4 comments about Blow'n Chunks.

1. Flipper is god--god is Flipper. There is no other band past, present or future that can/will replicate Flipper. A genre unto themselves Flipper transends all that is rock and all that is punk. They deconstructed and reconstructed and laughed at themselves and everyone else in the process and unlike most of their punk peers at the time, there is no underlining political agenda, in fact there is no agenda at all. This recording here captures the band in all their drunken stupor and is probably the best live document from the post-punk era. There is not a weak moment here and Flipper will drain you mixing rock and punk in a volatile combustable droned out molatov cocktail. Flipper is a love em or hate em situation. Enuff said---droned out , fuzzed out feedback laden and drunk off their gords, Flipper are the true kings of oblivion get it now and long live Will Shatter(R.I.P)



2. Flipper is not your conventional sound. Its music is characterized by a superficial texture of raw music filled with the passion for the love of the music. Underneath this surface, the anger of a lost generation boils through.



3. Flipper once again out does itself with all of the great, rockin' hits we've grown to love. From simple, straight forward grinding riffs to snarling memorable vocals, this album becomes a must get to all who love screaming and thrashing. A great album to rip your hair out too.



4. Essential live documentation of this unique West Coast Hardcore phenomenon. Bass and drums lay down simple riffs, a vocalist spits sarcastic defiance at the audience and the guitarist improvises a firestorm of distortion and feedback unparalleled since the Velvets 'Sister Ray'. Grinding, repetitive and remarkably addictive, Flipper are guaranteed to wash your blues right down the drain . . along with the rest of your mind!

No comments about Live at Zed.

5 comments about Preston 28 February 1980.

1. This record has been out for several years as a bootleg. I had it on a tape and it was called as "Shadowplay" when it was resaled to the public and its cover was a 2 color draw of a lady dancing.
   
   This cd version has the same sound quiality of the bootleg. Don't expect a remastered sound.
   
   I know the songs are not perfertly played and there are lots of problems with the equipment, but c'omon, this is what makes this record unique. A raw band, a band trying to develop in a low budget stage.
   
   What I like about this record, despite other rewiever, is the song called "The Eternal". This could have been the first steps into a synth oriented music that will make New Order famous for.
   
   If you want a perfectly sound album, get "Les Bains Douches" -only the songs from the Paris show has a soundboard quiality-.



2. The best live Joy Division CD to get is Les Bains Douches. That one is excellent! This one is just average. The sound quality is good (not great), but the band are not very cohesive at this Preston gig. The sound is also much better on Les Bains Douches. But if Joy Division is one of your all-time favorite bands, you will want this as a fairly well-recorded historical document. But don't pay a high price for it! You will feel ripped off. It's worth the price of an average domestic CD on sale or a used CD, not full price or an import price. If you do not have Les Bains Douches yet, find it and buy it now!!



3. I can't figure out the reviewers that give this one 5 stars. I am a huge Joy Division fan and have been since I discovered them in high school in 1985. But that doesn't mean that I think everything they ever did was perfect. I've heard a lot of live recordings of this band and quite frankly, some of them just suck. These guys were not especially talented musicians, and many live recordings are marred by either Peter Hook or Bernard Sumner hitting bum notes or chords (glaring example: the version "New Dawn Fades" on Still), or Ian Curtis' voice, which on the best of days was intense and full of character, but also prone to off-pitch moments.
   
   The best live material available is on the Les Baines Douches collection. That one deserves five stars. This is a nice document of a single show late in the band's career, and as such has some historical value; but the sound is so-so and the equipment problems did not help this fragile band's performance.
   
   Ian mumbles "some slight problems" after the third song; that's an understatement. Later, he barks "I think everything's falling apart!" That's a bit more accurate.
   
   I am one of those guys who loves to make mixes and compilations. I tend to try and get everything available by a band and create the ultimate mix of live and studio material ... there's not one song on this album that I would call a "definitive version." Either the sound quality or the actual performance quality keeps all of this stuff from being truly great.
   
