Ultra Payloaded is nothing less than a Perry Farrell-helmed concept album about global warming that stars a "musician" and a "beautiful night nurse," who may or may not be dreaming when their souls are beamed up to join an intergalactic party presided over by "Jim," who has refined sexual delight into fragrances and likes Earth because he uses it to sculpt ice caps (this is where the global warming comes in). Fortunately, the story is in the liner notes, so it's easy to just get comfortable and examine the music for what it is. Satellite Party is Farrell on vocals and programming plus Nuno Bettencourt on guitars, with help on various tracks coming from New Order's Peter Hook, Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante and Flea, the poetry of the long dead Jim Morrison, plus beats on a few tracks by Thievery Corporation and Hybrid. With the exception of Hook's bass work on the opener, virtually all of these contributions are smooth to the point that they barely register as musicians with distinctive personalities; Farrell's production and Bettencourt's co-production and Steve Lillywhite's executive production serve to keep any speck of grime (or style) well hidden. Farrell's songwriting is quite good for this project, and his vocal range is greater than he ever showed with Jane's Addiction or Porno for Pyros, but from the evidence here, it's clear that he needs a little roughness and earthiness -- from Dave Navarro or others -- to make his music dynamic and commanding, and also to bring his concepts down to earth where mere mortals can enjoy them. Peter Hook is able to do this on "Wish Upon a Dog Star," but it's one of the few highlights. The Jim Morrison poetry track is especially embarrassing, more because of Morrison's lack of rhythm than Satellite Party as a band.
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The new album "Ultra Payloaded" by Perry Farrell's group Satellite Party is available to listen to in it's entirety at their My Space "site":http://www.myspace.com/satelliteparty .The jury is still out as far as what I think of it. It's certainly no Jane's Addiction of course, but how could anything Perry does after even compare to Jane's?. I've listened to the whole Satellite Party album once ...
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Perry Farrell's Satellite Party have announced a two-month long tour nearly 50 stop tour acorss the US and Canada in support of their recently-released ??Ultra Payloaded??.The release features ex-Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, drummer Kevin Figueiredo on drums, Etty Lau Farrell on background vocals and Carl Restivo on bass.The nearly 50 stop tour is as follows:Cleveland, OH House of Blues...
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*Attention Mog Gazette Visitors, "The Indie Equation is located here":http://theindieequation.blogspot.com/. Thanks for stopping by!*If there's one thing that many music lovers can agree on, and I'm sure there's at least one, it's that the sex has been drained from modern rock music. Not the misogynistic, porn-like sex that's prevalent in pop music, the "girl, I wanna rock you world" type, and ...
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Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party is like an annoying little sibling; it finds you wherever you go. If you want to hear the entire debut album Ultra Payloaded it is exclusively spinning on the band’s page (http://myspace.com/satelliteparty). Officially Satellite Party’s debut doesn’t hit stores till next week, May 29th. Also this summer the band will be playing Lollapalooza.They also invade
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A spokesperson for Perry Farrell announced the details for his new band Satellite Party's May 29 debut ??Ultra Payloaded?? (Columbia).It has been confirmed that the album will include a "lost song" titled "Woman in the Window" with vocals by the late Doors frontman Jim Morrison. The album shall be preceded by a single; 'Wish Upon a Dog Star'.Also, the album features contributions from artists s...
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| 1 Wish Upon a Dog Star |
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| 2 Only Love, Let's Celebrate |
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| 3 Hard Life Easy |
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| 4 Kinky |
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| 5 The Solutionists |
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| 6 Awesome |
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| 7 Mr. Sunshine |
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| 8 Insanity Rains |
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| 9 Milky Ave. |
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| 10 Ultra - Payloaded Satellite Party |
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| 11 Woman in the Window |
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