Deconstruction

Deconstruction

Track Listings

1. L.A. Song

2. Single

3. Get at 'Em

4. Iris

5. Dirge

6. Fire in the Hole

7. Son

8. Big Sur

9. Hope

10. One

11. America

12. Sleepyhead

13. Wait for History

14. That Is All

15. Kilo

Deconstruction,Deconstruction,Warner Bros / Wea,Alternative Metal,Heavy Metal,Popular Music,Rock

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Unknown "Classic"

How Deconstruction Was Born & Dead

Best Album of Eric Avery Ever

1994

Great guitarrock!

Deconstruction
Deconstruction
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002MPL
Release Date: 1994-07-12

Tracks:

L.A. Song
Single
Get at 'Em
Iris
Dirge
Fire in the Hole
Son
Big Sur
Hope
One
America
Sleepyhead
Wait for History
That Is All
Kilo

Customer Reviews:

Unknown "Classic".......2006-11-13

Just got done listening to this for the first time in some years and it still sounds as good as the day I purchased it 12years ago. I remember hearing about a new band on mtv news featuring former Jane's Addiction bass and guitar player's but sad to say have already broke up because of Dave's decision to join the RHCP's and then they went on to air the video to L.A. song. I was totally blown away by it and went out and purchased the CD. Not one song on this album is a "clunker". Some are heavier than others (Fire in the Hole, Get at 'um) but most are dreamy and upbeat (Single, One) However this album probably won't be for everyone, but if you're someone who's a deep thinker like me, then enjoy you won't be disapointed. One of my all time favorites,would give 10 stars if I could.

How Deconstruction Was Born & Dead.......2006-04-29

Eric Avery,Dave Navarro & Michael Murphy on Deconstruction:

