Taste the Secret
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| Studio album by Ugly Duckling | |||||
| Released | 16 June 2003 | ||||
| Genre | Old school hip hop | ||||
| Label | Emperor Norton Records | ||||
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Taste the Secret is the second studio album by the South Californian hip hop trio Ugly Duckling, released on June 16, 2003 by Emperor Norton Records. For the album, Ugly Duckling developed a fictitious fast food chain called Meatshake, which serves only meat-based food.
[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Time |
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| 1 | "Opening Act" | 3:57 |
| 2 | "Turn It Up" | 3:59 |
| 3 | "Meatshake" | 2:43 |
| 4 | "Dumb It Down" | 3:36 |
| 5 | "Abigail Silk" | 3:29 |
| 6 | "Energy Drink" | 3:15 |
| 7 | "The Drive-Thru" | 2:23 |
| 8 | "Mr. Tough Guy" | 4:05 |
| 9 | "Pass It On" | 4:06 |
| 10 | "La Revolucion" | 5:17 |
| 11 | "Potty-Mouth" | 4:16 |
| 12 | "Daisy" | 3:43 |
| 13 | "The Confrontation" | 2:43 |
| 14 | "Rio De Janeiro" | 3:25 |
| 15 | "I Wanna Go Home" | 4:22 |
| 16 | "Goodnight Now" | 8:12 |
Meatshake, a fictitious chain of restaurants offering "meat-based thick shakes", was created as a promotional gimmick for the release. As a concept album, it was about working at a fast food chain and its inter-business war with Veggie Hut, an all-vegetarian fast food stand.
When it was operational, Meatshake's website[1] appeared to be a fully-functional website promoting a small Long Beach area based fast food restaurant, whose vision was "meat - and lots of it", served in the form of milkshakes. The site also had a list of restaurants (whose addresses were area McDonalds restaurants), employees of the month, and storefront pictures (one of which appeared to be an In-N-Out Burger). Currently, the site redirects to a squatter page. The archived version of the site (Feb 01, 2005 version) can be viewed here: http://web.archive.org/web/20040825215914/meatshake.com/
[edit] Reception
- postive http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0324,mcleod,44742,22.html
- negative http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-12-24/music/ugly-duckling/
- positive http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/1210/ugly_duckling_bang_for_the_buck2/
- okay http://wm09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxftxqealdae
- short http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/uglyduckling/albums/album/288945/review/5943400/taste_the_secret
[edit] Sources
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/roundup.asp
