h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So yesterday, one of my moms friends from edmonton came over. She and my mother are both devout Christians. Keep this in mind. So I walked over to the mall, and bought Reign in Blood by Slayer. A few blocks from home, i tucked the cd in the back of my pants, so my parents would not see the cover, which is complete with parental advisory sign, pentagram, naked people hanging on ropes and that wierd goat-headed guy being carried around on a litter by a priest. BUT, on the way home, my mother, her friend, and my smallest brother, who is eight, picked me up in the car. We drove the short distance to the Luciano's, a great Italian restaurant. SO, during the entire meal, i was sitting there, WITH A SLAYER CD STILL TUCKED INTO THE BACK OF MY PANTS. I was nervous, to say the least.

Here's a few others you should check out, if you don't know them already...


NIN - Heresy (Downward Spiral)

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod & Psalm 69 (Psalm 69)

...or, anything by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan



of course, if you can't beat them, join 'em. Prince Far I's album, Psalms For I, is 11 tracks of top quality Reggae 'riddums' with a barely comprehensible, thundering rasta voice reading various psalms over the top.

My favourites are Psalm 1, "de way of de sin-nurrs shall perish, ya know" and Psalm 23, "yea, dough I walk true de valley of de shadow of death, I and I shall fear rno evil".

It's outstanding, if you like reggae anyway.

Yeah, those songs are cool. But I cant say ive heard of Prince Far I. Reggae's cool.

aka King Cry Cry.

Well worth checking him out if you already have a taste for Reggae and Dub. He was about in the seventies and was one of the first sound system emcee's. He's from the same stable as King Tubby, Lee Perry etc. You can now get most of his stuff from Pressure Sounds (www.pressure.co.uk) or On-U Sound (their website seems to be derelict).