Dave Navarro: Jane's Addiction ended and we just got together and started playing music. Eric and I had wanted to do something on our own, somewhat removed from the whole Hollywood-L.A. band thing, and just do something for ourselves.
Eric Avery: I liken having been in Jane's Addiction to having a relationship with someone that's all wrong. Part of what makes the sex so great is what makes it doomed to an early end. This analogy really does apply, because when you break up with somebody, when you've been in relationship like the one I had with Jane's Addiction, you swear off all relationships at first. You know you'll die a lonely dowager, but that's OK. And then out of the blue, you get your penis rekindled.
During the eight years I was in the band, I went through the whole process. In the beginning, we were all naive, things were going well, it was really fun. Then the band started to take off, and everything went through the roof. Unfortunately, things became business-like, uncomfortable, and we began to split apart. It's weird to be at the end of a cycle like that, having run the gamut of the usual 'rock story' from beginning to end. Get signed, get strung out, break up.
Michael Murphy: I played with Eric about three years ago in another band called Daisy Chamber. That's when I met him. The Ritual de lo Habitual record had just been recorded and he had a little time off before they started touring. He was a temporary member of Daisy Chamber. After Jane's broke up, I ran into him at Canter's Deli. He told me he and Dave had been having trouble finding a drummer, so he said, 'Come on down.' I did, and things gelled immediately.
Eric: Shortly after the last Jane's Addiction concert in Hawaii, I rented a house in Big Sur. I ostensibly went up there to just detoxify from the whole Jane's Addiction experience. While I was in Big Sur, I spent a certain amount of time every day writing. It was really a discipline because if I didn't do it one day, I really felt like I was sloughing off. The nice surprise was that as I started to think about what I wanted to do, I got excited again.
Dave: Everything was fair game as far as we were concerned. That was the whole point -- to take elements of different types of sound and music, and put them all together, even if they didn't necessarily fit in. Eric had gone up to Big Sur by himself and had written a few things. At the time, I was getting my life together and writing a few things on my own. He came back, we had time, and we just basically started working on my 8-track in my apartment.
Eric: I felt the prognosis on my musical career was looking bleak because I had spent so much time with it being a business. I had made a joy a duty, a great phrase that I got from a friend's mother. I felt finished about making rock music. I was also simultaneously disillusioned about the whole alternative music scene, and I still feel that way. In the process of starting to think about it and talk about it, I started to get excited. I wasn't interested in making rock music per se any more. But then I began to think that it might be interesting to tinker around with song writing structure, not doing verses and choruses and things like that. That's when my interest was piqued about making guitar music, the idea of using loops and putting together parts like David Salle paintings, putting parts that don't work next to each other and seeing if a new relationship happens between them. This process lead up to 'L.A. Song.' The first and second parts of 'L.A. Song' have no real connection, but the fact we put them together does make sense because we allow them to exist side by side.
Dave: Deconstruction is what it is. It was just a project Eric and I felt like we needed to do. I'm glad we did it. It helped me grow as a musician. I'm proud of a lot of the work on the album. It was a great learning process.
Eric: The word deconstruction applied to where I was at the time and also was prophetic about where I was going to be a year and a half later. It represented the demise of Jane's Addiction, the final break between David [Navarro] and I, and really signifies that I really am no longer in Jane's Addiction. That part of my life is really in the past.
The name Deconstruction fit instinctively without my knowing why. It seemed to dictate exactly what the experience was going to be about - not only in the relationship that I had with David, but how I made my music.It fits with deconstructive philosophy but the choice was totally unconscious, not contrived or manipulated. We began to write songs, not paying attention to what was being put out as far as the alternate of sound.
Eric:You can't say that there isn't intent in this record. It's obvious that something is being said, whether you like what's being said or you don't. And I was so intent on every song. Once you get it all done, put it away, and then look at the life that you've lived for the time that you've been working on it, you see how inexplicably tied together your personal process is and how it came out on the record in ways you didn't realize. This actually tied into an identity thing. It really was like there were two processes going on during this time and that's part of the reason why it had to take as long as it did. It's interesting because what I had been apathetic about and ready to dismiss, I wound up a year and a half later fighting desperately to keep. This wasn't an easy process.
Michael: I was able to bring a lot of samples and electronic stuff to it. The music developed into something different from anything else around, in that it's a combination of elements. We tried to keep things mixed up, so it wasn't just a take-off of Jane's.
Eric: When we recorded 'Big Sur', we actually had to go to record stores, buy records and scratch them up to get a good scratch sound, so that we could put in a Hawaiian sound. It's a small part in between the first two verses before the song starts to get slow. In between the two parts, it just sort of drops out. But it's interesting. I was just thinking about my travels up and down the coast during the making of this record and how much of a sense of place there is. I mean before we changed the name, there were three places named L.A., Big Sur, and San Francisco. But I was just thinking about how so often that's how David, Micheal and I communicated to each other during the creative process. We would say 'it's like Big Sur,' and that's how we named it 'Big Sur.' Because actually so much of what I'm talking about was in the desert and not actually from Big Sur. But I kept saying the first two verses should be like being in the city and then the middle part should be like your driving up the coast and then the end should be that you arrive in Big Sur.
Michael: We spent a long time with three or four parts on 'L.A. Song' that seemed to have nothing to do with each other. It was like a jig-saw puzzle, and finally one day we put it together correctly.
Dave: L.A. Song captures what L.A. is about for us. It's a day in the life of L.A. Listening to it takes you through morning, noon, rush hour, evening.
Eric: It's funny, because I was talking to someone about listening to music in cars and she pointed out that that isn't just indicative of L.A., that you spend a lot of time listening to music in cars. I have to remember that because here we don't walk or do anything except drive places. I do probably ninety percent of my music listening in the car. I rarely come home and put on music.
Dave: The creative process involved trying different things on 8-tracks and cramming them together. There was no method, there was no formula. Every song was its own thing. We just threw everything in a pot and discovered what tasted good. We wanted songs that weren't necessarily verse-chorus-verse-chorus-guitar solo-outro. We didn't want standard rock songs, we wanted to be more experimental. I think we did that.
Eric: After feeling so jaded about music for so long, I picked up an instrument that I really have not played at all. And it's such a big piece of the record. It really fit with that whole 'starting over' feeling. And I feel more that way about this record than I did about the first Jane's Addiction record. I said to somebody once, if I'm scared, then I'm doing something right. If I'm really trying to open the flood gates and see what happens, then I can't know whether or not it's really great. And so therefore, if I have that knowledge or even think I have that knowledge, then there's a calculation process that's going on that prevents trying to honestly open the mouth and see what happens. 'Get At 'Em' was the first song that I wrote, so it represented a lot of pent-up stuff. It seemed to build and build, and feel like 'too many heart beats a minute.' That was such a catharsis. At the time I had just come off being a commodity because we got so big in Jane's Addiction.
Eric: At times, I've thought things like, "does Brian Ferry sing that way because that's the best he can do?" I always assume that these things are stylistic decisions people make. But in my case, most people wondered "Why did Eric sing so low in a lot of the songs?" The answer is that's where I'm the most comfortable singing. In actuality, that's just the best that I can do.
Dave: This isn't a record for everybody. Some people will like it, some won't like it at all. We weren't aiming for mass appeal. We were aiming to get a lot of things within ourselves out in the open, which we accomplished. After Jane's Addiction, it was time to do something completely different, and we were a little selfish about it. We did more musically from a real cerebral point of view.
Eric: And so the answer is try to pay close attention to where you're at as an individual rather than as a creative artist, because if you're not careful, you'll change. What I want to do now is very different from what Deconstruction was. I mean, there will be elements that are similar, but it's kind of the opposite attack that I'll be coming from, of wanting things to stay the same and be repetitive. Deconstruction is about distinctive individual voices and sounds. What we've done is to say, "This is what alternative music is." Alternative music has become the same thing as pop music. It was popular music. And then the word just became pop and now pop means something else. It's no longer the original meaning of the term, and the same thing is true for alternative music. We're still close enough to it that we don't read it as easily, but alternative music, by definition, can't be what you hear on the radio all the time. Because then, that's not an alternative.
Dave: It was never etched in stone that Deconstruction was a band we were going to do for a long time. It was just something Eric and I felt we needed to do. I don't look at this as a band falling apart. I look at it like Eric and I just wanted to do different things. We did the record. We had a great time doing it, had a hard time doing it at times. But I wanted to tour and play live, while Eric wasn't as interested in that. That was determined long before the Red Hot Chili Peppers started happening for me. We just came to an amicable decision. If we ever want to do something again, the door is always open.

