Heads Up - Duke (1991)

Head's Up introduced themselves to us via the half-decent funk strut of 'Soul Brother Crisis Intervention', but by the time this five track EP had emerged the funk metal trend was getting on every one's nerves. Heads Up were among the better acts of a really bad bunch to be honest, their style of streetwise skate funk and elastic raps were very much from the Chili Pepper school. Sadly, face pulling and slap bass still an all too familiar and sickly ingredient. Even so, it's better than listening to say Scatterbrain, Ignorance etc. Personally, if I were forced to introduce someone to the multi-coloured 'delights' of the funk metal trend I'd suggest the Chili's 'Mothers Milk', because for me most of this type of stuff isn't really funk metal, it's just part of a novelty that thankfully disappeared up its own backside rather rapidly. 'Duke' isn't a bad record but but the time and the place it came from was just too much to bear. Sorry guys. Give me Satan and hair metal anyday.

5/10