Big Dumb Face – 2006 – Duke Lion Fights the Terror!!
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Big Dumb Face
Title: Duke Lion Fights the Terror!!
Label: Flip / Geffen
Released: Apr 17, 2006
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Burgalveist
#Duke Lion
#Kali Is The Sweethog
#Blood Red Head On Fire
#Space Adventure
#Fightin’ Stance
#Organ Splitter
#Mighty Penis Laser
#Robot
#Rebel
#Voices In The Wall
#It’s Right In Here
Review:
Big Dumb Face has created a big, dumb record–intentionally so. Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland’s side project is so self-indulgent it’s almost endearing. Almost. From the GWAR-meets-Cannibal Corpse death-metal attack of “Burgalveist” to the “Bonanza”-theme feel of “Duke Lion” to the Martian-style vocals of “Kali is the Sweet Hog,” Borland, who apparently plays all the CD’s instruments, is goofy rather than clever.
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Beastie Boys – 1998 – Hello Nasty
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Beastie Boys
Title: Hello Nasty
Label: Capitol
Released: Jul 14, 1998
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Super Disco Breakin’
#The Move
#Remote Control
#Song For The Man
#Just A Test
#Body Movin’
#Intergalactic
#Sneakin’ Out The Hospital
#Putting Shame In Your Game
#Flowin’ Prose
#And Me
#Three MC’s and One DJ
#The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin’)
#Song For Junior
#I Don’t Know
#The Negotiation Limerick File
#Electrify
#Picture This
#Unite
#Dedication
#Dr. Lee, PhD
#Instant Death
Review:
On their previous album, Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group’s music isn’t nearly as organic. They’ve all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc, Paul’s Boutique. But Hello Nasty isn’t a regression, and it’s anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age. Hello Nasty gurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you’re left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, “I’m the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the word quagmire” (“Putting Shame in Your Game”). To paraphrase �ber-critic Robert Christgau, Paul’s Boutique may have been the band’s Pet Sounds, but Hello Nasty is the Beasties’ Sgt. Pepper’s.
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Beastie Boys – 1992 – Check Your Head
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Beastie Boys
Title: Check Your Head
Label: Capitol
Released: Apr 21, 1992
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Jimmy James
#Funky Boss
#Pass The Mic
#Gratitude
#Lighten Up
#Finger Lickin’ Good
#So What’Cha Want
#The Biz Vs. The Nuge
#Time For Livin’
#Something’s Got To Give
#The Blue Nun
#Stand Together
#Pow
#The Maestro
#Groove Holmes
#Live At P.J.’s
#Mark On The Bus
#Professor Booty
#In 3’s
#Namaste
Review:
With their third album, the Beasties transformed themselves from smart-ass punks with a hip-hop jones into a playful live funk band with some solid rhymes, assisted by the extraordinary keyboardist Mark Ramos Nishita. A couple of tracks look back to their old school rap roots, and they still deploy goofy samples like nobody’s business, but they’re mostly making their own grooves (including some instrumentals worthy of being sampled in their own right). Their universalist world-view results in some excellent, off-the-wall fusions–the metalloid bump that forms the funk pulse of “So What’cha Want,” Sly Stone’s “Time for Livin'” transformed into a hard-rock bomber–but they don’t have to prove how clever they are any more, and they’re stronger and more humane for it.
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Beastie Boys – 1989 – Paul’s Boutique
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Beastie Boys
Title: Paul’s Boutique
Label: Capitol
Released: Jul 19, 1989
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#To All The Girls
#Shake Your Rump
#Johnny Ryall
#Egg Man
#High Plains Drifter
#The Sounds Of Science
#3-Minute Rule
#Hey Ladies
#5-Piece Chicken Dinner
#Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
#Car Thief
#What Comes Around
#Shadrach
#Ask For Janice
#B-Boy Bouillabaisse: 59 Chrystie Street/Get On The Mic/Stop That Train/A Year And A Day/Hello Brooklyn/Dropping Names/Lay It On Me/Mike On The Mic/A.W.O.L.
Review:
After the out-of-nowhere success of Licensed to Ill, the Beasties had to prove they were more than one-album wonders, and they hit it out of the park with this follow-up. The Boys’ lyrics are a hysterical deluge of cultural allusion (Ponce De Leon, Sadaharu Oh, and Love Connection’s Chuck Woolery all get name-dropped), compressed wordplay, and adenoidal snottiness, but the real stars are the Dust Brothers, whose production is a hip-hop landmark. Their music tracks sound like the history of rock and funk radio boiled down to a pure concentrate–monster jams built out of thousands of unexpected samples (Johnny Cash! The Sweet!). It’s a killer party album, kinetic and dense, and it never slows down.
