Alternative Animals [Import]

alternative animals [import]

Track Listings

1. Demolition Girl (Live)

2. Erotic Neurotic (Live)

3. Break My Heart (Live)

4. Hate

5. Cigarettes & Alcohol

6. Sex Crimes

7. Horizontal Action

8. Your So Boring

9. Kick Her Out

10. Premonition

11. Sockman

12. No Fun On The Beaches

13. Steel Plaits

14. Heard It On The Radio

15. Home Is Where The Floor Is

16. An Interactive Documentary Of The Australian Punk Scene 1976-79

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Product Description
A 2-disc package (CD-ROM and music CD) documenting the Australian punk scene from 1976-79. This album features rare & unreleased music, video & interviews with The Saints, Radio Birdman, Boys Next Door, Scientists, X, Manikins, Chosen Few, Filth, Whirlywirld, Lipstick Killers, Babeez & more! The CD-ROM highlights include two unreleased songs and a video, live at Preston Tech 1978, from Boys Next Door (Nick Cave & Mick Harvey's first band), The Saints 'Demolition Girl' filmed at Paddington Town Hall in 1977, Perth great The Manikins live in '78, and notorious, never-recorded Sydney punk wild men Filth (pre-Lipstick Killers) live in '77. The CD-ROM also includes video interview footage with members of Radio Birdman, Saints, Victims, Leftovers and many more. Hours of interactive fun! Shock. 2005.

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Alternative Animals [Import]

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SFA a new departure with each album
You've got to tolerate all that music that you hate
You've got to tolerate all that music that you hate
love boat music?
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Juxtaposed with U
Super Furry Animals
Manufacturer: Sbme Import
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ASIN: B00005MG9U
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

Juxtaposed With U
Tradewinds
Happiness Is a Worn Pun

Album Description

UK edition of the first single off the Welsh indie act's fifth album, Rings Around the World. Features exclusive tracks 'Tradewinds' & 'Happiness is a Worn Pun' plus the CD-ROM video for 'Juxtaposed With U'. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

SFA a new departure with each album.......2001-07-25

Being lucky enough to have already heard "Rings Around The World" in its entirety I can definitely put any fans' worries to rest. True, this first single seams a little too disco-y (at first) and worried me but after a few more listens I got into it. Any SFA fans out there probably don't love them for the A-Sides anyhow.

Each album is different from the one before it, same thing for RATW. If you are still worried about the direction the band is going in then the fact that RATW was just nominated for this year's Mercury Music Prize should calm you down.

Do yourself a favour and buy RATW, and buy this single as the B-Side "Tradewinds" is nothing short of excellence.

You've got to tolerate all that music that you hate.......2001-07-23

If wadding through the drogs of *NSYNC and O-Town means the SFA are on the other side, show me the que.

Juxtapozed is an excellent single, bounded by the powers that be to debut then fall off the Brit charts, not even released in the US (pitty us poor souls here, but bless those little hearts at amazon.co.uk). This Cher thing above, I don't know, not a big Cher fan, but it is true SFA sound, stright from the Guerilla album mold. I just saw A.I. and the video and song remind me of something that should have been played when they went to "Rogue City" to find the blue fairy.

The B-sides are excellent as well. Thank the Brits for caring about the B-sides, Radiohead's last single, Pyramid Song, had in my opinion the best song of the year on it, "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy." Anyway, Tradewinds is a low-key guitar song, very reminiscent of maybe, "Fire in My Heart" but not as lullabie-ish. And Happiness Is A Warm Pun is definitely the highlight of the cd. Booming drum intro, quick guitar signatures, heavy on the southern roots rock of the 60s it is a standout track indeed. But it still maintains the SFA signature with quarky lyrics and mubbled ones at best...similar to "Wherever I lay My phone.."

Buy without hesitation, however, get the album, Rings Around The World, it highlights SFA at their finest!!

You've got to tolerate all that music that you hate.......2001-07-23

If wadding through the drogs of *NSYNC and O-Town means the SFA are on the other side, show me the que.

