Advantages: Some very good songs. Disadvantages: Some crap ones.
...This was one of The Stranglers personnal favourite albums. It has some great songs like The Raven, Don't Bring Harry, Nuclear Device, Genetix sung by keyboard player Dave Greenfield,
and Duchess. The album has four singles from it which could have done better as they are rather good. Duchess was banned by the BBC as it was considered to be blasphemous!
I just think it was an excuse to egnore it.
The Raven was also prevented from being number one by a clerical error. Thousands of the sales were credited to The Police with their new album Reggatta de Blanc, even though it hadnt yet been released! It still got to number for in the U.K album charts though. This wasnt the first error resulting in poor chart success, the first being their debut single Get a Grip on Yourself. Overall a decent album and worth checking it out....
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Advantages: A real return to form Disadvantages: The cover of 'School' is a bit out of place, and it doesn't really offer much new on previous albums
...Fear Factory were respected as pioneers of industrial-metal crossover but after three consecutive top 30 albums (Demanufacture, Obsolete and Digimortal) it appeared they’d never achieve the commercial success of imitators like Spineshank and Static-X, and they sadly disbanded. A couple of years down the line, however, it’s become apparent they didn’t really have much better to do, and the core of the band has reformed - only with Christian Olde Wolbers moving over to guitar to replace the absent Dino, and new ex-Strapping Young Lad bassist Byron Stroud rounding out the band.
The question we’re all asking is, of course, was it worth it? The band’s second album proper Demanufacture was (and is) widely regarded as a classic blueprint for the genre, while to my mind the more commercial Obsolete was actually an improvement. By Digimortal...
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...After a seven year hiatus due to the fact that various members were not speaking to each other, which is a common occurrence with Killing Joke, three quarters of the original band (Jaz Coleman (Vocals and Keyboards, also composer for the Prague Symphony Orchestra), Geordie (Guitar) and Youth (Bass)) returned augmented by the very scary man who replaced Youth in the early 80’s Paul Raven and a controversial choice of Drummer, Dave Ghrol (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Probot). The choice of Drummer was highly controversial because of one song Nirvana’s "come as you are" in which the blatantly ripped off Paul Raven’s Bass line from Killing Joke’s biggest hit “Eighties”. This was the subject to legal action which Killing Joke dropped in the wake of Kurt’s death. The choice of Dave Ghrol as a drummer has split long term fans into two camps, myself I...
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