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HiveĬ-c-c-c-coming like a nightmare! Martinez and Hexum vocally slay Hive like the two-headed, fire-breathing 90s rap-rock dragon that they are. Down may have charted a bit higher, but if you polled the average music fan, I'd bet All Mixed Up was their 311 jam. Sometimes the simplest things are successful. 311 follows the 4th track ballad formula with All Mixed Up. How do these guys remember all of these parts? I mean, Sexton can just bang away and keep up with P-Nut, and Hexum doesn't really need to play, but those two, they are what makes this band incredible. Jackolantern's Weather puts the Mahoney/P-Nut riff factory into an endless loop. Visceral lyrics that a mid-stage teenager could really relate to. Random ends with an Ill Communication feel. One question I've always asked myself is who the soundboy is that they reference. If the blue album was your first intro to 311, specifically from hearing Down on your radio station, then Random threw you for a loop, mostly because you were expecting a lot more rap-rock than this.

The most impressive part of Random is the fantastic guitar riff by Mahoney.

Like a bottlerocket, Down gets the fireworks show of the self-titled album started with a (just under) 3 minute explosion.Īll the requisite rap moves are there, chill, uhhs, come back in, and the fantastic reference to his holiness, Dolemite. Let's forget that ever happened, both their ranking and the album in general. However, the clowns over at Willamette Week place it second, right behind the absolute trash that is 1997's Transistor. A platinum selling effort, the blue album should be considered their all around best foot forward. The self-titled album is the best thing 311 ever put out, despite a strong contender in the form of their debut album, Music.ģ11 released it's self-titled album 7 years after the band's creation.

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Can you believe that the self-titled 311 album was released only 4 years after Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and less than a year after Pearl Jam's Vitalogy? The boys from Omaha sure know how to mix it up.