   Again, as my title suggests, a serious Joy Division fan should pick this up. But this would certainly NOT be recommended as an introduction to the band.



4. First: I don't understand these complaints about sound quality...bootlegs have had crappy sound quality ever since they started...and if you have a regular stereo, or receiver, that allows you to change the ambience or treble and bass, I think you can salvage almost any recording (of course, some are just crap, but I've made Iggy Pop and The Stooges releases from Bomp Records sound bearable, which ain't easy)...Now, for this one, Joy Division, probably the last great rock band...to cut this short, since it is absolutely mindless, and counterproductive to write about music, I will say that this album, as a live album, mind you, goes right next to the best live document of a rock performance...Who Live At Leeds....thats how good I feel this is...And I think we can safely say that all that thin whiny whiteboy music of the nineties, all that grunge, and angst, is just D-level rip-offs of Joy Division...I've stopped listening to Radiohead (although I have not abandoned them) and Tool (Compare the vocals, you'll understand) because I realized they were obsolete for about 10, 15 years before they got on TV...Well, I'm not going to tell you what you already know (90's sucked/not getting better) I will tell you to be a consumer and buy this CD...along with Heart And Soul, the boxed set (even though the talk of "everything" J.D. ever recorded is not exactly what this boxed set is)...Great music to appreciate (cause it ain't coming back)...what more to say?



5. Ah, The Preston Gig. What to say about this. It sounds like nothing else. It clocks in at around 50 minutes and it's a total mess. Utterly muddy and shot through with problems. If you dig that kind of thing then pick this up. I would have you buy either The Box Set, 'Les Bains Douches' or 'Still' first to get a proper taste of Joy Division live.
   
   The thing is: there are 3 renditions here that stand up with Joy Division's best energy: Tracks 6, 7, and 8 are soul-crushingly good. Enough to make up for the rest of the set's low points. If you are a fan of the band and don't have this- Dive in. You need to. Blast this. It will take you somewhere.
   
   1.) Opening off with three minutes of the instrumental, "Incubation." Three minutes of charging, churning guitar, bass and pounding drums. Kinda gets old fast. You wonder if Ian was taking a piddle or something... the band played on. Lumps into a decent rendition of 2.) "Wilderness," the sound is a bit off, not mixed so well... bass is a bit low. But still, a keeper song- you can actually make out what Ian is singing. Languidly slips, like an old pair of jeans into 3.) "24 hours," with the vocals buried and kinda ratty sounding. Something feels off, to me. His mic starts humming a bit with feedback.
   
   4.) you get treated to an almost nine minute long "The Eternal," which certainly lives up to its name. It feels f*#king eternal. The vocals don't come in until around the 5.30 mark... The instrumentation is good here but really repetitive.
   
   Ian apologizes for something. bass booms a little. Voices chatter. 5.) "Heart and Soul:" their sound is almost shot by this time- the guitar is way down in the mix somehwere. The vox are echo-ey and querulous. Some bonus feedback and distortion... If you like Ian's droning intensely to a good beat this right up your alley... Small interlude at teh end wherein they apologize and try to cope with their sound problems. They admit they've been playing through the bass amp. Ian asks for requests and then...
   
   They get damn good. UNBELIEVABLY. I STARED AT MY CD PLAYER.
   
   6.) "Shadowplay." Maybe the best live version of this I have heard, and it was a show staple. I don't say that lightly. Starts out a bit rough but Sumner cuts with that guitar as if to make up for earlier- he hits one wrong note at the beginning of the first bridge and it WORKS so well! Wow. It's basically all about Ian and Bernard. I love this tune. Ian's voice is in top form.
   
   7.) "Transmission," doesn't do a lot for me lots of times. This is the exception! Picks up on the momentum from Shadowplay and ups the ante- kicks it up about three thousand notches. Probably the best live version of this excellent tune. They charge through it, fast as blazes. Veers into anarchistic hell-fire towards the end. No one else can sing "dance to the radio!" and sound so scarred and desperate. Ian is howling at the conclusion! The crowd loses their sh&! at the end. With good reason!
   
