Streetcleaner

Streetcleaner

Track Listings

1. Like Rats

2. Christbait Rising

3. Pulp

4. Dream Long Dead

5. Head Dirt

6. Devastator/Mighty Trust Krusher

7. Mighty Trust Krusher

8. Life Is Easy

9. Streetcleaner

10. Locust Furnace

11. Tiny Tears [*]

12. Wound [*]

13. Dead Head [*]

14. Suction [*]

Tracks:

Like Rats
Christbait Rising
Pulp
Dream Long Dead
Head Dirt
Devastator/Mighty Trust Krusher
Life Is Easy
Streetcleaner
Locust Furnace
Bonus Track: Tiny Tears
Bonus Track: Wound
Bonus Track: Dead Head
Bonus Track: Suction
Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

"This is my own hell".......2006-05-01

This is probably one of the most important and overlooked "industrial-metal" records of the last 16 or so years. When looking at the cover of STREETCLEANER- it's an accurate potrayal of what the records sounds like- hell. Made up then of Justin Broadrick (Napalm Death, Ice, Techno Animal, Jesu, God, etc) GC Green and Paul Neville (on some tracks), Streetcleaner provides a soundtrack to the depths of urban decay, with programmed drums- mechanical and cold,- guitars that are atmospheric and dissonant, bass that sounds like a wall of distrortion- it's like Godzilla recking Tokyo- vocals that are like anguished guttaral yells and filled with seething anger. Stand out tracks on this disc: "Like Rats", "Christbait Rising", "locust Furnace" and "Dead Head". It's hard to believe this came out in 89'- it still sounds fresh and innovative- even by todays standards. Probably the bands finest hour.

The ultimate soundtrack of industrial decay...........2006-02-17

So, you are into Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. Perhaps, you went even deeper and checked out Ministry and Skinny Puppy. Yeah, there really is no such thing as "industrial" music... at least there is no concrete definition of it. To some people, the commercial friendly music of NIN is industrial, or the hollow shock rock antics of Marilyn Manson. Other people will tell you that Skinny Puppy is "true" industrial and that everything else is a waste of time. I don't know... have they heard of Godflesh? Out of all those bands, Godflesh is the only band I could picture listening to while driving through the decayed center of an urban city. Godflesh lives in this world. It lives in a world of burnt down houses, graffiti decorated buildings, and old factories. Godflesh is the ultimate soundtrack to the apocalypse....

Streetcleaner is Godflesh's most chaotic record. In many ways, it is a huge expansion on the sound that is found in The Swans' Cop album. It also came out before the band experimented with hip hop, electronica, and more rock orientated structures. And even though Justin has put out a ton of really good material, Streetcleaner is something that is going to stay with him forever. To some people, it is the best thing he has ever done. I can see why. It is a very abstract, surreal, and unique record.

This album is a PRODIGAL ANOMALY - INCOMPARABLE.......2005-12-17

a deviation from the normal order, form, or rule of what we consider rhythm and pleasurable sound. and it is absolute pure musical genius. i have never heard anything so dark and heavy in my life...and i probably never will. yet it is so ethereal and enchanting. these tracks will take your brain and slowly compress it into nothingness. i am not a death metal fan by any means. i am a music lover that leans toward the heavier side of life. and this is downright HEAVY. Streetcleaner is that CD that you want to hold above your head with both arms and yell to the world, "I have it...I have the key to the universe. the Rosetta Stone." i guess i just cannot perfectly describe how miraculous and beautiful this album is. let's just say that it is INCOMPARABLE.

One of a kind........2005-04-11

There is no pretense on this album- no "look what I can do", no "look how many words I know"...just complete and utter oblivion. Majestically crushing, and unrepentantly dark and morose- this is a truly unique and self-dissolving piece of plastic. You completely lose yourself into it. Not to mention, it kicks an a$$ or two. Like Rats and Christbait Rising (a favorite- "don't hold me back/ this is my own hell") are immaculate. Really not recommended for people who don't appreciate crushing, dark music, but those who do will love it. I place it with Swans' Great Annihilator (that's more cereberal), Burzum's Hvist Lyset Tar Oss (that's more evil), and Ministry's Filthpig (that's sleazier), as the grand dukes of crushing spaciousness. This is more the "city" version of those, if that makes sense. If when someone says "Industrial", you think VNV Nation, and "Metal" you think "Iron Maiden", you'll hate this. This is completely it's own animal, and you will either hate it or love it. I love it, but these guys are despised by some people I play it for. It doesn't get much darker than this- there are hundreds of metal bands that could learn what real darkness sounds like from this cd. Not a cd for parties by a long shot, but somehow both aggressive and soothing at the same time, I usually listen to it when I'm by myself and either reading or screwing with photoshop. Buy it if you like looking the beast in the face, and tell him I said hi.

