Mutations [Extra tracks]

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Album Description
Japanese edition of Beck's folky 1998 album with three bonustracks, 'Electric Music And The Summer People', 'Diamond Bollocks' & 'Runners Dial Zero'. 14 tracks total, also including the single 'Tropicalia'. A Bongload/ Geffen Records release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

Cold Brains
Nobody's Fault But My Own
Lazy Flies
Canceled Check
We Live Again
Tropicalia
Dead Melodies
Bottle of Blues
O Maria
Sing It Again
Static/Diamond Bollocks (hidden track)

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

It's unfortunate how much attention has been paid to how this album was recorded--quickly, without the same level of studio fuss that marked Beck's breakthrough album, Odelay. That's a shame because our favorite chameleon has pulled the neatest trick of all: he's dropped the lyrical schtick that sometimes marred his sonic wizardy, leaving listeners to wonder if he even believed in the music he was playing. That's not an issue here. At times, he sounds like Ray Davies updated for the '90s, stripping himself bare with lovely, simple songs that linger long after they've supposedly ended. Beck may have made his initial mark with "Loser," a clever but insincere admission of inferiority; he's more likely to be remembered for the similar but more heartfelt confession of "Nobody's Fault But My Own." --Keith Moerer

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On his 1996 breakthrough album Odelay, Beck Hansen surprised a sleepy music community by blending funk, rock, rap, alternative, and electronica in ways that were both startlingly innovative and irresistibly catchy. Mutations is equally attention-grabbing but not in the gangbusters-pimp-rock-meets-indie-geek style you might expect. Reflective and plaintive, the album reveals Beck's more sentimental side with an eclectic collection of acoustic-based songs that will sound familiar to anyone who cherishes his indie-rock effort One Foot in the Grave. And don't think just because Beck's gone soft, he's gotten boring. From one song to the next, the chameleonic guru strums pensively, shimmies to a bossa nova rhythm, swirls on a psychedelic cloud, plucks Baroque strains from a harpsichord, and weeps countrified tears into a rusty tin bucket. On Mutations, Beck proves that an undistorted guitar and a bit of creativity can easily sound as exciting as two turntables and a microphone. --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews:

Gotta love Beck.......2007-06-27

Everything Beck releases is unique. This album is a little more laid back than some of his other projects, but it's still fantastic and worthy of purchase for any fan.

The deepest Beck album. Yes it is. .......2007-06-19

I think Beck was at his songwriting peak (thus far) on this album. Sure, Odelay and Midnite Vultures are more fun, but this is deeper. His melodies and chord progressions are fantastic and mature, and the production is beautiful and dark. This out Sea Changes Sea Change.

Buy this now.......2007-05-28

Awesome album by an equally awesome artist. Mutations contains some very unique sounds, as do all Beck albums. This uniqueness is, in my opinion, what makes this artist so awesome. This is a great addition to any music lovers collection.

Alternative's alt.......2007-04-18

I love the album "Guero" and think "The Information" is about as innovative as it gets. Somewhere in between lies Beck's "Mutations" that is not as riveting or trend setting as "Odelay" but a departure of sorts. With it's electronica-tinged-folksy style, sprinkled with psychedelia it reminds me of some Beatles songs.Take for example, "Nobody's Fault but My Own" that rings like a Sgt.Pepper lost song with it's sitar and cello offsetting Beck's soft whisper.Beck's voice is perfect for telling stories and his music invites you to listen to his conciousness. Other tracks of interest are "Static/Diamond Bollocks" that is a spacey song reminiscent of Bowie's "Ground Control." Beck's style is hard to pin down , rooted in blues, fueled by electronica, accentuated by lyrical folk tales his music just flows like a penetrating electrode straight to your brain. His songs are very catchy on this disc; possibly more accessible than on the aformentioned discs. Good music for a rainy day or any day for that matter. Beck is an interesting artist and it is nice to catch him again in his earlier "Mutations."

Beck's mellow albums.......2007-02-20

This is a great mellow album, and I love it. If you like this album get Sea Change or my favorite beck cd One Foot In the Grave.

