Let's Get Serious (Party Fun Action Committee album)

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Let's Get Serious
Party Fun Action Committee Let's Get Serious.jpg
Studio album by Party Fun Action Committee
Released July 1, 2003 (2003-07-01)
Genre Hip hop
Length44:25
Label Definitive Jux
Producer Blockhead, Jer
Singles from Let's Get Serious
  1. "Beer"
    Released: 2003
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The A.V. Club favorable [2]
Stylus Magazine favorable [3]

Let's Get Serious is the first studio album by American hip hop group Party Fun Action Committee. [3] It was released on Definitive Jux on July 1, 2003. [1] The concept album documents a day in the life of two record label executives played by Blockhead and Jeremy Gibson listening to a collection of demo tapes. [3]

Party Fun Action Committee is an American hip hop group consisting of Blockhead and Jer.

Definitive Jux is a record label based in New York City. It was co-founded in 1999 by El-P and Amaechi Uzoigwe.

Blockhead (music producer) American musician

Tony Simon, better known by his stage name Blockhead, is an American hip hop record producer and disc jockey from Manhattan, New York. Aside from his solo efforts released on the Ninja Tune label, he is most associated with producing tracks for Aesop Rock. He has been a member of the groups such as Party Fun Action Committee and The Mighty Jones.

Contents

Reception

Let's Get Serious received generally favorable reviews from critics. Johnny Loftus of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5. [1] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club commented that "Let's Get Serious recalls The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands ". [2] He wrote that "PFAC's uneven but inspired Let's Get Serious is silly, self-indulgent, and sophomoric, and a whole lot of fun to boot". [2] Jeff Weiss of Stylus Magazine said: "From the ad-libs of each faux-artist to the small jabs at the record executives' dietary habits and decorating tastes, the album plays out like a hip-hop version of This Is Spinal Tap ". [3]

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Los Angeles Times named the album one of the most seminal releases from Definitive Jux, calling it "the gold standard of comedy rap records". [4]

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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Intro"2:20
2."Mental Storm"2:22
3."Whatchu Know Now"4:14
4."Be My Lady Intro"0:44
5."Be My Lady"1:55
6."I Shoulda Known"5:08
7."Word Up? Intro"1:13
8."Word Up?"1:55
9."Beer"5:17
10."Chapstick Intro"1:03
11."Chapstick"2:12
12."I Am..."5:19
13."Peter Pan Intro"0:39
14."Peter Pan"3:27
15."Back n da Daiz"4:18
16."Outro / Here Comes the Rock"2:19

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Loftus, Johnny. "Let's Get Serious - Party Fun Action Committee". AllMusic . Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Rabin, Nathan (August 19, 2003). "Party Fun Action Committee: Let's Get Serious". The A.V. Club . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Weiss, Jeff (October 4, 2006). "On Second Thought: Party Fun Action Committee – Let's Get Serious". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ Weiss, Jeff (February 10, 2010). "Farewell Def Jux: A recap of the NYC label's finest moments". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on March 26, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
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