Freedumb [Import]

Freedumb [Import]

Track Listings

1. Freedumb

2. Ain't Gonna Take It

3. Scream Out

4. Halfway Up My Head

5. Cyco Vision

6. I Ain't Like You

7. Naked

8. Hippie Killer

9. Built to Survive

10. Get Sick

11. We Are Family

12. I'll Buy Myself

13. Gaüin Go Home

14. Heaven

15. Don't Take No

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese edition of the veteran American punk outfit's 1999 album with 'Don't Take No' added as a hidden bonus track, for a total of 15 cuts.

Tracks:

Freedumb
Ain't Gonna Take It
Scream Out
Half Way Up My Head
Cyco Vision
I Ain't Like You
Naked
Hippie Killer
Built To Survive
Get Sick
We Are Family
I'll Buy Myself
Gaigan Go Home
Heaven

Album Description

1999 & first release in five years finds the band returning to their punk roots by churning out 14 potential punk anthems.

Customer Reviews:

where's the metal and thrash?.......2006-01-06

a punk band that went metal and came back as a mediocre rehash of their punk days is never pretty. ST's punk days were raw and good. they were the part of the LA harcore punk scene and one of the best at that. near the late 80's and early 90's they went thrash metal and the name ST was put right next to metallica and bands of that nature. they evolved greatly. and then somewhere in 1997 i think..this album came out. its kind of like they grew up on how can i laugh tomorrow.. and lights camera revolution...and tried to act like immature gangsta kids here. what the hell kind of song is cyco vision?..the lyrics are horrible..the record itself isnt too bad. its a keeper to me and the speed and agression make up for the regression....mike muir must have hit a mid-life crisis here. what else would explain a pointless array of lyrics minus the metal. if you like thrash and the old ST to the end of the earth, this album will alienate you big time.

Back to True Form.......2004-07-01

I have been listening to Suicidal Tendencies since the days when the band had only one album (you know - back before CD). Every album since the first has been unlistenable - until now. This is the first release from ST since the original that I am happy to own. Fans of ST's heavy, crunching metal influenced records, stay away from this one. If you like the punk Suicidal Tendencies, this one if for you.

Cool.......2004-02-20

After being around for a long time, it was impossible for ST to change. This cd shows that. Its not the thrash/metal of STs earlier albums, but it's still great. cyco vision is the best track on it (its probably my favorite song EVER!).freedumb, scream out and aint gonna take it are awsome. naked and heaven sound almost nirvana-ish. hippie killer and we are family get kinda old and annoying after a while, but they still keep up the pace and versatility of this album. this album shows the efforts of a veteran punk band, and you wont be disappointed.

WHAT ... HAPPENED.......2003-05-26

Well, I used to be a huge ST fan when i was younger, for about 11 years... but this album is just sad, I mean suicidal tendencies has always been heavy aggresive music in whatever they do, thrash/punk, but this is just [unacceptable]... there old punk was special, unique, there metal music opened bigger oppertunities and wider audiances, i remember how much i enjoyed Rockys solos, and the heavy agressive fast music, with mike muirs voclas, which would open my eyes and hit me, with such meaning and how special there music was..... i thaught if they got back together, the band would do what they do best...carry on ST they it's meant to be, heavy, agressive, powerful, the things which got them recognized and caught everyones attention in the first place, however, this album is a joke.....(MIKE MUIR, WHAT ... WERE YOU THINKING) IG is it's own thing, this is supposed to SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, my suggestions:(EITHER STOP THE BAND NOW, OR MOVE IT IN THE DIRECTION IT's SUPPOSED TO BE IN)

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ST I USED TO LOVE.......2003-05-26

Well, ive been a suicidal fan for 9 years, well used to be... what happened, suicidal tendencies is supposed to be angry/aggressive punk or metal..but this i can tell you...is not ST.......see theres 2 seperate bands, infectious grooves and SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, but this i can tell you is not suicidal tendencies....i mean Rocky left, so did Trijullio, but still, Muir and Clark could still have carried on ST, they way it should be carried on........God do i miss Rock's solos, the heavy aggresive music they used to have, but this album i can tell you is not ST, Muir needs to make a change,or atleast not call this band ST, becouse it is clearly not ST, i mean my god, listen to tracks like "freedom", or "Hippie Killer," (Muir,what the hell are you thinking") if your going to get your group back together, atleast make sure it is still ST, (WHICH YOU HAVE CLEARLY FAILED TO DO)

Average customer rating:

Freedumb
Suicidal Tendencies
Manufacturer: XIII Bis France
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Thrash & Speed Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000068GHL
Release Date: 2007-05-01

Tracks:

Freedumb
Ain't Gonna Take It
Scream Out
Halfway up My Head
Cyco Vision
I Ain't Like You
Naked
Hippie Killer
Built to Survive
Wanna Get Sick
We Are Family
I'll Buy Myself
Gaigan Go Home
Heaven

Album Description

Out of print in the U.S.! Freedum was another fine album from this controversial California band led for over 20 years by Mike Muir and was originally released in 1999.

Average customer rating:

Underground Machine Opus, or: Seek Questions, not Answers
This Guy Just Rocks The House!

Freedumb
Gline
Manufacturer: Gline Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00006IZY0
Release Date: 2002-08-23

Tracks:

Freedumb
Home of the Grave
Mythomaniac
Druglords
Spaceless
Merrison St.
Heart Like A Stone
Catalog
Mishima
You'll Get Your Answers Someday

Album Description

The third Gline album is as massive a departure from his previous work as his second album was from his debut. It's an outraged assessment of life as we have come to know it, and an inward rumination on life that might have been; it's chaotic and tender in equal measure; it's the best thing Gline has ever done yet. So far. It's dance music for people who're too shellshocked to stand up; it's rock'n'roll for people who hate guitars and can't sing along. It will never crack the Top 40, it will never appear in a feature-length motion picture, and you'll never be able to forget any of it.

