Slow Deep and Hard

1. Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity

2. Untermensch

3. Xero Tolerance

4. Prelude to Agony

5. Glass Walls of Limbo [Dance Mix]

6. Misinterpretation of Silence and Its Disastrous Consequences

7. Gravitational Constant

Slow Deep and Hard,Type O Negative,Roadrunner Records,Alternative Metal,Goth Metal,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock

Average customer rating: Type O's coming of age Their heaviest - NOT the band you know & love! Buy this for 'Glass Walls of Limbo', the rest is icing... Only one worth owning This is Awesome

Slow, Deep and Hard Type O Negative Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Goth | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Origin of The Feces World Coming Down Life Is Killing Me October Rust Bloody Kisses ASIN: B000000H7Q Release Date: 1991-06-14

Tracks:

1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
2. Der Untermensch
3. Xero Tolerance
4. Prelude To Agony
5. Glass Walls Of Limbo (Dance Mix)
6. The Misinterpretation Of Silence And Its Disastrous Consequences
7. Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2

Customer Reviews:

Type O's coming of age.......2007-01-24

When I was a kid I loved this album. The music was surging and slow, as the title promised. But now that I'm older, I'm kinda embarrassed by this album. Musically it's still top-notch -- it's the foundation on which Type O built its languid melodies, distorted bass hooks and rolling atmosphere -- but the lyrics make me cringe. Aside from "Unsuccessfully Coping," which is crude and mean and wretched, sure, but also deeply honest, the rest of this goes overboard. "Der Untermensch" is surprisingly political and judgmental, calling welfare recipients the scum of the earth. In "Xero Tolerance" Peter fantasizes about killing his cheating girlfriend from "Unsuccessfully" with an axe. Then, to wrap up the cheating triptych suite, in "Prelude to Agony" he imagines -- I'm not making this up -- raping her with a jack-hammer, unfortunately with sound effects of the incident included. I understand where his pain comes from, that horrible primitive feeling of hate so close to love when you realize your lover is not who you thought she was, but still, this is too much. After that, it's basically a cool but overlong experimental collage called "Glass Walls of Limbo." Followed by silence. And then a song about killing yourself. It made for a great T-shirt design, but "Gravity" is best heard in its live mix on "Origin of the Feces." Come to think of it, all the songs sound better -- less serious, more artful, better played -- on "Origin." I'm not saying this is a terrible album. It's just hard to listen to Peter's vindictive fantasies against an ex and calling people who receive welfare a "waste of life." (yes, that's an actual lyric) No thanks.

Their heaviest - NOT the band you know & love!.......2005-05-30

I love Type O Negative. Peter Steele, the singer/bassist, is my all-time, biggest hero. If you're a new TON fan, you'll be surprised when you hear this album. But if you've been a fan of Steele's work since he was in Carnivore, this is old news. But this review is mostly for new fans. As the title says, this album isn't like TON, this is a much heavier, angrier album than what they are today. This is what Carnivore would sound like if they had a keyboard player. Read on for the tracks...

1. Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity - 99999999999999999999999999/5 My favorite Type O Negative song ever! Possibly their heaviest song ever. This is part 1 of the story: The boyfriend finding out his girlfriend cheated on him.
2. Untermensch - 5/5
3. Xero Tolerance - 5/5 Part 2 of the story: The boyfriend killing the guy his girlfriend was dating.
4. Prelude to Agony - 5/5 Part 3 of the story: The boyfriend killing the cheating girlfriend.
5. Glass Walls of Limbo [Dance Mix] - N/A Weird...
6. Misinterpretation of Silence and Its Disastrous Consequences - N/A STUPID! Just one minute of silence!
7. Gravitational Constant - 5/5 Exellent closer.

If you're new to TON, this isn't the place to start - That's what October Rust is there for.

