#fuzzbubble

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Lil' Kim in the music video for 'All About The Benjamins Rock Remix' w/ The Notorious B.I.G., The LOX, Tommy Stinson, Fuzzbubble, Rob Zombie, & Dave Grohl, 1997.

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Fuzzbubble had a brief 15 minutes of fame in 1998 as the first rock act signed to Sean "Puffy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment. The band played on his platinum rock remix of "It's All About the Benjamins," before being unceremoniously dropped from the label without releasing any music of its own.

It is probably just as well, because on the evidence of Fuzzbubble's self-titled debut full-length, it must have been an extremely uneasy marriage (a fact confirmed by the hilarious hidden track, a remade Beat jazz parody of "Benjamins"). In fact, Fuzzbubble is almost shocking — in the most delightful of ways — to hear, particularly the first time you put it on, and about as far from East Coast hip-hop as music can get. It offers the band the opportunity to reclaim its true audience and identity, and shake the stigma that may have lingered from its short stint as a rap mogul experiment.

The album is a full-on guitar pop assault that returns Fuzzbubble to its rightful place in the Los Angeles indie pop scene. The opening "Bliss" immediately sets forth the band's modus operandi. The song takes a slight alteration of the melody from "Back in the U.S.S.R." and juxtaposes it against a chorus borrowed straight from Nirvana's Nevermind. [ ... ] Jim Bacchi's songwriting is downright infectious even in the face of the grinding guitars, peppered with huge, bright melodies. [ ... ] The hooks are monsters — simply enormous.

Mike Clink (Guns N' Roses) polishes the music to an almost blinding sheen, which is the perfect approach given the high level of energy created by the quartet. It is the only way that power pop this heavy on the power half of the equation should sound.

Stanton Swihart

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P.S. the way Fuzzbubble is mixed is the way Oasis records should have been mixed!

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I'm just so sad about Brett Rothfeld. It doesn't end!

With Adam Schlesinger last year, there was at least some ability to share in collective grief, to process the loss with other people. I feel completely alone in this.

I just want somebody to take three minutes out of their day to listen to a Fuzzbubble song! Which is why I won't shut up. I can't force anyone to hear what I hear, or care like I care, but if a handful more people heard "Bliss" or "Out There" or "Rockstar Parking," or just recognized the name beyond a fuckin' overdrive pedal, it would mean the world to me.

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Brett Rothfeld, the bassist for Fuzzbubble, just died. That’s all I know. I saw an announcement posted to Facebook ten minutes ago. I am so sad.

Nobody has any idea who they are but they were one of my favorite truly Forgotten Bands of the late nineties/early 2000s.

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Fuzzbubble is a band that was specially crafted in a lab to crank every dopamine receptor in my brain up to 11, and it’s fucked that they released a single album in 2000 and broke up, but it was a perfect album. And then they released a bunch of b-sides and rarities and they are just as good as, if not better than, any of the album tracks.

Hey, it’s OK, man I swear I eat Top Ramen ‘cuz I love the taste, drink all day

And I can’t get god on the telephone

But I sure get down on the microphone

And there’s rockstar parking by the back door waiting for me...

[pedaloftheday]

NEW DEMO VIDEO Analog Alien FuzzBubble 45 Overdrive Fuzz

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Find Out Why Puffy's Verse in French Montana's "Shot Caller (Remix)" Has No Rhymes In It

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