MagentaMantaLoveTree
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MagentaMantaLoveTree was an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 released in 1993 by Dighayzoose
DigHayZoose
DigHayZoose was a Christian funk/Modern rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music describes them as "One of the first Christian alternative rock bands of the 1990s"...

. This was their second album, clocking in at nearly 65 minutes long. All band members participated in the writing process with the exception of Jimmi Rodrigez. The album was a departure from their debut which had been, according to multiple critics, essentially a Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...

 clone. According to True Tunes News
True Tunes News
-Background:John J. Thompson founded True Tunes News out of his Wheaton, Illinois Christian record shop, True Tunes. The store itself, founded in 1989, with Chris Langill, was relatively unique because it focused exclusively on alternative Christian music at a time when Christian bookstores...

the band used the language of psychedelia
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 to create "bizarre and visual lyrics." Their lyrics touched sometimes personal topics such as love & beauty in a dream about a future wife ("MagentaMantaLoveTree"), hate ("H8 Machine"), and self loathing ("Diggin' Away"). Musically the album contained a great number of styles mashed together into a George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 style "cosmic slop." One review drew musical parallels to Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

, Primus
Primus (band)
Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane. Primus originally formed in 1984 with Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth, later joined by Lane, though the latter two departed...

, Faith No More
Faith No More
Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...

, Janes Addiction, and Scaterd Few
Scaterd Few
Scaterd Few was a Christian punk band originating from Burbank, California. CCM magazine described their music as "pure punk for dread people," stating that it was a cross between Janes Addiction and Charlie Mingus.-Sin Disease era:...

.

Many of the tracks are prepended by short samples.

Track listing

  1. "Beginning" – 0:16
  2. "Dancing In Concert With The Infinite" – 4:42
  3. "Whoompfinashun #7" – 0:11
  4. "Slatherage" – 7:31
  5. "Brave Strong Song" – 0:08
  6. "Lift" – 4:58
  7. "MagentaMantaLoveTree" – 8:34
  8. "No One Told You?" – 0:10
  9. "Secret" – 4:40
  10. "Detention – 3:00 a.m." – 0:25
  11. "Penalty Box" – 0:32
  12. "Circle Of Pain" – 4:41
  13. "Doubt" – 5:55
  14. "Diggin' Away" – 3:05
  15. "Vanillanator" – 0:09
  16. "H8 Machine" – 3:27
  17. "Untitled" – 0:20
  18. "Black-Eyed Pea" – 5:45
  19. "99¢ Smile" – 0:18
  20. "B.D.O.C." – 2:34
  21. "Regret" – 5:41
  22. "Twenty-second Track" – 0:49
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