Inside Electric Circus: The Headless Children

Artist: Wasp
Label: Recall Records UK
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 636551442121
EAN: 0636551442121
ASIN: B000086EPF

Release Date: 2004-03-09

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Tracks:

The Big Welcome
Inside The Electric Circus
I Dont Need No Doctor
95 N A S T Y
Restless Gypsy
Shoot From The Hip
Im Alive
Easy Living
Sweet Cheetah
Mantronic
King Of Sodom And Gomorrah
The Rock Rolls On
Flesh And Fire
D B Blues
The Heretic (The Lost Child)
The Real Me
The Headless Children
Thunderhead
Mean Man
The Neutron Bomber
Mephisto Waltz
Forever Free
Maneater
Rebel In The FDG
Locomotive Breath
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Lake Of Fools
War Cry
L O V E Machine (Live)
Blind In Texas (Live)

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Customer Reviews:

fine metal for a bargain price.......2006-06-19

The price of this collection is excellent for two above-average metal albums. And one must remember that the music itself is the real value here, because the collection's packaging is ugly, the original albums' artwork is poorly represented, and the few lines of notes (brief description of Blackie's career and the band's fortunes through the eighties) are unsatisfying. The comments particularly on the two albums here (Inside the Electric Circus and The Headless Children) are misleading, apparently written by someone who did not actually listen to the albums.

The music itself, though, is another story. Inside the Electric Circus, W.A.S.P.'s third album, remains a mild disappointment after the excellence of the first two (W.A.S.P. and The Last Command), but it nonetheless bears repeated listening and holds up better, twenty-plus years after its initial release, than most of the other metal released at that same time. Generally, the songs are a bit shallow, and the hooks aren't as catchy as those on W.A.S.P.'s first two efforts, but it still rocks, and occasionally (for example, on "Restless Gypsy") the album brings the same kind of shivers as those inspired by earlier songs like "The Last Command" or "L.O.V.E. Machine."

The Headless Children, on the other hand, represents a long musical stride forward for Blackie and the band. In emotional tone and musical form, it builds on the foundation formed by earlier successes such as "Sleeping in the Fire" and "Widowmaker" and is easily the most lyrically mature and musically ambitious album that W.A.S.P. had produced to that point. Stressing politics and emotions over sex, and frequently eschewing the standard binary song structure in favor of more complex arrangements, The Headless Children is the rarest of metal beasts: the heavy, head-banging album that actually has things to say *without* becoming pretentious, boring, or preachy.

Short answer: This is a damned fine collection.

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