Nice concise title, huh? Ha. This is a great album to listen to when you're pissed. The lyrics themselves aren't exactly angry for the most part, but the music is just driving and forceful. The lyrics, on almost all the songs, are actually hilarious, especially set to hard rock. On "El Jefe Speaks," for instance, you have the following line: "Like a fly to doo-doo, you need me like a bird needs wings. Or Little Bunny Foo Foo who needs to bop the field mice, so all the kids can sing." Naturally, this is sung in a gravelly metal voice. Funny shit. Then there's "12 Ounce Epilogue" which is pretty much announcing Coca Cola as the official drink of the apocalypse. "Binge and Purge" is probably one of the angriest songs ever. It starts off kind of mellow, a nice simple drum and bass line, mainly. Then, about half way through, it just erupts into pure assault. Basically this album is divided into two types of songs - angry yet funny, and just angry. Not much else to say about it, I guess. Like I said, just a great album to listen to when you're pissed.
5 Best Songs:
5. "Effigy"
4. "Binge and Purge"
3. "12 Ounce Epilogue"
2. "Heirloom 13"
1. "Milk Of Human Kindness"
Zero points for creativity on these videos, but the sound quality is awesome.
"12 Ounce Epilogue"
"Heirloom 13"
"Milk Of Human Kindness"
139. Turn It On Again: The Hits by Genesis (1999)
So, if you remember the review of the Phil Collins greatest hits album a couple posts ago, you can pretty much take the major parts of that and apply them here. Again, it's hard to listen to this without expecting to hear some of Collins' solo hits, just because it sounds so similar. This is a better compilation than Collins' greatest hits album, though, as there are only two songs I'd switch out. I know they put "Congo" on to have at least one song sung by the guy who replaced Phil Collins after he left, but damn is that a crappy song. Replace that with any damn thing, or just drop it entirely. Preferably, throw either "Home By the Sea" or "Second Home By the Sea" in there, though. The other song I'd switch would be "Hold On My Heart." Not a great song, and there are three other songs from the same album included, so why not put "Man On the Corner," a vastly superior song, in its place? The obvious highlight on this album is "The Carpet Crawlers 1999" which brought Peter Gabriel back to the group for the first time in 25 years, but I already got into that on the songs list, so... Moving along. The only other Gabriel era song on the album is "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" but it's kind of understandable, since they were more of an artsy band when he was the leader, not really making radio friendly music. The only times the album seems to lag are during "Hold On My Heart" and "No Son Of Mine." Partially it's because they are two of only four slow songs out of 18 on the album, the others being "In Too Deep" and the stellar "Throwing It All Away," but it's also partly because I hate those two songs, so I'm kind of biased. But hey, it's my list, so I'm allowed to be, right? Basically, if you take this album and Phil Collins' ...Hits, you'll have a great retrospective of his career from the late '70s through the '90s. Both could have been better, but not by much so it's all good.
5 Best Songs:
5. "Abacab"
4. "The Carpet Crawlers 1999"
3. "Throwing It All Away"
2. "Mama"
1. "Follow You, Follow Me"
"Throwing It All Away"
"Mama"
"Follow You, Follow Me"
Have yo ever seen Clutch live? Awesome! And they still only charge 90's prices, between $10-$20. Had so much fun at their shows. I miss going to concerts.
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