Customer Reviews:

Underground Machine Opus, or: Seek Questions, not Answers.......2005-04-26

The advent of modern technology has, in a number of very specific and revolutionary ways, changed the way music is now made, marketed and acquired. The internet is the great fulcrum for new artists to circumnavigate the demographic-dominated plantation that is the recording industry: a means to expose one's voice to all and sundry, the opportunity to build communities of likeminded individuals. Yet there is a downside to this explosion of easy-access information. For every artist sublime, a thousand more mediocrities and/or trend-conglomerating copycats share the same bandwidth and method of promotion. The clamor of countless voices, be they expressed by text or MP3 sound-bite, has made the Internet, as a whole, an unwieldy, bloated swamp wherein a few diamonds can and do occasionally shine forth.

And thus I was led to *Freedumb*, the third album by The Gline, a New York-based industrial artist (not to mention erudite social and art critic) who promotes his material at MP3.com and on his self-titled website. Refreshingly self-depreciatory (modesty somewhat unjustified, IMO), The Gline states on this website that there will be no greatest-hits packages: every album is a greatest hit package; that *Freedumb* is (quote): "dance music for people who're too shellshocked to stand up; it's rock'n'roll for people who hate guitars and can't sing along. It will never crack the Top 40, it will never appear in a feature-length motion picture." Perhaps the man underestimates his own talents (a predilection common among true artists - without questioning art, how can one evolve it? But I digress:), for everything about this album, from the packaging-art to the compositional skills, point to a professionalism and talent that could easily score a record deal, if attempted... perhaps The Gline doesn't wish to sign any Faustian bargains just yet.

Heavily influenced by such industrial pioneers as Front 242 and KFMDM (I suspect some Skinny Puppy and early Depeche Mode as well), the Gline makes a curious alamang of old and new: the beats pay homage to the late-80's production techniques of said artists, not to mention the random hip-hop element (!); while the use of synthesizers, string pads, piano and samples, on the other hand, gives the album a thoroughly modern sheen and a melodic personality far more refined than the majority of the internet's questing amateur scene. Moreover, The Gline displays a powerful and penetrating awareness of the information-overloaded, socially repressed environment that is the North American juggernaught circa. the 21st century's first decade, by way of his "streetcorner prophet" prose, as featured most explicitly on the opening tracks:

'Freedumb,' a nine-minute opus chronicling the current mass-conscious obliviousness of the good ol' U.S. of A., kicks the album off with a bang. The Gline spends the first minute and a half of the song developing the percussion - clanging drums, industrial claps, bongos - before a beguiling bassline rolls in and the man on the mike lets loose an invective denunciation of American egoism ... the chorus, augmented by cheeky horns, emphasizes the theme: "You've got Freedumb! You Know it All!" This is perhaps the most insidiously catchy production on the album, a real epic and a great way to start. The next song, 'Home of the Grave', further elucidates the all-too-real head-in-the-sand mentality, climaxing with a chanted list of hypocritical Moral Majority behavior-mores, paradoxical standards that would be gutbustingly funny if they weren't so prominently defended every single day. 'Mythomaniac' features melancholic strings and ambience worthy of early Autechre, all underscored by a complex breakbeat and layered with echoing vox, the chorus of which reminds me of late-80's PIL. The booklet artwork for this particular song gives additional subtext to the somewhat oblique lyrics. 'Druglords' is anything but oblique: a repeating electronic riff and mechanized drums build the tension while one word phrases shout out the complexity of this world-wide industry; this song (particularly the vox delivery) reminds me of Skinny Puppy.

'Spaceless' drills the ears with piston-slaming drums; synth-bass and tinkering notes surge and snarl throughout, gnashing into a dark climax. 'Merrison St.' opens with a high-pitched theme, then quickly gets to business with some seriously old skool synth-bass. The lyrics of this particular song are highly personal, and, though I personally don't "relate" to them, kudos to the artist for wearing his heart on his sleeve, particularly after the politically-charged opening numbers. The crescendo around the 3:00 and 4:15 mark is an especially moving and beautiful composition. 'Heart like a Stone' has a seminal hip-hop motif to its percussion; hauntingly evocative synths soar in and out, helping to make this an emotionally-charged track. Piano cascades open 'Catalog,' perhaps the hardest and most overtly industrial track on the album. Complex static rhythms are filtered with digitized screams, hovering trance-like scales and a bada$$ synthbass riff, all building to the end, where the piano returns for a brief measure and weird melodies wander out.

'Mishima,' named after the controversial author/political activist, features echoing drums, native Japanese percussion, sinister gurgles and drifting piano notes; an Oriental-ish organ slithers in and is climaxed by drums with a definite old-school hip-hop influence. The last title track, 'You'll Get Your Answers Someday,' is also my personal favorite of the album, mid-90's acid-house elements married with the overall industrial current of the album and highlighted with an evocative flute passage. A short untitled track rounds out *Freedumb*, touching ambience that could very well be made into its own full-length track (hmmm...I smell the potential of a remix ;)

In short: this is a highly personal, brilliantly-penned soundscape of the future-past, a monolithic slab of modern noise graced with a strangely gorgeous palette of melody. Highly Recommended.

This Guy Just Rocks The House!.......2002-10-02

I've heard the other Gline CDs MANY times, but this one blows it away. It's hard to explain his music except to say that it's a fingerpainting of sounds that the minute you think you get a grasp on them they begin to blur again. That's a bit deep so to word it another way, it rocks! Check it out!