The sky is falling...oh wait, that's just a Godflesh album.......2005-03-09

Even as a moderately hardened noise freak, I was not prepared for what awaited me when I first popped this, my first Godflesh album, into my stereo. Other bands have attempted to render the sound of the apocalypse with varying degrees of success, but these guys may have mastered it. Streetcleaner doesn't burst forth from your speakers so much as it oozes out, a primordial industrial-metal sludge that's almost unspeakably doomy in its pummelling. It's more about atmosphere than technicality and more about heaviness than complexity, but Godflesh accomplish their goals so well on this album that it's hard to take issue. In the category of frightening listening experiences, Streetcleaner is right up there with Meshuggah's Chaosphere, Soilent Green's A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down, and Today is the Day's In the Eyes of God. There are no catchy melodies to be found here and very few concrete song structures you can grab onto, just collages of irregular and imprenetrable beats. The ponderous bass and (mechanized) drum patterns are all twisted and distorted into rhythms and song structures that are difficult and unpleasant even for the industrial metal genre. The guitars don't play riffs so much as screeching shards of industrial noise, while Justin Broadrick's vocals are semi-intelligible scorched-earth growls seemingly calculated for maximum insanity. The deservedly legendary Christbait Rising is driven by an almost impossibly heavy groove, while Head Dirt lurches forth in a bizarre time signature that sounds sort of like a crossbreeding of Napalm Death and Skinny Puppy (come to think of it, that would rule!). Life is Easy and the title track are perhaps the two most horrific songs ever placed back to back on an album; the former a swirling, noisy testament to pain and disaffection, the latter a cavernous musical black hole which hope can neither enter nor leave. For this edition, the good folks over at Earache Records have also seen fit to include five bonus tracks, including the surprisingly uptempo Wound, pushing Streetcleaner to over an hour of sonic punishment. You now have no excuse not to check it out.

Average customer rating:

a stickey coat of godflesh
'Streetcleaner' -- The Essential Crossover Album

Streetcleaner
Godflesh
Manufacturer: Relativity
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001R3CC
Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

Like Rats
Christbait Rising
Pulp
Dream Long Dead
Head Dirt
Devastator/Mighty Trust Krusher
Mighty Trust Krusher
Life Is Easy
Streetcleaner
Locust Furnace
Tiny Tears [*]
Wound [*]
Dead Head [*]
Suction [*]

Customer Reviews:

a stickey coat of godflesh.......2003-05-18

It's the awe of a lightning bolt so close, it blows your hair back. Godflesh is genius, not the kind you expect from renaisance frescoes, but the life in the clay they are painted on. This is the akin to furious weather; there is a smoothness in it, a reason that is glassy after the sand is melted. It incorporates the wieght of an angry earth, the confusion of a man
and the eerie calmness of a hurricane. The fact that they have been burried as an event in music is not without merit...they deserve that place, they exist somewhere inside of things, atomic-like.
The music of Godflesh is a small man in a headlock who explodes out and grins at the enemy, it deserves better words than heavy or extreme, it deserves to share descriptions with the teutonic plates moving down there. You just can't get a more pure, strong,
stone-age vibe than with Godflesh.

'Streetcleaner' -- The Essential Crossover Album.......2003-03-30

Godflesh finally bridged the void between two extreme genres with 1991's 'Streetcleaner'. The thrash-metal/death metal scene instantly fused with the underground industrial scene, as this album accomplished what many others failed miserably at.
Hailed as an absolute essential by any fan of heavy music, the unbelievably detuned Fender Strat of J.K. Broadrick attacks the senses on the opening track 'Like Rats' & never lets up one moment throughout the album.
For anyone who thinks current corporate nu-metal is heavy, take a listen to this release; the tracks 'Christbait Rising' & 'Streetcleaner' are guaranteed to be the absolute heaviest tracks to have abused your speakers.
J.K. Broadrick's unique sound & guitar style- detuned to the key of G, burst out incredible distortion tone while retaining the unique Godflesh chord phrasing.
Joined only with the equally heavy bass of G.C. "Ben" Green & a drum machine, Godflesh delivered a sound that laid waste to all other extreme bands.
Unfortunately disbanded in 2002, Godflesh recorded several albums of similar calibre to 'Streetcleaner', which remains an essential monument in the cd collections of both metal & industrial fans to this day.

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