Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About [Import]

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese edition of 2000 release from alternative rock act influenced by The Cure, Bad Brains, Radiohead, Elvis Costello & Japanese Anime soundtracks. Produced by Ross Robinson (S lipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit & Soulfly). Includes one exclusive bonus track 'Modern Love Story'. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

Pretty Lush
Siberian Kiss
When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros
Ry Ry's Song
Lovebites And Razorlines
Hurting And Shoving (She Should Have Let Me Sleep)
Majour
Her Middle Name Was Boom
Piano
Babe
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
Motel Of The White Locust

Customer Reviews:

Even more influential in hindsight..........2006-08-10

Like any big-time rock producer, Ross Robinson (At the Drive-in, From First To Last) has a few trademarks that make his work instantly recognizable. Only where other mega-producers obsess over filtering the "junk" from their mixes, Robinson works overtime to keep every bit of crud in place. Take, for example, his work on "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence." Throughout the album, Robinson captures every stray noise the band members throw at him: the dry sizzling of patch cords and amps; the thwacking of drum heads; the shrieking of overextended vocal takes. Cripes, in the verses of "Siberian Kiss," you can actually hear the spit flying as frontman Daryl Palumbo alternately sings and growls his lungs out. Which isn't to say Palumbo and his bandmates can't be melodic -- or even sensitive. "Ry Ry's Song" has the band sounding like Bad Brains gone emo, while the disc's opener, "Pretty Lush," slides a Quicksand-like blend of harmony and discord over a warm, rubbery bass line. Even more striking is "When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros," in which guitarists Justin Beck and Todd Weinstock leap from heavily distorted breaks into spacious, dub-influenced jams. Listening to "Silence"'s powerful, emotional and generally cliche-free tracks, you understand why Ross Robinson took to hyping GlassJaw as "the new, post-millennial destroyers of Adidas rock." Without albums like this -- and the influence they'd have on today's post-hardcore superstars -- the producer only would've been remembered for his old "Adidas-rock" clients.

THEY RIPPED OFF THEIR SOUND FROM STILLSUITE!!!.......2006-06-20

If you want to here where glassjaw got their sound from just listen to Stillsuit. Look them up here an Amazon. THESE guys were such an amazing band that only put out an EP and 1 full length CD and its a shame they dont get any credit, especially since glassjaw seems to sound ALOT like stillsuite did. The bass player from stillsuit was even in the original glassjaw lineup. If you like glassjaw, listen to any of the two stillsuite releases and decide for yourself.

Nothing new here.......2006-06-10

I dont know what the fuss about this band is about. I personally dont think that they are that good. This album gets old fast and some of these songs on here like "Ry Ry's Song" is just plain annoying. Why is it that you people are making such a big deal about this guy's singing? He's not breaking any new ground other than just flat out ripping off Chino Moreno from the Deftones. Just take "7 Words" from 'Adrenaline' and "Chi" from KoRn's 'Life Is Peachy' and you got this guy's singing style down. He must have just listened to a lot of KoRn and Deftones as a whiny little teenager. Wha wha wah.. life sucks.. I hate you.. I want to hurt you.. blah blah blah.. heard it all before. Dont waste your time with this crying little emo kid junk. This album is a waste of space. Try some real heavy and emotive music like Alice In Chains or even Tool.

genre whore.......2006-06-03

There are many types of "hardcore" music, not just hardcore punk. Glassjaw originated from themselves; they sound like no other band, and are much more "hardcore" sounding (in terms of what the actual slang of the word means) than any of the bands you mentioned.

Who cares about genres, and who started what? Glassjaw does it best. And to the spotlight reviewer: ever been betrayed by someone you love? Yeah, it tends to make you swear a lot.

This is not nu-metal either. Nu-metal is Spineshank, Korn, and other overproduced cookie-cutters. This is Glassjaw.

These 14 yr olds who say we need to review our music history are so cute.......2006-06-02

I was skimming through the first page of reviews and already found two that said that Glassjaw invented hardcore. Excuse me while I roll on the ground laughing for a bit....

For those of you who weren't alive during the Reagan years, let me educate for a moment. Hardcore began with Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, and so on and so forth. That was back in the early-mid 80's folks. No, Glassjaw didn't invent hardcore. They didn't invent anything. To go one step further, not only did they not invent hardcore, they aren't even hardcore, period. The very definition of hardcore is punk music stripped down to it's most basic and simple form with an emphasis on message and delivery rather that musicianship. I can just hear it now..."but Glassjaw screams and plays loud just like you're saying!" Yeah, and so do another 50,000 bands, but that doesn't make them hardcore. The hardcore bands of the 80s and Glassjaw do have a certain commonality - they both sound like angry teenagers with a beef against anything and everything. The difference? The 80's bands I speak of WERE comprised of teenagers, but they ultimately grew up and moved on. Darryl is stuck in his amateurish anger, and it bleeds all over this music.

