Short-lived funk/thrash "supergroup" comprised of former members of Celtic Frost, M.O.D., Zöetrope, and a couple others I can't recall offhand. Their original name was "Mind Fuck", but for some odd reason that I can't fathom, Epic insisted that they change it. Wimps.

"Mind Funk"

1. "Sugar Ain't So Sweet" (4:44)
2. "Ride & Drive" (3:43)
3. "Bring it On" (4:52)
4. "Big House Burning" (4:27)
5. "Fire" (6:35)
6. "Blood Runs Red" (4:02)
7. "Sister Blue" (5:57)
8. "Woke Up This Morning" (5:14)
9. "Innocence" (4:02)
10. "Touch You" (4:43)

Picked up this CD after seeing their "Big House Burning" video on Headbanger's ball. Some interesting funk-rock tunes here, but overall it's nothing impressive.

"Dropped"

1. "Goddess" (5:16)
2. "Closer" (5:31)
3. "Drowning" (6:33)
4. "In the Way Eye" (5:39)
5. "Zootiehead" (4:13)
6. "Wisteria" (7:01)
7. "Mama, Moses and Me" (4:31)
8. "11 Ton Butterfly" (6:29)
9. "Hogwallow" (4:57)
10. "Billygoat" (5:16)
11. "Hollow" (8:36)

Lots more bluesy than their debut album...also lots more BORING. "Goddess" is a good tune, but as for the rest...well, let's say I've yet to make it past track 6 without nodding off or hitting the "Skip Disc" button...

"People Who Fell from the Sky"

1. "Rift Valley Fever"--instrumental (4:21)
2. "Superchief" (4:54)
3. "Seasick" (4:55)
4. "Deep End" (4:28)
5. "People Who Fell from the Sky" (3:16)
6. "Wierd Water" [sic] (3:00)
7. "Aluna" (6:17)
8. "1000 Times" (3:46)
9. "Kill the Messenger" (5:39)
10. "Acrobats Falling" (5:41)

The band's third and final album is even more rare and obscure than their other two...indeed, I didn't even know it existed until almost a decade later, and I filed it on my want-list under "Fillers", just as a lark. Well, out of the blue, a guy from Brazil says he wants my first 2 Asia CDs (which had just been upgraded to that "Geffen Years" thing, and already had been turned down by two local used stores) -- and whaddaya know, he's got this thing on his trade list...along with a considerably less rare Steve Hackett CD, which basically sealed the deal as I was leery of trading with Brazil, having never done it before. (I'm sure all you more experienced traders have horror stories to tell.) So it was worth the risk, and it actually went through smooth as silk. How nice!

Oh yeah, the music. (I keep forgetting this part.) Well, it's a significant improvement over Dropped much more dark and down-tuned, with one hell of an instrumental to kick it all off. It's clear they were moving towards the sound everyone now calls "Stoner Metal", which at the time didn't exist...Kyuss was still together when this CD was released, and we all know that it was the breakup of Kyuss that unleashed the flood of "stoner metal" bands across the world. :)

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