Expand Your Head

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Including 4 new songs and 13 remixes, Expand Your Head slices, dices, and reassembles the Lords of Acid's X-rated techno-raunch into a towering stack of dance-floor trends. Opening with the new "Am I Sexy," the Lords follow suit à la the campy big beat of Dimitri from Paris. Newbie number two, "As I Am," is standard-issue rave-alert acid house, while "Who Do You Think You Are," with its lyrically colorless rap screamed above industrial guitars, is a toss off (ahem). The last new song on the disc, and the album's shining moment, is the hidden 17th track, a righteously down-and-dirty rendition of Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade." Here, the Lords are in their element creating heavy, electrifying waterbed rhythms as Jade-4U seductively beckons, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" The rest of the album is a collection of singles remixed by some of electronic music's biggest superstars, including KMFDM, Luc Van Acker, Joey Beltram, Frankie Bones, and Richie Hawtin, a.k.a. Plastikman. The songs are clearly remixed into each artists' signature sound (ranging from industrial to Detroit techno), but most are too heady, sapping the bump-and-grind oomph from the originals. And none of the tracks are representative of the remixers' best work. Lords of Acid arbiters will be underwhelmed. --Beth Massa

Tracks:

Am I Sexy
Lover "Cake Mix"--KMFDM
Rough Sex "The All Night Grinder" Mix --Critter
Crablouse "Super Scratcher with a Golden Shower Rainbow" Mix --Luc "Raid" Van Acker
As I Am
Who Do You Think You Are?
I Sit On Acid "Mickey Blotter" Mix --"Big Boy" Carl S. Johansen
Pussy "Pussymphony" II --Chris Vrenna
Let's Get High "Reach Out and Touch The Sky" Mix--Rob Swift
Spank My Booty "Paddles and Whipped Cream" Mix --Tipsy
Rubber Doll "Pucker Up Sweetie and Blow Me Up Gently" Mix --Jamie Myerson
Marijuana In Your Brain "Dope Smokin" Mix --Robbie Hardkiss
Rough Sex "Whip" Mix --Joey Beltram
I Sit On Acid "Satan on the 'Cibes" Mix --God Lives Underwater
Rubber Doll "Do You Mind If We Dance Wif Yo Dates?" Mix --Frankie Bones
I Must Increase My Bust "Detroit Hardcore" Mix --Richie Hawtin
Bonus Track

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Including 4 new songs and 13 remixes, Expand Your Head slices, dices, and reassembles the Lords of Acid's X-rated techno-raunch into a towering stack of dance-floor trends. Opening with the new "Am I Sexy," the Lords follow suit à la the campy big beat of Dimitri from Paris. Newbie number two, "As I Am," is standard-issue rave-alert acid house, while "Who Do You Think You Are," with its lyrically colorless rap screamed above industrial guitars, is a toss off (ahem). The last new song on the disc, and the album's shining moment, is the hidden 17th track, a righteously down-and-dirty rendition of Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade." Here, the Lords are in their element creating heavy, electrifying waterbed rhythms as Jade-4U seductively beckons, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" The rest of the album is a collection of singles remixed by some of electronic music's biggest superstars, including KMFDM, Luc Van Acker, Joey Beltram, Frankie Bones, and Richie Hawtin, a.k.a. Plastikman. The songs are clearly remixed into each artists' signature sound (ranging from industrial to Detroit techno), but most are too heady, sapping the bump-and-grind oomph from the originals. And none of the tracks are representative of the remixers' best work. Lords of Acid arbiters will be underwhelmed. --Beth Massa

Customer Reviews:

remixing the mixed up.......2007-06-13

This is a decent remix album, not the greatest but O.K. Some of the mixes you can find on the singles, but all in all it's good. Try not to pay more than $10 for it though. It's a nice little dance album but nothing too special. The bonus track at the end though( a cover of "Lady Marmalade") is pretty cool.

Awesome remixes.......2003-04-23

Favorite track is spank my booty "paddles and whip cream remix". a must have for all acid fans.

Fun to listen to.......2001-04-29

First of all, if I could have given it 4.5 stars, I would have, but it just barely falls short of 5. Anyways, that said, Expand Your head is a really fun album to listen to. Don't buy it looking for profound lyrics or thought provoking sounds. Do buy it if you just wanna listen to some mindless music with a fun beat and some raunchy lyrics. It's sure to stick in your head for a while after listening to it. My personal favorite is track 1, Am I Sexy

Almost there, but not quite.......2001-01-13

I love the Lords Of Acid and all of their past remixes. I realize that this is an acquired taste of music, but the new mixes on this CD are just forced. It is as if they have ran out of cool ideas. The Praga Khan addition included with this CD is great. I really enjoyed some of the new stuff he included on it. Lords Of Acid is taking classic songs, such as their famous Pussy song, and just ruining them. Remixes are cool, as long as they are unique and keep some of the original music. They need to get some new mixes going on.

I would give it 5 stars but................2000-10-20

I love the Lords and have all their stuff, but this cd really disappointed me. I do like some of the songs, but not too many. The bonus track is definitely the best and I am VERY surpised I haven't heard it on the radio. If you are going to buy your first LOA cd, do not make it this one. Get Lust or Voodoo-u first. Those are the best of them all. Then you can get this one after you see what the Lords really can do!