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Retro-technical themes are conveyed in the music, and also in Shellac's packaging--the compact discs sport pro-vinyl messages, and the vinyl sleeves are intricately packaged and designed. Titles, like those of the previous three releases, RUDE GESTURE: A PICTORAL HISTORY, URANUS, and BIRD IS THE MOST POPULAR FIGURE, all seven-inch vinyl singles, hint at humor as artistic expression. With a heavy, linear sound, Shellac manages to be both nerdy and head banging.
Featuring indie rock anti-Svengali Steve Albini, the more organically minded Bob Weston and tumultuous timekeeper Todd Trainer, this is Shellac's long awaited first album. Shellac makes the complex simple using churning, melodic guitar licks and Albini's signature speak-sing-yell voice. On "Song of the Minerals," the squawking vocal, "It's all right if it makes you feel better," is repeated over a roiling bass line, interjected with a saw-like, circular guitar pedal-induced noise. Most of the songs are similarly constructed, the words fitting like puzzle pieces in a grand rock scheme.
Shellac: Steve Albini (guitar); Robert Spurr Weston IV (bass); Todd Stanford Trainer (drums).
Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.174) - "...Steve Albini's SWAT trio...make an astonishingly Crimson-like noise--wind-shear guitar distortion, intense rhythm math....The spirit and velocity are born more of flamethrower vengeance than beat-science dreams, but...hit the spot just the same." Shellac At Action Park Songs At Action Park Music Review Purchase At Action Park CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Rapeman Two Nuns And A Pack Mule CD (1989)
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| | Slint Spiderland CD (1991)
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| | Shellac Terraform CD (1998)
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Three and a half years is a long time between albums, especially for indie rock bands, but Steve Albini and Bob Weston were busy with their respective production ...
| | Shellac 1000 Hurts CD (2000)
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Don't expect 1000 Hurts to open your ears to anything new. Shellac's sound hasn't developed much. Are they yanking chains by periodically releasing selections from one extremely fruitful session? Only the band and a few tape operators know. No other band sounds like them, which legitimizes this status quo. The jagged scrapes of Steve Albini's guitar, the somewhat laggard bass from Bob Weston, and the awkward-yet-steady time keeping of Todd Trainer's drums remain in top form. For what it's worth, Albini's guitar does seem to gain more grace as the years go on -- just watch out for the ugly jazz fusion lick that ends "Canaveral." Raw, no-frills production? Absence of overdubs? Goofy time signatures? They're all a part of the cauldron. As with the band's previous LPs, you get healthy doses of extended hypnotic doodling, rumbling mid-tempo tantrums, ...
| | My Bloody Valentine Loveless CD (1991)
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| | Rodan Rusty CD (1994)
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| | J J Johnson Quintergy CD (1991)
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| | Fairuz Kifak Inta CD (2004)
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| | Rolling Stones More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) CDs (1972)
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When you're anthologizing the Rolling Stones, one of the first things you must accept is that you're doomed to failure. No one album can possibly tell the story of the band that's explored so many different musical avenues and recorded so many memorable songs. Still, the double-disc best of HOT ROCKS, and this, its sequel, come perilously close. This set wisely doesn't attempt to be comprehensive. Instead, it just picks out various gems from different points in the band's development.
Their R&B/roots period is well-represented by covers of "It's All Over Now" and "Not Fade Away." "She's A Rainbow" and "2000 Light Years From Home" are monuments to the band's psychedelic phase. "No Expectations" and "Let It Bleed" are bluesy tunes that cut to the quick, emphasizing the Stones' gift for visceral compositions and the sound that defined what was--arguably--their greatest period (the late '60s). Though HOT ROCKS is the place to turn for a comprehensive cross section of the band's biggest and most essential hits, MORE HOT ROCKS is an excellent companion piece, bringing together some of the Stones' lesser known but equally satisfying work.
Hot Rocks covers most of the monster hits from the Stones' first decade that remained in radio rotation for decades to come. More Hot Rocks goes for the somewhat smaller hits, some of the better album tracks, and a whole LP side's worth of rarities that hadn't yet been available in the United States when this compilation was released in 1972. The material isn't as famous as what's on Hot Rocks, but the music is almost as excellent, including such vital cuts as "Not Fade Away," "It's All Over Now," "The Last Time," "Lady Jane," the psychedelic "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow," "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?," "Out of Time," "Tell Me," and "We Love You." The eight rarities are pretty good as well, including their 1963 debut single "Come On," early R&B covers of "Fortune Teller" and "Bye Bye Johnnie," ...
| | Gospel Enforcers There's Still Room CD (2004)
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| | Ai No Solea CD (2004) (Import) Japan
$49.95 | | Garage Beat '66 Vol. 5: Readin' Your Will! CD (2005)
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Sundazed's excellent Garage Beat '66 series doesn't lose momentum on its fifth volume, Readin' Your Will! Where the previous four installments focused almost exclusively on bands that aped the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, this set digs into the trippier, psychedelic side of garage rock with a set of 20 tracks recorded between 1964 and 1968. There's still some straight-ahead rock & roll here, such as the Arkay IV's "Little Girl" or the Heart Beats' take on "Little Latin Lupe Lu," but there's a heavier dose of spacy harmonies, jangling guitars, fuzz tones, and swirling organs here than on previous installments of the Garage Beat '66 series. After four volumes of pile-driving garage, this comes as a welcome change of pace, particularly because there are a lot of quite excellent singles here. A lot of this leans toward the menacing side of Texas garage rock, à la 13th Floor Elevators, but there are gentler moments like the Thingies' "I'm Going Ahead" that helps make this the most musically diverse and enjoyable ...
| | Linda Perry In Flight CD (1996)
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| | Jae-P Best... 20 Exitos CD (2007)
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| | 50 Years Of Dave Brubeck: Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007 CD (2008)
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