Face the Day is the sixth and most recent album from rap

Hip hop music

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, metal

Heavy metal music

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, and funk

Funk

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 pioneers 24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz are a band from the South Bronx, New York, formed in 1986, originally consisting of Jimi Hazel , Rick Skatore , Kindu Phibes , and P. Fluid . The band is best known for mixing soul, funk, reggae, and R&B with heavy metal and hardcore punk...

. It is the first Spyz album in more than a decade, recorded two years after their reformation in 2003. Guitarist and vocalist Jimi Hazel and bassist Rick Skatore return with a new drummer, Tobias Ralph (formerly of Bruce Hornsby and the Range).

Surprisingly, bassist Rick Skatore does not contribute any songwriting to the album, which contains songs written by Jimi Hazel, some of which appeared on his 2002 solo album 21stCenturySouthBronxRockStar. The album contains the usual amalgam of genres, from heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 and hard rock

Hard rock

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 to jazz

Jazz

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 and R&B. However, reggae

Reggae

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 and ska

Ska

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 make up a larger amount of the music on the album compared to previous Spyz releases.

The album also features cover versions of Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy

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's "Bad Reputation" from their 1977 album of the same name, and Sly and the Family Stone's "Stand!

Stand! (song)

"Stand!" is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. The song's title and lyrics are a call for its listeners to "stand" up for themselves, their communities, and what they believe in...

" also the title track of its respective album.

Track listing

1. "Unknown Wellknown"
2. "Face the Day"
3. "Waiting for the Sun"
4. "Soul Sucker"
5. "Ride to Nowhere"
6. "Faithless"
7. "The Saturday Song"
8. "Angel"
9. "Blues for Dimebag"
10. "Running"
11. "Anything for You"
12. "Plastique"
13. "Bad Reputation"
14. "Stand!
    Stand!
    Stand! is the fourth studio album by soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, released May 3, 1969 on Epic Records. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! was the band's breakout album. It went on to sell over three million copies and become one of the most...
    
    "

Remaster Track listing

1. "Face the Day"
2. "Waiting for the Sun"
3. "Soul Sucker"
4. "Ride to Nowhere"
5. "Faithless"
6. "The Saturday Song"
7. "Angel"
8. "Blues for Dimebag"
9. "Running"
10. "Anything for You"
11. "Plastique"
12. "Bad Reputation"
13. "Stand!"
14. "HMS4L!" (instrumental version of Unknown Wellknown)

Credits

• Jimi Hazel: guitar, vocals
• Rick Skatore: bass
• Tobias Ralph: drums
• Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
  Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
  Ronald Jay Blumenthal , better known by his stage name Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, is a Jewish-American guitarist, songwriter, recording artist and producer. Thal adopted the name Bumblefoot from the bacterial infection of the same name, which he learned about while helping his wife review for her...
  
  : mixing, production, guitar on some tracks