Blowback (album)

Blowback is the sixth album by Tricky, released in 2001. Like Nearly God, Blowback contains several collaborations, but the album's sound is much brighter and more relaxed by comparison. Tricky himself said that he wanted to get airplay with this album, while most of his earlier albums were made to stay off the radio. Guest performers on Blowback include Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Josh Klinghoffer, and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cyndi Lauper, Alanis Morissette, Ed Kowalczyk and less well known artists such as Hawkman, Stephanie McKay and Ambersunshower, with whom he already worked in 1996 for the charity compilation Childline.

A new song called "Question" and an alternate version of the song "Diss Never" (both with Alanis Morissette's vocals) are still unreleased, because her label Maverick Records holds them back.

Track listing

1. "Excess" – 4:43
2. "Evolution Revolution Love" – 4:09
3. "Over Me" – 2:57
4. "Girls" – 4:21
5. "You Don't Wanna" – 5:25
6. "#1 Da Woman" – 2:40
7. "Your Name" – 3:35
8. "Diss Never (Dig Up We History)" – 2:50
9. "Bury the Evidence" – 4:51
10. "Something in the Way" – 3:24 (Nirvana cover)
11. "Five Days" – 4:19 (With Cyndi Lauper)
12. "Give It to 'Em" – 3:04
13. "A Song for Yukiko" – 4:10
14. "The Hawkman Is Coming" – 4:19
15. "Evolution Revolution Love (remix)" – 3:43

Track notes

• The song "Excess" appeared in Fastlane, Bad Company, Glory Days, Queen of the Damned, Thir13en Ghosts and Bully.
• The song "Evolution Revolution Love" appeared in Smallville and The West Wing, and in a Fox Kids 2001 promo for Beast Machines.
• The song "Over Me" appeared in Scrubs.
• The song "Bury the Evidence" appeared in Bad Company, Bully and Rupture

Additional information

• "Excess" (track 1) contains backing vocals by Alanis Morissette. Morissette also appeared in another song, "Question", that was never officially released but was leaked through the internet.
• "Evolution Revolution Love" (track 2) features Ed Kowalczyk of the American rock band Live singing the vocals for the chorus.
• The music for the song "Diss Never" was originally intended for the unreleased song "Question" which featured only Alanis Morissette on vocals throughout the entire track. Morissette's record label, Maverick Records, wouldn't allow the song to be released, although a limited number of advance copies of the album were released in Canada which contained the song.
• The backing track for "You Don't Wanna" is sampled from the Eurythmics' legendary electro-pop song "Sweet Dreams".
• "Girls" features former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante on guitar and current vocalist Anthony Kiedis on backing vocals.
• "#1 Da Woman" (track 6) features Frusciante and band-mate Flea, respectively on guitar/chorus vocals and bass. It also features Josh Klinghoffer, current Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist on drums. This song contains an interpolation of the title song for the TV series Wonder Woman. It is used by professional wrestler Cheerleader Melissa as her entrance theme.
• "Something in the Way" (track 10) is a cover of the song originally performed by Nirvana on their album Nevermind.
• "Five Days" (track 11) contains guest vocals by Cyndi Lauper.
• "Your Name" is a version of "Under the Bamboo Tree", written by Bob Cole.

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