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

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excellent but uncomplete
To call it music may be a bit limiting.
A worthwhile collection
OhMyGodHowDreadful
Kid Stockhausen

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
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Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts
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Tracks:

Valse Sentimentale - Clara Rockmore
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Etude Aux Chemins De Fer - Pierre Schaeffer
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Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
Pendulum Music - Sonic Youth
Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
Projection Esemplastic For White Noise - Joji Yuasa
Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1 - Morton Subotnick
Rainforest Version 1 - David Tudor
Poppy Nogood - Terry Riley
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Music Promenade - Luc Ferrari
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Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset
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He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
Six Fants On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song - Paul Lansky
Appalachian Grove - Laurie Spiegel
En Phase/Hors Phase - Bernard Parmegiani
On The Other Ocean - David Behrman
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Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno

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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni

Customer Reviews:

excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12

Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s
(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono.
This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces.
If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.

To call it music may be a bit limiting. .......2006-10-24

Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring.

A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen.

My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.

A worthwhile collection.......2006-01-11

The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning.

It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be.

Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.

OhMyGodHowDreadful.......2005-08-15

Ok, this collection is supposed to be early works and, thus not expected to be very sophisticated or polished. But the OHM collection sounds like the first attempt of a spastic cat turned-loose on a Moog keyboard. When it is not boreing, this collection of random and dissonant sounds (I can't call it music) is without any redeeming qualities to make it worth while. Don't get me wrong, I am a long-time fan of Wendy (nie Walter) Carlos and some other real pioneers of electronic music. However, I find that the Ohm collection has no similar qualities and is a major disappointment.

Kid Stockhausen.......2003-01-17

This is required listening for anybody interested in the history of electronic music. Although implicitly aiming for the techno music audience, this audio history is overwhelmingly focused on the classical avant-garde of electro-acoustic composers. The closest you'll get to pop electronica is the Brian Eno track at the end of the third disc. No Kraftwerk, no Moroder, etc. Instead "OHM" manages to point to the continuities between, say, John Cage and artists currently working at the experimental edges of electronica (so-called IDM). It seems to be saying, "You think Kid 606 is visionary? Well check out this Stockhausen track from '59!"

Admittedly, some of the songs are much more interesting to think about than they are to listen to. Some of the early pieces that were made through thosuands of hours of pains-taking tape-splicing could be made today in an afternoon with a digital audio editor and a few effects plug-ins.

Tracks:

Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Allegretto
Allegro Con Brio
A Hand Of Bridge
Mutations From Bach
Intermezzo From Vanessa
Canzonetta For Oboe And Strings
Fadograph Of A Yestern Scene

Customer Reviews:

One of the best in the series.......2006-03-27

This last installment in Naxos's Barber series collects together some of Barber's lesser known and hard-to-find pieces. The Fadograph of a Yestern Scene and the Canzonetta are achingly beautiful and not often recorded. My major complaint with this release is the placement of A Hand Of Bridge. Being a somewhat erratic vocal piece, it does not belong in the middle of the CD where it breaks the meditative flow of the other five instrumental pieces. It either belongs as the last selection on the CD, or better still, paired with Knoxville, Summer of 1915, another Barber vocal composition.

That other CD, was also poorly programmed by Naxos by their inclusion of two of Barber's three orchestral Essays. These lovely pieces shouldn't have been tainted by their proximity to the vocal piece. That is, an all-vocal Barber CD would have been welcomed by all.

At 52:28, the skimpiest offering in Naxos's survey of Barber's work.

A Great Final Disc.......2005-04-05

This is the final disc in Naxos' series of the orchestral music of Samuel Barber, and it ends with more great performances. The Capricorn Concerto (named for the home in Mount Kisco that Barber shared with Gian Carlo Menotti) is not often recorded but deserves much more attention. The concerto is greatly influenced by Igor Stravinsky and is a triple concerto for oboe, flute and trumpet - a neo-classical re-working of Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto. The concerto is an engaging work in three movements that explores the virtuosity of the three solo instruments. The surprise on this disc is the pocket-opera A Hand of Bridge where two couples playing cards think indulgently on their obsessions. The libretto is by Menotti and has quite a biting wit to it, however, the performance recorded here is only adequate. The earlier recording by Vladimir Golshman and the Symphony of the Air has a better balance and better singing overall. The voices on this recording are sometimes not clearly heard over the music and the soprano sometimes does not maintain control. Still, this is performance will be of interest to those interested in Barber rarities. There is no libretto, which would have been a welcomed addition.

