

Songs like Prisoner, Inner Light Spectrum, Jupiter, Use Of Time, Running, Starshines, and Stealing Happy Hours are popular songs amongst the more "hard-core" 311 fans, and probably some of the most requested songs at shows. Transistor contains some of the beautiful, experimental, and colorful songs that every 311 fan loves. Transistor was originally supposed to be a double album, but the 21 songs were released on just one disc, which makes it the longest 311 album to date, including the greatest hits. Def will be revisiting this album in the future. Maybe a tad bloated due to the sampling elements as well, but this is my personal favorite 311 album. Not as lyrically dense, but as w/ their Music album, this album I think is their Grassroots album w/ a higher production backing. Where Transistor challenged even longtime fans, the self-titled album is peak 311, capturing the band at its chillest ('All Mixed Up'), broest ('Hive'), cringiest ('Guns Are for Pussies') and. Has a slow start but gets thoroughly good by the 14'' mark. Of time to disconnect your mind from planet Earth in this psychedelic funk vacuum. They decide to show more love rand rack it up to 21.

It shows the quintet diverting from their rootsĪnd more importantly, diverting from expectations. Probably 311's most important album to date. Rather than being called in to rap and it works marvelously over guitarist Tim Mahoney'sĪnti-gravity spiraling that really shapes the watery and, at times, quirky sound. SA now uses his voice more for singing lead or backup to Hexum 1:36 (pregap hidden track) Transistor (Music: Sexton Lyrics: Hexum/Martinez) - 3:02 Prisoner (Hexum. Well placed (no surprise, as Sexton and P-Nut are rarely separated brains), but this time Transistor is the fourth studio album by 311. That takes you on a road trip to galactic submergence. Soaked in psychedelia and allusive hip-hop ("Strangers"- Biggie's "Hypnotize"?) Transistor keeps the blithesomeness the band is known for but delivers it Past that whole 'asphyxiation due to a simultaneous boiling and freezing of your blood' by James Christopher Monger This two-fer from hard-working, rap-rock giants 311 includes the band’s eponymous, 1995 release, which featured the hits Down and All Mixed Up, and eclectic, 1997 follow-up Transistor, which added dub, electro, and soul (with mixed results) to their already potent blend of rap, funk, and rock. Huge, airy, and comfortable (one could imagine after getting So, when categorizing their albums in a planetary motif, Transistor is their System (among other natural mysteries) through their vague, suggestively scientific lyrical

It's no secret that the genre-molding quintet have a soft spot in their hearts for the solar
