Ignorance

ignorance

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Product Description
Boo Hewerdine previously fronted a band called The Bible. His solo album Ignorance reveals a fragile, emotive, and articulate voice, with mostly acoustic arrangements that lean to melancholy and introspective lyrics. With the exception of rousing closer 'History', electric guitars accent, rather than drive, the material. Haven. 2006. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Ignorance

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1st Class Old School American Thrash

Ignorance / Surf Nicaragua (Rm) (2CD/DVD)
Sacred Reich
Manufacturer: Metal Blade
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000QBW8HG
Release Date: 2007-07-09

Tracks:

Death Squad
Victim Of Demise
Layed To Rest (Instrumental)
Ignorance
No Believers
Violent Solutions
Rest In Peace
Sacred Reich
Administrative Decisions
Rapid Fire (Judas Priest Cover With Rob Halford Singing)
Big Picture (Mdc Cover)
Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath Cover)
Surf Nicaragua
One Nation
War Pigs
Draining You Of Life
Ignorance (Live)
Death Squad (Live)
Draining You Of Life (4 Track Demo 1986)(Bonus Track)
Ignorance (From Metal Massacre Viii)(Bonus Track)
No Believers (4 Track Demo 1986)(Bonus Track)
R.I.P. (4 Track Demo 1986)(Bonus Track)
Sacred Reich (4 Track Demo 1986)(Bonus Track)
Sacred Reich (Metal Massacre Sessions)(Bonus Track)

Album Description

2007 limited edition German two CD set features the 1987 Ignorance album from the Metal mongrels coupled with the 1988 Surf Nicaragua EP that features covers, live versions and other oddities. Metal Blade.

Album Details

Remastered Reissues of their Two Classic Albums Along with a Bonus Dvd. Package Includes Updated Line Notes and an Extensive Booklet.

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1st Class Old School American Thrash.......2007-07-12

Before Metallica's Black LP, there was Thrash. The Reich is one of the bands that has never been in the 'golden' league of Thrash but they have been one of the pioneers of the second wave of Thrash Metal at the end of the 80s.

This is a re-master edition (good quality) of their first LP and EP with added bonus and demo tracks. The package includes their first demo also. Moreover, a DVD equipped with their performance in 1989. As a whole, it is 2 CD + 1 DVD.

The lyrics are political and anti-government. They are not in your face, let's start a revolution type. More clever stuff... Fast, sick riffs with old school (u can understand who is singing what) vocal vibe. More within the lines of Dark Angel, Vio-Lence and Forbidden then Metallica and Megadeth, these album(s) have been good quality metarial of the genre at the end of the 90s before Grunge Killed'em All.

Overall this is a good value of money considering that these LPs are out of print (and u can only find them in e-bay - of course more expensive -) and their performance is one of the unique things left to us from the old video tapes of the 80s (though the sound is much more better than the video quality). Buy it if u still miss the old days of Thrash.

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Seven years later...
You don't even know....
Fantastic well written album
Face to Face's Best Written Album
If only you could understand

Ignorance Is Bliss
Face to Face
Manufacturer: Beyond Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Reactionary
Standards & Practices
Face to Face
Big Choice
Don't Turn Away

ASIN: B00000JJKM
Release Date: 1999-07-27

Tracks:

Overcome
In Harms Way
Burden
Everone Hates A Know-It -All
Heart Of Hearts
Prodigal
Nearly Impossible
I Know What You Are
The Devil You Know (God Is A Man)
Pathetic
Lost
Run In Circles
Maybe Next Time

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Seven years later..........2006-09-27

I remember when this album came out summer 1999. At that point Face To Face had been dormant for nearly two years (a hefty stretch for them). Now, after a full year in the studio, they were finally releasing their fourth full-length studio album.

At this point in my life, at age 19, I had come to the conclusion that the "punk scene" had had spent my high school life defending was beyond repair. The supposed "punk rock values" were completely self-centered and self-serving. "Sell-out" was rhetoric applied to anyone who stepped outside punk's clearly drawn boundaries. Major labels, MTV, large venues -- none of this would do for a "true" punk rock band. Heaven forbid you try to stretch past breakneck tempos and power chords.

When IGNORANCE IS BLISS finally dropped, I was mezmorized. Trever & co. showed that they had more up their sleeve than Disconnected and I Won't Lie Down. No punches were pulled in the production; besides decidedly un-punk song structure, they also added string arrangements (thus elevating the song Burden from "excellent" to "ethereal") and ambient sounds that enhanced the mood of the record. It was, and is, flawless.

So naturally, the "punk rawkers" despised it. Their website was flooded with barely coherent complaints. When they headed out on tour shortly after the album's release they were met not only with disapproving crowds, but with violence (which, in part, led to guitarist Chad Yaro's departure the following year). The tour had to be cancelled.

Face To Face then released two more albums, both returning to the "punk" stable, which is unfortunate. In 2003 they called it quits after sufficiently placating their fan-base.

So now, seven years later, the dust has settled. What of Ignorance Is Bliss?

