Monster

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  • Artist: Herbie Hancock
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1980
  • Total Time: 42:11
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Genre: Jazz

Review

Despite the PR hype about this being Herbie Hancock's first "rock" album, Monster is really another disco album, though more varied in texture, somewhat more subtle in execution, and blessedly rid of those vocoder vocals, though not of the real ones. "Saturday Night," despite the distinctive presence of Carlos Santana, sets the album's dancefloor tone. The rock element is supposedly supplied by Hancock on the newly-developed Clavitar, where, try as he might to articulate like a guitarist, the sound is still that of a mutated synthesizer. Alphonze Mouzon is wasted on drums, and guitarist Wah Wah Watson has a field day on his eponymous specialty. Most annoying (and defining) track -- "Go for It." ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

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Monster (Herbie Hancock album)

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Monster
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released 1980
Recorded 1979-1980
The Village Recorder, Los Angeles
United Western Studios, LA
The Automatt, San Francisco
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 42:07
Label Columbia
Producer Herbie Hancock, David Rubinson
Herbie Hancock chronology
VSOP: Live Under the Sky
(1979)
Monster
(1980)
Mr. Hands
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2/5 stars[1]

Monster is the twenty-ninth album by pianist Herbie Hancock.

Track listing

  1. "Saturday Night" (Cohen, Hancock, Rubinson) - 7:13
  2. "Stars in Your Eyes" (Capuano, Christopher, Hancock, Parker) - 7:05
  3. "Go for It" (Cohen, Hancock, Mouzon, Rubinson) - 7:35
  4. "Don't Hold It In" (Cohen, Ragin) - 8:02
  5. "Making Love" (Hancock, Mouzon) - 6:23
  6. "It All Comes Around" (Cohen, Ragin, Rubinson) - 5:49

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011 [last update]). "Monster - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r159473. Retrieved 18 July 2011. 

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