With Mr. C now a full-time member of the Shamen, and Soul Family Sensation’s Jhelisa Anderson (who was chosen to replace Plavka, as she was already a One Little Indian artist) providing guest vocals, the Boss Drum album followed in 1992. Boss Drum featured a spoken-word collaboration, “Re:Evolution” with Terence McKenna , and the Shamen’s biggest and most controversial hit: ” Ebeneezer Goode “. “Ebeneezer Goode” was accused of promoting drug use, owing to the refrain, ‘Ezer Goode, Ezer Goode’ as homophonic with ‘E’s are good’ (E being slang for the drug ecstasy ), ‘He’s so good, he’s Ebenezer Goode’ (using the homophony of “he” and “E”), and to double entendre drug references throughout the song. This echoed similar references in previous songs such as “Synergy”‘s ‘ MDMA -zing… we are together in ecstasy’. Despite – or maybe because of – the subsequent storm of publicity, the song reached the top of the UK Singles Chart and stayed there for four weeks.
Boss Drum album
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