| 1. Machine Gun |
| 2. Young Girls Are My Weakness |
| 3. I Feel Sanctified |
| 4. Bump |
| 5. Rapid Fire |
| 6. Assembly Line |
| 7. Zoo (The Human Zoo) |
| 8. Gonna Blow Your Mind |
| 9. There's a Song in My Heart |
| 10. Superman |
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Unavailable in the U.S. this is the legendary Motown soul group's 1974 album, one of their earliest from when Lionel Richie was their lead vocalist. 10 tracks, including their very first U.S. top 100 single, the top 30 hit 'Machine Gun', plus 'I Feel Sanctified'. 1998.
This album is perfect and I love it to death. One of the great ones, this is.
It's undoubtedly their most consistent album, and every song is worthy of inclusion on a greatest hits compilation. At the best, The Damned were wonderful, with songs such as Plan 9 Channel 7, I Just Can't Be Happy Today, Smash it up and Love Song as the standout tracks. Anti-Pope and Noise Noise Noise will appeal to fans of the first two albums, but as a whole, Machine Gun Etiquette sounds very different to anything they'd done before.
If you're a punk fan, or a fan of The Damned, then buy it - you won't be disappointed.
Is the music here unusual? Quite. But the question must be asked why anyone would sit around and just listen to it. This stuff belongs in a movie. Unlike many other Morricone compositions, the pieces here do not fit with any kind of mood you might have except that generated while you are watching a film.
I know a lot of folks with broad musical tastes, but I don't know of anyone who would listen to this CD just for pleasure or even for background music unless one was operating a commercial haunted house or having some kind of themed party. There's too much other better Morricone music out there!
I like Ennio Morricone and I am sure these pieces fit in the contexts for which they were intended, but I could have gone on quite happily without ever having heard Crime and Dissonance.
Ennio Morricone was a terrific experimental composer. This music is Wierd.
Cons:
Kind of wierd combination of songs.. a lot of them don't feel like they should be on the same album.
Morricone is the master. But this collection misrepresents his genius.
I guess the Dissonance part in the title excuses all.
First off, I will state that I listen to a lot of different music but really like industrial music, more so, I like techno pop and heavy metal so in my eyes, industrial music is the perfect blend.
Second, I will state that I don't care much for death metal, some is ok but it is- for the most part, kind of lame.
Enough of my personal opinions.
This is the first SMG album I have purchased and was solely because of the strong positive reviews listed on this website (10 years after its release!!!). I can honestly say it was a bit hard to muster at first -- the music structure is very good -- complex but yet simple enough that it doesn't build an overwhelming pressure when listening for extended periods but the vocals leave you listening harder than I want. I still don't understand what he is saying for 75% of the vocals, even after listening to it close to 50 times. This is really the only negative, but it isn't really though because the music structure is soooooo strong, that you don't need to understand more than the chorus and a few versus here and there in order to enjoy it. I don't really think it is a dark cd, its very light and arid but is a very strong sound. Not strong in a Pantera way, more strong in a NIN type of way -- very textured and very driving. I can listen to this cd over and over again for days on end and still enjoy it.
I purchased this album at the same time that I purchased Machines of Loving Grace's Concentration; If I were to do it again, I would've bought 2 different SMG cd's and skipped the MLG...
And this is also the place where Randall started to solidify the vocals he would begin to use like a powertool.
When listening to Torture Technique, my first inclanation is to skip to Negative because I really like that song. It has been a track that withstood the years, it standing apart as a clean song both in vocals and in sound, and actually reflecting quality way beyond when the CD was pressed. A lot of earlier Wax Trax albums have problems with quality reflecting age, but songs like Negative prove that some defy the medium of years. "My mind remembers who I was when my conscience died. So negative." That's good stuff.
I normally make a B-line for "Cocaine Jesus" afterwards because I like the contrast in the song and because I like the message of the time. It is a minimal song with a reverb effect kicking the vocals into a blurry liquidity, like static in the audio pond, and I think it highlights the lyrics pretty well. "I'm so f-ed up, I don't know my own name. You'd think I'd learn by now that its always the same. Cocaine Jesus." Yeah.
My motion through the tracks then parks me on Nothing, again contrasting the previous two tracks because it has a little more beat than the second, more guitar than the first, and a rawer form of lyrical grey matter. Its something of an angry song, screaming "I want to go down, but I know that I'm nothing," and I enjoy it. It's kinda like that kid that you had with your former wife and you only have to see on weekends, so you enjoy it whenever you see it. Its fun to revisit.
And "Iron Sun" is possibly my favorite track on the album, because I like the way it builds, the noise it uses when it blurs the vocals as it loops them into a stream that finally comes together, and because I like the whole concept that begins to play out in the album here.
From the interior label (a snippet): "Placing his faith in sister machine gun and brother bomb, (he) is allowed back into the womb, back into the darkness - to return to the ultimate refutation of thinghood -to be non-nothing... To be nothing."
This wants you. You want it back.