Best Album of Eric Avery Ever.......2006-04-19

This is the best album ever made by members of Jane's Addiction,and probably one of my favourites of the whole history of rock.It is rare for two rockstars to forget everything of The Star System and to try to make an album totally different from what ordinary people is looking for.Here not verse-chorus-verse;just Freedom,Time,and Space.Avery wrote the textes in a cottage in Big Sur where he was to purify his mind from the intoxication of the music business.
Just to compare with another band from same city and times, just have a look to The Red Hot Chili Peppers:they were Stars,and they are still just Stars,at this moment (2006) making the same disgusting verse-chorus-verse songs(songs?).

Jane's Addiction:
-Jane's Addiction 3/5
-Nothing's Shocking 5/5
-Ritual De Lo Habitual 5/5
-Live and Rare 4/5
-Kettle Whistle 5/5
-Strays 2/5

Deconstruction:
-Deconstruction 6(six!)/5

Polar Bear:
-Chewingum E.P. 5/5
-Why Something Instead of Nothing 5/5

Porno For Pyros:
-Porno For Pyros 1/5
-Good God's Urge 4/5

Banyan:
-Banyan 2/5
-Anytime At All 4/5
-Live At Perkins Palace 3/5

Jane's Addiction Bootlegs:
-Pigs in Zen 3/5
-Live and Profane 5/5
-Trip Away 5/5
-Idiots Rule Vol.1 4/5
-Live and Insane 5/5
-Down in Flames 4/5
-Sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll 5/5
-Last Fixx 5/5
-The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5

1994.......2005-01-15

This is a jem.
There was a time for this album as there was for everything.
This will bring you to another place with the genius of Navarro, Avery and Murph.
This would have been a great soundtrack for a movie....
or mabye that's what it was.

