Label: Bmg/Camden
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 743213933924
EAN: 0743213933924
ASIN: B0000076JD
Release Date: 1997-04-29
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Artist: Pop Will Eat Itself
Label: Bmg/Camden Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 743213933924 EAN: 0743213933924 ASIN: B0000076JD Release Date: 1997-04-29 |
Wise Up Suckers
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Australian pressing. Standout tracks on this compilation include "Wise Up Sucker", "Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies", and the hilarious account of James Brown's arrest, "Not Now James, We're Busy". "Wake Up Time To Die" is another favorie, lyrically smart and still danceable even as one of the slowest tracks on the album. No evening of techno party dance music would be complete without the ... closer, "Dance of the Mad." 18 total tracks. BMG. 2003.Customer Reviews:
Mostly ageless and infectious..........2002-09-27
Although a few of the tracks here are dated (most notably "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me", "X, Y & Zee" and "92F (The 3rd Degree)"), what's impressive is how many of them are not. Even 10+ years later, PWEI is great dance music, great electronica, great grebo.
One need only listen to the lyrics from "Can U Dig It?" to learn who PWEI's major influences are - musically, they list AC/DC and Run DMC among others; their pop culture diet includes comic books, superheroes, sports and car racing. The PWEI sound is a frenetic, enthusiastic mix of all of the above - white British boys adding their quick-tongued, five-dollar-word version of rap to relentless live guitar, mad drums and decks.
Standout tracks on this compilation include "Wise Up Sucker", "Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies", and the hilarious account of James Brown's arrest, "Not Now James, We're Busy". "Wake Up Time To Die" is still one of my favorite songs of all time, lyrically smart and still danceable even as one of the slowest tracks on the album. No evening of techno party dance music would be complete without the ... closer, "Dance of the Mad."
In my mind, PWEI did for the industrial/dance sound of the 80s what Digital Underground did for rap: made it masterfully, made it fun, and made fans out of people who would otherwise ignore the entire genre. If your current music collection includes the Propellerheads, Moby, The Crystal Method, or the Chemical Brothers, PWEI is not to be missed. Also check out their "This is This..." compilation.
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