I’ve been asking people if they’ve heard of this music yet and I’m fucking surprised so few people are on the up-and-up. Slightly Stoopid, fucking awesome shit!!!
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Their MySpace page (more usable than their actual website, it’s that bad, but there’s more music, CD information and stuff all in once place). The music I’ve posted is from their very early album, Acoustic Roots and Live in 2001. Their newer albums have become very sophisticated and include brass and many different percussive approaches, and the music-is generally on the pop end of the spectrum of reggae music with a very heavy blues influence though newer albums (especially Chronchritis) feel almost Reel-Big-Fish-inspired.
One of my friends lived in San Diego for a while and introduced me to Slightly Stoopid in 2003 with Longest Barrel Ride. I got to watch as they’ve slowly become an underground phenomenon. Kudos for spreading the word. For what it’s worth though, Acoustic Roots: Live and Direct was released in ‘04, and they have much earlier stuff, which is way different from this.
Basically, each Slightly Stoopid album seems to have a style all of its own.
Yes, each album is distinctive, easy to pick out a specific album from a random playlist. Acoustic Roots is probably still my favorite though.
Sam