Human Remains

Human Remains

Track Listings

1. Gone to Texas

2. Room to Room

3. Back to Black

4. Wilderness of This World

5. Little Sandy

6. Buck Naked

7. What of Alicia

8. That Kind of Girl

9. Galleria Dele Armi

10. Crisis Site 13

11. Peggy Legg

12. After the Fall

13. Flatland Boogie

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Allen isn't as well known as his old pals from Lubbock, Texas--Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock--but he shares their slightly twisted, strangely inspired approach to country-folk-rock songwriting. On previous recordings, Allen's smart, sardonic lyrics have often been undermined by his dry, cramped voice and flat arrangements, but on this new album he gets help from such longtime friends and admirers as Ely, David Byrne, Lucinda Williams, Will Sexton, and Charlie Sexton. They put the musical flesh on Allen's verbal skeleton and make this idiosyncratic but gifted songwriter a lot more approachable. Allen serves up Jerry Jeff Walker-like barroom anthems about Texas, Talking Heads-like contemplations of modern society and Ely-like story songs about the border. --Geoffrey Himes

Tracks:

Gone To Texas
Room To Room
Back To Black
Wilderness Of This World
Little Sandy
Buck Naked
What Of Alicia
That Kind Of Girl
Galleria Dele Armi
Crisis Site 13
Peggy Legg
After The Fall
Flatland Boogie

Amazon.com

Allen isn't as well known as his old pals from Lubbock, Texas--Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock--but he shares their slightly twisted, strangely inspired approach to country-folk-rock songwriting. On previous recordings, Allen's smart, sardonic lyrics have often been undermined by his dry, cramped voice and flat arrangements, but on this new album he gets help from such longtime friends and admirers as Ely, David Byrne, Lucinda Williams, Will Sexton, and Charlie Sexton. They put the musical flesh on Allen's verbal skeleton and make this idiosyncratic but gifted songwriter a lot more approachable. Allen serves up Jerry Jeff Walker-like barroom anthems about Texas, Talking Heads-like contemplations of modern society and Ely-like story songs about the border. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Highly Original.......2001-10-11

It is hard to stop smiling while listening to Mr. Allen record his own work. As someone who is regrettably well into middle age, many of the cuts gently take one back to one's early teenage years.

Just The Best.......2001-10-01

This is just simply the best Terry Allen you will hear. Teamed with David Byrne and Lucinda williams and Loyde Maines, this is a true sample of Texas Music at its best. Terry Allen can put in words, feelings,thoughts and emotions things that others cant even think. Flatland Boogie "headlights are shining on all we ever need to know" sums it up. A must for any fan of Texas poets. With this one Robert Earl and Steve Earle must both be jealous.

Close to being an insult to country music.......2001-03-20

I got to level with you. Terry Allen leaves me feeling like everybody's laughing but I'm not getting the joke. He has No Tunes - the excuses for tunes he uses are like grotesque parodies of what other people think country music is, as is his accent. He comes on like a guy with an attitude, and the attitude sounds interesting, but when you look further his songs just shuffle cliches around and go nowhere with them...And the leaden tempos he uses incessantly make me want to tear my hair...

Excellent, gritty, witty country.......2000-05-02

This is excellent, gritty, witty country in the vein of newer Johnny Cash (Rick Rubin era). Buy this. Also, buy Human Remains' _Using Sickness as a Hero_. It'll show you the Pennsylvania side of grity, wit, and country masculinity.

fresh, original , has the best of everything........1999-09-28

Just heard it for the first time 1 week ago. All the songs are good, gone to Texas is the best.

Average customer rating:

Complete Secular Songs (3cd)

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000DJENT
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Average customer rating:

The definitive collecitons
OO yeahh!!!!
Ah, the perfume of detritus.

Where Were You When: 1989-1995
Human Remains
Manufacturer: Relapse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000062Y7T
Release Date: 2002-03-19

Tracks:

Patterns In The Grass
Forked Tongue
When Forever Becomes Until
Weeding Out The Thorns
Waste Of Time
Rote
Chewed Up & Spit Out
Swollen
Human
Beyond Human Perception
Spoiling Of Beauty
Intro/Mechanical
Fragrance Of Souls
Symptoms Of The New Society
Pretty Build-UP

Tracks:

Symptoms Of The New Society
Blessed Paradise
The Malignance
Human
Imagine
Chemical Life
Fictitiously Vivid
Of The Same Flesh
Sight Beyond Sickness
Human
Rote
Swollen
Mechanical
Chewed Up & Spit Out
Rote
Weeding Out The Thorns
Swollen
Human

Customer Reviews:

The definitive collecitons.......2007-03-19

What can I say... you either love or hate this type of sound.