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Buy this for 'Glass Walls of Limbo', the rest is icing..........2005-03-27

I bought this after having immersed myself in Bloody Kisses and October Rust. I didn't get it--at first. The sound is primitive compared to BK and OR, but this is a 'small' album. Also, it is the only TON album not produced by Silver/Steele. I guess it can be looked at as the intersecting point of Carnivore and TON. There's a faraway quality to a lot of TON's music, as if it was made and (originally) played 7-800 years ago. The main track is the first one. It details the reason for the album while the others are insights into Peter Steele's struggle in dealing with it. After many, many, many listens, I am most impressed with 'Glass Walls of Limbo'. For a band to put a track like this on an album, AND let it stand on its own, is a testament to the creativity of Peter Steele. It's not music per se, yet the layered (dark) chanting speaks volumes without ever uttering an actual word. To me, it is about soldiering on through the 'winter' of our lives--those times of depression, frustration, gloom, negativity, and just that general feeling that everything sucks, and we're powerless to change the monotony of our jobs, relationships, our days and our nights--that we're stuck in one long 'Groundhog Day'. I find this track especially apropos for rainy/windy/dark days or nights. It has a very medieval feel. In some ways, this track represents Peter's life--loud, strong, sad, dark, depressing, thunderous/big, etc. I like the other tracks, but I hum 'Glass Walls of Limbo'. To me, it's the most unique one and, by itself, makes this album a must have.

Only one worth owning.......2005-03-26

This is a great punk/metal album.....the only good Type O album in fact. Check out Carnivore instead of wasting time on their later crappola.

This is Awesome.......2005-01-08

I bought this CD after buying World Coming Down, Bloody Kisses, Life is Killing Me and October Rust. I read about The Origin of the Feces being a fake Live concert of Slow, Deep, And Hard, and thought i better buy this one first as i might not like it. (I was very wrong, i love it.) Anyway, now i have Origin of the Feces and that is also great. I think Type O are a band that you can almost chill out too. Kinda rock/metal/alternative. But this CD, Slow, Deep and Hard, is Punky in parts, but also...For example, on songs like "Unsuccessfully coping with the beauty of Infidelity" and "Gravitational Constant"...The songs are long, and go through so many changes. Some of the changes are so good, but even so, you don't want to fast forward it up to the "good" bits. Simply because every bit is a "good" bit. If that makes sense. I think it would to Type O fans. But anyway.

Type O Negative are one of my favourite bands along with (the very different) Meshuggah, and Strapping Young Lad, through to Pig Destroyer and Vital Remains. This is awesome, and speaking directly to Type O fans, if you see this album, buy it. You just won't be disappointed. 5/5

Average customer rating: ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES Enjoiyable, but lacking, too.

Handel: Belshazzar Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Minuets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Pinnock, Trevor | ( P ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Samson Handel - Joshua / Kirkby, Bowman, Oliver, Ainsley, George, The King's Consort Handel: Alexander's Feast Handel - Deborah / Y. Kenny · Gritton · Denley · Bowman · M. George · The King's Consort · King Handel: Radamisto ASIN: B0001ZWGHY Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire!
3. Thou, God Most High, And Thou Alone
4. The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh
5. Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!
6. Behold, By Persia's Hero Made
7. Well May They Laugh/Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul
8. Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief
9. Dry Thoes Unavailing Tears
10. Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem/Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates
11. Now, Tell Me, Gobrias
12. Behold The Monstrous Human Beast
13. Can You Then Think It Strange
14. Great God! Who, Yet But Darkly Known
15. My Friends, Be Confident
16. All Empires Upon God Depend
17. Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!
18. Rejoyce, My Countrymen
19. Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!

Tracks:

1. Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!
2. For You, My Friends
3. The Leafy Honours Of The Field
4. It Is The Custom, I May Say, The Law
5. Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command
6. They Tell You True
7. Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!
8. By Slow Degrees The Wrath Of God
9. See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!
10. You See, My Friends, A Path
11. Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near
12. To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!
13. Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire
14. Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess
15. Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?
16. Call All My Wise Men

Tracks:

1. A Singony (Allegro Postillions)
2. Ye Sages! Welcome Always To Your King/Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes
3. Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!
4. Oh King, Live For Ever!
5. No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be
6. Yet, To Obey His Dread Command
7. Oh Sentence To Severe!
8. Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!
9. You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace
10. Oh Glorious Prince!
11. Alternate Hopes And Fears
12. Fain Would I Hope
13. Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?
14. My Hopes Revive
15. Bel Boweth Down!
16. I Thank, Thee, Sesach
17. A Martial Symphony
18. To Pow'e Immortal My First Thanks
19. Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias
20. Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow
21. Say, Venerable Prophet
22. Tell It Out Among The Heathen
23. Yes, I Will Build Thy City
24. I Will Magnify Thee

Customer Reviews:

ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES.......2005-06-19

One question I might find among the more difficult in my life would be - which is my favourite Handel oratorio? I suspect that my answer would generally be 'the one I heard most recently', and that, as I write this, is Belshazzar. It is a magnificent thing, a heavenly thing. It has taken me longer than it should have to come to an appreciation of what makes Handel the phenomenon - as a genius, as an artist, as a craftsman - that he is, but I am comforted to reflect that no less a genius than Haydn, at the age of nearly 70 gaining a more thorough knowledge of Handel in performance, was driven to say that he felt a mere apprentice. In his sense of how to pace a dramatic narrative, in his instinct for how to use the human voice in song and above all in chorus, in the matchless flexibility and adroitness he displays at word-setting and in the audacity of his melodic and harmonic effects I can think of nobody who can approach Handel on his own terms.

Belshazzar was not a great success at the box-office, although this may have had more to do with difficulties in the casting than because it was deemed insufficiently biblical for oratorio, which seems to have been the fate of Hercules. It seems to me to be perfectly well described as oratorio in other ways too, with (for one thing) the extensive use of the chorus that we find in, say, Samson but not in Hercules. The one passage that cries out for visual effects is of course the apparition of the moving finger itself. Even here the composer can go a long way with sheer power of suggestion, by the strange unaccompanied violin figure creeping upwards and the frightened brevity of the vocal numbers. Otherwise for me Belshazzar is as much an oratorio as Samson is. It has the same librettist too, the crusty and formidable Jennens, who had also collaborated with Handel on Saul and on Messiah itself. Jennens' full text is not provided, but I think if you read the synopsis first and then follow the work from the headlines to each number you will have no difficulty in catching the words, so clear is the enunciation by soloists and chorus alike. As usual, Handel was driven to make alterations to the score for practical reasons. He had been a little concerned about its length, roughly 2 hours and 50 minutes in this performance, but where he wishes to be expansive he gives us full measure - two arias in Act I scene 4 take well over 7 minutes each. The liner-essay (a good one, by Anthony Hicks) goes into the issue of the version of the score used here, and I personally have no problem with it.

I have no faults to find with the performance in any way. Pinnock is an established specialist, the instruments are period instruments and vocal cadenzas at the end of the arias are kept minimal. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, James Bowman and David Wilson-Johnson are tried and trusted Handel singers and at their best here, and Nicolas Robertson and Richard Wistreich in the smaller parts are every bit as good. The part of Cyrus is a soprano part, taken by Catherine Robbin, and when I thought I heard just one touch of strain in `Destructive War' in the final scene she makes up for it instantly in her superb duet with Arleen Auger in the following number. Auger as Nitocris the mother of Belshazzar has the biggest part, and she covers herself with glory all the way through.

The recording is perfect, and when I saw an aria entitled `Destructive War, thy limits know' near the end I felt a sharp sense of irony in the year 2005. Cyrus, Handel, Jennens, you should all have been living at this hour.

Enjoiyable, but lacking, too........2004-08-16

This 3CD set of George Frederic Handel's (1685-1759) "Belshazzar", from Archiv Production, a division of Universal Music, is proof again that transfer from vinyl to tape to disc brings with it improvements in listening that make the purchase a worthwhile addition to anyone's listening library. Written in 1744, "Belshazzar" is an oratorio in the operatic style that is wonderful oratorio, but lacking the true depth one expects to hear in an opera. London opera audiences of Handel's day agreed, as both "Belshazzar" and Handel's other offering of the period in the same style, "Hercules", were not terribly successful. Instead of the scheduled 24 performances only 16 were given and Handel never offered a full season of oratorio again. The Libretto by Charles Jennens (1700-1773) is, as the production notes say, meant "not only to show the fall of Babylon but to show it as a fulfillment of divine prediction and to confirm the biblical testimony by reference to classical history." There's only one problem, as good a quality as the CDs are, it is not possible to follow the full libretto and the accompanying booklet includes no text, which is a shame. I think the listening experience would have been increased immeasurably if one was able to follow the text of what is being sung. Nonetheless the dramatic narrative is fluid and even, and the English Concert and Choir provide nice balance to the less full vocal passages, as in Disc 3s "Oh Glorious prince", cut 10. There is enough of this throughout to keep one's interest, but disappointing if what one expects is another ""Messiah".

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