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Led Man
Manufacturer: Led Man
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Pop Rock
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ASIN: B000CAKPQM
Release Date: 2005-09-13
Editorial Reviews Part 1 - The Package This release is not just a music CD, it's an entire experience. I only mention the packaging (what would normally be a boring jewel case) because so much work went into creating and putting these thing together. And it's darn neat to look at. This slick cardboard book opens to reveal the compact disc and the obligitory booklet. Nice art all over the package and booklet (and the disc itself). I like it when a band makes good use of the book by writing a little about each track to either set the mood or let you know just what the hell they were thinking and what went into making the song. This is only the second release I've bought that does this. More bands could learn something by this. I also enjoy Fracasos little stab at the music industry putting out these enhanced CD's that take little less than a huge mainframe to run efficiently... inside the package, a little note reads: "it (the enhanced portion of the CD) requires less system resources than the leading interactive cd packages!" It runs smoothly on my shitty P-100, and that's a good thing. Part 2 - The Enhanced Section If you can view QuickTime movies, you can run the enhanced section of this CD (which includes the latest version of QuickTime for those who DON'T have it... thanks, guys). The AutoRun doesn't work correctly on my computer, but I hear it does on other machines, so blah... but other than that they did a great job of putting together a package that is both efficient and fun to play with. The "interactivity" starts with a short animation diplaying the song titles and ultimately the band name and cd title while little machines and clocks and gadgets do there tinkering in the background. Fun. After that you're left staring at a picture of a woman similar to those found all over the packaging with no instructions, buttons, words, or seemingly anyway out of this crazy thing. A little detective work with the mouse, though, reveals a music video for "While Indiana Burns", the movie short "They Stole My Brain" (also available on Clean Dirt No Rock, but this time in both Mac AND IBM formats!), and a few other things that made me scratch my head for a bit. On of the "treasures" is supposed to connect you to the band's website, but I run a very old browser and I guess it didn't recognize the command to do so, but it may work on your box. All in all, very entertaining. Part 3 - The Actual Music All of this, and music, too! And may I say now some really good music at times. The best way to do this is to run down the track list song by song, so here goes: 1. "Missed Amore" (:59) - A neat saloon piano intro to the album, and very different than the live version of the song available on their page... very Tom Waits-esque. 2. "While Indiana Burns" (3:04) - Very reminiscent of Slow Loris (and for good reason, Loris bassist Damon Dawson appears on this track). Very mellow. The birds chirping in the background scared me the first time I heard it. 3. "Pardo" (1:27) - Left over from Clean Dirt No Rock, it's a short jam that unfortunately isn't the band at their best... LIVE this song is good, but it's just kind of plain against the rest of the CD, but it does rock out in the middle. 4. "Lay Down" (2:02) - My favorite track on the disc, I wish this one would've gotten the video treatment as well. One song that's just as good on disc as it is live. I love the keyboards on this version that they can't physically play live (due to lack of members to do so). A+. 5. "Remains" (1:25) - I think this was called "Smiling Girl" at one point... another left over from Clean Dirt No Rock. Aaron Tanner solo with lots of samples and TV remote work. Kind of redundant, but interesting enough not to hit fast forward. 6. "Monkey Bars" (3:27) - Tim Mitchell's solo effort on the disc. Neat keyboards that remind me of Mister Rodgers... I like it. 7. "Month of Sundays" (4:25) - It sounds like the three members of fracasos are all playing three different songs at the same time... and that's good in this case. It makes what would be three seperately boring musical parts come together to make something greater than the sum of it's parts. Jazzy. 8. "New York Nights" (2:56) - You don't fool me for a minute, guys. I remember when this song was on the Slow Loris website. Doesn't mean it isn't good, though. Probably the only track that you'll ever hear from the Slow Loris days, so eat this one up... it's good. 9. "Lames Mi Piel" (2:09) - Loosely translated: "Lick my skin". Andy plays the flute on this one, and it ain't bad. May cause drowsiness. 10. "The Last Robot" (3:03) - This is what you'd hear if there was noise in space... the end sneaks up on you and has scared the hell out of me twice so far. A good listen if you suffer from both insomnia AND schizophrenia. 11. "Mollie (LIVE)" (2:54) - The hidden track. Located 2 minutes after "The Last Robot" ends ever so abruptly, this is an excellent rendition of this song from Clean Dirt No Rock. The guitar work blows me away. Much more power than the studio version and worth $5 by itself. I din't know they included this one here, so it was a suprise to me... I wondered why my CD player kept playing after track 10 was over. A+. As a whole the CD (music and otherwise) is very entertaining and well worth the measly $5 price of admission. I'd definately add this one to your purchase list and if you haven't seen these guys live yet, you're missing the best part. This won't be the last release by these guys by any means (they've already begun preliminary work on the third release), but it's surely the best out so far. I just wish they'd let me on the next one :) (Mark Meat (comatose@evansville.net)) for years, aaron tanner has been the...
El Sexy
El Sexy, Music, Fracasos
Mark Meat (comatose@evansville.net)
King sexy himself, Mr. Aaron Tanner, came by my house recently to pick me up for a Mr Bungle. show, in his car were a few complete copies of fracasos first full-length, el sexy (by complete I mean the band has had to assemble the CD cases by hand, by gluing, stuffing CD's and booklets, and then sealing the entire package with an Avery label... if you've seen the package you know this is a lot of work.) He was kind enough to sell me an advance copy (and he gave me one of the slick promo posters... neat). This is just my opinion of the release.
Shane Hazen (News4U)
i don't care how self-indulgent and self-conciously arty they may get--i love concept albums. it's in that compulsion to do something so different from established norms, to encompase and focus on one idea, instead of detaching numerous scatterings that give these rock taboos pleasure. that compulsion is completely amplified when it's done not with mastery of a studio, but from a friggin' four-track, and it barely shows signs of ineptness.
Album Description
"El Sexy," Fracasos' first full length enhanced album, flaunts avant-garde jazz, circus music, ambient samples, rock, and more. From beginning to end, tales of love lost, lonely robots, girls missing their dead military fathers, and the last minutes before dying are abound.
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Golden
Led Man Manufacturer: Led Man ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock
| Pop
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| Music
ASIN: B000CAKPQM Release Date: 2005-09-13 |
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El Sexy
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Alternative Rock
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| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Alternative Rock
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B000040OU9 Release Date: 1999-11-01 |
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Album Description
"El Sexy," Fracasos' first full length enhanced album, flaunts avant-garde jazz, circus music, ambient samples, rock, and more. From beginning to end, tales of love lost, lonely robots, girls missing their dead military fathers, and the last minutes before dying are abound.Customer Reviews:
All around interesting.......2000-06-21
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El Paso Sexy
Banda Superbandido Manufacturer: Sony International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Latin Music
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| Music
Latin Pop
| Latin Music
| Styles
| Music
Corridos
| Latin Music
| Styles
| Music
Mexico
| International
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00004WK12 Release Date: 2000-08-08 |
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El Gringo
El Gringo Manufacturer: Horse Fuel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock
| Pop
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| Music
ASIN: B000CAKQBG Release Date: 2005-09-20 |
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El Sexy
Fracasos Manufacturer: Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004STKU Release Date: 2000-03-28 |
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Joseph Wytko & the Wytko Saxophone Quartet
Mi Corazon, Pt. 1 [CD-single] [Import]
My Kind of Christmas [Enhanced]
Mflp's 20th Anniversary Lullaby Collection
La Historia Continúa... Parte II
Liberation Songs to Benefit PETA
Italian Instabile Festival [Live]