By: C. Curry
Let's describe all the songs since the music sample is often deceptive for this CD. "The Big Gundown" aims for creepy. There are ominous piano chords, dissonant noises, and screams. The music resolves somewhat when a Brazilian percussion section begins, and ends with some Rawhide-esque "ha"'s. "Peur Sur La Ville" is built around an unsettling piano figure and noises. It has a unconventional free-jazz aura to it. "Poverty" is a quiet song based on Toots Thielman's whistling. "Milano Odeo" is a catchy, almost rock-n-roll song taken at a brisk pace. As the song goes on, the keyboards get more unsettling and the guitar gets noisier. "Erotico" has bluesy organ, and Bill Frisell's most romantic electric guitar (in an '80's way) paired with female vocalizations. "Battle Of Algiers" might be my favorite (maybe just because of the represented movies I've seen it's my favorite). Wayne Horvitz pounds out the tense piano line while sounds effects explode in the background. "Giu La Testa" has a slow build for about four minutes, then there's a plucking, walking part to take the song out. "Metamorfosi" is a good song to play when you want guests to leave, Diamanda Galas screams on top of tribal drums. "Tre Nel 5000" is credited to Zorn as a composer. To me, it sounds like a 4 1/2 minute dose of ambient noise. "Once Upon A Time In The West" starts quietly and deliberately, with feedback swelling and decaying. Robert Quine and Jody Harris play their guitars otherwise very minimalistically (not minimally, the feedback is constant). That ends the 1985 section of the CD.
The 2000 section uses an updated cast of players. "The Sicilian Clan" is familiar from the "Naked City" CD, though the instrumentation is more acoustic, and Cyro Baptista adds "western movie" percussion. "Macchie Solari" is another unsettling song. It ends in a fit of crashing piano chords and screams. "The Ballad Of Hank McCain" teams Mike Patton's heroic baritone with Jamie Saft's organ and Baptista's background congas. It's one of the more accessible songs, I wonder what it would sound like with a fuller band. The later instrumental version sounds about the same except, of course, without singing. "Svegliatti And Uccidi", with Marc Ribot and Derek Bailey on guitar-mangling duties, is a skronky blow-out. "Chi Mai", with the same musicians as "The Sicilian Clan", has a pretty melody and gentle music.
Some of these songs are very cool and original, others I can go without. Since it's a mixed bag I give it three stars. Zorn is certainly an original, and fans will want to make sure they have this one.
I think in many ways, the opener and title track best illustrates the aesthetic on the record, if you don't like that one, you'll probably not care for the rest of it-- it covers a number of moods, being dark, haunting, theatrical, explosive and esoteric, sometimes all at once. This sort of theatrical mood extends across a number of songs, the haunting circular piano and percussion workout "Peur Sur la Ville" (with a blazing alto sax solo from Tim Berne), an the dark electric guitar workout take of "Once Upon a Time in the West", reduced a funereal pace.
But there are also many moments of delicate beauty as well-- take for instance "Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America)", with an unusual instrumentation of whistling, harmonica (both handled by Toots Theilman), harp and accordian. Particularly when the harmonica takes the melody, the support swells and embraces and holds on, expressing pain and loss and fear for the future. Or consider the brooding and yet someone still light "Giu la Testa (Duck You Sucker!)", building anticipation through its dark motifs and bizarre instrumentation (among others, the Japanese shamisen, english horn, acoustic guitar, gamecalls and keyboards).
The bonus tracks are no less essential-- Zorn brought in about everyone he played with for the originals, these were a chance to catch up. The amazing thing about Zorn is that as an arranger, he's lost none of his flair in the intervening years, in fact, he may have even gotten better. Zorn uses his "Bar Kokhba" sextet (the Masada String Trio augmented by guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Joey Baron and percussionist Cyro Baptista) to great effect on breathtaking arrangements of "The Sicilian Clan" and "Chi Mai", and adds another great guitar workout feature with Ribot and Derek Bailey in a noisy, disjoint take of "Sveggliatti and Uccidi", but its Mike Patton's Tom growl on "The Ballad of Hank McCain" that is the gem of the material-- stunning delivery that really captures something special (and may be the best vocal Patton has ever done) over a delicate organ (Jamie Saft) and percussion (Baptista) backdrop that matches and perhaps outstrips the best of the original material.
This is essential music for Zorn fans, if you're not, this may well be a good place to start-- the music can be difficult, and it covers a ton of moods, but there is a lot to hear. Highly recommended.
On [R]evolution, Sister Machine Gun had quite a few songs worth mentioning herein but they hit a reviewing wall because they stepped back from some of the techno-elements they're known for. They still kept the electronics, sure, but this seemed to stray more into electronic-jazz than the former releases did. Randall has always provided that anyhow, but this era of SMG strayed more and more into jazz and blues - as the side-project Micronaut showcased.
Transient One (nice, slow beat with solid - somewhat muffled vocals), Got To Be (slow, with an angry heartbeat), Closer Than Me (heavily showcasing a LOT of Jazz elements), Strange (saxaphone!), and Wrong (piano and symbol driven) are all a lot slower than previous works have been leading up to, and that's good stuff. A lot of Randall's strongest work is when he does something with regard to hurting or wanting, and these songs showcase that art. I'm really fond of Wrong because it has a cold sense in such a nice looking wrapper, with proclamations of "I've known you all along" oozing out of the lyrics. I'm also fond of "Got to Be" because I like the way Randall sounds when he does songs of that nature, almost blueprints for his vocals, and I love the sound of Transient One for the same reasons. Still, all these songs take a backseat to Vibrator. If Randall does slower themes well, then he does sensual even better and this song is probably the best of the album with regard to that. Its sexy and somewhat sultry, proclaiming that he "wants you tonight."