The Mutations from Bach is a late work for brass instruments and was meant as a tribute to Barber's favorite composer. The famous Intermezzo from Vanessa, from Barber's first and very successful opera, depicts the spurned heroine, connecting two scenes and providing emotional context. The Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings was to have been a concerto but the ailing Barber was only barely able to produce this short piece, an elegiac and romantic close to a distinguished career. The depth of feeling in this recording is beautifully expressed. Fadograph from a Yestern Scene is a tribute to Barber's interest in James Joyce. This is a later work when the composer was living as a recluse and composed little. The inspiration for this short piece is Finnegan's Wake. It is a quiet, impressionistic work, commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony, and was the last orchestra piece that Barber completed.

This is a remarkable disc that anyone interested in the music of Samuel Barber will want to have. Marin Alsop has proven to be a remarkable interpreter of Berber's music and her series of recordings with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will be the ones that all newcomers are compared against.

Mostly Unfamiliar, but Worthy, Orchestral Music by Barber.......2005-03-15

This is the last in the series of Barber's orchestral music with Marin Alsop conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It includes one very familiar work--the Capricorn Concerto--and several that are almost never heard, including his witty 9-minute one act opera, 'A Hand of Bridge.' Of these only the Capricorn has had multiple modern recordings as far as I'm aware. And Alsop's and the RSNO's performance of this sprightly piece, whose instrumentation is the same as that of Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto (trumpet, oboe, flute, strings), is as good as any I've heard. I've always been taken with its third movement, with its virtuoso trumpet part, and we are not let down by trumpeter John Gracie. As good as he is, oboist Stéphane Rancourt and flutist Karen Jones are his equals.

'A Hand of Bridge' was composed for the Spoleto Festival, founded by Barber's long-time companion Gian-Carlo Menotti, who wrote the libretto for it. It is for four singers who alternate intoning the business of bidding and playing a hand of bridge and singing arioso internal monologs mostly about the other players. It is nicely done here, but Naxos would have done us a favor by printing the libretto in the jewel box insert because even though it is in English, too many words are lost when sung. The excellent soloists are Lesley Craigie, soprano, Roderick Williams, bass, Louise Winter, mezzo, and Simon Wall, tenor.

'Mutations from Bach,' (sometimes called 'Meditation on a theme of Bach'), written late in Barber's life and for his own amusement, is for brass and timpani. This six-minute piece presents four harmonizations of the plainsong 'Christ, thou lamb of God' starting with that of Joachim Decker from the 17th century, then Bach's harmonization (from BWV 23, the cantata 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn'), then Barber's own, followed by a repeat of the Decker. They are all of course orchestrated by Barber for brass (4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, plus timpani). This is an extraordinarily beautiful work and is played gorgeously here by members of the RSNO.

Next is the 'Intermezzo' from Barber's beautiful opera 'Vanessa' (which has been taken into the repertoire of many opera companies and which has in the past year had two excellent new recordings). The Intermezzo comes in Act III and is a heartbreaking psychological portrait of the spurned Vanessa. I love this piece (well, I love the whole opera, truth be told) and this performance is both wrenching and consoling. Lovely.

The last work Barber attempted was a concerto for oboe and strings. It was supposed to be for Harold Gomberg, the long-time principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic. But Barber did not live to finish it. Indeed, he wrote only one movement and even that had to be completed by his student, Charles Turner. It is an elegiac pastorale in which the oboe sings as a great soprano might. I'd never heard it before and fell in love with it immediately. It is spare, haunting, echt-Barber with those long romantic lines, those harmonic cross-relations so Bachian and yet so modern. Oboist Stéphane Rancourt plays like an angel, with unearthly breath control, sensitive phrasing, subtle dynamic variation, and lovely tone. This is a nine-minute aria that will tear your heart out.

