Tribe single

While George Cockle's record label What's Up? Music released American editions of Park and Digidogheadlock (Wasn't 4 Plugs recorded in the US? Huh?) during the late 90s, they never released any singles exclusively to Anglophone audiences... not to my knowledge, at least. During Mad's far more lucrative deal with Palm Pictures, their single Pulse was pushed pretty well to the point of being in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, but this was the first single that Palm released without a Japanese equivalent. Why, I don't know, but there's a similar case with Happy Ride from CiSTm K0nFLiqT... which has its own EP only released in Europe. All of the extra songs are also from the album, but still.

Personally, I never thought Mad made any switch to any genre of heavy metal throughout their long career, as their music always had heavily apparent melodic punk influence, but there are plenty of people who derided and dismissed them as just being a nu-metal band. While I honestly don't even think Digidogheadlock could be considered nu-metal, nor a lot of Osc-Dis... I can easily see why this song would be tagged as such. It isn't really punk so much as it is bouncy nu-metal, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing by any means. This song is still really fun, and makes for a great album opener even if it doesn't match a lot of the music that followed it.

This single is packaged in a typical maxi single case, and in the below photo you'll see a big crack in what looks like the disc... believe me, that's just the case itself. Honest. Behind the disc is a detailed explanation of the weapons the White Crushers have in the video for Pulse... that diagram may have been included in another Mad single, but I honestly don't remember. There's also a fold behind that, but it just opens to blankness. If you need the remixes like I need them for Rare Mad, then pick it up, but otherwise, I don't think it really matters if you pick this single up or not.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Tribe

2. Midi Surf (STRRRRIVE!! Mix ver. 2.0)

3. Good Girl (Long Beach Family Remix)