On the other side of the spectrum, Smash Your Radio! is one of around three "driven" songs on the album, giving the angst it has freely while spitting the may of mainstream music. The message was entertaining too, and shows how Randall really didn't like his moments in the spotlight. "It's a revolution, brothers and sisters." It just wasn't the revolution a lot of people were expecting.
heavy funk band who debut with this album,containing two fine
instrumentals in the hit title song and "Rapid Fire".The quircky
"Zoo (The Human Zoo)" points to the bands good sence of humor.
Further more this album contains no ballads at all and is filled
with sweaty horns,yoweling vocals from Lionel Riche and alot
of staccato clavinet spats!But BOY do times change!
MACHINE GUN was the group's second album on Motown (their first one was recorded in '72 but never released), and signaled that this group was an important force to be reckoned with. Featuring the amazing keyboard wizardry of Milan Williams, this album kicks off with the title cut and grabs you from start to finish! The three lead vocalists' voices (that's right, not just Lionel's) are wonderfully soulful and earthy, especially drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange's voice!! That brotha, all 5'4" of him, is SOUL PERSONIFIED!! Lionel did go on to become the most famous of all the Commodores, but Clyde was the FUNKIEST by far.
I especially loved "Gonna Blow Your Mind", "The Bump", "Young Girls Are My Weakness", "I Feel Sanctified" and "The Assembly Line" (the last of which has been sampled by hip-hoppers time and time again, and musically similar to a later tune that Lionel Richie wrote on his own, the popular "This Is Your Life"). Lots of syntheziers and horns (courtesy of Lionel on alto sax and William King on trumpet) drive this CD and you'd never guess back then that these guys could come funkier than this...but they did, even more so because their follow up album to this, CAUGHT IN THE ACT, is even better!
Pick this up today and believe me when I say, the mighty, mighty Commodores existed long before "Brick House", "Three Times A Lady" and "Still" and why they will always be a funk band first and foremost in my book. This CD is living proof! Get it!
This is important information, and wildly entertaining as well. Jello's never dry and often comes off like a standup comedian.
Unavailable in the U.S. this is the legendary Motown soul group's 1974 album, one of their earliest from when Lionel Richie was their lead vocalist. 10 tracks, including their very first U.S. top 100 single, the top 30 hit 'Machine Gun', plus 'I Feel Sanctified'. 1998.
Machine Gun,The Commodores,Universal Int'l,Funk,Pop,R&B,R&B/Soul,Soul,Soul/R & B
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Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned Manufacturer: Chiswick ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B0006332YC Release Date: 2004-11-15 |
Tracks:
- Love Song
- Machine Gun Etiquette
- I Just Can't Be Happy Today
- Melody Lee
- Anti-Pope
- These Hands
- Plan 9 Channel 7
- Noise, Noise, Noise
- Looking At You
- Liar
- Smash It Up (Parts 1 And 2)
- Love Song (Ed Hollis Version)
- Noise, Noise, Noise (Ed Hollis Version)
- Suicide
- Smash It Up (Part 2) (Backing Track - Singalonga Damned)
- Smash It Up (Part 4)
- Burglar
- I Just Can't Be Happy Today (DJ Edit)
- Ballroom Waltz
- Turkey Song
Product Description
1. Love Song
2. Machine Gun Etiquette
3. I Just Can't Be Happy Today
4. Melody Lee
5. Anti-Pope
6. These Hands
7. Plan 9 Channel 7
8. Noise, Noise, Noise
9. Looking At You
10. Liar
11. Smash It Up Parts 1 & 2
12. Love Song
13. Noise, Noise, Noise
14. Suicide
15. Smash It Up Part 2
16. Smash It Up Part 4
17. Burglar
18. I Just Can't Be Happy Today (DJ Edit)
19. Ballroom Blitz
20. Turkey Song
21. Plan 9, Channel 7
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Customer Reviews:
Perfect.......2007-05-17
This album is perfect and I love it to death. One of the great ones, this is.
Machine Gun Etiquette.......2007-02-23
Possibly the best punk album ever!.......2006-12-16
Overall an excellent album.......2006-05-18
One of the best punk albums ever.......2006-03-20
It's undoubtedly their most consistent album, and every song is worthy of inclusion on a greatest hits compilation. At the best, The Damned were wonderful, with songs such as Plan 9 Channel 7, I Just Can't Be Happy Today, Smash it up and Love Song as the standout tracks. Anti-Pope and Noise Noise Noise will appeal to fans of the first two albums, but as a whole, Machine Gun Etiquette sounds very different to anything they'd done before.
If you're a punk fan, or a fan of The Damned, then buy it - you won't be disappointed.
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Metropolis
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ASIN: B000003RHJ Release Date: 1997-07-15 |
Tracks:
- This Metal Sky
- Desperation
- Temptation
- Think
- Living Without You
- Torque
- White Lightning
- Everything
- What Do You Want From Me
- Admit
- Bitter End
- Cut Down
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Sister Machine Gun - 'Metropolis' (TVT).......2006-01-13
S.M.G's "lost album".......2002-08-14
Diverse!.......2001-06-19
I love this CD. There is some noisy guitar, electro beats, strong independent bass rhythms, just the right electronics, strings in some places. I eagerly anticipate the next album, hoping this diversity shines through on it as well.
Explosive release is a new road for Sister Machine Gun!.......2000-05-25
But on METROPOLIS that is all different. Though still heavy with electronics the addition of some horns and most impressively, slide guitar makes this sound as alive as a first date.