You Glassjaw fanatics are the ones that need to learn your music history, not the rest of us.

I can appreciate the musicianship somewhat, but I've heard better, namely Refused and Snapcase, among others.

I'm sorry if I've offended any Glassjaw fans out there. I'm sure you can console yourselves in Glassjaw's amazingly "hardcore" music.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About 60's Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Ins

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Impressive Set List, Poor Sound Quality...
space pilots will like!

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About 60's Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Ins
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Arf Arf
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music

Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

Oldies | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music

30 Seconds Before the Calico Wall!
Beyond the Calico Wall
A Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych
Overdose of Heavy Psych
A Lethal Dose of Hard Psych

ASIN: B0000035ZJ
Release Date: 1995-09-01

Tracks:

Ballot Bachs - The Shades
Fusion - Pinocchio & The Puppets
Hang In - Question Mark
Research Into The Soul Of Psychedelic Sound - Unbelievable Uglies
Mind Destruction - Oxford Circle
Tioga - The American Dream
You Blow My Mind - Powers Of Blue
Spellbound - Spellbinders
Wow - Front Office
Love In (December) - Hal Blaine
Under - Cucumber
Bubble Gum March (Or Blowing Bubbles Through Rose Colored Glasses) - Captain Groovy & His Bubblegum Army
I Want The Rain - The Executioners
80-96 - Dantes
69 - Vaqueros
The Other Side Of A Record - The Sounds Like Us
Ceyladd Beyta - The Ceyleib People
Pisces - Sagittarius
The Beginning - The Collectors
City Jungle Part 2 - The Beautiful Daze
12 O'clock, July - The Mussies
Make Love Not War - The Arrows
This Is Really The Zoo Plus Two - The Endd
Flameout - Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
Barrier X-69 - Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
A Disappointing Love Affair With A Desensitized Robot - Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
Beep (Excerpt) - Calico Wall

Album Description

The title says it all! Twenty-seven rare tracks à la Pebbles without the vocals. Includes Shades, Pinnochio & His Puppets, Unbelievable Uglies, Vaqueros, Spellbinders, Astro Sounds from the Year 2000, and more.

Customer Reviews:

Impressive Set List, Poor Sound Quality..........2006-09-24

5 Stars for Set List, Minus 2 Stars for sound Quality...

I saw this cd about a year back and wanted to order it, but couldn't because there were no copies in stock. So I waited until about a week or two ago and ordered it. I just finished listening to it, and i'm quite impressed with the song list, but not so much on the sound quality.

PROS:
I looked up a lot of these artists, and majority of them are impossible to get on cd, if they even make them on cd, or to even find much information on most of these bands. I also noticed that tracks 24-26 are actually 3 songs from the 101 strings album: Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000, a psychedelic masterpiece album.

ALL of these songs on this compilation are also instrumental, NONE have lyrics, which personally I enjoy, some people may not.

The booklet even gives you a couple of sentences about each song to, which is pretty cool.

I will also mention a lot of these songs are not the typical 3 chord structure, with the whole I-IV-V progression (some are though). I have both of the 60's nuggetts box sets, which I love, but do not expect that sound entirely, same length (about 3 minutes each) but those songs had lyrics with the 3 chords mostly, these don't. If you like Surf Rock with a hint of psychedelia then you will probably like this.

CONS:
I will say though that the quality of the tracks are poor (noticeable hiss), a little better then bootleg quality, but not much, and certainly not even close to a remaster.

Track 27 (last track of cd) is pointless, it's just a beep (for 2 minutes), like an alarm, that's it. I don't understand the signifigance of this track.

Also be aware when amazon says "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About 60's Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Ins", the Ins are short for instrumentals, having not known that could keep you from enjoying the album.