Don't Turn Away is a punk rock cliche. Reactionary smacks of damage control. How To Ruin Everything is a band bored with their music and each other. But Ignorance Is Bliss stands as strongly as ever. With the lyrical brilliance of Heart Of Hearts or Prodigal, or the musical beauty of Everyone Hates A Know-It-All or Lost, it all proves that, for at least a little while, Face To Face was truely one of the greats.

You don't even know...........2006-03-02

Let me tell you how good this album is. I named my son Trever Keith after the lead singer of Face to Face. This is the only punk album I've ever heard that actually made me "feel" the music rather than just hear it. By far the best work Trever Keith has ever done. To me, punk is not a sound. It's an ideal, the way you are. Trever Keith had the most punk ideals out of any other lead man I've listened to. He came in, said what he had to say, and Face to Face left the scene.

Fantastic well written album.......2005-12-17

This is such an exceptional album. Not many punk bands have this kind of talent shown with this kind of song writing. Face to Face took a different direction with this one. It is much slower then the rest of their faster punk style albums. Many F2F fans ragged on this album saying it wasn't punk and then F2F changed back to their original sound for later albums which I believe really limited their growth as a band.

Face to Face's Best Written Album.......2005-08-27

When this was released it was met with so much scrutiny they immediately went in and recorded the lackluster "Reactionary". Don't get me wrong, I love the old punk rock Face to Face but this album is just amazing. It is slower, a little more "emo" maybe. Definitley a huge step and a huge risk song-writing wise and I think it paid off brilliantly. I hate the fact people will diss a band because they stop being so "punk rock". That term is so cliche and lame. A band as good as face to face deserves to put out whatever style sound they want. This is definitley their highlight and most heartfelt release. I feel like Trever Keith is really throwing everything he has into this! Thumbs WAY up! Highlights: Burden, Heart of Hearts, I Know What You Are, The Devil You Know, Run In Circles *To really show how good this CD is. From losing or ruining my copies of this album I have purchased this in stores 4 totally different times. No joke. Never done that before.*

If only you could understand.......2005-06-04

First of all i gave this only 4 starts because in my opinion there are less than 100 albums ever released to deserve five stars. This album is near perfection. I have been a face to face fan for a long time now and i own almost all of their work. I love the regular punk face to face has to deliver just like everyone else. My favorite album is probably self-titled or big choice. I read a lot of reviews on hear from idiots that bash this album. These idiots do not understand change, artisitic integrity, or a simple desire to try something new. This album is a big change for face to face. But it only shows you the capability of an amazing band. This record is near flawless for the type of music it delivers. It is a masterpiece of its own creation. If you can not understand that then you shouldn't be listening to this band in the first place. because if you listen to face to face's overall style, thats exactly what it is. A masterpiece of its own creation.

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Brute Force and Ignorance
Wildfire
Manufacturer: Mausoleum
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000067IT8
Release Date: 2005-12-19

Tracks:

Violator
Victim of Love
Another Daymare
Lovelight
Search and Destroy
Redline
Wildfire
Goldrush
If I Tried
Eyes of the Future

Album Description

Import reissue of the heavy metal act's 1985 album. Mausoleum. 2002.

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Sacred Reich at their very best!
Thrash Classic

Ignorance
Sacred Reich
Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000OB9
Release Date: 1995-12-19

Tracks:

Death Squad
Victim Of Demise
Layed To Rest
Ignorance
No Believers
Violent Solutions
Rest In Piece
Sacred Reich
Administrative Decisions

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Sacred Reich at their very best!.......2003-01-25

This album is essential! Much faster and more thrash-oriented than Sacred Reich's later releases (which progressively began to place more emphasis on groove rather than speed). Some truly classic tracks on this one. Pure thrash!

Thrash Classic.......2003-01-17

i agree wholeheartedly with the previous reviewer. this is an underrated thrash classic. the beginning of Death Squad is one of the greatest intros to a metal/hardcore album ever. methodically bludgeoning riffs with a powerhouse rhythm gives way to breakneck speed that holds it's course throughout. comparable to Reign In Blood in it's instrumental dexterity and technical precision. 'nuff said...

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Shades of Bungle
Darkness inside a clown twisting into form ,

Applied Ignorance
Phantom Limbs
Manufacturer: Alternative Tentacle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Random Hymns
Songs for Psychotic Children

ASIN: B00005LOSM
Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

Piss On Them Lightly
Shut Up Old Man
Unhinged Face
Minutes Collector
Shake A Baby
Hot Knives And Hornets
Jointly Stranded
Somebody Twisted Your Arm
Shut Them Out
How Calm You Are

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Shades of Bungle.......2002-08-26

This is an excellent album. When I first listened to it, I was reminded of Mr. Bungle's first, self-titled album. To those of you that may not have heard Mr. Bungle, being compared to that band is a very strong endorsement. The Phantom Limbs, however, are more punk than metal in territory similar to many post-FNM Patton works. The creepy carnival motif is fantastically done and never necessary. This album could easily have suffered by relying on its gimmick as a crutch. The scary organ and carnival style, however, are not a crutch on this album, but a perfect augmentation. The music would clearly be quite good even if it were taken away. Hopefully in the future more punk will sound like this, than what is foolishly referred to as "punk" now.