Great guitarrock!.......2005-01-10

Dave Navarro knows how to make an album that is both interesting musically as well as socially. Very good!

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A Different Kind Of Elfman
"Not worth the plastic it's recorded on"
Elfman scores(!) again
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Planet of the Apes
Danny Elfman
Manufacturer: Sony
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Release Date: 2001-07-24

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The original 1968 Planet of the Apes inspired a whole cycle of sequels, a television series, and this modern Tim Burton revamp. It also contained one of sci-fi's most original and haunting scores, composed by the great Jerry Goldsmith. In scoring his dark take on the story, Burton again turned the reigns over to longtime collaborator Danny Elfman, who promptly pays tribute to Goldsmith in the "Main Titles" (echoing the original's ethereal, descending glissandos), then sets about conjuring a marauding orchestral action score that's as fierce as it is relentless. With echoes of the dramatic tension of his Batman scores for Burton, this flourish-filled simian symphony nonetheless seems distinctly melody-challenged; not a bad thing per se in the genre, but still a far cry from Goldsmith's masterful, spare balance of dynamics and color. "The Return" offers up some respite from the Sturm und Drang but then succumbs to the era's favorite classical rip-off, er, "tribute"--Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War--while the percussion-driven "Main Title Deconstruction" grandly succeeds on more Goldsmithian terms. DJ-king-cum-modern-film-scorer Paul Oakenfold (Swordfish) concludes the album with a fresh, compelling mix of music and dialogue that gives Elfman his due and then some; a more proactive collaboration offers promise. -Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Nice & Beaty.......2005-08-13

This sounds like nothing else I've run across on this continent. Not that I've heard anything on another continent. Don't get out much. But this makes me want to. The techno track is dope as hell too. So quit reading this, you damn dirty human...and go buy it. You won't regret the movement it'll put in your primordial soul.

A Different Kind Of Elfman.......2005-07-27

First of all, this CD is rather different from previous Elfman/Burton projects. It is very loud, percussive, bombastic, and clangy. Second of all, this CD takes the loud, bombastic tracks, and mixes them with Elfman's original fun style.

The result is an extremely creative and fun CD to listen to. It is dark and loud sometimes, but mixed with Elfman's manic style, this CD is the one of the most unique soundtracks of all time.

"Not worth the plastic it's recorded on".......2002-04-29

Unlike the actual film, Danny Elfman's composition for the new Planet of the Apes is repetitive, unimaginative and most of all mind-numbingly dull. Elfman, best known for his dark, gloomy and brooding contributions to such Tim Burton flicks as Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands, seems to have his hands full trying to recapture the melodramatic spectacle of Jerry Goldsmith's classic 1968 soundtrack, so much so that his "tribute" to him in the "Main Title Deconstruction" seems nothing more than a blatant rip-off of Goldsmith's mysterious masterpiece. At the same time, Elfman also tries to recreate the gripping tension of his Batman pieces and seems to invoke a composition that is brutal as it is unrelenting, but turns out to be, on the other hand, nothing more than melody-challenged. While not a total disaster (the opening main titles is an instant pleaser), the album does suffer from boredom, and deafening boredom at that. We've come to expect more from such a highly rated composer. That said, probably the most enjoyable track on the CD isn't by Elfman, but by DJ king and sometime film composer Paul Oakenfeld (soundtrack composer for the Travolta vehicle Swordfish), who wraps up the soundtrack with a mix of music and dialogue from the film that seems to recall sounds executed by the Chemical Brothers on the Fight Club score. Despite Oakenfeld's excellent salvage, the Planet of the Apes soundtrack isn't even worth the plastic it was recorded on.

