Burn, Berlin, Burn

Burn, Berlin, Burn Artist: Atari Teenage Riot
Label: Grand Royal Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 758148004229
EAN: 0758148004229
ASIN: B000001X3G


Release Date: 1997-04-22

Burn, Berlin, Burn


Related Categories:

General General
Categories | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Drum & Bass Drum & Bass
Categories | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Hardcore Techno Hardcore Techno
Categories | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Germany Germany
Categories | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music
Experimental Music Experimental Music
Categories | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Tracks:

  1. Start The Riot
  2. Fuck All!
  3. Sick To Death
  4. P.R.E.S.S.
  5. Deutschland (Has Gotta Die!)
  6. Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture
  7. Not Your Business
  8. Heatwave
  9. Atari Teenage Riot
  10. Delete Yourself
  11. Into The Death
  12. Death Star
  13. Speed
  14. The Future Of War

Similar Items:

  1. 60 Second Wipe Out
  2. The Destroyer
  3. The Future of War

Amazon.com

ATR is one of those bands that look great on paper: youth fighting the system, a band blending old-school punk with samplers and break beats, a musical revolution. Unfortunately, <I>Burn, Berlin, Burn!</I> is mere cathartic venting, not a full frontal assault on government, press, and social ills. Musically, they dish out a mix of recycled punk and bad jungle--not even much for ear candy. It's a shame because they are the type of band you really want to take seriously, but so are the reunited Sex Pistols as they scream about EMI 20 years later. A good idea taken to an unoriginal conclusion. <I>--Bill Snyder</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars digital hardcore.......2004-12-26

gee...you know, i wonder just how many people know that this is really compilation album that is a kinda "best of" with tracks from their import only albums "delete yourself" and "the future of war"...? anyway, the majority of these tracks come from "future" and it serves as a good introduction to ATR for those who've been living under rock or don't know good musik when they hear it. it goes without saying that most people aren't going to like them, (just as half the world hated "setting sun" by the chem), but for those who remember when punk actually had a point and a message...ATR takes punk into a whole new direction where modern punks won't dare to go. using electronics, samples, scything unforgiving lyrics...they get a point across and it's very good.

like i said...
not everyone is going to get this.
but for those who do, you'll know this as a political band that stayed underground in the u.s. while bands like rage against the machine were mainstream and on mtv. it's not a bad thing coz you have to look for the musik that matters and that is exactly what you're getting here....

something that matters, not disposable.

5 out of 5 stars Aggressive, pointed, non-whiny, not anti-everything.......2004-08-05

This is some hard-hitting stuff. It's gutsy, clear-headed, and angry. It isn't blunt, but it is sharp.

Their lyrics weren't screened by a marketing department. They weren't trying to ride a gravy-train. The result is some free-flowing stuff.

I'd have to disagree with the classification of ATR as being 'anti-everything', either. They aren't. They fire with a big gun, but they aren't firing at random, or carelessly, or at everything.

It's unfortunate that they lost their DJ - like /lost/ lost, kaput, no more mr. guy synth/sample (left, on the cover). Still, the music keeps going, and the singers might reappear, yet.

4 out of 5 stars Music to make your ears bleed.......2004-03-11

There aren't many bands out there on the music scene that actually falls under the 'hardcore' label and actually sounds 'hardcore'. Bands like Linkin Park, Korn and Limp Bizkit are not hardcore. They are far from what bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat were in the '80s. Frankly Linkin Park, Korn, and Limp Bizkit are the new Poisons and Warrants of metal today. Another great hardcore band I felt that truly deserved the label was the German techno/punk band Atari Teenage Riot. I bought their album "Burn, Berlin, Burn" back in the late '90s because I was looking for something different and something noisy and intense. I read about the band in a magazine and my curiousity was immediately piqued. What I heard was a great fusion of hardcore punk's political sensibilities along with the frenatic beats of hardcore techno. The results is pure chaos. If the Dada movement had a soundtrack, I would have to say that "Burn, Berlin, Burn" was it. As art was completely deconstructed by the Dada movement, the music I heard on ATR's album was deconstructed as far as song structure is concerned. There is nothing melodic about the music (except for "Speed" which I personally found to be quite catchy). ATR totally disregard the rules of music with their obviously leftist policies and chaotic techno beats and intense screaming by Alec Empire, Hanna Elias and Carl Crack. "Burn, Berlin, Burn" is definitely not for everyone but I sure as heck has enjoyed listening to it over the years.

4 out of 5 stars more punk rock than most punk rock.......2002-08-29

This album captures the angst, anger, and anarchy punk rock was all about ten or twenty years ago. It's brutal and honest, thrashing and futuristic, not to mention catchy. The only reason i give it four stars and not five is that some times they get silly... in a good way, but still, the musical skill isn't perfect, even if the screaming is. Even tho I love this CD, I save the five star reviews for CDs that are techinically great as well as being tasty ear candy.
And ATR is precisely ear candy, with a lot of passion and a lot of guts, but simple old skool electronic stylings. personally, i often prefer simplier stuff.
if you like ATR i also highly recommend BABYLAND.
these bands and other digital hardcore/industrial/cyberpunk are the only true subculture for the nineties, when punk rock went from rebellion to MTV bland fad, to worse and worse and worse. digital hardcore is the new hope, and unlike bands like blink 182 and greenday, they are still not accessible to the mainstream

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Beach Blvd. ~ Simpletones , Rik L Rik , and The Crowd
  2. Hello My Captor ~ The Amazing Pilots
  3. Stringy Rugs ~ Blast
  4. A Night Out with Blue Plate Special ~ Blue Plate Special
  5. Fetish ~ Fetish
  6. Say Hello Wave Goodbye: Live ~ Soft Cell
  7. Adrenaline ~ Rosetta Stone
  8. People Are Like Seasons ~ Sophia
  9. Bluff City Ruckus ~ Porch Ghouls
  10. Battening the Hatches ~ Mt. Egypt

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project ~ Charlie Watts & Jim Keltner

A Little NIght Waltz

Radiation ~ William Hooker

Rainbow ~ T-Square

Make Me a Memory ~ Manhattan Trinity

Bright Size Life ~ Pat Metheny

Sarod Ghar ~ Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan, Ayaan Ali Bangash

Colecao "Brasil De a a Z ~ Flavio Venturini

North Meets South ~ Caito Marcondes, Tracy Silverman

Arte De Cantar ~ Mpb 4