Darkness inside a clown twisting into form ,.......2001-08-31

Something Very new and twisted The Phantom Limbs are
a band that when you listen to it , you really listen to it
it's like if you took Goth and punk,and had a Southern Revival
at a circus, lots of great organs they also have a fantastic presence on
stage thier front man Hopeless screeches a desperate cry like
he was bieng torured at an insane asylum, Live they are phantastic and there all really great guys (no matter what Heather says)

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i like this heckle album better
Get their first record
the editroralist below me is on CREAK COCAIN
In contrast to that other review...
Socially aware hXc with a distinct sound.

Complicated Futility of Ignorance
Heckle
Manufacturer: Hopeless Records
ProductGroup: Music
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We're Not Laughing with You

ASIN: B000003GW4
Release Date: 1997-05-20

Tracks:

Set Alpha Low
Missionary Position
Joke's On Me
Disposable
Along For The Ride
Dependence
So Much The Same
Ashes
Standard Issue
D-Day
C.O.I.
Royal Imp
Infinite Loop
Misguided

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i like this heckle album better.......2004-02-04

heckle were a good band who followed the socal style of hardcore punk ala AFI in there earlier days, but they were from jersey, where ensign and mouthpiece resided and definitely have a clear love for old school NYHC. where as the first album, we are not laughing with you, was more punk, this album finds steve cunningham getting more involved in the gorilla biscuits tendencies that he only hinted at on his first album. while not anything new in terms of style, steve brings a good dose of guitar dynamic to an otherwise basic music form. heavily influenced by dag nasty at times, it is the little guitar flourishes that decorate this album. that and steve has a knack for writing catchy ass hardcore songs....

some of these songs remind of some of the best late 80's NYHC songs that were never written, "along for the ride", "jokes on me", "dependence", "so much the same" with ther fast rhythms leaading into a classic hardcore breakdown, sometimes complete with youth crew vocals. other songs are of the more fast punk variety found on alot of socal hardcore bands such as pennywise, AFI, and bad religion and of course dag nasty (though they were from DC). there is a cover song, "C.O.I. - convenience of ignorance" that is from an old band of steves and the drummers called seven years war that were from vermont. they were way more metallic but with dense mathy rhythms that would've made bands like converge and coalesce proud.

Get their first record.......2002-03-08

After We're Not Laughing With You, I was stoked for this to come out and bought it without listening to it. That was a mistake.

Gone are the melodic hardcore hooks from the first album, and in place is just fast, generic music, without a soul.

I think punk rock is the most dynamic musical genre but all the songs on this album sound the same.

Heckle displayed so much talent with their first record but had nothing left for round two, and appropriately called it quits after this album.

the editroralist below me is on CREAK COCAIN.......2000-02-11

this cd is great. and has a very distinct sound to it. the first cd is may be better however, out of ten this probably is a 9.5 the other HECKLE(were not laughing at you) would be a ten. melodic hardcore with a distinct sound. you may enjoy

OTHER HECKLE HAS BACK UP VOCALS FROM DAVE OF A.F.I.

In contrast to that other review..........1999-08-05

This is by no means original hardcore, in thought or in musical prowess. It does have good breakdowns and some keen sing-a-long choruses, but many of the songs run together, which is good if you like the record but a serious fault if you dont.

Socially aware hXc with a distinct sound........1999-01-23

Wow. That is the first thought that came to my mind the first time i heard this cd. Incredible hXc punk songs breaking the typical hXc mold. Incredible guitar work and even more impressive lyrics. Any one can take something from what Steve Cunningham (singer/guitar/lyrics) has to say on this cd. Buy it, NOW!

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Good Album

The Confident Rat
Ignorance
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Release Date: 1991-01-16

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Good Album.......2003-03-14

This band put out 2 good albums and went totally un-noticed. This is the first album. It's very riffy, catchy, and funky. Nothing mind blowing, but has good production and definitely rocks. The drummer has a nice warm tone on his drums. Highly recommended.

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Punishment for Ignorance

Manufacturer: Black Metal.Com
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Mayhem - European Legions Live at Marseille

ASIN: B000H0WNQ2

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Alternate version of BMC's great new albumn. With four additional live tracks.

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From Influence to Ignorance
Union Carbide Productions
Manufacturer: Koch Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000OLGCD4
Release Date: 2007-05-08

Tracks:

Train Song
Be Myself Again
Golden Age
Can't Hear Nothing
Baritone Street
Got My Eyes On You
Can't Slow Down
Sunset Trip
Circles
Coda

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From Influence to Ignorance
Union Carbide Productions
Manufacturer: Radium
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ASIN: B0009S2GVE
Release Date: 2006-03-22

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Train Song
Be Myself Again
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Can't Hear Nothing
Baritone Street
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Can't Slow Down
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