Bisco Lives 2

Bisco Lives 2 Artist: Disco Biscuits
Label: Megaforce
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 020286130024
EAN: 0020286130024
ASIN: B00006AGEA


Release Date: 2002-07-30

Bisco Lives 2


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Tracks:

  1. Freedom Boulevard
  2. Strobelights And Martinis
  3. Digital Buddha
  4. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies
  5. Punched By A Butterfly
  6. Flash Of Life
  7. Yo Sammy
  8. Splattums
  9. Hoppin'
  10. Cheers

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Poor sound but worth a listen.......2005-01-08

The sound is very muddy, but several of the tracks on this CD merit its purchase. The "Crickets" jam (split into the tracks "Splattums" and "Hoppin") is especially good. This is a novel approach to a live album: it catches most songs mid-jam, taking the music away from its organic development and serving it up in vignette form. To hear what the Biscuits really do sound like in concert (pre-early 2005, when the original drummer plans to leave the band), visit their Web site and purchase some concert downloads or the crystalline, perfect TranceFusionRadio CD series.

3 out of 5 stars Good for a laugh (at first), but will grow on you.......2002-08-06

Tracks 8 and 9 (Crickets>Splattums) show what this album could've been...good jams, with solid techno, a few overdubs, and great flow. Track 2 (Strobe lights and Martinis) is a little choppy, but also pretty solid and in the same vein. The rest of the album, however, is poorly produced, most notably in the Dance of the Sugarplum Faeries, the poor endings of the songs (they either fade in/out or just drop out entirely), or Yo Sammy!, which is most definitely the most annoying Biscuits track ever put to any tape. Track 10 is cute, because they basically thank people for 2.5 minutes straight over a somewhat interesting jam, but it really doesn't do anything musically because the voice is so present. Digital Buddha is a bit better because the vocals are more subtle over a jam which obviously came from the same material as Track 2 (the infamous 09/01/01 Mindless Dribble -> Above the Waves -> Mindless Dribble, I believe). The concept for this album is very cool (though a little borrowed from the New Deal and others) -- take some of the best live jams and spruce them up in the studio. The focus on the most electronic aspects of the Biscuits sound is a definite plus, and is a good contrast to their early albums, as well as the upcoming Senor Boombox. But really, this album was thrown together filler before their upcoming release, with pretty abrasive non-flow (lots of quick fades on open-ended jams). If they ever take this idea seriously, though, watch out. Until then, though, the listener must cringe a little bit at the end of each song, just enough to kill the flow.

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