Finally, the almost impressionistic 'Fadograph of a Yestern Scene.' The title is taken from Joyce's 'Finnegan's Wake.' That evocative title tells us precisely what to expect in this nostalgic and dreamlike reminiscence of other times. In some sense it is a wordless companion to Barber's other nostalgic masterpiece, 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915.' A glorious end to a glorious series of recordings by Alsop and the RSNO. There is no a bad performance in the whole six CD series. I would guess that eventually Naxos will combine them into a boxed set, but why wait?

Strongly recommended.

TT=52:28

Scott Morrison

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Not a lot to it
3.5 stars - A nice supplement to the War Of Words album
An excellent remix cd
ROB HALFORD !!!!!!

Mutations
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Not a lot to it.......2004-09-20

Fight was Rob Halford's post-Judas Priest project, formed after he quit the band due to the age-old "musical differences" chestnut. God knows what the differences were, because Fight sounded just like a Judas Priest tribute band, although a pretty good one at that. First album `War Of Words' was a barnstorming debut from the band, but then Halford had been in the Metal business for more than 20 years, so Fight's success wasn't a great surprise.

Split between live tracks and remixes, Fight's `Mutations' is short on substance, and is presented in minimalist form to say the least. There is no new material, as all the tracks, except a live cover, are lifted from "War Of Words". There is no mention as to where and when the live tracks were recorded, or who remixed the other songs.

The live tracks are performed with passion and conviction, so no complaints there. Fight's sound is completely interchangeable with Judas Priest's, and "Into The Pit" and "Nailed To The Gun" could very easily have come from Priest's `Painkiller' masterpiece. The cover of "Freewheel Burning" sounds right at home next to them. "Little Crazy" however, does not sound like a Judas Priest song, with its Blues-inspired swagger bursting into a crowd-pleasing sing along. Halford encourages audience participation, which is a nice touch, but nothing which hasn't been done countless times before.

So to the remixes. If you're expecting Fear Factory-style Cybernetic Electronica, with Dub or Gabba mixes, you're in for a disappointment. The remixing is basically just window dressing. The guitars have been clipped so the riffs take on a more staccato sound, the bass has been boosted, a couple of breakdowns have been worked in, and a fairly basic dance beat added in places. It's deconstruction-lite, so as not to alienate too many Metal fans, which makes perfect sense commercially, but is too safe to be worth the effort.

`Mutations' is sub-titled `Collector's Edition', but there really isn't much to collect. Sure, the basic material is fine, but so much more could have been done with it. It points where Rob Halford was going musically, because he had a go at mixing Metal and Industrial with the short-lived 2wo. Even Fight fans should think twice about this album.

3.5 stars - A nice supplement to the War Of Words album.......2004-01-27

Mutations (1994.) A collection of live Fight tracks and remixes.

Although Rob Halford was no longer a part of the legendary Judas Priest, he and former Priest member Scott Travis (drums) were still rocking hard, in a new band called Fight. Their 1993 debut album, War Of Words, beautifully demonstrated what they were capable of. It seemed Halford still had some fight (no pun intended) left in him. Following the release of the band's debut album, they released a compilation of live material and remixes. Read on for my review of Mutations.

PROS:
-The live material that originally appeared on the War Of Words album performed here is exceptionally good.
-The band even performs the Judas Priest classic Freewheel Burning! This is a Priest track that got a lot of praise back in the day, and with good reason.
-In addition to the live material, you get remixes of several tracks that originally appeared on War Of Words! The remix of Immortal Sin is exceptionally good.

CONS:
-This little package is TOUGH to find.
-The remixes, though good, are nothing too special and probably won't appeal to casual fans.
-As far as live material goes, the band doesn't play Reality A New Beginning. That's a shame, because it was one of my favorite songs from War Of Words.
-The band should have done a remix and live collection separately.