Buy without hesitation, however, get the album, Rings Around The World, it highlights SFA at their finest!!

love boat music?.......2001-07-19

OK it does sound a lot like that Cher song from last year, vocodered voice over disco strings (and you thought Ice Hockey Hair was retro!) all charlies angels on the love boat surface sheen, but in a wonderfully subversive gesture the song is a piss take through & through; the chorus intones: "you've got to tolerate all those people that you hate. I don't love you, but I wont hold that against you." I actually hear a little dub influence on the versus (a vocordered voice rapping rasta style). The b-sides, as with most SFA b-sides, offer quality for your dollar. The video included on the disc to the a-side makes this disc worth the otherwise prohibitive cost of an import single. The logical extension of Guerilla and a good buy. I'm drooling with anticipation for the full disc. So check of that this review was helpful and help me get that gift cert OK?

..........2001-07-18

OK it does sound a lot like that Cher song from last year, vocodered voice over disco strings (and you thought Ice Hockey Hair was retro!), but in a wonderfully subversive gesture the song is a piss take through & through; the chorus intones: "I don't love you, but I wont hold that against you." I actually hear a little dub influence on the versus (a vocordered voice rapping rasta style). The b-sides, as with most SFA b-sides, offer quality for your dollar. The video included on the disc to the a-side makes this disc worth the otherwise prohibitive cost of an import single. The logical extension of Guerilla and a good buy. I'm drooling with anticipation for the full disc. So check of that this review was helpful ...

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Northern Lites
Super Furry Animals
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JAVL
Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

Northern Lites
Rabid Dog
This, That and the Other

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Phantom Power
Super Furry Animals
Manufacturer: Sbme Import
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000A2XQK
Release Date: 2003-07-28

Tracks:

Hello Sunshine
Liberty Belle
Golden Retriever
Sex, War & Robots
Piccolo Snare
Venus & Serena
Father Father, No. 1
Bleed Forever
Out of Control
Cityscape Skybaby
Father Father, No. 2
Valet Parking
Undefeated
Slow Life

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Super Furries at their peak
music!
completely deranged...one of the year's best
Do Not Judge a CD by the Single
Still excellent but not their best

Rings Around the World
Super Furry Animals
Manufacturer: Sbme Import
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00005ML9K
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

Alternate Route To Vulcan Street
Sidewalk Serfer Girl
(Drawing) Rings Around The World
It's Not The End Of The World
Receptacle For The Respectable
A Touch Sensitive
Shoot Doris Day
No Sympathy
Juxtapozed With U
Presidential Suite
Run! Christian, Run!
Fragile Happiness
Bonus

Album Description

Import edition of the Welsh indie act's fifth album. Includes 'Shoot Doris Day' & 'Juxtapozed With U'. 13 tracks in all. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Super Furries at their peak.......2007-01-23

This is the Super Furry Animals at their peak. The songs are more poppy than before and there is less experimental noise than on any other of their albums.

The album starts with "Alternative Route To Vulcan Street" which is quite downbeat and could give the listener a false impression of the sound of the album. It is anything but downbeat. Super Furries write intricate songs with great lyrics and soaring choruses. This is the Beach Boys meets The Kinks meets Love done in a very individual way.

The highlights for me have to be "Receptacle For The Respectable" with Paul McCartney in the background chewing carrots (don't ask me. I don't know why either !) and "Shoot Doris Day". The two songs really are astonishing - "Receptacle" is power pop par excellence and "Shoot Doris Day" is chamber pop par excellence.

There are plenty of other great songs here as well "Run!Christian!Run","Juxtaposed With U", "Sidewalk Serfer Girl" and "Presidential Suite" are all cracking tunes.

