The Joke's on You

Artist: Excel
Label: Rotten
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 032357301127
EAN: 0032357301127
ASIN: B000059T0H

Release Date: 2001-03-13

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Tracks:

Drive
Shadow Winds
Fired (You're)
Tapping Into The Emotional Void
Affection Blends With Resentment
Seeing Insane
My Thoughts
I Never Denied
Message In A Bottle
Given Question
The Stranger
Blaze Some Hate
Cultured
More Than You'd Ever Know
Soul Sick
Withdrawal
Priorities Astray

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Customer Reviews:

Too Fast , Too Furious!!!!!!!!!!!! .......2005-10-31

California, hardcore with trash influences, adrenaline in the veins, so speed, so incendiary, total madness, I loved this heavy skaters back in the 80s.
The Joke's on You is the most representative Excel album, after they changed their style in the 90s for more groovy , stoner, sabathesque influences and they did it great but never worked out the way it worked for this masterpiece, time goes by but memories remain

HM

Dogtown influenced skate/punk/thrash.......2005-04-19

Cut from the same cloth as Mike Muirs Suicidal Tendencies, Excel comes with a classic cut of skate influenced thrash. You could always find this CD in thrasher magazine on the Dogtown skates page along with Suicidal Releases and Beowulf releases (back when it was in newsprint, mind you). Makes perfect sense considering Jim Muir was an orignal Z-Boy and Dogtown skater breakign away from Z-Boys to start to start his own skate company and helping his little brother Mike out in the process by releaseing his (and his buddies music.)

Excel was once conisderded "Suicidal Tendencies little brother." Not as morbid or influential as S.T. but still just as prominent.

"The Jokes on You" is a good headbanging piece of hardcore late 80's skate punk. Their cover of the Police's Message in the bottle was rewound and played heavily.

If your into stuff like Post-punk DRI (Crossover and later), MOD, SOD, Kreator, Death Angel and mid to late 80's thrash/hardcore crossover then check this out.

Great hardcore album.......2004-04-27

This is the epitome of hardcore. If you are a fan of fast hardcore metal with a punk influence, then this is a must for you...

Great hardcore album.......2004-04-27

This is the epitome of great hardcore. Everyone should own this...

Excel is definitely one of my personal favourites (No Joke).......2002-12-09

I don't know why I bought this album, but I sure am glad that I did. I always considered Excel more Heavy Alternative than Heavy Metal, but all there songs are fast and heavy, albeit with more of a Punk / Alternative feel to them than anything else. A friend of mine said about them "Nothing special, there are tons of bands like this out there", but he was definitely wrong! It's too bad they never achieved mainstream popularity and made it big, because I would have loved to hear what they would have come out with next. Oh, and song 4 from this album starts off amazingly like "Enter Sandman", but it was released 2 years before Metallica's "black" album, so you can judge their talent level for yourself! A definite recommendation.

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