OVERALL:
Overall this is a good package, but it's certainly unusual. My recommendation is to buy this if you're a Fight or Halford fan - that is, if you can find it. Since it's long since out of print (like eveything else in the Fight catalog), I recommend checking eBay or your local used CD store if you want to find a copy, or just order it here on Amazon. If you're new to Fight, though, start with their first album, War Of Words.

An excellent remix cd.......2001-08-19

The collector's edition of this cd is worth the price.The live tracks sound great.Especially the opener ,Into the pit.Personally never liked Nailed to the gun.Sounds good though.Fight even plays a Judas Priest classic,Freewheel Burning.It shreds! The last half of the cd includes the remixes.The songs differ from industrial to dub except Little Crazy.It is difficult to describe.It is so schizophrenic! Best track on here I think.If you want to hear something different this cd is it.

ROB HALFORD !!!!!!.......1999-04-13

Gostei bastante desse CD, e o incrível é q eu ganhei ele em troca de folhas de infotransfer (papel pra fazer camiseta)... Listen to the beginning of the 4th Track and answer me: What did the girl say in the time between "It's all right" and "I'm just a little crazy" ? Seems to me that she say "Rob Halford!!!!" Pretty weird, huh?

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Further to last year's release of the Hunters albums Natural Selection (hit singles) and Unnatural Selection (great album tracks), comes the final part of the trilogy. Mutations brings together 17 of the band's best rarities and B sides on the one album, many of them on CD for the very first time. "Of all the recent Hunters retrospectives this is the most compelling. It speaks volumes about the band's capacity to re-invent itself year after year whilst driving the songs home through constant touring. Listening to this material again after so many years, I am staggered by the diversity. Try marrying 'Yes Man' with 'Pocket'. How songs like 'The Trade Off' or 'Another One Like you' didn't make it on to albums seems beyond rational explanation. Hunters and Collectors was a powerful artistic community where decisions were often made in the highly charged atmosphere of studio control rooms. Above all, this collection lends testimony to the sheer "We'll Try Anything" attitude that kept the band alive for so long. And ponder this thought: In the contemporary Australian Musical landscape, Hunters and Collectors would be impossible." Liberation. 2005.

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Further to 2004's Release of the Hunters Albums "Natural Selection" (Hit Singles) and "Unnatural Selection" (Great Album Tracks), Comes the Final Part of the Trilogy. "Mutations" Brings Together 17 of the Band's Best Rarities and B Sides on the One Album, Many of them on CD for the Very First Time.

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Great American Music.......2003-04-18

I originally purchased this for the Ruggles, but I'm very pleased to have recordings the other composers. Wonderful cd.

Some stunning lesser known american pieces.......2001-07-30

The standouts are the Harris organ and brass piece, available nowhere else that I know of. Organic development of motifs to a massive climax. The two Ives pieces are also firstrate. "From the steeples to the mountains" lives up to Ives' description: And then the rocks began to shout. "Let there be light" sounds as though it could have led to his parting ways with the church he was organist for in the early 1900s.

Tracks:

The Fucking Champs - The Legend of Zelda (Overworld Theme)
Cripple Camp - Ghosts n' Goblins (la dolce mix)
Ahleuchatistas - Bad Dudes
Animal Style - Tetris (Music 3)
Cinemechanica as CONTRABAND - Contra (The Alien's Lair)
Rerun - Mega Man 2 (Bubble Man)
Doug McDiarmid (of why?) - Marble Madness (Piano Medley)
Kindergarten Hazing Ritual - River City Ransom (Boss Fight)
Upsilon Acrux - Rush'n Attack (Stage 1/Unknown Stage)
Christopher Willits - Metroid, a.k.a. The Lovers of Samus Aran
Defensive Mode - Mega Man 2 (Metal Man)
Flössin - Castlevania, a.k.a. Ascelitnava
Twelve-Handed Men of Mars - The Legend of Zelda (Main Theme)

Album Description

Power Up! is like nothing you've ever experienced before. An elite team of fearless musicians have paid tribute to the trend-setting music of the Nintendo Entertainment System. They're taking you to a world where few have dared to tread, but they ain't gonna be holding your hand. This musical adventure ain't for the weak. Cheat codes and a second-rate genie can't help you. Super-sized joysticks won't be an advantage here. Only the truly daring will be willing to face the challenges held within. It's up to you to face them head-on. Can you live without your Power Up!? Are you game?