   8.) "Disorder," More perfection. Maybe my favorite Joy Division song- and the tune that got me into them. Played super-fast, with that knife guitar and the bass begging to be exhumed a bit from under the drums and keening guitar. Another top-notch performance! Ian throws himself into this.
   
   9.) warsaw. Great version of an earlier song from their warsaw (duh.) days. Good and thick. Angry, makes you want to beat your head into something dense, in time to the thumping drums and crunchy guitar. Still, the energy seems to fade a bit from the last 3.
   
   10.) Colony, (good rendering) 11.) interzone, (too muddy- can't hear Ian almost at all- can't hear much except for that robotic beating of the drums) and 12.) SLC (also muddy. thick, sound is just almost gone by now)... The last three are all good in that the anger is still there, but the energy seems diminished and you can't make out a word. The sound gets progressively worse- either you can here the bass or the guitar well at one's expense. Ian sounds possessed until you can't hear him.
   
   Hell, the whole CD sounds like hell, sometimes hell with clarity and spirit. And sometimes buried under an avalanche of fire brimstone and technical difficulties. I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!!!!!!! Like you expect a riot at any time, which... is what it is... The mood is overtly hostile, save for the mentioned tracks- where it becomes redemptive. Temporarily transcendental.

No comments about French.

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5 comments about Come as You Are.

1. Nirvana's two biggest singles were Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are. In my opinion, Come As You Are is the better one. Almost anyone who listens to the radio can recognize this song just by hearing that underwater-sounding intro. Most versions of this single have Endless, Nameless, on them. Mine does not (that's the U.S. version). Endless, Nameless was recorded in the Nevermind sessions when Kurt got real pissed and just did this improv- song (according to Guitar World, anyway). Endless, Nameless used to be a hidden track on Nevermind, but most versions today do not have it. This is probably because it is included on the With The Lights Out boxset. This single has two other songs on it, School and Drain You, both live at the Paramount Theater in Seattle on October 31, 1991, shortly after Nevermind came out. (Note: Negative Creep on From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah was taken from this same show, as is the version of Been A Son on the Lithium single.) School and Drain You are especially good songs, more than worthy of being on this cd.



2. This maxi-single is a great buy. The CD is long out of print and contains the song that was supposed to end up on American versions of Nevermind but was accidently left off which is called Endless Nameless. The live tracks from October 30, 1991 and the title track are also great. I recommend getting this single if you want Endless Nameless. I also recommend picking up In Utero,Muddy Banks of Wishkah, Nevermind Nirvanas most underrated album Blech and MTVs Unplugged album all worth getting if you dont have them stop wasting your time reading this review get out there and purchase these classics.



3. This is an awesome 4 track cd. come as you are is an obvious good song, school live is very good too, and drain you live is very great. Endless nameless is about the best nirvaa song iv ever heard. It rocks! Buy this now if you are any kind of fan. Even if you dont like come as you are,the live songs will blow you away. And dont 4get endless nameless. Buy now



4. I am going to talk about the b-sides since I presume most people either own Nevermind or have heard CAYA as a staple on FM radio any time in the last 8 years. Endless, Nameless or 'the noise jam' is both those things w/ LOUD distorted guitars [turning to clean in the verse bits] w/ lyrics so incomprehensible even Kurt himself didn't know what they were, generally an exciting thrashy romp that goes on in various directions for about 7 minutes which for Nirvana was long, it's worth getting this is yr version of Nevermind doesn't have it [like mine], how you can tell is that the ones w/o have gold writing on the back & those w/ it have black writing of the titles, seeing as it's hidden [of course lp & tape copies don't have it], the song was also generally for the end of a gig to smash equipment & make a lot of noise [witness 1991: the Year Punk Broke where he dives into Dave's drumkit, or their own video where someone commentates "did you see that guy? what a shot!" when Krist threw his bass in the air]. Also here are 2 of their best songs School & Drain You live in Seattle on Hallowe'en '91. maybe nothing superexclusive here but worthwhile seeing how little their discography is compared to say Miles Davis or Frank Zappa.