OVERALL:
Overall it has a good set list, but bad sound quality. Remember, most of these tracks are hard to hunt down, so that might in it-self tempt you to buy this cd. So if you are a psychedelic fan like I am, consider it, it's 77 minutes of pure rare psychedelic/surf bliss.

space pilots will like!.......2003-10-02

Out freekin standing! The opening track gives a good idea of the madness that awaits. Track four is russian dance music played in fuzz! (imagine that weird squat/kick dance kinda stuff) Track 25 is amazing. i cant do this comp justice by rambling about it.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence

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"...And For This Gift We Are Graced"
Just when it's perfect it's over
Everything you wanted to know about.... Glassjaw.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Glassjaw
Manufacturer: Marq
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004TZ6G

Album Description

Japanese edition of 2000 release from alternative rock act influenced by The Cure, Bad Brains, Radiohead, Elvis Costello & Japanese Anime soundtracks. Produced by Ross Robinson (S lipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit & Soulfly). Includes one exclusive bonus track 'Modern Love Story'. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track.

Customer Reviews:

"...And For This Gift We Are Graced".......2006-08-26

There are certain albums that just hit at the right time. From a band bringing a style all their own with songs that cut into your own life experiences. Glassjaw's "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence" is that album for me. I was still in high school when this came out, and like any solid album from that era, it reminds me of simpler times. But more than that, the lyrical content definitely reflects certain personal feelings at the time and the music definitely left me open to many more bands and styles thereafter.

Now, even if you haven't had personal experiences with this album yet, it's still something worth looking into. From a band with only two official albums out so far, Glassjaw's first is definitely a true classic. In 2000, bands like this didn't quite exist. True, there were groups like Deftones and Will Haven who obviously were an influence, but the onslaught of hardcore and emo bands that would come a few years later couldn't yet be seen. To say Glassjaw are/were a combination of the genres is unfair. Do they fit amongst today's "hot" groups like My Chemical Romance or Taking Back Sunday? Hell no.

"Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence" is truly, completely 100% original. From the crashing sounds often delivered by the band, to frontman Daryl Palumbo's awkward and unique delivery, there is definitely something unheard of at the time here. When I first sat down with it (having heard virtually nothing yet) I wasn't sure how to feel. Surely enough, though, like most truly great albums, it crept up on me and hit me after a few listens. So don't be surprised if you don't "get it" on the first try. The heavier, catchy tracks like "Siberian Kiss" and "Pretty Lush" are intensely addictive, with the spacey, more emotionally driven songs like "When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros" and "Her Middle Name Was Boom" balancing them out rather nicely. Personal favorites, however, would be "Majour" -- a song which could have been a hit for the band had it been released (in my opinion) -- and "Piano," possibly the catchiest of the bunch and bearing some Weezer influence.

In short, "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence" is just one of those special albums that never wears thin. I can still listen to it six years later and get the same effect I did when I was 16. And it should definitely appeal to today's scene, as it is definitely more mature and sincere than the bands it influenced. Too bad Glassjaw's future is on a tightrope right now. I get a feeling that if they were active and still making new music, they would bring a revolution with them.

Just when it's perfect it's over.......2004-05-21

This album is the best album I've ever heard in my entire life. What a huge statement to make, huh? That statement doesn't go unjust. You've heard this all before but the second this album starts..you're pulled in with the song Pretty Lush. And I guarantee that by the end of the album..you'll feel the exact feelings lead vocalist, Daryl Palumbo, was feeling when he sung it. There are so many powerful songs on this album that even though I've listened to the album..well, too many times to count, it blows me away still. What's particuarlly amazing about this album is that even if you know every word. Even if you know how to play the song exactly to every single way that Daryl says a word..it'll be brand new to you everytime you listen to it. No musician that I have ever heard has created such a feeling that GlassJAw does in this album. If there was any album you could ever buy..I strongly, STRONGLY recommend this one. Glassjaw is the most wonderous band with the strongest vocalist, guitarest, drummer and well.everything. This is probably one of the only bands that I can say are still playing for the music. Buy it!

Everything you wanted to know about.... Glassjaw........2002-12-14

Although produced by Ross Robinson, don't lump this band in with the hoards of nu-metal bands that he's associated with. This is a class slab of sometimes primal, sometimes delicate post hardcore that will take a few listens before it begins to put in its hooks. The most immediate track, 'Ry Ry's Song' serves as a sonic entry point for the listener, the rest of the album taking a little longer to appreciate. The bonus edition features a cover of Youth Of Today's 'Modern Love Story' boasting a duet with Ray Cappo of Y.O.T and Shelter fame (also available as the B-side to UK release 'Ry Ry's Song' single). Quite simply, Glassjaw are one of the most interesting and challenging bands within this genre, taking elements of (New York) hardcore, punk, metal, and hints from a host of genres and styles - the final outcome being a challenging yet awarding album.

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