Monolithic Baby!

Artist: Monster Magnet
Label: Hunter
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 693723694320
EAN: 0693723694320
ASIN: B00018QIVG

Release Date: 2004-05-25

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Tracks:

Slut Machine
Supercruel
On The Verge
Unbroken (Hotel Baby)
Radiation Day
Monolithic
The Right Stuff
There's No Way Out Of Here
Master Of Light
Too Bad
Ultimate Everything
CNN War Theme
Venus In Furs
King Of Mars 2004

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Customer Reviews:

Wow!!!!!!! This is a Real Real Solid Album...........2006-01-12

...from start to finish. Almost every song on this album is supergreat. Pretty staightforward record. Guitar heaven. The songs that could've been left out are "there's no way out of here" and "too bad", beacause those songs are cool but kind of... i dont know, should've been left out. The rest of the album is amazing specialy: Supercruel (WOOOOOOOOOWWWW), The Right Stuff (Straight Punk), Ultimate Everything (that song is awesome), Master Of Light (Yeah) and Radiation Day (Great great song. Great ROCK N ROLL record. This is the stuff i was looking for.

No trips, but still solid.......2005-03-13

What it is: a very solid rock album. What it isn't: an acid trip on a 5-inch plastic disc. It sounds like Magnet has "matured", for better or for worse. Musically and lyrically far more coherent than anything they've done before, but the cost of mainstreaming is the loss of their famed psychedelic sound. It's certainly one of the best rock albums of the last few years, but it's not what Magnet fans are expecting. Don't expect Wyndorf to blow your mind, but he will blow your eardrums.

The best rock album of 2004 [which most people won't hear].......2004-09-21

As the Monster Magnet website declares: Rock Is Alive! Aside from MM and a few others, I can't think of too many bands who can make that claim these days. With all the sound-alike down-tuned no-solo "rock" out there these days, Monolithic Baby! is a welcome return to old-school hard rock. It is just a great hard-rocking, wacky, fun listen, with all the good stuff you expect from Magnet: pounding rhythm section, overdriven guitars, and some shredding solos, capped off by Dave Wyndorf's wacky view of the world. Definitely not as psychedelic as Spine Of God or even Dopes To Infinity, but overall, I think this is arguably their best work to date.

My song picks: Supercruel, Radiation Day, Monolithic and Master Of Light.

Dope Music.......2004-08-27

Monolithic Baby, the latest rock effort by southern New Jersey's Monster Magnet, sprung out of a random singularity that unraveled in the wispy fabric of space. It was born of a cyclopian rock-god dog-tired of puerile wailings layered over commerci-pop riffs. Monolithic Baby sprouted out of a meteorite that innocuously planted itself in a tract of Bruce Springsteen's backyard farmland in Colt's Neck. And Dave Wyndorf, the story goes, cloaked in dark garb, gained possession of this alien growth under shady, possibly criminal circumstances. And he heaved the monolithic spacerock into the sky. This tumbling mass bucked gravity and escaped the atmosphere's outer skin and inexplicably, Monolithic Baby reversed course and pierced again the exosphere on May 25th, 2004 and clobbered the North American continent with a Nagasaki-sized wollop. Monolithic Baby is pure metal wrapped inside a white-evil husk, set upon a plinth in Satan's museum of inspired artifacts. And Monolith Baby is more than that. It's the kind of album that you can leave spinning in your CD player at a listening volume at magnet midnight, and you can go to bed to it, and splay out your limbs in an X-marks-this-landing-pad-for-Wyndorf's-mindsplash, and saunter into your dreams drugged on the arresting sound of genuine, legitimate hard rock. So buy this freaking album if you need a transmutation of soul. Or if this age of terror and over-consumption got you down. Or if you just want to dream again.

Good rock record.......2004-07-28

Definitely downplays the psychedelic side of the band. More of a straightforward rock album. The lack of psychedelia kind of makes it sound flatter than previous albums, but it is a really good rock record anyway you cut it. Still has the heavy riffage and similar themes. I only have Superjudge and Dopes to Inifinity and it is definitely closer to Dopes of the two records, but still less psychedelic. So if you're into the band for the psychedelic side this probably won't appeal to you as much as earlier releases.

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