Blow Your Headphones

Blow Your Headphones is the second studio album by The Herbaliser. It was released on Ninja Tune in 1997. It peaked at number 24 on the UK R&B Albums Chart.[7]

Blow Your Headphones
Studio album by The Herbaliser
Released	11 March 1997[1]
Studio	Train Trax Studios
Genre	Hip hop, trip hop[2]
Length	71:52
Label	Ninja Tune
Producer	Jake Wherry, Ollie Teeba, Jonny Cuba, Kaidi Tatham, Malachi
The Herbaliser chronology
Remedies (1995) Blow Your Headphones (1997) Very Mercenary (1999)
Singles from Blow Your Headphones
"New + Improved / Theme from Control Centre" Released: 1997 "The Blend" Released: 1997

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[3]
The Evening Post	[4]
NME	6/10[5]
Spin	8/10[6]

Critical reception

In 1999, Ryan Schreiber, the founder and then-editor-in-chief of Pitchfork, wrote that "...Blow Your Headphones was pretty decent, but it was kinda crappy for a Ninja Tune record."[8] In 2015, Fact placed it at number 33 on the "50 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time" list.[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opening Credits"	1:29
2.	"The Blend" (featuring What What)	4:46
3.	"Another Mother"	6:47
4.	"Excuse Me"	1:11
5.	"Ginger Jumps the Fence"	5:01
6.	"Put It on Tape"	3:42
7.	"New + Improved" (featuring What What)	3:58
8.	"Mr. Chombee Has the Flaw"	4:17
9.	"Intermission"	1:01
10.	"Saturday Night" (featuring Fabian & Big Ted)	5:06
11.	"Shocker Zulu"	5:15
12.	"Hardcore"	4:30
13.	"Shorty's Judgement"	5:45
14.	"More Styles"	1:40
15.	"A Mother (For Your Mind)"	6:37
16.	"Bring It" (featuring What What)	3:59
17.	"Theme from Control Centre (Reprise)"	4:40
18.	"End Credits"	2:15

Japanese edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mr. D.J. (Vocal Radio Edit)"	5:54
2.	"40 Winks (No Sleep Vadim! Mix)"	5:36
3.	"New + Improved (Wiseguys Remix)"	4:05

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Jake Wherry – production, mixing
• Ollie Teeba – production, mixing, design concept
• Jonny Cuba – production (3, 15)
• Malachi – production (5, 6, 8)
• Kaidi Tatham – production (11), synthesizer (11)
• What What – vocals (2, 7, 16)
• Fabian – vocals (10)
• Big Ted – vocals (10)
• Patrick Dawes – percussion (8)
• Oliver Parfitt – synthesizer (17)
• No Sleep Nigel – mixing (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18)
• Justin Whillock – mixing (7, 8, 12, 15, 17)
• Openmind – design
• Strictly Kev – design concept
• Nancy Brown – photography
• Suzi Ninja – photography

Charts

Chart	Peak position
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[7]	24

References

1. Cooper, Sean. "Blow Your Headphones - The Herbaliser". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
2. Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
3. Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). "The Herbaliser". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 9780312245603.
4. Houlahan, Mike (1997-03-13). "Album takes the cake for quirky". The Evening Post.
5. Goldsmith, Mike (1998). "The Herbaliser: Blow Your Headphones (Ninja Tune)". NME. Archived from the original on 2000-08-17. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
6. Green, Tony (October 1997). "The Herbaliser: Blow Your Headphones (Ninja Tune)". Spin: 144–145.
7. "Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40: 30 March 1997 - 05 April 1997". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
8. Schreiber, Ryan (1999-04-20). "The Herbaliser: Very Mercenary Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2018-10-12.

External links

• Blow Your Headphones at Discogs (list of releases)