To people who like their music with a bit of originality and prefer something unique, this is the best band in Britain (forget about Oasis , they aren't fit to tie their shoelaces)

If you're a fan of complex power pop/indie/chamber pop/quasi psychedelia, you'll absolutely love this band. Their musical scope is astonishing

music!.......2001-09-10

SFA's 5th album is, as are all the others, an instant classic. there is no other band that can maintain their consistent brilliance from album to album. there ar no suprises here, if you liked their other albums, well then this has it all. the fun pop tunes, the ballads, the techno freak-outs, the keyboard tracks, the great artwork. as usual the lyrics are hilarious, the tunes are fantastic, and it is more coherent than, say, guerrilla. album of the year.

completely deranged...one of the year's best.......2001-09-06

My favourite new albums are the ones that are both instantly pleasing to hear as well as being challenging at the same time, records that throw convention out the window, great pop music that's a bit off-kilter, with clever lyrics to boot. Super Furry Animals' new album Rings Around The World is the first new album of 2001 to completely blow me away, a soaring, aural mindfunk of a pop album.

Where should I begin? Every track is musically vastly different from the other and is punctuated by Gruff Rhys's oddball lyrics, the first five songs getting the album off to a flying start. The mellow piano ballad 'Alternate Route To Vulcan Street' kicks off the album with the enigmatic line "sometimes I ponder/what if the Caspian Sea/should merger/over my shoulder", 'Sidewalk Serfer Girl' lampoons the Beach Boys with a bit of a glam twist, the irresistable electropop of '(Drawing) Rings Around The World' perfectly mirrors the sound of ELO, and Rhys's impeccable singing on the plaintive ballad 'It's Not The End Of The World' sounds as good as the best work by Blur. The album's best moments, though, are in the amazing 'Receptacle For The Respectable' (talk about the song title of the year). It starts at a midtempo, acoustic guitar-driven pace with harmonies that sound lifted straight from Wings, then suddenly breaks down to half the speed in an Abbey Road-styled segue before slowing down even more, with a gentle, horn-driven melody that also features the sound of Paul McCartney eating celery and carrots, then builds up to the final section where, over faux-industrial keyboards, Rhys belts out the song's title in his best death metal impersonation. All this happens in less than four exhilerating minutes, making it one of the most stunning songs you'll hear in a long time.

There are no low points on the rest of Rings Around The World: '(A) Touch Sensitive' is an effective stab at trip-hop, 'Shoot Doris Day' sounds a lot like Elvis Costello and just might hint at someone's great dislike of The Man Who Knew Too Much ("Sentimentality pause/as Jimmy Stewart ignores her question"), the grim, folky 'No Sympathy' that metamorphoses from a Crosby, Stills & Nash homage into a boisterous exercise in electronic knob-twiddling, the Marvin Gaye-influenced 'Juxtaposed With U' that combines biting social commentary with bizarre humour ("I'm not in love with you/but I won't hold that against you") and makes Rhys sound like a Welsh Jarvis Cocker, the hilarious lampooning of the Clinton-Lewinsky controversy in 'Presidential Suite', the Pink Floyd sounds of 'Run Christian Run', and the gentle "doo doo-wah"'s of 'Fragile Happiness that evoke the Velvet Underground.

Super Furry Animals have made a major statement with this spectacular album, which was close to a year in the making, and as a result they have emerged as one of the best bands on the planet. You can't go wrong with this flawless piece of work, which will end up close to, or perhaps, at the top of my best of 2001 list.

