Money Mark, a.k.a. Mark Ramos-Nishita, made his name playing keyboards with the Beastie Boys, and he's an expert at pulling funk out of anything with buttons on it--the more obsolete, the better. Push the Button, his second album, finds him moving away from the instrumental soul-groove quickies of his previous LP, Mark's Keyboard Repair, and toward, well, new wave songs--with singing. Ramos-Nishita's songs are unexceptional but pleasant; his arrangements are what make … mehrthem work, especially the delicious keyboard parts. About half of Push the Button is still throwaway instrumentals--75 seconds of bossa nova, two minutes of organ-and-melodica doodling. They're Money Mark's real forte and have a genuine soulfulness that comes more easily to his hands than to his voice. --Douglas Wolk weniger
CD 1
01 - Push The Button
02 - Too Like You
03 - Money Dot
04 - Tomorrow Will be Like Today… mehr
05 - Poor Shakes
06 - Bossa Nova 101
07 - Rock In The Rain
08 - Crowns
09 - All The People
10 - Underneath It All
11 - I Don't Play Piano
12 - Destroyer
13 - Hand In Your Head
14 - Trust
15 - Maybe I'm Dead
16 - Dha Teen Ta
17 - Powerhouse
18 - Harmonics Of Life weniger