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LOCO
What's the album name about?
Loco, of course means crazy in Spanish, but why did FLC chose Loco for the name of this album? Well, I'm not totally sure to tell you the truth. The album was originally going to be called "Lowisada" which is a New York term meaning Lower East Sider, there were also rumours of the album being called "Ambidextrous", although this was never confirmed!
The Songs
Where The Bums Go
�It's a song about this place that we buy sandwiches late at night when we're drunk. You know, when you come out of the bar or the pub, whatnot, you wanna go to this place. And when you go there, there're just all these complete bum people there, like dudes with one arm drinking Heineken outta cans, y'know, that kinda shit. So we figured it deserved a song.�
Loco
"It's kind of a strange story about a guy in a neighbourhood who's hanging out with his friends. And there's this beautiful girl in the neighbour hood so he starts asking about her. He finds out that her boyfriend had just been killed and all her friends are telling him he'd be crazy to go out with her. So it's like that really!�
The Biz
��The Biz� is kinda self-explanatory, y'know, if you listen to the lyrics and that, it's very funny.�
Run Daddy Run
��Run Daddy Run� is kind of like, you know, I like to get into sociology a lot, and this is a song about how we thought we were bad when we were kids, y'know. We thought we were the bad-ass little kids of all time, and I'm sure anybody who comes from a rough neighbourhood, they'd think, "Yo, my crew, when I was growing up, we were the baddest", but no way. You got nine year old kids now toting guns and they just don't give a goddamn...So it was a song about how we have to come to terms with what's going on - either we bow down and let these crazy kids take over the world, or we put them in jail. No! Anyway, it's just a little subject we can all think upon, y'know, more of a suggestion than any statement.�
Half A Block
��Half A Block� is just my reluctance to ever be saved or have any redemption in my life. But it's funny, because salvation is, we use a female metaphor, which is fairly interesting. And it's a very nice song - slow jam for the ladies.�
Swashbucklin' In Brooklyn
�Which is a song about a guy who works in this seafood restaurant where you gotta dress up like a pirate. Y'know, if you ever been to this things, you see them in America? They got these guys, anyway, the guy's walking home from work one day, right, and he hears this screaming, like, this woman screaming. He turns down an alley and there's these two guys there, they're like robbing and about to do bad things to this lady, and he freaks out, he pulls out a knife and he kills them both, right. The woman freaks out, runs away, tells her father, and her father tells her to, and she goes and tells the Daily News or the Post, so this guy becomes a superhero. And all he pretty much does is he gets me, my character in the song, to be his homeboy, y'know, to ride on the boat with him, tell his story to the world, and y'know, help him with his shit. And we make a part of Brooklyn safe, the dock area, until of course the mob and the cops and the police and everybody y'know.�
Bump
�This song in particular is about when I used to work at the nightclub, and I was a bus-boy. And you had to work all the nights the club was open, and one of the nights - Sunday - was gay night, right. And, y'know, gay night's gay night, it's just a bunch of fellas hanging around having a good time, drinking a lot of Red Bull. What I always thought was really funny was that there was this one time there was this beautiful woman there, and I met this beautful woman, and I just had to write a song about it, and it's fantastic. But lyrically, I think I've touched on something that will pretty much go down in history as probably what will bring the genders together. Through humour! I think if I can quote myself, "My phobia drowned while I was gettin' down."�
Microphone Fiend
�Obviously, that's a cover song from Eric B & Rakim. We tried to do that is if Erik B & Rakim was fronting Parliament, or something like that. It's kinda funny.�
My Sin
�I don�t know about you, but every once in a while, I go and I and I have a coupla beers, and er, sometimes I don�t remember a lot of what happened the night before. It�s not because y�know I�m stupid or anything, it�s just cos y�know you drink too much liquor, and sometimes things get fuzzy, and that�s what this song�s about.�
Underground
��Underground� is a song I wrote when I was completely drunk, I recorded it when I was completely drunk, I played guitar solo when I was completely drunk, and it's just about me being completely drunk. I woke up one day after being completely drunk, and had these lyrics in front of me, and I was looking through 'em and I couldn't make heads or tails out of 'em, I was like, " 'My ghetto prince is smiling underground?!' What's going on? I've lost my mind.��
She's My Friend
�You gotta have a song about your girl, y'know.�
There Was A Time
�This was one of Fast's I think genius moves, where he took a Country record that he really liked the melody of the lyric, and totally mismatched all this other music to this track. And this is the one that we wanted Shirley Manson to sing on, because we thought it was such a beautiful lyric, but the way it's recorded, it's actually he's playing a record, and we're playing around a record. Which is a very strange concept to kinda get into - for us, anyway, cos we have very few moments of clarity. But this one kinda came off really good, kinda spooky, as if they're singing from the grave, it's very strange, it's about forlorn love and whatnot.�
Dickholder
��Dickholder� is a little ditty, in the vein of Lynyrd Skynyrd, fantastic song, fantastic lyric too. It's about a person, an individual that I will not mention because it'll just get me in too much trouble. I know how things are, and I'd rather just deal with this thing "a mano a mano", unlike everybody else in the music business. But it's a song about a guy who works for another guy, who is just the worst son-of-a-bitch you'd ever wanna meet in your life, y'know, the guy he works for is a darling, really great guy - he's in the music industry. But this guy is like his dickholder, and it's fuckin' horrible, and he's out of his mind, so he deserved a song. And I thought what was great is at the end of the song, kinda we did a like, old skool punk rock song where when the song ends, you scream the title of the song, so everybody knows what song you just played. That's what we did on that one, too. Once again, Mackie on the drums on that song - unbelievable, can't even believe, he is one...anyway, excuse me.�
Little Song
�This is us being as Country and Western as we can possibly get, as beer-swillin', cryin' in your beer kinda song. It's a song about a condemned man and despite all the things he's done, life goes on, and it's gonna go on past him. He's about to be executed in Texas under George W. Bush's "kill everybody" policy, so that's what that's song's about.�
Kill The Bad Guy
Taken from Maui Homicide 2000.
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