Formats
BING050 - 2xCDs
600197005026
Details
TWO CDS (AT A GREAT INTRO PRICE!)OF OUT OF PRINT MATERIAL BY ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK BANDS IN HISTORY! FEATURES TWENTY THREE TRACKS, INCLUDING FAVOURITES AND RARITIES, HAND SELECTED BY THE BAND. FANS OF LIGHTNING BOLT, BLACK DICE, SIGHTINGS, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, GROWING AND SUNN0))) CAN NOW GET AQUAINTED WITH NOISE ROCK'S FOUNDING FATHERS. SLEEVE NOTES BY NICK CAIN (OPPROBRIUM / THE WIRE). (THERE IS A LIMITED 7", WHICH WE WILL GET LISTED ON THE NEXT PRESALE)
THERE?S NO ?CORRECT? WAY TO RESPOND TO THE DEAD C?S MUSIC. WITH A CATALOGUE THAT OSCILLATES BETWEEN SUBVERTING TRADITIONAL SONG STRUCTURES AND STOMPING OUT AND OBLITERATING THE VERY NOTION, NEW ZEALAND?S MICHAEL MORLEY, BRUCE RUSSELL AND ROBBIE YEATS HAVE CONTINUALLY MADE THE MOST CRUSHING, EXPANSIVE AND INTELLIGENT ROCK NOISE EVER TO BE HEARD. THE NUMBER OF THEIR PEERS WHO ARE ALSO FANS - YO LA TENGO, SONIC YOUTH, COMETS ON FIRE, BLACK DICE - SHOWS THE LEAGUE IN WHICH THEY PLAY. THE DEAD C HAVE BEEN CREATING THE GREATEST OF SQUALLS FOR TWENTY YEARS NOW, AND TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY, BA DA BING IS PROUD TO PRESENT THIS DOUBLE CD RETROSPECTIVE, WITH TRACKS HAND-PICKED BY THE BAND MEMBERS THEMSELVES, COLLECTING OLD AND NEW FAVES AND OUT-OF-PRINT RARITIES. ALL THIS AT A PRICE SO NICE, YOU?D THINK YOU WERE PICKING UP A TEN-SONG SUPERTRAMP GREATEST HITS PACKAGE. THIS RELEASE SERVES LONG-TIME FANS AND THE CURIOUS ALIKE, AS CHANCES ARE FEW PEOPLE HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING ON THESE DISCS. THE BAND CHOSE CRITICAL HIGHLIGHTS AS WELL AS MATERIAL THEY FELT DESERVED WIDER EXPOSURE. WHILE CLASSICS LIKE ?CONSTELLATION,? ?POWER,? AND ?BITCHER? ARE PRESENT, SO ARE OBSCURITIES LIKE ?MIGHTY? FROM THEIR FORCED EXPOSURE 7- INCH, ?ALL CHANNELS OPEN? FROM THE LIMITED, DOUBLE-DISC DC RECORD AND ?3 YEARS? FROM THE XPRESSWAY PILE-UP COMPILATION. THE REAL THRILL IS LISTENING TO THE BAND?S DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME, FROM THE DECONSTRUCTED SKELETAL ROCK OF THEIR EARLY OUTPUT TO THE EVENTUAL, COSMIC MARRIAGE OF REASON AND SQUALOR THAT IS AS CRUSHING AS IT IS INDESCRIBABLE.
Tracks
DISC ONE TRACK LIST (1987 - 1993)
1. MAX HARRIS
2. ANGEL
3. YEARS
4. MAGGOT
5. GLASS HOLE PIT
6. HELEN SAID THIS
7. HELL IS NOW LOVE
8. HIGHWAY
9. POWER
10. MIGHTY
11. CONSTELLATION
12. T IS NEVER OVER PT I & II 13.WORLD
DISC TWO TRACK LIST (1994 - 2005)
14. THE MARRIAGE OF REASON AND SQUALOR
15. SONNE
16. BITCHER
17. VOODOO SPELL
18. REPENT IV
19. HEAD
20. ALL CHANNELS OPEN
21. TUBA IS FUNNY (SLIGHT RETURN)
22. REPULSION
23. TRUTH
Press
REVIEW IN THE WIRE, MOJO, PLAN B.