Decent track from Lou Barlow and Jon Davis with a emphasis on the bass and hip-hop like drums. The track also has layers of cool things going on. Totally different from Sebadoh, yet strange and poppy at the same time. Cab Ride is an OK instrumental with horns...the packaging isn't really worth it tho. Just get the MP-3.
CD Reviews
Great single, but the b-side disappoints
pandorasmuse | Rockville, MD United States | 11/03/2003
(3 out of 5 stars)
""Natural One" is one of my favorite songs. I hadn't previously heard anything else by Folk Implosion, however, so I expected the b-side to be stylistically similar to "Natural One." "Cabride," the b-side, is rather discordant, with some odd instrumentation. I'm pretty sure I heard a recorder in there somewhere. I've listened to it a few times but I just can't seem to get into it.
So, overall: 3 stars. As I said, I love "Natural One" and would have given the single 5 except for the weirdness (for lack of a better term) of "Cabride.""
4 stars for Natural One
Amy Lynn | Pennsylvania United States | 03/11/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Natural one is a great song alone and good song to go with the movie kids, fits it perfectly. This single only has 2 songs on it and the second Song Cabride is just a instrumental, reminds me of new york and the movie- goes good with it. So i recomend this if you like the music from the movie kids or I recomend the whole soundtrack. Natural one 4 stars-cabride, 2 and half-3 stars."
Worth the $8!!!
C. Newell | Arizona | 03/29/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Man, what a hard song to find! When it came out, I was instantly hooked. Forgotten about it for a long time until I recently heard it on a AMC movie commercial and started the hunt. I had to have this song! Found it here, used. It came quickly and even my kids think it's cool. As others have said the second song is some quirky jazz thing that seems quite out of place with "Natural One", but the kids even like that one too. Me...not so much, but it's worth a listen, once. "Natural One" is worth adding to your library. Maybe I should check out the movie it was in."