Hard Volume

Hard Volume Artist: Rollins Band
Label: Buddha
Category: Music


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


UPC: 744659968822
EAN: 0744659968822
ASIN: B00002Z845


Release Date: 1999-11-23

Hard Volume


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Tracks:

  1. Hard
  2. What Have I Got
  3. I Feel Like This
  4. Planet Joe
  5. Love Song
  6. Turned Inside Out
  7. Down And Away
  8. Tearing
  9. You Didn't Need
  10. Ghost Rider
  11. What Have I Got
  12. Thin Air
  13. Down And Away

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Better than Black Flag? Possibly. .......2005-03-03

I never thought that I would like a Rollins related project better than Black Flag (or psychotic free Jazz tinged punk for that matter). But this album makes this band come close to being better than Flag to me. Chris Haskett is almost an antithesis to Greg Ginn. He is very restrained when soloing, uses tube amps and has a warm tone unlike Ginn, who was rude, unrestrained and out of control at times. Thats where their differences end though, as Haskett seems to worship Black Sabbath and Fusion just as much as Ginn. The rest of the band, easily outdoes Flag (even the classic lineup) as bassist Andrew Weiss could be pitted against any bass shredder like Billy Sheehan, and Drummer Sim Cain is amazing as well. This album is halfway from Lifetime to End of Silence, but add an Einsturzende Neubaten/Swans influence come mid album, and you have a killer cd. The song "Hard" sounds like they listened to a bit of Van Halen and Fusion and mixed them together (I'm serious, this swings alot like Hot for Teacher, listen to them back to back if you dont believe me). Rollins is more controlled than on Lifetime but he has a lot more power and passion. An essential album to buy..

4 out of 5 stars His best before the storm.......2003-01-10

When Black Flag ran out of gas in the late 80s, it took Henry Rollins six months to get this band together and running. This is THE Rollins Band album to buy, considering his body of work before 'The End Of Silence' came out.
This is the still poor, angry, we can make this band work Henry. Hard, angry, and not too poorly recorded. I love this album, all the tracks. But I only give it 4 stars because of the missing original CD track 'Joy riding with Frank', a 25+ minunite live track that had the best bass guitar work I have ever heard on ANY rock album.
Either way, its a great buy. Its funny, back when I bought this album around 1988, I couldnt think of Henry Rollins singing for anyone other than Black Flag. Now, listening to this album, considering Black Flags later work, it sounds like he was wasting his time with Black Flag, waiting to make this album, and when he did, he exploded. Recomended.

5 out of 5 stars Hard as nails.......2002-11-27

This album is the last truly underground release of Henry's career (it originally appeared on Texas Hotel records) and while Henry has admitted that he withheld some of the stronger material that they were working on (Tearing in particular) for later release (End of Silence), this album is easily the darkest, hardest and most honest album in the Rollins Oeuvre. The opening track "Hard" is an awesome ode to self-preservation, while "Planet Joe" is a brutally uncompromising vision of the iconoclastic spirit. However, it is the amazing "Turned inside out" (Who's the criminal now? Is that you? Could that be you?) and the frighteningly honest "Down and away" (The closer you get, the farther away I feel) that dominate this release. The bonus tracks are great (mostly demos), particularly the unreleased "Thin air," one of the greatest Rollins band songs of all time. This disc is like the Swans on steroids. Don't beleive me? Buy it and see. Rollins plans on re-releasing "Joy riding with Frank" in the future, so don't despair. However, you should have bought the original release true fan

3 out of 5 stars A transitional release.......2002-09-10

A big step back from the heights obtained by "Lifetime", "H.V." starts out very strong with "Hard","What Have I Got" and "Planet Joe" easily the equal of the material on "Lifetime". For the very first time though, Rollins has given the fans a throwaway tune not intended as a joke ("I Feel Like This"), this , coupled with the mega long, self-indulgent dirges at the end of the CD knock it down a long way.
The original Texas Hotel release added on a live track called "Joy Riding With Frank", which was basically "Move Right In" stretched out with scat singing by Rollins for 18+ minutes....it's so thrilling and intense that you never notice the length of it. I recommend that release over the newer rerelease which adds extra tracks, some of which went on to form the spine of "The End Of Silence"..either those tracks or "Joy Riding" save "Hard Volume" from medicority.
Unfortunately for us and for the Rollins Band, the dirge quotient was about to increase over the next couple of releases with dire results.

4 out of 5 stars It's Hard.......2002-02-24

Whatever people may choose to believe about Rollins', his later work after 'The End of Silence' will never hit us quite as hard as 'Hard Volume (whichever edition you may happen to own).'

I knew vaguely that Hank had his own band since Black Flag, but I never bothered checking into it, due to the law of averages, which states that solo efforts are often incomplete by nature, and more experimental. I loved the Ginn/Stevenson/Roessler/Rollins combo, and didn't think anything could match it.

Here, it's a step sideways, more towards Hank's Sabbath fixation, which is a very good thing--I got the chance to see him at Lollapallooza '91, and after hearing the best ever version of 'Love Song' segueing into an even BETTER 'Turned Inside Out', I had to pick it up, and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest.

The original CD version contains the 30+ minute jam 'Joy Riding with Frank' which is enjoyable but not essential, but the rest of the album is brilliant, sludge-volume guitars and a rhythm section most bands would kill to obtain.

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