Archive for March, 2010
March 31st, 2010 | 
Author: Rhythm Nation Compilation/Rhythm 1814
 In 2002, A&M released Rhythm Nation 1814/Rhythm Nation Compilation, which contained the original album Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989, originally released on A&M) and the DVD collection Rhythm Nation Compilation (2001, also originally on A&M) by Janet Jackson in one set. ~ Gregory McIntosh |
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Spock’s Beard: Don’t Try This at Home: Live in Holland/The Making – 3 Disc
 “Founded by a pair of brothers, Spock;s Beard are a respected prog-rock trio. This concert film captures them performing in Holland. They deliver a dozen songs including such favorites as “”Go the Way You Go,”" “”Gibberish,”" and “”Skin.”" Also included is a two hour documentary on the creation of their album V. The DVD release of the film and documentary offers a vast amount of additional performances, and a bonus CD. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide” |
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Metal Machine Music [CD & DVD]
![15864094 Metal Machine Music [CD & DVD]](http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/1586/15864094.jpg "Metal Machine Music [CD & DVD]") 1975’s METAL MACHINE MUSIC is, without question, the one album in Lou Reed’s oeuvre that inspires the most hyperbole in critic’s pens, and one of the harshest records ever released by a major record company. Originally a double LP, it consists of four tracks, each hovering around the 16-minute mark, of guitar feedback looped over and over, and then layered innumerable times. There are no vocals, no beats, and no songs.And yet, despite all this, the album is by no means random noise designed solely to irritate listeners, as many detractors have claimed. There’s a definite overall structure to the electronic effects. As the direct forerunner to punk, industrial, ambient, electronic, and even new age music, METAL MACHINE MUSIC is an essential document and one of the most influential albums in non-mainstream music. In its own right, it is a fascinating sonic experiment–though it’s almost guaranteed that your pets will hate every second of it. |
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![default music l Gory Days [CD/DVD] [PA]](http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/nonsku/default_music_l.jpg "Gory Days [CD/DVD] [PA]") Contains 16 tracks.Personnel includes: Necro.Ultra-hardcore rapper Necro delivers his second ridiculously perverse album in a row, Gory Days. The album succeeds I Need Drugs, probably the most exploitative album the rap music industry had ever produced. The mothers of America would cry if they ever found their children listening to such an album. The lyrics are one thing, but the full-color booklet of crazy photos — filled with drugs, guns, violence, and women — makes the album more than just music. Like I Need Drugs, Gory Days goes beyond just music, again featuring a shocking booklet filled with crazy photos. Musically, the album isn’t nearly as memorable as the photos. Though it’s an easy comparison — perhaps even an obvious one — you can’t help thinking it: Necro sounds exactly like Eminem. Or better yet, Necro sounds exactly like a more perverse Eminem — more perverse than Eminem would ever allow himself to be. Of course, the initial shock of hearing Necro wears thin quickly, leaving you to confront the facts, namely that Necro isn’t an impressive rapper. He may be perverse, but he’s also lacking wit and has little to offer. Sadly, Necro offers, at best, a feeling of horror with Gory Days. And while that feeling may initially be pleasureful, it’s a guilty pleasure that flees quickly. ~ Jason Birchmeier |
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Rosenrot [CD & DVD] [PA] [Digipak]
![7553033 Rosenrot [CD & DVD] [PA] [Digipak]](http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/7553/7553033.jpg "Rosenrot [CD & DVD] [PA] [Digipak]") “DVD Includes Live Worldwide Footage.Rammstein: Christian Lorenz, Till Lindemann, Paul Landers, Oliver Riedel, Richard Z. Kruspe, Christoph “”Doom”" Schneider.When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, and Communism along with it, little did the world know that the monolithic regime-metal of Rammstein had been growing up behind it, soon to release itself upon the world and remind the free what it’s like to have to walk in line. Wagnerian in scope and mood (if not in sound), 2006’s ROSENROT finds the East German group offering up more of their uber-dramatic club/industrial chug that’s as cold and massive as the hulking battleship that graces its cover. Imagine the ghost of Austrian pop star Falco inhabiting a giant steel robot and going on a city-destroying rampage; that’s what’s at stake here, and there are more than enough tracks providing the sort of dancefloor totalitarianism that Goths and rivetheads crave. The big surprise on ROSENROT is the half of the album dominated by ballads, quietly creeping along like blackened ivy up a castle wall. The band’s signature German-only lyrics are also subverted here with “”Te Quiero P***!,”" adding Mexican horns and bending their lockstep rhythmic assault to a Latin-centric cadence; it’s like a soundtrack to a mechanical bullfight, and helps the group diversify their battle plan.DVD Features:Tracks:1. Reise Reise (Arenes De Nimes, Nimes, France, July 2005)2. Mein Teil (Club Citta, Kangawa, Japan, June 2005)3. Sonne (Brixton Academy, London, UK, February 2005)” |
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