Tackhead
Tackhead (styled TACK>>HEAD, sometimes known as Fats Comet) are an industrial hip-hop group that were most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, industrial music and electronica intersect. The core members are Doug Wimbish (bass), Keith Leblanc (percussion) and Skip McDonald (guitar) and producer (sometimes credited as "mixologist") Adrian Sherwood. Despite being short-lived as band proper (there are only two albums credited to the band "Tackhead"), the legacy and output of these groups of musicians has been prodigious.
History
In the late 1970s, Wimbish, Leblanc and McDonald were members of the house band for the Sugarhill Records record label and the trio of hip-hop artists known as the Sugarhill Gang. They were also the musicians playing behind DJ Grandmaster Flash's 1982 hit "The Message" (the vocal was by Melle Mel) and another hit "White Lines".
During a visit to New York City, to help with a remix, London-based producer Sherwood (already noted in the dub music scene) met Leblanc, and they began to collaborate. Soon the trio of Wimbish, Leblanc and McDonald were producing tracks on Sherwood's On-U Sound record label. One of their earlier collaborations was as "Mark Stewart and the Maffia", which featured Stewart, former member of The Pop Group on vocals. Their first LP produced under that name As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade was amongst the most industrial, noise-oriented and uncompromising of the group's output, described by John Leland as "a scary mess of random sounds, spoken words, and tiny snippets of music, processed and distorted to a grating electric edge."
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ALBUMS
- For the Love of Money released: 2014
- Share>>Head released: 2010
- Tackhead Sound Crash (Slash & mix - Adrian Sherwood) released: 2006
- 2004 released: 2004
- Power Inc. Volume 3 (Live) released: 1997
- Power Inc. Volume 2 released: 1994
- Power Inc. Volume 1 released: 1994
- En Concert released: 1990
- Strange Things released: 1990
- Friendly as a Hand Grenade released: 1989
For the Love of Money
Released 2014- For the Love of Money (Adrian Sherwood mix)
- Loose Booty (Danny Saber mix)
- Higher Ground (AS-Paralyzer mix)
- King Bee (Wohlklang mix)
- Just Kissed My Baby (Adrian Sherwood mix)
- Fire (Adrian Sherwood mix)
- Stealing
- Funky President (Gary Clail mix)
- I'm Afraid of Americans (Adrian Sherwood mix)
- War (Umberto Echo mix)
- Black Cinderella (Adrian Sherwood mix)
- Exodus (Dubvisionist dub mix)
- Black Cinderella (Adrian Sherwood dub mix)
- Black Cinderella (Robo Bass Hifi remix)
- Funky President (Adrian Sherwood mix)
- Homeless
- For the Love of Money (instrumental version)
Share>>Head
Released 2010- Fire... (Ohio Players)
- For the Love of Money (The O Jays)
- Funky President (James Brown)
- Loose Booty (Sly & The Family Stone / Funkadelic)
- It's Just Begun (Jimmy Castor Bunch)
- You Ain't Hip (Don Blackman)
- Just Kissed My Baby (The Meters)
- I Am a King Bee (Slim Harpo)
- I'm Afraid of Americans (David Bowie)
- Black Cinderella (Errol Dunkley)
- War (dub) (Bob Marley)
- Don't Let Me Down (dub) (The Beatles)
- Black Cinderella (dub)
- For the Love of Money (instrumental)
Tackhead Sound Crash (Slash & mix - Adrian Sherwood)
Released 2006- Intro 'Free'
- Mind at the End of Its Tether
- What's My Mission Now?
- Ghost
- Mind at the End of Its Tether, Part 2
- 1/2 Cut for Confidence
- Ticking Time Bomb
- Heaven on Earth
- Ticking Time Bomb, Part 2
- Heaven on Earth, Part 2
- Mechanical Movements, Part 2
- I Stopped the Clock
- Bop Bop
- King of the Beat
- Move It
- Body to Burn
- DJ Programme
- Disconnection
- Rochester
- Audio Visual Attack
- Man in a Suitcase
- Dreamworld
- Get This Beloved
- Gamesmanship
- Get Move of This
- Einstein, Part 2
- Hard Left
- No Hands on the Wheel
- Listen Good Drummers
- Free Again
- This Is the Night
- Bastard Son of Fats
Power Inc. Volume 3 (Live)
Released 1997- George Pick Up
- The Bubbly
- Pick Up The Phone
- The Law Of Repetition
- Pick Up #2
- Doug Storm
- Your Dogging Me
- The King
- Pick Up The F***king Phone
- The Game
- Pick Up #3
- Mind At The End Of The Tether
- Fats Comet?
- Air Born Ranger
- Kadoosh
- Shake The House
- Easy Mike
- Ticking Time Bomb
- Fletcher
- Object Subject
- KKK
- Heaven On Earth
- Anybody
- Hard Left
- New York Breakdown
- Georg Picks Up!
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Class Rock
by: TackheadTalk about rock,
hard as a rock.
You can bet your last dollar that this groove is coming over me,
take your jacket off it's time to sweat profusely.
Chorus: I really wanna rock your body,
body rock your body.
I'm rockin' so psychotic I think you can tell,
now you see my logic like a bell,
I feel so robotic dancing by myself,
chance is I'm neurotic help me off the shelf.
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I've got my pointy shoes on the attitude is savage,
little skirts & funk me pumps I think my eyes are damaged,
my pants are getting tight & oh it's so hot,
twisted brains rot that's class rock.
Chorus
You better call a doctor to give me a check,
I think I know what's wrong,
a case of funk neglect.