The impressive opening spoken word track THIS METAL SKY (spoken by Randall's wife) sets the tone for the rest of the piece. Though far from a concept album the work does have a theme of humanity overcoming the "industrialization" of the culture. You know emotion over machine, love conquers all, that sort of thing.
Though easily available, WAX TRAX! Didn't really support this album enough and left the gang to flounder out on the road on their own. Subsequently they left WAX TRAX! for greener pastures. I caught them opening for TYPE-O-NEGATIVE and found the stripped down live sound to be even more exciting. I sincerely hope a live album is under consideration. This was easily one of the best releases in 97, which was a great year for this type of music anyway.
The final chapter in music.......1999-07-30
The pinnacle of the album has to be "Admit." With it's string-and-piano rhythm, it's the most obvious example of music's true potential.
The only bad thing about this album? It ended long before i wanted it to.
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Crime and Dissonance
Manufacturer: Ipecac Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Italy
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ASIN: B000AA4LLO Release Date: 2005-11-29 |
Tracks:
- Girono Di Notte
- Astratto 3
- Corsa Sui Tetti
- Ric Happenning
- Memento Riereazione Diverdita
- Studio Di Colore
- Forza G
- Placcaggio
- Seuita
- Postludio Alla Terza Moglia
- L'uccello Dalle Piume
- II Buio
- Raprimento In Campo Aperto
- De Fotografie
- Bambola
- Minna Nanna Per adulteri
- Astrazione
Tracks:
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- Sensi
- Gil Intoccabili
- Fondante Paure
- L'Attento - Version 1
- Fumerie' d'Opium
- 1970
- Esplicitamente Sospeso
- Squenz 10
- Paura e Aggrellione
- Folle Folle
- Un Uomo Da Rispettare
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Finally, the listening public is treated to a Morricone compilation that focuses on his more daring, outre, and lesser known score music. Nothing against his better-known spaghetti western soundtrack work; there is a reason after all that stuff is so well known, because it's fantastic and wholly original. But did you know the dude scored more films than any other composer (over 500), that his discography is twice that of Sun Ra, that he made amazing psychedelia and crazy funk and subtle experimental music? Assembled by the brilliant musician/ musical curator Alan Bishop for Mike Patton's Ipecac label with liner notes by John Zorn, the aptly titled Crime and Dissonance is culled from extremely rare releases from the early `70s. It's strange stuff, but very enjoyable and easily among the finest and most necessary reissues of the entire year. --Mike McGonigalCustomer Reviews:
What's Essential About This?.......2007-04-21
Is the music here unusual? Quite. But the question must be asked why anyone would sit around and just listen to it. This stuff belongs in a movie. Unlike many other Morricone compositions, the pieces here do not fit with any kind of mood you might have except that generated while you are watching a film.
I know a lot of folks with broad musical tastes, but I don't know of anyone who would listen to this CD just for pleasure or even for background music unless one was operating a commercial haunted house or having some kind of themed party. There's too much other better Morricone music out there!
I like Ennio Morricone and I am sure these pieces fit in the contexts for which they were intended, but I could have gone on quite happily without ever having heard Crime and Dissonance.
Pros and Cons.........2006-03-10
Ennio Morricone was a terrific experimental composer. This music is Wierd.
Cons:
Kind of wierd combination of songs.. a lot of them don't feel like they should be on the same album.
Love Morricone, hate this collection.......2006-01-08
Morricone is the master. But this collection misrepresents his genius.
I guess the Dissonance part in the title excuses all.
Essential Morricone.......2005-12-20
Another Morriconne Collection.......2005-12-14
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The Torture Technique
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ASIN: B000003RG7 Release Date: 1994-03-15 |
Tracks:
- Salvation
- Sacrifice
- Negative
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- Cocaine Jesus
- Wired
- Brother Bomb
- Nothing
- Torture Technique
- Iron Sun
- Heaven
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This is good stuff.......2005-11-09
First off, I will state that I listen to a lot of different music but really like industrial music, more so, I like techno pop and heavy metal so in my eyes, industrial music is the perfect blend.
Second, I will state that I don't care much for death metal, some is ok but it is- for the most part, kind of lame.
Enough of my personal opinions.
This is the first SMG album I have purchased and was solely because of the strong positive reviews listed on this website (10 years after its release!!!). I can honestly say it was a bit hard to muster at first -- the music structure is very good -- complex but yet simple enough that it doesn't build an overwhelming pressure when listening for extended periods but the vocals leave you listening harder than I want. I still don't understand what he is saying for 75% of the vocals, even after listening to it close to 50 times. This is really the only negative, but it isn't really though because the music structure is soooooo strong, that you don't need to understand more than the chorus and a few versus here and there in order to enjoy it. I don't really think it is a dark cd, its very light and arid but is a very strong sound. Not strong in a Pantera way, more strong in a NIN type of way -- very textured and very driving. I can listen to this cd over and over again for days on end and still enjoy it.
I purchased this album at the same time that I purchased Machines of Loving Grace's Concentration; If I were to do it again, I would've bought 2 different SMG cd's and skipped the MLG...
I Wanna Feel Like God - Whatever Gets me Through the Night. .......2005-02-25
And this is also the place where Randall started to solidify the vocals he would begin to use like a powertool.