Elfman scores(!) again.......2002-04-19

I hadn't seen the movie when I bought the soundtrack. Once again, the evocative music inspired me to see the movie when it came out on DVD.

How to describe this composition? I think it struck a chord in my primate heritage. It is stirring, hitting your primal instincts with the visceral percussion at times. Yet it is shamelessly erotic in the very next movement. It can invoke tears of empathy, while in another passage you almost want to join in the militaristic cadence.

It's fun stuff, moving, and another Elfman score...(tiresome pun intended.)

Really Cool!.......2002-03-18

Danny Elfman gave all of us the most haunting and compelling score of all of his career. It amazing and percussive and cool, for lack of a better word. Danny Elfman is a friggin' genius and he will always live through his amazing scores. Goldsmith gave us the sparing score. The "Main Titles" of his is very mysterious and Danny's is hard and gritty, very reminiscent of "Batman", with the huge gong at the end. I loved it.

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Get this CD for the Great songs!
Huge Disappointment
Like Meredith Brooks?
Y2Kool
Brooks rules; Deconstuction Lacks

Deconstruction [ENHANCED CD]
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When Meredith Brooks broke through with her 1997 single "Bitch," you could pretty much cut the irony with a knife: a song that was meant to show off her multidimensionality (as well as that of all women) instead became a song that defined her, and in many ways limited her. With Deconstruction, Brooks seems to be trying to take down that graven image piece by piece. Sure, there's plenty of energetic, melodic guitar rock similar to that with which she scored on Blurring the Edges ("I Have Everything," "Shout," "All For Nothing"), but there's also a funky edge to her take on Melanie's "Lay Down" (featuring a guest appearance by Queen Latifah), and some lovely ballads ("Nobody's Home," "Back to Nowhere"). Her lyrics aren't particularly deep (notably the overreaching and unfortunately titled "Cosmic Woo Woo"), but Deconstruction is a follow-up effort that should put an end to the name-calling. --Daniel Durchholz

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Get this CD for the Great songs!.......2006-07-05

This is a good CD, Not a great CD...
However, it is a CD with some GREAT songs!
Sin City, Back To Eden, I Have Everything, and Careful What You Wish For, are good enough to justify the cost of the CD all by themselves, and if you like the other songs, which are still pretty good, then that is just a bonus. I believe Meredith Brooks is too important of a song writer to not be working, hopefully she will get back to work soon and make another great album like "Bad, Bad One". If you don't have this album, really, theses songs are very good. If you don't know Meredith Brooks, Start With "Bad, Bad One" or "Blurring Edges" and fall in love with her rock music for grown ups!

Huge Disappointment.......2003-09-12

"Blurring the Edges" is a really good CD that belongs right alongside efforts by Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette. This CD might as well be by Michelle Branch. It is very well put together and completely uninteresting.

Like Meredith Brooks?.......2003-03-06

If you liked Blurring the Edges, try Deconstruction. I was hesitant to purchase it because of mixed reviews, but I did and I'm certainly thankful I listened to the positive reviews and the negative ones. I'm not sure if those who weren't fans of her previous CD would enjoy it or not, but if you loved Blurring the Edges, you'll get your money's worth out of Deconstruction.

Y2Kool.......2001-08-05

I could listen to this CD for hours. In fact, I have been for the past two or three hours straight, at least.

There's just something about this music that rests at the surface, and begs to seep in.

And when the needle hits (there are actual vinyl effects, complete with surface noise from repeated play on "Bored with Myself"), I'm feeling the satisfaction of a junkie's fix.

In 2001, we know that Y2K didn't do much of anything, so that makes the opening track more fun: "...Y2K shuts down L.A./Now you got something to really figure out..." and this follows a reference to Bill and Monica. Remember them? This would be fun in an oldies show.