Do Not Judge a CD by the Single.......2001-08-06

Uh oh--I made the mistake of pursuing said CD based on "Juxtapozed With U." The single is not perfect. It's a bit trendy and irritating as of late to electronically warble/modulate the singing (Cher aka "Believe"). The chorus at least is tuneful. It brings to mind Elvis Costello in his Punch the Clock phase. Nothing else on this CD even approaches this. The music is largely disjointed, quirky, weird, and too often ends in dead end noise. It's far too self-indulgent to repeatedly enjoy. A lot of it sounds like rejected outtakes from the solo sides of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma LP, now over 30 years old. Also brings to mind the more contemporary Fatima Mansions--frequent visitors to the bargain bins. I guess I have a hard time deciding where the critics see the strength in this recording? In the musicianship? In the songcraft? In the lyrics? In their "[rehash] Radiohead" song motifs? Surely not. Since I was really let down after the strength of the single, I know much of this sounds like griping. But I wasn't prepared for the "Rage Against the Machine" posturing either--middle class Welsh blokes unhappy with the ills of western society. Happy to reveal flaws in politics/society; far too alienated to offer solutions. The targets are too easy: religion (with Tammy Faye as one object of ire in their full-length video) and politics (Bill Clinton and Monika tackling oral sex). Where's the cutting edge here? Even so, bad lyrics can be overcome with a handful of decent songs. Unfortunately, this CD does not warrant repeated listens because sixty minutes of quirky, excessive personalities exposed from song to song simply wear you out. It will sadly collect dust along with those other "Critics Rave!" CDs that seemed like a good idea one day, but with a bad aftertaste immediately after. For those duped into this work by the single, stay clear.

Still excellent but not their best.......2001-08-03

Another album the critics (at least in the UK) have been hailing as their best ever. But in fact it is a retread of old ground: a quiet instrumental opening giving way to a harder second track: a bit of weird techno breakdown around the middle of the album and some nice ballads afterwords. The Furries still do it better than anyone else around, but both Guerilla especially Radiator were better (and stranger) albums by far. Sounds like they need some new inspiration to stop them the turning tide washing away their castles in the sand.

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German Tour Edition
Extremely cool

Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson
Manufacturer: Mca Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JR3E
Release Date: 2000-08-29

Album Description

The group's hit 1998 album packaged with a full color, CD-sized 20 page comic book in a full color slipcase cover. The album features 14 tracks, including the hit singles 'The Dope Show', 'Rock Is Dead' and 'I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)'. 1999 release.

Album Details

Contains an Exclusive Color Comic Book Based around the Fantastic Video 'i Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) and Extra Slip Case Package. Will Be Available for a Strictly Limited Period.

Customer Reviews:

German Tour Edition.......2000-09-08

This is actually the German Tour edition which has a hand drawn cover and contains a mini comic of the video for I Don't Like The Drugs... It's interesting if you're a Manson collector like myself but otherwise it's the exact same as the domestic versions.

Extremely cool.......2000-09-08

This is probably Mr.Manson's best piece of work to date. On this album he explores new music territory and he steps forward in the evolution of his music. This album brings to you a new story that is diffrent from Antichrist Superstar tells you. Every single track in this album adds a special element like "Great Big White World" which introduced you into the album which is followed by "Dope Show" a melodic song which is kind of satirical. Other song like "Rock is dead" and "Posthuman" bring you speedy industrial crunchy songs which adds alot to the album and contrasts since the album is more melodic than the last album with soft ballads like "dissasociative" and "the Last day on Earth". After listening to "The last Day on Earth" you go into the Closing track "Coma White" which is a beautifully done and to me one of the best songs ever. After listening to this album your going to want to listen to it over and over again so why wait and order it now here in Amazon.com

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All Show No Go

Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JSAB
Release Date: 1999-07-27

Album Description

Limited edition release (2,500 worldwide) in a real aluminum one gallon paint can with the group's arrow logo in black, white & red on a large 6 inch x 8 inch sticker attached to the front of the can. The can is 7.5 inches tall & has a diameter of 6.5 inc

Customer Reviews:

All Show No Go.......2000-03-14

What the item is exactly is not stated so I will oblidge:

Limited edition release (2,500 worldwide) in a real aluminum one gallon paint can with the group's arrow logo in black, white & red on a large 6" x 8" sticker attached to the front of the can. The can is 7.5 inches tall & has a diameter of 6.5 inches. The can's lid is embossed with the same arrow design. Inside the can is the group's hit 1998 CD album 'Mechanical Animals', four 5" x 7" full color photos of the group's lead singer performing live in concert, an authenticity certificate, a black leather thong and a two-sided, short sleeve, black cotton t-shirt with a full color, silkscreened image of the singer on the front & a colorful silkscreening on the back that says 'Omega And The Mechanical Animals'.

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