Plastic Mutations - The Electronic Tribute to Radiohead

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Plastic Mutations: The Electronic Tribute to Radiohead
Blah
the music actually atrophies into itself
Pure Drivel
If only...

Plastic Mutations - The Electronic Tribute to Radiohead
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Vitamin Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005AAXW
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

Paranoid Android (Luxury Harrison Remix) - Mitchell Sigman
Kid A - George Sarah
Exit Music (For A Film) - Motor Industries
High & Dry - Transient
Idioteque - In One Ear Out The Analog
Let Down - Mitchell Sigman
Creep - Galactic Achievement Society
Motion Picture Soundtrack - In One Ear Out The Analog
Climbing Up The Walls - Motor Industries
Fake Plastic Trees - Transient
Everything In Its Right Place - In One Ear Out The Analog
Fitter Happier - Motor Industries

Product Description

1. Paranoid Android - Mitchell Sigman (luxury harrison remix)
2. Kid A - George Sarah
3. Exit Music (For A Film) - Motor Industries
4. High & Dry - Transient (Feat. Mike Moore)
5. Idioteque - In One Ear Out The Analog
6. Let Down - Mitchell Sigman
7. Creep - Galactic Achievement Society
8. Motion Picture Soundtrack - In One Ear Out The Analog
9. Climbing Up The Walls - Motor Industries
10. Fake Plastic Trees - Transient (Feat. Shelonda)
11. Everything In Its Right Place - In One Ear Out The Analog
12. Filter Happier - Motor Industries

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Plastic Mutations: The Electronic Tribute to Radiohead.......2005-05-24

ABSOLUTLY TERRIBLE! I beg you; do not support this atrocity with your hard-earned dollars. It really is awful. I was thoroughly depressed listening to it; I really was not aware that people could actually make a Radiohead song sound so bad. The synthesizers and mostly all the "electronic" inserts are ridiculously tasteless and obnoxious. The singers, they should not even be granted that title, are at times so off-key it's unbearable. So if you're looking for horrible renditions of Radioead's songs or just looking for a good old use for that aging airplane barf bag stuffed in the back of your car somewhere, this is a winner.

Blah.......2004-01-10

An attempt to electrify Radiohead is like trying to add weight to Shaquile O'Neal. The blend of mind drilling beats laid over sped up lyrics and distorted chord progressions destroys the overall purpose of the music. Even open minded Radiohead fans will listen to this and cringe... How can you take music that is deeply entrenched in worthwhile lyrics, soul, blues, and emotion and attempt to fit it into a dance club sound. If you want this sound, get a Radiohead RECORD and play it on double speed while banging a few pots and pans--at least the experience will involve the listener this way, rather than lulling them to sleep with miserable clubed out vocals.

BEWARE this CD stinks.

the music actually atrophies into itself.......2003-11-29

I bought this used at a local independent record store. It ruins all of the musical brilliance that radiohead have created and crushes all of the god-given talent that Thom Yorke and his posse have shared with the world. No, it's not supposed to be radiohead, but it is a quick buck for the record companies. Dont dive into temptation.

Pure Drivel.......2003-05-15

... I found the entire CD painful. This isnt a tribute ... And even I who loves everything that Radiohead has ever put out, figured I would give it a try. I thought since they had such good material to work with they couldnt possibly destroy it...

If only..........2002-12-19

It's a shame that there were no better electronic artists to craft what has, in principle, such great potential for brilliance. Remixes of Radiohead? It could be wonderous---but it flounders miserably under the hands of half-baked excuses for electronic musicians with little musical or lyrical talent. Please, if you are unfamiliar with the realm of electronic, don't judge the genre by this tragic representation. (For examples of better remixes, try Plaid remixing Bjork, or Underworld remixing whatever)