When listening to Torture Technique, my first inclanation is to skip to Negative because I really like that song. It has been a track that withstood the years, it standing apart as a clean song both in vocals and in sound, and actually reflecting quality way beyond when the CD was pressed. A lot of earlier Wax Trax albums have problems with quality reflecting age, but songs like Negative prove that some defy the medium of years. "My mind remembers who I was when my conscience died. So negative." That's good stuff.
I normally make a B-line for "Cocaine Jesus" afterwards because I like the contrast in the song and because I like the message of the time. It is a minimal song with a reverb effect kicking the vocals into a blurry liquidity, like static in the audio pond, and I think it highlights the lyrics pretty well. "I'm so f-ed up, I don't know my own name. You'd think I'd learn by now that its always the same. Cocaine Jesus." Yeah.
My motion through the tracks then parks me on Nothing, again contrasting the previous two tracks because it has a little more beat than the second, more guitar than the first, and a rawer form of lyrical grey matter. Its something of an angry song, screaming "I want to go down, but I know that I'm nothing," and I enjoy it. It's kinda like that kid that you had with your former wife and you only have to see on weekends, so you enjoy it whenever you see it. Its fun to revisit.
And "Iron Sun" is possibly my favorite track on the album, because I like the way it builds, the noise it uses when it blurs the vocals as it loops them into a stream that finally comes together, and because I like the whole concept that begins to play out in the album here.
From the interior label (a snippet): "Placing his faith in sister machine gun and brother bomb, (he) is allowed back into the womb, back into the darkness - to return to the ultimate refutation of thinghood -to be non-nothing... To be nothing."
This wants you. You want it back.
Krackhead!!.......2002-05-14
Experimental Industrial at it's best!.......1999-03-12
funky classic WaxTrax-style industrial at it's best.......1999-03-10
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Influence
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ASIN: B000127SLQ Release Date: 2003-11-28 |
Tracks:
- To Hell With You
- Another One Down
- Influence
- Clean
- The Death Of Me
- Everything Else
- Motivator
- Entropy
- Everybody
- Denial
- Antagonizer Prelude
- The Antagonizer
Album Description
Sister Machine Gun's seventh full-length album is a tour-de-force of electronic rock that recalls the industrial sound of the late eighties and early nineties. Heavy beats, distorted guitars and pounding synth lines drag your favorite sounds, kicking and screaming into the future!Customer Reviews:
Groovy.......2004-10-04
By: C. Curry
Pretty good.......2004-04-29
Music that's food for your ears!.......2004-01-19
This newest CD from the Chicago band has all the elements of their roots, and aims to please the listener, and I am more than pleased with the results.
I have watched this group expand their horizons to grab new fans and also to grab your attention the second the first song off this cd starts, "To Hell With You" all the way through to the last one, "The Antagonizer". It's all non-stop. I find it difficult to listen to this without getting my body into the groove, can you?
From singer and musician, Chris Randall's sensual voice , to Miguel Turanzas, wow, now THIS is SMG. This cd will definitely make you want more.
You're always welcomed at http://www.sistermachinegun.com. Don't be shy, stop by sometime.
Buy this album.......2003-12-25
Old School Meets New.......2003-12-24
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The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
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ASIN: B00004W3KY Release Date: 2000-08-22 |
Tracks:
- The Big Gundown
- Peur Sur La Ville
- Poverty (Once Upon A Time In America)
- Milano Odea
- Erotico (The Burglars)
- Battle Of Algiers
- Giu La Testa (Duck You Sucker!)
- Metamorfosi (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso)
- Tre Nel 5000
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- The Sicilian Clan
- Macchie Solari
- The Ballad Of Hank McCain (Vocal)
- Svegliatti & Uccidi
- Chi Mai
- The Ballad Of Hank McCain (Instrumental)
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As if John Zorn's super-creative take on film composer Ennio Morricone weren't essential in its first iteration on Nonesuch Records, Zorn is celebrating the album's 15th anniversary with an updated, remastered version. The darker lows and brighter highs make this Gundown clearly superior--with its original cast of characters (Bill Frisell, Arto Lindsay, Diamanda Galas, and many more) sounding alternately darker, sultrier, and more cinematic than ever. Zorn's reticence to record the original album's 10 pieces looks altogether unreasonable, as his genius for adding color and dimension to Morricone's tunes shows profusely. To make this an even better deal, there are six new bonus tracks that feature Marc Ribot as part of an ad hoc string quartet on "The Sicilian Clan" and "Chi Mai," and as sparring partner with British avant guitar god Derek Bailey on the roaring "Svegliatti and Uccidi." This one's magnificently important. --Andrew BartlettCustomer Reviews:
Lots of variety.......2007-06-10
Let's describe all the songs since the music sample is often deceptive for this CD. "The Big Gundown" aims for creepy. There are ominous piano chords, dissonant noises, and screams. The music resolves somewhat when a Brazilian percussion section begins, and ends with some Rawhide-esque "ha"'s. "Peur Sur La Ville" is built around an unsettling piano figure and noises. It has a unconventional free-jazz aura to it. "Poverty" is a quiet song based on Toots Thielman's whistling. "Milano Odeo" is a catchy, almost rock-n-roll song taken at a brisk pace. As the song goes on, the keyboards get more unsettling and the guitar gets noisier. "Erotico" has bluesy organ, and Bill Frisell's most romantic electric guitar (in an '80's way) paired with female vocalizations. "Battle Of Algiers" might be my favorite (maybe just because of the represented movies I've seen it's my favorite). Wayne Horvitz pounds out the tense piano line while sounds effects explode in the background. "Giu La Testa" has a slow build for about four minutes, then there's a plucking, walking part to take the song out. "Metamorfosi" is a good song to play when you want guests to leave, Diamanda Galas screams on top of tribal drums. "Tre Nel 5000" is credited to Zorn as a composer. To me, it sounds like a 4 1/2 minute dose of ambient noise. "Once Upon A Time In The West" starts quietly and deliberately, with feedback swelling and decaying. Robert Quine and Jody Harris play their guitars otherwise very minimalistically (not minimally, the feedback is constant). That ends the 1985 section of the CD.
