God Lives Underwater – 2004 – Up Off the Floor (Advance)

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: God Lives Underwater
Title: Up Off the Floor (Advance)
Label: Locomotive
Released: Sep 28, 2004
Packaging: Slimline
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Advance Promo
Autographed

Tracklist:

#White Noise
#Tricked
#1% (The Long Way Down)
#Whatever You’ve Got
#No Way (You Must Understand)
#Slip To Fall
#History
#72 Hour Hold
#Miss You More Than Anything
#Positivity

Review:

This is the album advance promo version of Up Off The Floor. Thankfully, this version actually had the volume levels set correctly, and sounds the way the retail copy was supposed to sound. Interestingly enough, the track order was different than that of the four year old leaked internet copy, and four of the tracks were mislabeled on the insert. Like the retail version, this is missing “Fame” and “Choir Boy” from the leaked copy.

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God Lives Underwater – 2004 – Up Off the Floor

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: God Lives Underwater
Title: Up Off the Floor
Label: Locomotive
Released: Sep 28, 2004
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#White Noise
#Tricked
#1% (The Long Way Down)
#Whatever You’ve Got
#No Way (You Must Understand)
#Slip To Fall
#History
#72 Hour Hold
#Miss You More Than Anything
#Positivity

Review:

This album had been leaked on the internet for nearly four years or so before it finally got released in stores. Unfortunately, Megaforce Records completely screwed up the release on a couple of different fronts. First, the mastering for the retail copies was butchered by normalizing the volume across the whole disc. This means that there are no highs or lows in the songs, everything is exactly the same volume level, which makes it sound unbelievably flat. Mercifully, the promo copy of the album was mastered correctly, so it is possible to hear this the way it was supposed to sound, and I was fortunate enough to snag a copy on EBay. Secondly, when the album originally leaked, there were two additional tracks available. A cover of David Bowie’s “Fame” actually got released on the 15 Minutes soundtrack, but Choir Boy never officially saw the light of day. Thirdly, the tracks that did get released were not put in the same order that the leaked copy had them in, so all the fans that had been listening to the leaked album for four years were jolted and surprised at the revised (and inferior) track order.

As for the music itself, the tracks harken back to the Empty/EP days with a lot more guitars, blended with the electronics of the Space Age era. The songs are really good, and the production was very well done. Had this been released in 2000 as planned, I think it would have been a popular album, but since it took four years (and it was six since Space Age was released), people forgot about GLU and this got buried.

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God Lives Underwater – 1998 – Life in the So-Called Space Age

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: God Lives Underwater
Title: Life in the So-Called Space Age
Label: 1500
Released: Mar 24, 1998
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Intro
#Rearrange
#From Your Mouth
#Can’t Come Down
#Alone Again
#Behavior Modification
#The Rush Is Loud
#Dress Rehearsal For Reproduction
#Happy’
#Vapors
#Medicated To The One I Love

Review:

This album took a long while to grow on me, as it wasn’t nearly as heavy as Empty and the EP were. A huge Depeche Mode influence on this album also. From Your Mouth became a minor hit, and I can remember driving down to New World Records to get this the day it was released because one would receive a free t-shirt when buying the album. I still have the shirt, and it’s still way too big. 🙂

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God Lives Underwater – 1995 – Empty

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am


Artist: God Lives Underwater
Title: Empty
Label: American
Released: Sep 12, 1995
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Still
#All Wrong
#Fool
#Empty
#Don’t Know How to Be
#No More Love
#23
#We Were Wrong
#Weaken
#Tortoise
#Scared

Review:

I had heard ‘All Wrong’ on the radio way back in the day, and promptly forgot who the band was. Rediscovered them right about the time I found out they were coming to Showplace (on my 18th birthday!) right before “…So-Called Space Age” came out, and I picked up this and the EP at the same time. I still listen to this quite a bit.

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God Lives Underwater – 1995 – God Lives Underwater

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: God Lives Underwater
Title: God Lives Underwater
Label: American
Released: May 23, 1995
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Drag Me Down
#No More Love
#Lonely Again
#Nothing
#Try
#Waste of Time

Review:

The first EP from GLU. Has ‘No More Love’ in common with the following full-length album.

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Full Devil Jacket – 1999 – A Wax Box

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: Full Devil Jacket
Title: A Wax Box
Label: The Enclave / Mercury
Released: Oct 5, 1999
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Stain
#Mr. Wiggly
#Screaming Jesus
#D.M.F. (Live)
#Full Devil Jacket

Review:

This came out before the self-titled album did, and includes a couple of songs not on the full-length. Oddly, this was not censored, while the album was. More nu-metal that kinda sounded like everyone else, but was catchy in spots.

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Full Devil Jacket – 2000 – Full Devil Jacket

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: Full Devil Jacket
Title: Full Devil Jacket
Label: The Enclave / Island
Released: Mar 7, 2000
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Wanna Be a Martyr
#Fastblack
#Where Did You Go’
#Mainline
#Blue Green Day
#Stain
#Monster
#Love Song
#Now You Know
#Mr. Wiggly
#Cardboard Believer

Review:

The only album from these guys. It’s hard rock, lost in a sea of other bands that sound just like them. It’s a decent disc, and interesting because one of the songs obviously had a swear word in it, yet it was blanked out so the album didn’t have to get a Parental Advisory sticker (like the Wax Box EP did).

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Full Devil Jacket – 1999 – Demo Sampler

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: Full Devil Jacket
Title: Demo Sampler
Label: JHMP
Released: Jan 1, 1999
Packaging: Slimline
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Promo
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Now You Know
#Monster
#Wanna Be Martyr
#Love Song

Review:

A 4 song demo in anticipation of the album coming out. The versions on this sampler are different from the final release.

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Fuel – 2003 – Natural Selection

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: Fuel
Title: Natural Selection
Label: Epic
Released: Sep 23, 2003
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Quarter
#Down Inside Of You
#Million Miles
#Falls On Me
#These Things
#Won’t Back Down
#Running Away
#Most Of All
#Getting Thru’
#Die Like This
#Luck
#Days With You

Review:

The third Fuel album was a disappointment compared to the other two. The songs were rather bland, and nothing really jumped out as a super strong song. It’s good, but after the other two, its not great. Won’t Back Down is easily the best song on here.

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Fuel – 2000 – Hemorrhage (In My Hands)

By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am

Artist: Fuel
Title: Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
Label: 550 / Epic
Released: Nov 14, 2000
Packaging: Slimline
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Import CD-Single
Autographed

Tracklist:

#Hemorrage (In My Hands)
#Easy
#Stripped Away
#Goin’ To California

Review:

A one track for the pre-single off of Something Like Human.

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