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Army of Anyone – 2006 – Army of Anyone
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Army of Anyone
Title: Army of Anyone
Label: Firm
Released: Nov 14, 2006
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#It Doesn’t Seem To Matter
#Goodbye
#Generation
#A Better Place
#Non Stop
#Disappear
#Stop Look and Listen
#Ain’t Enough
#Father Figure
#Leave It
#This Wasn’t Supposed To Happen
Review:
Army of Anyone features Richard Patrick, the lead singer of Filter, Dean and Robert DeLeo, founding members of Stone Temple Pilots, and drummer Ray Luzier. The foundation of the group was laid when Richard Patrick enlisted the DeLeos to help him co-write a song for the Filter album he was working on at the time. The result “A Better Place,” turned out to be prophetic, and the beginning of something new. Within a couple of days, the three musicians decided they would take this working relationship to the next level, and Army of Anyone was born.
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More Than Me – 2009 – Minus One
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: More Than Me
Title: Minus One
Label: Self Released
Released: Mar 13, 2009
Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Danced All Night
#Unconditional Truth
#Drag
#Shoelace
#The End
#Better Part Of Me
#Unconditional Truth (C.J. Eriksson Mix)
Review:
Latest release from the Buffalo boys. Hooky rock-pop that’s slickly produced and just plain fun!
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Metallica – 2008 – Death Magnetic
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Metallica
Title: Death Magnetic
Label: Warner Bros
Released: Sep 12, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#That Was Just Your Life
#The End Of The Line
#Broken, Beat & Scarred
#The Day That Never Comes
#All Nightmare Long
#Cyanide
#The Unforgiven III
#The Judas Kiss
#Suicide & Redemption
#My Apocalypse
Review:
Redemption indeed. After the complete garbage that was St. Anger, the band absolutely redeemed themselves with this album. Even if they did swipe a Pearl Jam riff.
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Five Finger Death Punch – 2007 – The Way of the Fist
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Five Finger Death Punch
Title: The Way of the Fist
Label: Firm Music
Released: Jul 31, 2007
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Ashes
#Way of the Fist
#Salvation
#Bleeding
#Place to Die
#Devil’s Own
#White Knuckles
#Can’t Heal You
#Death Before Dishonor
#Meet the Monster
Review:
The sonic assault. Ivan Moody and crew rip through the ten tracks with blistering intensity. Just an awesome heavy rock / metal record.
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Better Left Unsaid – 2008 – The Fight Within
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Better Left Unsaid
Title: The Fight Within
Label: Stillborn
Released: Jul 22, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Mourn For No One
#Testify
#Repletion
#The Fight Within
#Under My Skin
#Dedicated
#Impurity
#Never Again
#Far Too Long
#Marla
#No Regret
Review:
Got this as a pack-in when I bought the new Hatebreeed cover’s album. Pretty standard metalcore, but it ain’t bad.
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Hatebreed – 2009 – For the Lions
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Hatebreed
Title: For the Lions
Label: E1 / Stillborn
Released: May 5, 2009
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Ghosts Of War (Slayer)
#Suicidal Maniac (Suicidal Tendencies)
#Escape (Metallica)
#Hatebreeders (Misfits)
#Set It Off (Madball)
#Thirsty and Miserable (Black Flag)
#All I Had I Gave (Crowbar)
#Your Mistake (Agnostic Front)
#I’m In Pain (Obituary)
#It’s The Limit (Cro-Mags)
#Refuse/Resist (Sepultura)
#Supertouch/Shitfit (Bad Brains)
#Evil Minds (D.R.I.)
#Shut Me Out (Sick Of It All)
#Sick Of Talk (Negative Approach)
#Life Is Pain (Merauder)
#Hear Me (Judge)
#Boxed In (Subzero)
Review:
The songs on “For The Lions” were carefully selected by HATEBREED to represent a panoramic view of some of their favorite artists and greatest musical inspirations. Having completed the album in 2008, the band felt their work wasn’t done yet and returned to the studio with original guitar player Wayne Lozinak to record additional tracks for the album. The resulting 18 songs featured on the album cover a wide array of influences including Metallica, Sick Of It All, Slayer, Bad Brains, Black Flag and more.
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