Decay

1. American Head Charge - Irresponsible Hate Anthem2. Bile - Tourniquet3. Broke Box - Cake & Sodomy4. Luxt - Rock Is Dead (cvr mix)5. Alexxenophon - Mister Superstar6. Broke Box - The Reflecting God7. Ophelia Rising With Abominable Id - The Speed Of Pain8. Alexxenophon - The Beautiful People9. Shockwerks - Man That You Fear10. Needulhed - Dried Up, Tied & Dead To The World11. Nocturne - Get Your Gunn (Get Your Hallucinogens Mix)12. Razorblade Smile with Robert "Spookykid" Pierce - Antichrist Superstar

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Speed of Pain, best re-working of a song.........2004-08-19

The band doing the stripped down lamentful accoustic version of "Speed of Pain" is Ophelia Rising (female vocals) and Abominable (male vocals) if you haven't checked them out you're missing a whole lot, they're a great and often overlooked band. I happen to think that this is the greatest re-working of a Manson song since Apoptygma Bizerk covered "Coma White." (Yeah it was ravey and seriously out-of-character for the song but that's the whole point of tribute/remix albums) The fem vocals on S.o.P. sound very close to Inkyubus Sukkubus (another group worth checking out) I didn't really like the other songs on this album so much as I did Ophelia's.

I listen to the song and think of loved one's and friends who've hurt me.

"And I wish I could sleep, but there's a knife in my back for every day that I've known you."

Bile, A.Headcharge, Needulhed, Razorblade Smile get 5 stars.......2004-05-08

The album was Great as far as tracks by A.Headcharge, Bile, NeedulHed, and RazorBlade Smile go. ALex Xenophon, and Broke Box had horrible vocals on the album. Bile covered Tourniquet and in my opinion did the best cover on the album. Any true Manson fan should purchase this album regardless.

Aphelia Rising=Davey Havok? "Speed of Pain" is good!!.......2004-04-01

I've only heard a few of the songs on this, but the one I oddly like alot is the cover of "Speed of Pain." The female kind of makes the song lose its touch. But, it's really good. Imagine the song, now imagine Manson singing it with a female. Now, imagine Manson no longer singing. Now...get this, imagine Davey Havok singing this song. Yes, this sounds like it's Davey Havok of AFI (I bet alot of AFI fans who hear this song, will agree with this) at times, and or most of the time, with a female singing in the background. I like it alot, but the female makes it only good and not great. Davey Havok singing a Manson song...just hearing this one song makes me think AFI should cover this Manson song.
Another good one is the "Man that You Fear" tribute. It sounds like it's going HEAVY METAL with the vocals, but the instrumentals are done quite well. I also enjoy the "Man that You Fear" tribute on the industrial tribute to Manson, alot. I might even like the industrial one a bit more, it just sounds more like the actual songs.

Well all in all these are all good songs, but those 2 are the best. Get this just to hear a "pseudo Davey Havok" rendition of "Speed of Pain" it's well worth it!

Worth it.......2004-01-10

I wasn't sure what to expect with this album - the reviews are kind of all over the place, but I really like Manson so I picked it up.

The best song hand's down is Nocturne's Get Your Gunn. I'll be sure to check out other Nocturne albums having heard this. The worst song on the album are the Alex Xenophon's songs. I don't want to hear someone in a barely audible whisper butcher two great Manson songs. There's so much possibility for those two songs I just don't get what he was trying to do. Well, I guess I get it, I just think it was a mistake.

Rock is Dead, Speed of Pain and Dried Up are the probably the next best songs with pretty decent takes.

Overall I think the album is worth getting, if nothing else just to get exposed to some pretty decent bands. With so much crap out there, it's nice to see bands like Nocturne and Luxt doing good music.

Worth the money.......2001-10-22

If you're not big on tributes, don't buy this album. I AM big on tributes, I own 42 Marilyn Manson CDs, and THIS album is better than most tributes, which ought to tell you something right off the bat. The following songs are either very good or very close to the originals: Tourniquet, Rock is Dead, The Reflecting God, The Speed of Pain, Antichrist Superstar. The other songs are decent -- not horrible at all --, but just didn't make that much of an impression on me. Ok, wait. I lied ... The cover of "The Beautiful People" is dull, quiet, slow, and ummm, HORRIBLE. What was Alex Xenophon thinking?!!!! He destroyed a great song. Absolutely destroyed it.

Average customer rating:

Torn
An Exciting turn for Turnage
Another Failed Fusion Attempt
Outstanding 90's composition for ensemble and jazz soloists
Jazz influence on cutting-edge modern classical music

Turnage: Blood on the Floor

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IP7F
Release Date: 2000-05-09

Tracks:

Blood On The Floor
Junior Addict
Shout
Sweet And Decay
Needles
Elegy For Andy
Cut Up
Crackdown
Dispelling The Fears

Customer Reviews:

Torn.......2000-08-09

I feel torn between my fondness for Turnage's music and the partial disappointment that this piece of music represents to me. Several movements of this piece are extremely exciting and a joy to experience. Others--the ones that feature a large proportion of improvised material--make for nice listening once or thrice, but lose their appeal quickly. One of Turnage's strong points as a composer is his marvelous talent for development. When, as in this piece, he leaves that development up to others, it leaves me wanting. As always, Turnage's orchestration is beautifully colorful and distinctive, and the movements run the gamut from placid to raucous. This was certainly a worthwhile experiment on his part, but I think that, when he places such a dependence for musical contributions on other artists, Turnage sells his potential short. I do suggest that you check out this recording, but I cannot give it my best review. I can only wait for more recordings by this wonderful composer.

An Exciting turn for Turnage.......2000-07-24

If you are a captive of categories, you will not find this music to your liking. Turnage takes his subject for this work (the life and death of his chemically-addicted brother, Andrew) seriously. And in order to recreate the world his brother inhabited, he draws for inspiration on sources outside art music -- especially the more adventurous reaches of jazz. The result is tough stuff, indeed. For anybody familiar with his work, this should come as no surprise, however. Turnage is the sort of contemporary composer for whom the euphemism "uncompromising" was invented. My opinion, as one who cherishes music that dares to flirt with disaster, is that the extraordinary rhythmic vitality alone of Blood on the Floor is worth the price of admission.

It's certain that, even more than most, this music is only as good as the performance of it, since improvisation by the soloists -- all world class jazz musicians on the CD -- is crucial to its effect. This performance truly is wonderful. Guitarist John Scofield is quoted in the CD booklet as speculating that "this really is the music of the future." The opinion is perhaps a trifle grandiose, but it seems likely that "trans-genre" composition by top-notch young composers like Turnage will become more common rather than less as the sort of summing-up and transfiguring that occurred in the arts at the beginning of the 20th Century occurs again in a significant way at this, the beginning of the 21st Century.

At the very least, Blood on the Floor is a welcome addition to trans-genre composition, in the excellent company of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto and Milhaud's La Creation du Monde, to name only two of the the century's award winners in this challenging category.

Another Failed Fusion Attempt.......2000-06-17