5. Nice single but what's the piont of buying it? All the songs are on other CDs. Still it does have the best version of Drain you.

1 comments about 94-97.

1. While every scrappy, angular post-punk group with a toddler's grasp of counterpoint claims to have been "influenced" by Captain Beefheart, Kenny Process Team are among the few post-Beefheart oddballs who actually seem to have grasped what the Captain and his Magic Band were doing. This English group aren't just combining odd sounds because they can (and they indeed can); they're turning melodies, rhythms, formulas and entire idioms on their heads, proving that it's still possible to extract something novel from the guts of prefix-free rock and roll. "94-97" collects the Process Team's two albums to date: one recorded in the studio as a trio; the other done live, and in lower fidelity, as a quartet. And though each track registers at around two minutes, the disc's 30 songs are so beautifully constructed, the band's playing so complex and so joyful, that something bigger reveals itself with each listen. Throughout the disc, Joseph Spence-like guitar phrases give way to contrapuntal surf tunes; fractured blues licks ricochet off African juju-pop rhythms; crooked meters and single-note guitar lines frenetically cross axes and shift gears (the song "Armchair Getting" alone has 48 meter changes). But the seams are never visible, the changes never arbitrary; and, rather than being some contrived post-rockist experiment in "deconstruction," "94-97" plays like a free-spirited love letter to everything at once.

4 comments about Dissident.

1. You saved me 30 bucks now. I was planning to buy this cd, thinking about the entire 3 dc set. I have the 3 cds, but they are starting to grow old and their condition could be better. Anyway. This cd set is the greatest. it captures all you want from the old days. On cd2 I was introduced to "state of love and trust" for the first time. This version of the song is the best i have ever heard. It stands as one of the greatest pearl jam live moments! Porch is insane! The setlist is everything from ten and vs exept for oceans I think. I know now I have to treasure it. Along with all the 72 live cds from the year 2000! Pearl Jam is and will always be the greatest band in the world. keep up the exellent work!! Long live pearl Jam. A great fan!



2. This is just the Japanese version of the Dissident (Epic #1) single. When I bought it from Amazon I was expecting the entire three cd set, which this is not. Since you can buy the US version of the exact same cd for five bucks save your hard earned 25 dollars and buy that instead. Five stars for the US version, 1 star for paying 30 dollars for the import.



3. Is this CD the exact same as the Dissident [CD-Single]? If it isn't, please someone correct me.

   If it is, then buy the other one. It's alot cheaper.

   Don't get me wrong, this is a good quality piece of music from PJ and I give it high marks. I haven't listened to the Dissident [CD-Single] and I'm not sure of the quality of it, but it has the exact same songs as this import CD. Again, correct me if I'm wrong.

   Here is what is on this CD:

   DISSIDENT (regular version) RELEASE, REARVIEWMIRROR, EVEN FLOW, DISSIDENT, WHY GO, DEEP (all live versions from the Fox Theater, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3, 1994).

   For some reason, I thought that this disc would contain the whole concert in its entirety. It does not. I have a copy of this concert on tape because it was broadcast over the airwaves on major radio stations. I have been looking for a good-legal quality recording of this concert for quite sometime. This disc is only a portion of that concert. If anyone has suggestions on where I can find a quality copy of this show, I would be appreciative.




4. Recorded in Atlanta 1994, this material has been released in a couple of different formats. From the same time period as "Vitalogy", but mostly material from their first two CD's. Ah, but you ask, "Does it Rock?" Yes it does. Of course it does. It's Pearl Jam at their peak. At their hottest. If your daughter, or your girlfriend, or your cousin, moved out, and took Ten, and Vs with them, then just buy this to fill the gap. SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE! grover_g_grover at hotmail dot com

No comments about Left for Dead: Alive in Holland '86.