"Lay Down" features Queen Latifah, and it's a groovy track, I tell you, I tell you. As Frank Zappa once said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Just listen to it.

"I Have Everything" ... rocks.

"Cosmic Woo Woo" is just fun. Or is it serious contemplation? I don't know.

"Nobody's Home" keeps on the spiritual track with the lines "All she ever wanted was a place on this earth/She shouts for a savior or anyone who'll hear her." The previous "Cosmic Woo Woo" is actually wholly about spiritual issues, believe it or don't, from that title.

"All For Nothing" flirts with hip-hop, and is my favorite track here: "After eight years of sharing every dream together we don't even talk/Is that all there is?/What we stood up for Now we stand behind a million locked doors and we can't even say that we'll be friends..."

"Back to Eden" against hints at thing celestial. In fact, Meredith thanks God first in the "thank-you's."

"Bored with Myself"--aside from employing the vinyl sound effects--make mention of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis, and... Loretta Lynn? Interesting. Meredith Brooks does indeed remind me a harder-rocking Shania Twain. They probably share influences.

Infectious, infectious, infectious.

Brooks rules; Deconstuction Lacks.......2001-03-27

I am a hugh Brooks fan and I have all of her cds, but this album is so unbalenced. It has too much of a range. That could be good for some people, but not me. I'm used to one kind of Brooks that sometimes tend to go out on a limb on some songs, but on the Deconstuction cd, it was too diverse. There are so great songs on this album, but I just think the few songs are worth buying the cd used. Love Meredith Brooks though.

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Deconstruction: Celluloid Recordings
Bill Laswell
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W.O.W. Great Development
totally unique
Stellar & timeless
Hypnitizingly Brilliant
Beautiful.

Way Out West
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W.O.W. Great Development.......2003-02-26

Many of the tracks on this album are like three or four trance epics in one. They literally take you on journey. I think Sequoia is the best example of this. I'm sort of afraid to hear anything else by them, fearing I'll have to buy all their other CD's. When I first got it, I was obsessed with Gift. Then later Sequoia. Then Domination. Right now it's Dancehall Tornado that I can't get enough of. I've never had another album do that to me before.

totally unique.......2001-07-05

this album is just worth getting for one song--The Gift. the album is great, don't get me wrong, but if youre reading this review its probably because you have heard of way out west before. youll get the original mix of The Gift in this c.d. a totally awesome song that mixes the beauty of the female vocals as well as the brightest and most energetic sounds that youve ever heard.

Stellar & timeless.......2001-04-12

Way out West's eponymously titled debut album is an unsung gem of electronic dance music. Some of the tracks on this album date as far back as '94 ("Ajare"), but their timelessness shines through as they have aged well. Predominately a more sample-based and instrumental album, the majority of the tracks are introspective and require focused listening. Otherwise, one can miss the complexities lying underneath. That's not to say the album can't be enjoyed without taking notice of the said polymorphic layers. On the contraire, it can be enjoyed in almost any state of mind, as it has varying tempos and moods. It offers a hearty serving of trip hop, ambient, breakbeat, progressive house and trance, all served up on one delectable platter. Don't walk, run before it's too late and the last copy is sold. And look out for wow's new album forthcoming "Intensify" on Distinctive Records this summer (2001)!

Hypnitizingly Brilliant.......2001-03-19

This album symply rocks, and continues to rock after the thousandth time. It... you in like some sort of melodic journey. Way Out West stands alone in its own field, with its closest neighbours being Orbital or Ku-ling Bros.

Beautiful........2000-10-06

This album is actually tiled "Blue", which is the first track in the album. It had a beautiful video clip with it, starring Harry Dean Stanton in a minor role. I got it in Berlin, but never saw it in the US. The whole album starts rather melancholic, but then brightens up toward the end, and the whole thing is sort of techno dance type of music, but it has depth, even when it is up-tempo and bright. I can't really think of any other like this, but I highly reccoment it.

