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List Price: $13.97 | | Salesrank: 449287
Released: August 19, 2003 |
| Our Price: $58.41 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Brant Bjork & the Operators Track Listing:
1. Hinda65
2. Smarty Pants
3. My Ghettoblaster
4. Electric Lalli Land
5. From the Ground Up (We Just Stay the Same)
6. Cheap Wine
7. Cocoa Butter
8. Joey's Radio
9. Captain Lovestar
10. Hinda65 (Return Flight)
Editorial Review:
Brant Bjork has been an influential songwriting member of the legendary Kyuss and Fu Manchu. He is now a full time member of Queens Of The Stone Age. This 2002 release has retained that feel of the desert, but rarely hides the fact that he's given to leisure travel as the mood suits him.
Description of Brant Bjork & the Operators:
His underground musical pedigree is stellar: Brant Bjork played drums and wrote songs as a member of the stoner-rock band Kyuss and also produced and drummed for Fu Manchu. His own work retains some of his previous bands’ post-grunge flavor--but just a bit. There’s no ponderous, down-tuned Sabbath-influenced jamming, and in fact, some songs, like "Cheap Wine," are wonderfully bouncy and cheerfully cheesy. Bjork opens and closes the disc with a kicked-back jazzy exploration called "Hinda65," while winningly infectious songs like "Smarty Pants" and "My Ghettoblaster" are funky, trippy, hippie pop. Lounge-influenced keyboard lines intermix wonderfully and whimsically with riffing guitars on the instrumental "Cocoa Butter." --Katherine Turman
Brant Bjork & the Operators Reviews:
Low-Brow, Please! 
2009-06-07 - For the last decade, Brant Bjork has put out records under Brant Bjork, Brant Bjork & the Operators & Brant Bjork & The Bros. He pretty much runs the show on all of 'em. But some are true solo efforts and some feature other musicians. The sounds on each record are pretty much the same, so if you like one of his releases, you're probably gonna like the rest of 'em.
This disc has ten tracks and a lot of 'em sound like they've been recorded in a living room. Not to worry. This is what he does. He's all about low-brow & low-fi cool. And no one does it better. The almost '80s-style keyboard sounds and effects are a little weird at first but the record, on the whole, is another fine release by this musicians' musician.
Pure Enjoyment
2008-03-28 - What a mix of styles here. A little funk, a little jazz, a lotta rockin tunes. Brant Bjork is definetely an overlooked musician who writes great stuff. This album jams, plain and simple.
"Cheap Wine" might be the catchiest tune I've heard in a long time. "Electric Lalli Land" is funky and will get your head bobbin'. "Cocoa Butter" is smooth and easy and fantastic.
Gotta pick this one up fo sho.
...ain't nothing gonna stop the rock tonight. TONIGHT!!!
2007-08-13 - I warn you, this album has a retro feel to it, but a refitting of retro, a use of all that has come before to pave the way for things not yet envisioned. I warn this album is not what you'd expect, however, you'd be an utter dully not to check it out. I warn you, this album will kill you with its melodies, absolutely murder you with its structures and demolish your soul with its niceties.
Whew!
From start to finish BB and the O's weave a pattern of songs so tight and on point that you'd think you were listening to a world saving party mantra. Use this album anywhere but especially in the car and especially outside on your patio. Like wine, it needs room to breathe.
There is hope for Popular Music, and you FOUND IT.
2005-06-02 - I have been hooked on this album for months now. The man is such a great drummer.....he is a MACHINE I tell you.
Didn't care much for Kyuss, the guitars and singing were marginal in my opinion.
But this album is the way it was meant to be done....nonstop groove and pure talent.
Only ones I can compare them to are the Meat Puppets, with Bostrom's incredible drumming and 3-man tightness.
Get it now, it is the antidote to today's talent vacuum.
For a cool & mellow head in todays world.....YOU NEED THIS! 
2004-02-14 - If there ever was an album that says "Roll Another Number" it's this mellow, funky little gem. Whenever I listen to this I want to call up the bro's for a BBQ, chill out with some 40's rollin' fatties and talkin' about the ladies. OH YEAH!! If you like this music check out "Jalamanta" and Che- "Sounds of Liberation" if you can find'em. This is music for the people..Get it on!!