The 2000 section uses an updated cast of players. "The Sicilian Clan" is familiar from the "Naked City" CD, though the instrumentation is more acoustic, and Cyro Baptista adds "western movie" percussion. "Macchie Solari" is another unsettling song. It ends in a fit of crashing piano chords and screams. "The Ballad Of Hank McCain" teams Mike Patton's heroic baritone with Jamie Saft's organ and Baptista's background congas. It's one of the more accessible songs, I wonder what it would sound like with a fuller band. The later instrumental version sounds about the same except, of course, without singing. "Svegliatti And Uccidi", with Marc Ribot and Derek Bailey on guitar-mangling duties, is a skronky blow-out. "Chi Mai", with the same musicians as "The Sicilian Clan", has a pretty melody and gentle music.
Some of these songs are very cool and original, others I can go without. Since it's a mixed bag I give it three stars. Zorn is certainly an original, and fans will want to make sure they have this one.
Zorn's first masterpiece.......2005-04-30
I think in many ways, the opener and title track best illustrates the aesthetic on the record, if you don't like that one, you'll probably not care for the rest of it-- it covers a number of moods, being dark, haunting, theatrical, explosive and esoteric, sometimes all at once. This sort of theatrical mood extends across a number of songs, the haunting circular piano and percussion workout "Peur Sur la Ville" (with a blazing alto sax solo from Tim Berne), an the dark electric guitar workout take of "Once Upon a Time in the West", reduced a funereal pace.
But there are also many moments of delicate beauty as well-- take for instance "Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America)", with an unusual instrumentation of whistling, harmonica (both handled by Toots Theilman), harp and accordian. Particularly when the harmonica takes the melody, the support swells and embraces and holds on, expressing pain and loss and fear for the future. Or consider the brooding and yet someone still light "Giu la Testa (Duck You Sucker!)", building anticipation through its dark motifs and bizarre instrumentation (among others, the Japanese shamisen, english horn, acoustic guitar, gamecalls and keyboards).
The bonus tracks are no less essential-- Zorn brought in about everyone he played with for the originals, these were a chance to catch up. The amazing thing about Zorn is that as an arranger, he's lost none of his flair in the intervening years, in fact, he may have even gotten better. Zorn uses his "Bar Kokhba" sextet (the Masada String Trio augmented by guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Joey Baron and percussionist Cyro Baptista) to great effect on breathtaking arrangements of "The Sicilian Clan" and "Chi Mai", and adds another great guitar workout feature with Ribot and Derek Bailey in a noisy, disjoint take of "Sveggliatti and Uccidi", but its Mike Patton's Tom growl on "The Ballad of Hank McCain" that is the gem of the material-- stunning delivery that really captures something special (and may be the best vocal Patton has ever done) over a delicate organ (Jamie Saft) and percussion (Baptista) backdrop that matches and perhaps outstrips the best of the original material.
This is essential music for Zorn fans, if you're not, this may well be a good place to start-- the music can be difficult, and it covers a ton of moods, but there is a lot to hear. Highly recommended.
Definitely a must-have Zorn album!.......2004-04-27
This is on my must-have list for Zorn albums.
This is the first major Zorn album.......2003-03-15
The result is CD that's all over the place, ranging from beautiful to ugly, from very complex to painfully simple. "Chi Mai," for example is a song you'll listen to over and over. It never gets old. But then there's "Metamorfosi," in which a woman howls and screams over the sound of slowly pounding drums.
Yes, better than the original.......2002-08-14
Morricone fans, you should give this a try too! This will challenge your ears and your notions of one of your favorites, and that's a good thing. Zorn is always true both to the themes from the movies and the context of those movies, which is the most remarkable thing. But for those only used to straight renditions of the music, this CD will shock, because the music is put through a cut-and-paste technique that owes much to cartoon music, and a recontextualization that owes is all to a free-improvisation aesthetic. Don't let those ears and minds get flaccid, folks!
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Revolution
Sister Machine Gun Manufacturer: Positron ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00000J7QW Release Date: 1999-06-15 |
Tracks:
- Libertad
- Carbon Copy
- Got To Be
- Smash Your Radio!
