glitch-hop. Underneath the tunes is a definite hip hop beat but one which twist in turns in some interesting directions (ie. the hop). Over the top there's nice guitar prolifitating throughout, some outakes from a supermarket purchase, other strings (violins possibly?) all cut up like (ie. the glitch). The production is really tight and I found this quiet an emotional record; the arrangements are melodic and senitmental.

Favourite tracks include Laundry, Dex and Ants. It's a solid first album from Ed Ma and suggests good things to come. Recommended.

Nice coffeeshop music!!.......2004-06-18

Heard this album in my favourite coffeeshop the other day, and it made the night for me. Went to the music store straight away, but they didn't have the CD in store. Waiting for it at the moment... It's a nice one.

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John Skinner's Second Complete Ballroom Dance
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Customer Reviews:

John Skinner's Second Complete Ballroom Dance.......2006-08-07

Good music for ballroom dancing -- both for the variety as well as listening pleasure.

Great Party cd.......2000-06-06

Last December at the Holiday Classic in San Francisco, a great workshop with exciting choriography and instruction, I used this CD.

During the open practice time that evening, people brought in their own CD's to play. But they were all junk. I am sure you have all been to dances and practices where the music sagged and wained. My friend complained about the music being played. Some dancers left after a couple of songs.

I happened to have this CD in my automobile (not really - I planned to use this CD on my portable CD player for my own practices). The music on this CD put some zing back into the practice.

Great Dance CD.......2000-01-07

The John Skinner Band's Second Complete Ballroom Dance offers a variety of music suitable for experienced as well as new students of ballroom dance. This is their second recording of ballroom music. As with their first recording, the tempo and length of the selections are geared specifically for dancing. This is what makes it an excellent choice for finding just the right song for practice. This recording offers several swing numbers which are currently popular. The assortment provides enough variety to keep dancing without having to change cds. The two cds combined will provide an evening of music for a practice or party. If you can't have the pleasure of dancing to the Skinner Band in person, then this is the next best thing.

John Skinner's Second Complete Ballroom Dance.......1999-12-14

A great small band with a great large sound. They cover all kinds of music and get you right in the mood to dance the night away. Great instrumental and vocal solo's and ideal for anyone in to ballroom dancing or just listening to good music. Add it to your collection.

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great but, all the songs are kinda short.
overall good album
real
off tha chain
Superb for the 1st LP

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great but, all the songs are kinda short........2006-04-05

this is a good cd but all the songs are exacly 3 min long, i just wish there would be like another verse on every song but this is his first cd, very good for his first cd every song is good. GET THE DRAGGED & CHOPPED VERSIO!!!!!!!!! if you like screwed music VERY GOOD and to all you haters DJ BLACK has been doing his thing almost just aslong as screw so dont hate cuz it aint called screw! when he started draggin' was when he sort of invented it in memphis. besides he has a bunch of underground cds called dragged and chopped 1 2 3 ect. so dont hate he does it better than OG RON C(he chopps it the same every song!)

overall good album.......2006-02-23

THREE SIX MAFIA has out done there self with this new guy CHROME
about every song is decent which is hard to find these days .

real.......2006-02-20

chrome is da realest thing to come out of memphis every since playa fly, everbody i know be on chrome, i cant wait to his next cd. to drop

off tha chain.......2006-02-06

a yo three 6 been doin' there thang for many years and i have all there stuff too
but i was waitin' for chrome to drop and trust me it was worth the wait dude off tha chain and the cd is like that ya dig.
so if you love three 6 go a head and cop this joint

Superb for the 1st LP.......2006-02-03

H.C.P. has been my favorite group since Mystic Stylez, and they continue to bring heat.The new artist Chrome brought a lot to the table for this album. Overall, he does repeat himself from time but you cannot deny that he has a unique style, and the beats! Man, they will always be 5 star as long as Paul and Juicy has contol of the production.Chrome got off to a good start and has lots of time to develop his style.

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Feelin' Earatik
Earatik Statik
Manufacturer: Gravel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009I7NRQ
Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

Get Live Intro
Makin' Moves
Illstatik
Evil Is Timeless
Stop Playin'
Destruction Mission
Feelin Earatik Interlude
Smile Poem
Smile
Illstate Massive
Getta Grip
People Like Us
Keep Rockin'
Encore Outro
Still Got It
Illstate Massive Pt.2

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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters
Manufacturer: Sony Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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On An Island

ASIN: B0007WZXA8
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

4.30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)
4.33 AM (Running Shoes)
4.37 AM (Arabs With Knives and West German Skies)
4.39 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 2)
4.41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
4.47 AM (The Remains of Our Love)
4.50 AM (Go Fishing)
4.56 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 1)
4.58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)
5.01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10)
5.06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)
5.11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)

Album Details

Japanese Limited LP Replica Sleeve Edition of the Original Album Release from 1984.

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DJ Rude One and The Beat Physicist Doc West are Single Minded Pros
Chicago Production Skills

From Now On
Single Minded Pros
Manufacturer: E.V. Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00049QIOE
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

Your Crew Don't Want It
Dumb Hot
Feels So Good
You Know I'm Wit It
Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Kaboom
Who's Fuckin' With This?!
J.O.M.E
Torture Chamber
Night Strokes
Death Bells
Devil's Masquerade
Mind In A Uproar
Before You Know It
This Is A Test
You Know It's Like That
Chicago Emcees

Customer Reviews:

DJ Rude One and The Beat Physicist Doc West are Single Minded Pros.......2006-04-05

First herd of these guys from the Tony Touch CD "The Last of the Pro Ricans." Decided to give them a chance. I am glad I did. They have alot of good artists on their CD like Pace Won, Kool G. Rap, Louis Logic, C-Rayz Walz, Breez Evahflowin, Akrobatik, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Mr. Lif, and a bunch of MC's from Chicago, which is where the Single Minded Pros are from. Interesting beats, very different from anything I have herd before. And I do listen to alot of differnt types of rap;hiphop from different parts of the country. But overall I really enjoyed this CD, and I'm glad I gave them a chance. By the way the MC's from Chicago are all really good. Real well put together album coming from

Chicago Production Skills.......2004-12-10

The Single Minded Pros bring together their unique and simple (in a good way) production with some excellent underground MCs on this album. My favorite tracks are Juice's - Dumb Hot, the Posse Track Who's F*ckin With This, Shabaam Sahdeeq's - Death Bells and Pacewon's - You Know It's Like That. If you like the Molemen or many Chicago MC's you'll probably like this album also. I just wish their would have been a track featuring Vakill on this.

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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters
Manufacturer: Columbia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DESXQ
Release Date: 1994-11-08

Tracks:

4.30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)
4.33 AM (Running Shoes)
4.37 AM (Arabs With Knives and West German Skies)
4.39 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 2)
4.41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
4.47 AM (The Remains of Our Love)
4.50 AM (Go Fishing)
4.56 AM (For the First Time Today, Pt. 1)
4.58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)
5.01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10)
5.06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)
5.11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)

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