is anyone else getting him crammed down their throat on the radio or is it just because he's from around here?

oh, he's a reggae type performer who happens to be from West Chester, PA. Oh and he's a hasidic jew. zion indeed. Most of the stuff is pretty good, albeit more mellow than my tastes usually call for. anyone?



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I know he sold out Smith's Olde Bar here in Atl. a few months back. He is yet to get much airplay.

I think it was him that they were playing him on Howard Stern a couple of weeks ago. I didn't like it.

I just purchased this disc (Live at Stubb's) for a buddy of mine and took a few complimentary listens before I handed it off. I dig it. He's kind of like the Jewish reggae spawn of Robert Randolph and Eminem. Definitely a talented guy.

No way this is going to get any radio play around here.

I ripped a copy so if anybody is curious to hear some, let me know.

he performed here in the office. he's awesome.

doesn't it just sound a little bit too much like certain Sublime tracks? I mean, he's got a style, and it's entertaining but it just drips and reeks and oozes Sublime. Not that Sublime's ideas were terribly original...

I just wonder how popular he'd be if he wasn't a Hasidic Jew and had a different image.

[quote="cmanhatan4"]doesn't it just sound a little bit too much like certain Sublime tracks? I mean, he's got a style, and it's entertaining but it just drips and reeks and oozes Sublime. Not that Sublime's ideas were terribly original...

I just wonder how popular he'd be if he wasn't a Hasidic Jew and had a different image.[/quote]

The Hasidic Jew factor was what originally caught my eye, so I 'm sure that helps his cause. As far as the comparison to Sublime, I'm not sure. I'm not a big fan of theirs, but they have a mellow, southern california, pot-smoking vibe. Matisyahu is pretty intense (on this live album at least) and the guitar is a lot heavier too.

[quote="RolledMeat"][quote="cmanhatan4"]doesn't it just sound a little bit too much like certain Sublime tracks? I mean, he's got a style, and it's entertaining but it just drips and reeks and oozes Sublime. Not that Sublime's ideas were terribly original...

I just wonder how popular he'd be if he wasn't a Hasidic Jew and had a different image.[/quote]

The Hasidic Jew factor was what originally caught my eye, so I 'm sure that helps his cause. As far as the comparison to Sublime, I'm not sure. I'm not a big fan of theirs, but they have a mellow, southern california, pot-smoking vibe. Matisyahu is pretty intense (on this live album at least) and the guitar is a lot heavier too.[/quote]

it sounds like a slightly heavier version of "don't push," the one big song they push.

[quote="cmanhatan4"] I mean, he's got a style, and it's entertaining but it just drips and reeks and oozes Sublime. [/quote]
difference is, his voice doesn't suck and his songs aren't as melodically or pop-oriented. i don't think he sounds like sublime at all.

[quote="katie, a princess"][quote="cmanhatan4"] I mean, he's got a style, and it's entertaining but it just drips and reeks and oozes Sublime. [/quote]
difference is, his voice doesn't suck and his songs aren't as melodically or pop-oriented. i don't think he sounds like sublime at all.[/quote]

whoa whoa whoa...his voice doesn't suck? i think you're being a bit hard on brad there. the attractive thing about brad's vocal style was its versatility. in that regard, he was very kiedis-ish. he could go from the screaming punk of "hope" to the airy ballad of "rivers of babylon" from one second to the next.

sublime's self titled album was definitely more "pop-oriented" but some of the tracks were still very off the wall, and looking further back into sublime's (admittedly small) catalog, you see a complete disregard for pop sounds.

[quote="cmanhatan4"][quote="katie, a princess"][quote="cmanhatan4"] I mean, he's got a style, and it's entertaining but it just drips and reeks and oozes Sublime. [/quote]
difference is, his voice doesn't suck and his songs aren't as melodically or pop-oriented. i don't think he sounds like sublime at all.[/quote]

whoa whoa whoa...his voice doesn't suck? i think you're being a bit hard on brad there. the attractive thing about brad's vocal style was its versatility. in that regard, he was very kiedis-ish. he could go from the screaming punk of "hope" to the airy ballad of "rivers of babylon" from one second to the next.

sublime's self titled album was definitely more "pop-oriented" but some of the tracks were still very off the wall, and looking further back into sublime's (admittedly small) catalog, you see a complete disregard for pop sounds.[/quote]

ah, but much like a. keidis, i think that his voice was really pumped up, tried to make it bigger than it actually was with inflections and filler. the dude could carry a tune, i argue that not. more in that i think that m.'s voice is stronger and carries better.

sublime had some off the wall tunes, sure, but still melody-driven, while i think that more of m.'s songs center around some of his rhymes and the rhythm. imo.

yeah it definitely is more "rhymy and rhythmy" or hip-hoppy or whatever you want to call it. his voice is more of an instrument rather than a lyrical or melodic centerpiece.



i'll agree with that, and that's how it was at first. that's how they hid the fact that anthony's voice really wasn't that good on the first batch of chili pepper's albums and how brad tried to hide that fact. but listen to the chilis nowadays...anthony's voice has come a long way and i'd call him a really good singer now. i think a lot of that has to do with the confidence he gained in his singing by "pumping it up and trying to make it bigger with inflections and filler."

i think that if brad had had the time to grow into his voice like anthony did similar things would have happened.

in that respect, matisyahu is way ahead of both of them.

he's on world cafe live right now. seems like a pretty nice guy.

Just saw him for the first time, on an HDNET Boxing Match...He performed for a Jewish Boxer as he entered the ring. I was thoroughly impressed.

the song they play on tv is really horrible. its like "informer" bad.

here's a little 12 minute vid..

http://www.davidbaugnon.com/film/matis.wmv

My brother saw him a few months ago and said he put on a really good show.