Manic Compression

Manic Compression

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Revelation: 43

What more can be said about Quicksand? This album is destined to be great, an aural assault upon the senses. Produced by Don Fury & Wharton Tiers. Vinyl is not dead.

Tracks:

Backward
Delusional
Divorce
Simpleton
Skinny (It's Overflowing)
Thorn In My Side
Landmine Spring
Blister
Brown Gargantuan
East 3rd St.
Supergenius
It Would Be Cooler If You Did

Album Description

Revelation: 43

What more can be said about Quicksand? This album is destined to be great, an aural assault upon the senses. Produced by Don Fury & Wharton Tiers. Vinyl is not dead.

Customer Reviews:

Not bad.......2007-05-05

Not bad but a bit of a let down after their first album slip. Sound quality is pretty poor and the vocals are realy muffled. The band sound like they are playing on the other side of the building. Some pretty good tracks on this one though just poor sound quality lets it down.

Good, slightly obscure CD.......2006-05-15

Story is the band broke up around the time this was released, which is probably why these guys never reached the stature of bands like Soundgarden - in other words, on the radio but still good. I got this real cheap about 10 years ago and it still rocks.

Good But Not "Slip".......2006-02-21

Quicksand's 1992 effort "Slip" is a classic and I highly recommend it. However, I wish I could say the same for Manic Compression. Though it has just a handful of good songs, it just does not measure up to Slip. I bought this when it came out in 1995 and all I could remember is how disappointed I was and even more when they broke up. There are not many memorable tracks on this and the production is just sub-par, which I was surprised to see due to the fact Don Fury (Slip, Warrior Soul, Helmet) produced it. Walter Schreifels and Tom Capone are excellent songwriters and veterans of the New York Hardcore scene. Their combined resume is impressive with Youth of Today, Bold, Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, CIV, Rival Schools, Handsome and Instruction, all of which are worth checking out. These guys seem to get record deals with ease but the problem is these great bands never last. This might not be Quicksand's best but it is much better than most bands around today that call themselves hardcore.

THIS IS THE HEAVIEST HARDEST LOUDEST ALBUM YOU WILL EVER HEAR.......2005-10-23

I bought this album ten years ago. 1000 albums later there is still no equal by any other band. This album will give you brain damage. Which is probably why my review isn't very coherent. This album had sex with your mom. There are tiny infant eardrums waiting to be exploited by this album. Think fugazi, helmet, snapcase, glassjaw, old soundgarden, slayer, unsane, unecessary violence, pro death bumperstickers, unrest, rioting in the streets, turn your amplifiers up to 11 and cry yourself to sleep. You just found nirvana. oh yeah this goes double for slip.

A tired remake of "Slip".......2005-07-28

For some reason the band had the sophmore blues with this recording. It just seems like a tired rearrangement of "Slip." Personally, I like it but I would rather listen to its predecessor.