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Not quite as good as their first, but still a killer album
Easily Beyond 4 Stars
Speedy And Alive
The best band you've never heard...
Extreme sound engineering

Speed Ballads
Republica
Manufacturer: Deconstruction
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

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Republica
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Open Door

ASIN: B00002461G
Release Date: 1998-11-01

Tracks:

From Rush Hour With Love
Fading Of The Man
Try Everything
Luxury Cage
Faster Faster
Nothing's Feeling New
Millenium
Pretty Girl Hate
Kung Fu Movies
Pub Pusher

Album Description

The hit poppy British alternative rock trio's second album, not being released in the U.S. until 1999! 10 tracks,including the single 'From Rush Hour With Love'. A 1998 Deconstruction release.

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Not quite as good as their first, but still a killer album.......2003-02-17

You can't really say that Republica is the best band you've never heard, because "Ready To Go" is one of those songs that everyone knows but can't name the band. Rather, Republica is possibly the best band that the American mainstream flirted with but backed away from.

Their first album was wall-to-wall bombast, sort of a cross between Scooter and Blondie. This one slows down the tempo and slightly de-technofies the sound, but keeps every bit of crunchy huge-ness from the debut. At first blush, it doesn't even sound like the same band; their rock leanings come through more clearly than before. This isn't necessarily a good or bad thing. This album kind of sounds like Garbage turned up to eleven like the Spinal Tap amps.

Saffron's lyrics are interesting if not particularly insightful. A strong theme in her songs is the middle class-dweller who wants to be more, the desk worker who hits the club on the weekend and pretends to be a heavy hitter. Her singing isn't going to win any Grammys, but the emotion and power she puts into her voice captivates.

The drums and guitar work are stellar; play this on as good a stereo as you can find. This'll be in heavy rotation in my car once the upper midwest winter is vanquished and my sunroof and windows open. By the way, does anyone know where I've heard "Try Everything" before? It sounds like something MTV would use during the final scenes/credits of "Real World" or that sorority show. Anyway, buy this disc.

Easily Beyond 4 Stars.......2002-06-11

While not perfect, this is one mighty exciting album. "Faded Man" is a great ballad. Rather than Sting and Britney Spears ushering in the new millennium, it would have been great to see Republica's "Millennium" catching the world by storm on New Years Eve. Unfortunately the band broke up and their US distribution rights went to hell. The electronic production is really fantastic on this, with maybe only Econoline Crush's HDCD The Devil You Know and Garbage's self title edging it out as more complicated. The mastering is on the bright side, but tends to be revealing in a good way.

Speedy And Alive.......2002-05-08

Yes, like the title above says, the music is alive, and a lot more rock than their last masterpiece.
SpeedBallads is in a way, almost as good as the Band Garbage, if not equal. There is one song that stands out among the others on the cd. It is Luxury Cage. I think this song is the best song of all, and it seemed to draw me into the album since playing SpeedBallads.

The former group's lead singer has this stunning voice, rich with the British accent and all. I am disappointed in the fact that the band split, but it doesn't stop me from liking their great music. The front cover of the cd is nice, but what is the singer's name? I can't find her name anywhere! Isn't that funny?
Both albums don't state the band members' full names.

SpeedBallads is my new toy for a while, like all great music cds.
I have played Luxury cage so many times, that I think the neighbors are fed up of it, that's how good the song is!
I never knew any song which had the lyrics "future you, future me" in it.

When I first heard Republica, I thought of the band as rebellious and cheap, but now I think of the material they made on their cds satisfyingly entertaining. I strongly urge you to buy SpeedBallads. I don't think you will be disappointed. Hope my review helped.

