Fighting the World

Fighting the World

Track Listings

1. Fighting the World

2. Blow Your Speakers

3. Carry On

4. Violence and Bloodshed

5. Defender

6. Drums of Doom

7. Holy War

8. Master of Revenge

9. Black Wind, Fire and Steel

Tracks:

Fighting The World
Blow Your Speakers
Carry On
Violence And Bloodshed
Defender
Drums Of Doom
Holy War
Master Of Revenge
Black Wind, Fire And Steel

Customer Reviews:

FIGHTING THE WORLD INDEED.......2007-05-13

Excellent album and as far as I can tell, one of Manowar's best. Every track gets the blood pumping with fury. The stand outs are Fighting The World, Holy War and Black Wind, Fire And Steel. Defender is a nice track with Orson Welles lending his booming voice to the triumph and the glory. If you love true metal, and you don't own this album, than get it now!

Beginning of the decline.......2006-12-13

It is sad to see that almost every reviewer rates this album either 5 or 1 stars, both of which are totally undeserved. Let's try to put "Fighting the World" in the perspective of Manowar's entire career and give it a rating that is not blinded by emotions or nostalgia.

Basically, this was supposed to be Manowar's great breakthrough album, as the boys were carried by a major record company for the first time. All the macho theatrics about "true metal" aside, this was also clearly the most commercially sounding album by Manowar up to that point. It succeeded in reaching a larger audience but failed to make a really big impact in the US market. And so began the decline of Manowar as power metal's number one act, and in fact the decline of power metal as a serious genre (see also the later albums of Helloween, Virgin Steele), before bands like Blind Guardian, Hammerfall and Therion somewhat restored its reputation.

Let's now turn to the music. There are some great melodies on this album, but these are often spoiled by an "MTV-friendly" sound and a very simplistic approach (which became the main characteristics of Manowar from this album onwards). The opening singalong-chant of Carry On already foreshadows the kind of ridicule that would culminate in later Manowar "hits" such as "Hail and Kill" and "The Sons of Odin".

If only they had recorded the title track, "Carry On", and "Holy War" in a less commercial fashion, and combined them with one or two more songs of the calibre of "Black Wind, Fire and Steel" (the only truly classic song on the album), instead of making idiotic attempts at hit-writing like "Blow Your Speakers". Then they would have had an album equally good as those that Manowar will be rightly remembered for ("Hail to England" and "Battle Hymns"). Alas, this was not to be, and so my advice regarding this album is to download "Black Wind, Fire and Steel" on your mp3 player, and to stay away from the album as a whole.

The first time I heard a band and liked them instantly..........2006-04-19

This was the first albumn I heard from ManOWar, with Black Wind Fire and Steel astonishing me with such technical excellence. The whole ManOWar experience turned out to be great, creating an atmosphere with the music, just as they intended for the listener.I just had to have it. It felt amazing to have it on CD at the time too (and was the best produced CD I had at the time too). Whilst Suicidal Tendencies have to be the best for thrash, ManOWar come a close second. The vocal are incredible, the pace charging you like a battery, and it makes no excuses for what it is, 'it does what is says on the tin'.
Oh, and make sure you get 'Sign of the Hammer', be a shame to miss out on Guyana and Thor.

The best album of Manowar.......2006-02-24

Fighting the world, Defender. It's the kind of old and good heavy metal we deserve. Guitar riffs that are very agressive and kill our brains while listening....from a brazilian fan since 1984.

I admit it...I love this album.......2006-01-22

Ok, I realize many will think I'm trapped in my angry adolescence for owning, let alone liking this CD. But if any inch of you enjoys good old-fashioned hard rock then this CD is for you. These guys on the surface seem over the top...but they can play, sing/scream, and write some really good hard rock. There is no glam metal with these guys... no "baby, baby love me" crap; no Manowar takes an almost operatic and sometimes militant approach to their music. It is heavy with a capital H and bigger than life. Defender with narration by Orson Wells is great anthem. Blow Your Speakers is great fun. Production on this CD is ahead of its time- it sounds great for an '80s recording. It is also great music for lifting and working out.

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Now it's possible to get your Partch all in a row

The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Album Description

This newly remastered reissue marks a welcome return to the catalog of the first volume of the classic 4-CD collection that was formerly available on the CRI label. The works recorded on this disc span the first six years of what Harry Partch (1901-1974), slightly tongue-in-cheek, called the "third period" of his creative life. They show him moving away from the obsession with "the intrinsic music of spoken words" that had characterized his earlier output (the vocal works of 1930-33 and 1941-45) and towards an instrumental idiom, predominantly percussive in nature. This path was to take him through the "music-dance drama" King Oedipus (1951)—-the culmination of his "spoken word" manner—to the "dance satire" The Bewitched (1954-55), in which his new percussive idiom manifests itself. The three works on this disc show Partch before, during, and after this period of transition. In their quiet, forlorn way, the Eleven Intrusions are among the most compelling and beautiful of Partch's works. The individual pieces were composed at various times between August 1949 and December 1950, and only later gathered together as a cycle. Nonetheless they form a unified whole, with a nucleus of eight songs framed by two instrumental preludes and an essentially instrumental postlude. Although foreshadowed by the dance sequences of King Oedipus, the Plectra and Percussion Dances (1952) are the first of Partch's major works to be wholly instrumental in conception. They stand in relation to Oedipus as a satyr play in relation to a Greek tragedy—hence the work's subtitle, "Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater." He felt that after the prolonged period of composition and production of Oedipus it was "almost a necessity to give vent to feelings and ideas, whims and caprices, even nonsense, that seem to have no place in tragedy." The final work on this disc is Ulysses at the Edge, written at Partch's studio at Gate 5 in July 1955. Ulysses, which Partch describes as a "minor adventure in rhythm," is unique among his mature compositions in that, in its original form, it did not call for any of his own instruments. The version recorded here, for alto and baritone saxophones, Diamond Marimba, Boo, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, and speaking voice, is considered the third version of the piece.

Customer Reviews:

Now it's possible to get your Partch all in a row.......2006-02-20

Harry Partch is the quintissential mad genius of music--his image of music that was non-Eurocentric led to him devising his own tonal scale based on ancient Greek and Asian methods and then creating his own instruments. This series release of Partch music lets one organize his Partch tastes and get a real sense of his progress through time. This disc is superb for the Intrusions, ghostly little pieces that were my first introduction to this fine composer. I would also highly recommend volume 3, which has Barstow, one of my favorite Partch pieces.

Be prepared. This is classical music you have not been prepared for. If you're already a fan of Partch, aren't you glad SOMEONE is getting all his amazing stuff together in one tightly knit package?

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