- Transient One
- Transient Two
- Closer To Me
- Wrong
- Vibrator
- Autoloader
- Strange
- Bring Your Down [Take You Higher]
Album Description
Sister Machine Gun was started in 1990 by Chris Randall. He made one record for Wax Trax!, three for Wax Trax!/TVT, and one for himself. They're all pretty good, if you like that sort of thing. All of his records would certainly go under the heading of "critically acclaimed", but other than that, it's hard to pin a style on the music, which sounds like a strange cross between The The, Nine Inch Nails, and the Rockit-era Herbie Hancock. We prefer to call it "neo-industrial-dada-funk", but you're free to call it whatever you like. Sister Machine Gun's fifth album, [R]evolution, is independent recording at it's finest - everything a band can be when it has full control over it's own destiny. Recorded over most of 1998, the record was released to the SMG fan club in April of 1999, and to the general public in May of 1999.Customer Reviews:
I Feel a Little Strange now, I Feel a Bit Insane..........2005-02-25
On [R]evolution, Sister Machine Gun had quite a few songs worth mentioning herein but they hit a reviewing wall because they stepped back from some of the techno-elements they're known for. They still kept the electronics, sure, but this seemed to stray more into electronic-jazz than the former releases did. Randall has always provided that anyhow, but this era of SMG strayed more and more into jazz and blues - as the side-project Micronaut showcased.
Transient One (nice, slow beat with solid - somewhat muffled vocals), Got To Be (slow, with an angry heartbeat), Closer Than Me (heavily showcasing a LOT of Jazz elements), Strange (saxaphone!), and Wrong (piano and symbol driven) are all a lot slower than previous works have been leading up to, and that's good stuff. A lot of Randall's strongest work is when he does something with regard to hurting or wanting, and these songs showcase that art. I'm really fond of Wrong because it has a cold sense in such a nice looking wrapper, with proclamations of "I've known you all along" oozing out of the lyrics. I'm also fond of "Got to Be" because I like the way Randall sounds when he does songs of that nature, almost blueprints for his vocals, and I love the sound of Transient One for the same reasons. Still, all these songs take a backseat to Vibrator. If Randall does slower themes well, then he does sensual even better and this song is probably the best of the album with regard to that. Its sexy and somewhat sultry, proclaiming that he "wants you tonight."
On the other side of the spectrum, Smash Your Radio! is one of around three "driven" songs on the album, giving the angst it has freely while spitting the may of mainstream music. The message was entertaining too, and shows how Randall really didn't like his moments in the spotlight. "It's a revolution, brothers and sisters." It just wasn't the revolution a lot of people were expecting.
Diverse music hits the spot.......2000-05-11
He has gone further into that groove on (R)Evolution. There are the standard rock heavy tunes like SMASH YOUR RADIO and CARBON COPY, but soon there after his interest in blues, jazz and even a little funk creep in and really begin to influence the music, and for the better I might add.
If you want music that stays in one very particular corner, never venturering to break its reigns then go elsewhere. But if you brave, soulful industrial rock, then SISTER MACHINE GUN is your ticket to ride.
Loses steam part way through...........2000-03-19
Decent but not their best.......2000-01-22
A fine peice of work for Mr. Randall.......1999-10-05
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Machine Gun
The Commodores Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0000243X7 Release Date: 2002-07-22 |
Tracks:
- Machine Gun
- Young Girls Are My Weakness
- I Feel Sanctified
- Bump
- Rapid Fire
- Assembly Line
- Zoo (The Human Zoo)
- Gonna Blow Your Mind
- There's a Song in My Heart
- Superman
Album Description
Unavailable in the U.S. this is the legendary Motown soul group's 1974 album, one of their earliest from when Lionel Richie was their lead vocalist. 10 tracks, including their very first U.S. top 100 single, the top 30 hit 'Machine Gun', plus 'I Feel Sanctified'. 1998.Album Details
Digitally remastered reissue of their 1974 debut album.Customer Reviews:
PHEW!!(I Am Wiping The Sweat Off My Brow).......2007-06-16
Those Funky Commadores!.......2004-07-23
heavy funk band who debut with this album,containing two fine
instrumentals in the hit title song and "Rapid Fire".The quircky
"Zoo (The Human Zoo)" points to the bands good sence of humor.
Further more this album contains no ballads at all and is filled
with sweaty horns,yoweling vocals from Lionel Riche and alot
of staccato clavinet spats!But BOY do times change!
Motown's answer to EWF and the Ohio Players...........2004-05-03
MACHINE GUN was the group's second album on Motown (their first one was recorded in '72 but never released), and signaled that this group was an important force to be reckoned with. Featuring the amazing keyboard wizardry of Milan Williams, this album kicks off with the title cut and grabs you from start to finish! The three lead vocalists' voices (that's right, not just Lionel's) are wonderfully soulful and earthy, especially drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange's voice!! That brotha, all 5'4" of him, is SOUL PERSONIFIED!! Lionel did go on to become the most famous of all the Commodores, but Clyde was the FUNKIEST by far.
I especially loved "Gonna Blow Your Mind", "The Bump", "Young Girls Are My Weakness", "I Feel Sanctified" and "The Assembly Line" (the last of which has been sampled by hip-hoppers time and time again, and musically similar to a later tune that Lionel Richie wrote on his own, the popular "This Is Your Life"). Lots of syntheziers and horns (courtesy of Lionel on alto sax and William King on trumpet) drive this CD and you'd never guess back then that these guys could come funkier than this...but they did, even more so because their follow up album to this, CAUGHT IN THE ACT, is even better!
Pick this up today and believe me when I say, the mighty, mighty Commodores existed long before "Brick House", "Three Times A Lady" and "Still" and why they will always be a funk band first and foremost in my book. This CD is living proof! Get it!