The best band you've never heard..........2001-12-24

Ok, can anyone name another Republica song that isn't "Ready To Go"? Didn't think so and it's a damn shame. Therefore I DEMAND you pick up this album and play it religiously because it's just THAT GOOD. lead singer Saffron's voice bends and twists every word in every song. The music is electric, pulsating, and lots of guitar happy fun. The lyrics are stellar. STELLAR! Honestly, it baffles my mind that no one on this side of the pond really caught on to them. Songs to spin are "Try Everything", a suprisingly well done ballad, "Pretty Girl Hate" about petty jealousy, "From Rush Hour With Love" and "Faster, Faster" about te urges to slow down... Seriously, this is one of the best cd's by one of the best bands you've never heard. Pick it up along with their debut self titles disc and get enlightened.

Extreme sound engineering.......2001-03-30

This album takes a while to get you into. The difference from the first album is that now the studio work was been taken to the limit, with much more sound layers, details and applied technology. The songs are not as fast as the first CD - hence the name "ballads" - however if you love techno-rock you have to buy this album! With Republica and Garbage, the music of the future is available today.

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The Music of Charles Williams

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music
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Motion Picture Classics, Vol. 1

ASIN: B0000DJENV
Release Date: 2004-04-06

Tracks:

High Adventure (Friday Night Is Music Night)
Model Railway
Young Ballerina (The Potter's Wheel)
The Bells Of St Clements
The Dream Of Olwen
Cutty Sark
Nursery Clock
The Night Has Eyes
Devil's Galop
Stralings
The Voice Of London
The Music Lesson
Girls In Grey (TV Newsreel)
The Humming Top
Destruction By Fire
The Old Clockmaker (Jennings At School)
Little Tyrolean
Throughout The Years
Blue Devils
Jealous Lover (The Apartment)
Rhythm On Rails
Sally Tries The Ballet
Cross Country
London Fair

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Primal Deconstruction
dissent
Manufacturer: Wide Hive Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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Bleeding Together

ASIN: B000A0GPD6
Release Date: 2005-09-06

Tracks:

Deconstruction Zone
Fight Or Flight
Unison
Elementaire
Walk On Black Water
Incantation 15
Kaleidosouls
Cryptology
Fiver's Eyes
Native Time
Earth Shift
Pouvez-Vous Voir Le Soleil

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Did It Again
Kylie Minogue
Manufacturer: Deconstruction
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004WQUW

Average customer rating:

One of the World's best CD's, period!
This just stays in the player most times.
A great comp by one of the dominating labels in dance

Deconstruction Presents
Hed Boys , and The Grid
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Hardcore Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Big Beat | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Techno-House | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Landslide (Original Mix Edit) - Harmonix
The Gift - Way Out West
That Look (Hani's Club Look II Radio Edit) - De'Lacy
Everybody Everybody (Extended Mix) - Black Box
Anthem - N-Joi
I'm Rushin' - Bump
Girls And Boys (DJ Duke's Master Blaster Mix) - Hed Boys
Swamp Thing (Southern Comfort Mix) - The Grid
Hideaway (Deep Dish Remix) - De'Lacy
Be As One (Radio Edit) - Sasha And Maria
Love Me Now - Secret Knowledge
Southside (Extended Mix) - Dave Clark
Dirt - Death In Vegas
Work Mi' Body - Monkey Mafia
Packet Of Peace (Chemical Brothers Remix) - Lionrock

Customer Reviews:

One of the World's best CD's, period!.......2007-04-03

In agreement with the other reviewers, this is by far one of the best CD's ever made. If you have a great (or killer, like mine) stereo, you must listen to this at high volume. It absolutely rocks. If I lose this CD again, I will purchase it again and again (but will back it up this time).

This just stays in the player most times........2006-06-29

With over 200 cd's from this genre in my collection. some just keep making it back into the player again and again. This is one of them. Buy it.

A great comp by one of the dominating labels in dance.......1998-10-31

This comp has a great smattering of old and new. I found myself thinking back to the good ole club days of 1993 when Justin Robertson was the man, and Cat-in-the-Hat hats (arrgh) were in vogue. Deconstruction might be one of the more commercial labels in 'underground' dance, but thier stuff has always been, and still is, tops. This is great stuff, and a lot of fun.

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