But if you are a fan of the Human Remains only commercial release
Using Sickness as a Hero (later Burnt by the Sun and Dead Guy)
then you owe yourself a listen to this collection.

Some of the best versions of their songs are only available as demos.
And this is the only place to get these...and their whole catalog.

OO yeahh!!!!.......2004-07-23

Human remains's music is like a brick hitting you while some one else cuts your feet very slowly.Like how that sound ?Good!Brutal andin your face! Own this !

Ah, the perfume of detritus........2002-06-02

For all you late-coming grind and "metalcore" fans, it's finally here, a catalogue of your godfathers' works. This release includes a handful of the Human Remains's tracks spanning 1990(?)-1995. Records included are:

1)Happy Days 7"
2)Relapse CDEP ("Using Sickness as a Hero")
3)a track from the "With Your Teeth" comp
4)Admirations Most Deep and Foul 7"
5)the 1990 demo
6)the 1992 demo
7)the "Metal Blade" demo
8)the original "Using Sickness as a Hero" recording. (It was later rerecorded because the band wasn't happy with it.)
And one short, unnecessary unreleased electronic preview track from post-band The Skies Denied.

It's a good release and makes available dozens of out-of-print songs you'd pay too much for on ebay, but has a few shortcomings. One being the lack of information on the releases, (i.e. years, labels) of which I'm not sure are even completely represented. The original "Using Sickness..." recording, for instance, only has five tracks whereas the later recording that Relapse released in '95 had seven. The liners are pretty weak, also. There is virtually no information on the band, only who the members were and when their first and last shows were played. One can only guess, I suppose...

Additionally, several of the tracks are EXTREMELY lo-fi. The 1990 demo, for instance, sounds like it was ripped from an old audio cassette. The "Metal Blade Demo" clips at every grind part and even has a skip at the beginning of the first track where it sounds like some one accidentally hit record when trying to play a cassette. This is to be expected of 10 year old demos, however, so no hard feelings.

On the positive side, we see a nice collective perspective on the band that forsees their development from gritty, indistinguishable grind to fast, technical grind/metalcore. Of course, a number of OOP releases are included as well as the demos that you most likely would never see in actual form.

Tracks:

What Is The Moment Of Truth [Spoken Word by It-Clings]
A Day any Year Now
Cold Eyes
Becoming One
Bleed
Between The Lines
Haunted Memories
One More Time
Try To Forget
Everytime
Only Human Remains

Product Description

Dependent's sole newcomer release in 2005 showcases an unusually hard sound for the label: "Only Human Remains", the debut album from Canada's Fractured, is simultaneously aggressive, club-friendly and complex. For those who require comparisons, perhaps Endzeit-Electro meets Mentallo & The Fixer will give you a rough idea. Fractured has long been praised as one of the best unsigned bands around in a diverse array of Internet forums. Dependent label boss Stefan Herwig: "We really didn't want to sign any newcomer bands in 2005, and certainly not any Endzeitelectro bands. But when we heard Fractured we just couldn't say 'no'. The combination of hard electronics and complexity is extremely impressive."

Customer Reviews:

:).......2006-04-09

Unique Industrial and EBM like I've never heard. Includes great dancefloor beats and distortion--track 2 is phenomenal: the track breaks in parts to make it a complete work of art. Recommended if you like Suicide Commando and Combichrist. 100%

~DJ Raven~
Missoula, MT

Average customer rating:

Rich an creamy....Just the way I like It...
A little gore for ya

Using Sickness as a Hero
Human Remains
Manufacturer: Relapse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Weeding Out The Thorns
Waste Of Time
Rote
Chewed Up And Spit Out
Swollen
Human
Beyond Human Perception

Customer Reviews:

Rich an creamy....Just the way I like It..........2001-04-24

This now defunct band features one of my favorite drummers, namely Dave Witte, of Discordance Axis/Burnt by the Sun fame, and that alone spells out quality music...

Technical death/Grind with hard-core leanings á la Dillinger Ecsape Plan is the name of the game here... and they do it just as good as Dillinger... Tight as hell...

The "rich and creamy" sample from one of my favorite films "BrainDead" is just the icing on the cake...

Too bad they broke up...

A little gore for ya.......2000-05-02