This is some Phunk 4 ya!!.......2003-05-17
It's now on CD for all to hear and get down to. Keyboardist Milan Williams was the real breakout artist on this album..."Rapid fire" is one of the illest, funkiest synthesizer jams ever made. The title track was a breakthrough of early synthesizer use for it's time as well, and was the album's only actual hit at the time of it's release, despite it's later "shameful" use in the movie Boogie Nights but...I'm telling you, almost every song on this album is funky and great. "Assembly Line" has a classic breakbeat with "Ho's!" that has been sampled/scratched by untold hip hop DJ's and producers over the years...If you're any kind of Hip Hop fan you'll go "Oh Yeah, so that's where that's from!" as soon as you hear it. "Blow Your mind" is also real funky. "Superman" and "Song in my heart" is where you can hear Lionel Ritchie's earliest gospel oriented strong singing. All in all, this is a "lost classic" of sorts. Almost all the songs here have a happy funky 70's sound, yet almost none of these songs have ever made it onto any Funk or Old school compilations. Trust me, it's a great slab of 70's funk, especially "Rapid Fire"
commodores used to be funky.......2002-10-01
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Machine Gun in the Clowns Hand
Jello Biafra Manufacturer: Alternative Tentacle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Hardcore
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ASIN: B00006JID2 Release Date: 2002-11-19 |
Tracks:
- Miscue 911
- United We Scam
- Flogging The Infidels
- Honey, I Blew Up The World
- The Big Ka-Boom
- The Pied Piper And The Damage Done
- Truth Is Stranger Than Hype
- The Terror Of Tinytown
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- Machine Gun In The Clown's Hand
- The Great Betrayal
- The Martyr That Would Not Die
- Propane And Propane Accessories
- Faith Based Initiatives
- Fight Terror-Resist Corporations
- Be Patriotic - Fight The Government
- Beat Around The Burning Bush
- Fight Crime - Make Mischief
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- Cowboy Cornholio And The Sunshine State
- ...And Gore Made Us Want To Ralph
- The Rolling Blackout Revue
- 12 Steps To Corporate-Free Sobriety
- Joey Ramone
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A Must-Listen.......2004-12-29
If you consider yourself a *true* american, get this.......2004-12-15
This is important information, and wildly entertaining as well. Jello's never dry and often comes off like a standup comedian.
An important Critique of US Policy.......2004-06-21
The presentation of this material is well thought out, and Biafra has researched his arguements against the war and other dirty policies well.
This box set shows just how dangerous the current international situation is, and how equallly disturbing it is to have somebody the likes of George W. Bush in charge. In addition to this I recommend that you also purchase "I blow Minds For a Living" which is still just as pertinant today, as it was in 1989. Many of Biafra's criticisms of King George 1 are just as relevant (if not more so) to King George 2.
Muckracker and Raconteur........2004-05-10
For instance, he sidetracks from taking swipes at the Dubya pinata to recall his high school days: He had a geometry teacher whose language, like Dubya's, grew more and more garbled the more he tried to explain "angles C, A and 'Bwee!'" to his bemused class. His lectures devolved into such jibbering nonsense as: "Oober de Ahmpus Blabby Dwerp?" and "Lassie, Bottomless Negroes!" I heard this anecdote live and on CD and it is a constant source of amusement for me, my wife and my friends.
THIS is the essence of keeping a humorous spirit in times like these. Contrast this with Dubya's terminally clueless stabs at humor: The engagment where he showed a still of himself peeking under his desk and quipping, "Those WMD's have to be somewhere!" Our Prez doesn't seem to realize that self-deprecating humor doesn't work when the subject in question is GENUINELY incompetent and UNREPENANTLY rash.
Enough of him, though. Jello's "whistle-stop" speeches are informative, but have the festive atmosphere of late-night stand-up comedy. I was never attracted to the Dead Kennedys, but I'm glad that band introduced the country to this irreverent talent. His ex-bandmates should feel fortunate to have known such a venerable kidder: I heard about what you naughty little boys are doing to Biafra in the courtroom! Shame on you three! Straps to the bootie all around!
Though I am registered Democrat, I too am saddened by "my" party's weakness and the Republican's blind loyalty to the pampered child in the White House. I sympathize with the Green Party and I do NOT think they were the "spoilers" at the 2000 election. This country desperately needs a third party to challenge the Donkey party's complacency and the Elephant party's belligerence.
Finally, kudos to Biafra for acknowledging himself as a torchbearer and not an idol on a pedastal. "People come up to me and exclaim: 'OOOOOOH! YOU CHANGED MY LIFE!' Maybe... Now it's YOUR turn."
Pass me that torch, Jello m'boy. I'm ready to run a lap...
The best R&B/ Soul singer ever.......2004-01-10
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The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
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ASIN: B000S1KU2Y Release Date: 2007-08-21 |
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- Medley: Responsible/For Jan Van De Ven
- Music For Han Bennink
- Machine Gun
- Medley: Responsible/For Jan Van De Ven
- Machine Gun
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- Make It Happen/Special Occasion [Import]
- Man!: The Ultimate Isaac Hayes 1969-1977 [Import]
- Masterpiece/Song for You [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Message [Import]
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- Motown Remixed [Import]
- Never Leave You (Uh Ooh Uh Ooh!) [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
- Now! ... That's What I'm Talkin' About
- Officially Missing You [CD-single]
- Oh Pt.2 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
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Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Recorder & Flute
Way Too Long [CD-single] [Import]
Viva Italia [Box set] [Import]
The Music of Undertow [Soundtrack]