Sadness Will Prevail/Live Till You Die

Sadness Will Prevail/Live Till You Die Artist: Today Is the Day
Label: Relapse
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 781676665327
EAN: 0781676665327
ASIN: B000AL8VMS


Release Date: 2005-09-13

Sadness Will Prevail/Live Till You Die


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Tracks:

  1. Maggots and Riots
  2. Criminal
  3. Distortion of Nature
  4. Crooked
  5. Butterflies
  6. Unearthed
  7. Descent
  8. Death Requiem
  9. Christianized Magick
  10. Voice of Reason: Vicious Barker
  11. Face After the Shot
  12. Ivory of Self Hate
  13. Nailing
  14. Mistake
  15. Invincible
  16. Aurora
  17. Sadness Will Prevail

Tracks:

  1. Myriad
  2. Spaceship
  3. Flowers Made of Flesh
  4. Your Life Is Over
  5. Control the Media
  6. Vivicide
  7. Miasma
  8. Times of Pain
  9. Breadwinner
  10. Friend
  11. Never Answer the Phone
  12. I Live to See You Smile
  13. Sadness Will Prevail Theme

Tracks:

  1. Color of Psychic Power [Live]
  2. Pinnacle [Live]
  3. Feel Like Makin' Love
  4. Temple of the Morning Star [Live]
  5. Wicked Game
  6. Crutch [Live]
  7. Ripped Off [Acoustic]
  8. High as the Sky [Live]
  9. In the Eyes of God [Live]
  10. Users
  11. TDA
  12. Blindspot [Live]
  13. Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
  14. Afterlife [Live]
  15. Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself [From "Temple of the Morning Sun"][Live]

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Triple Shot of Anguish.......2006-08-12

This three-cd set gets you a decent B-sides collection (_Live Till You Die_), which is mainly noteworthy for several tracks featuring Mastodon impresarios Bill Kelliher (bass) and Brann Dailor (drums). What you are really paying for here is their cultic masterpiece _Sadness Will Prevail_. _Live Till You Die_ is fine, but it's not of a piece, good for a few chuckles and head-bangs. You won't be chuckling much listening to _Sadness_, so here goes:

4.5 stars

I love everything about this _Sadness Will Prevail_, EXCEPT for the lo-fi production values. I wonder if Steve Austin keeps things lo-fi to keep some of their original indie cred to them, keeping them from being orthodox members of the extreme metal crowd.

Really, he wouldn't have to worry. I remember seeing Austin as a wee lad opening for I don't remember who at the Uptown Bar in Minneapolis. It wasn't near as Metal, but it was all the excruciating anguish and dissonance that you hear on _Sadness Will Prevail_. Fast forward fifteen years and I am a full-blown Mastodon fanatic and I find out that drummer extraordinaire Brann Dailor honed his chops with Austin. And then I work my way to this album--HOLY OF UNHOLIES!!! These guys are all over the place. Crimsonesque violins, a song that features endless bell tree and a harp being BEATEN underneath Austin's visceral imprecations ("Butterflies"--nothing like it), acoustic laments on acid, oh yeah and some of the extremest metal/hardcore you'll ever hear. These guys are everywhere. I'm shocked that Austin has managed to manifest such a formidable output when he nurses such a damaged psyche.

And I'm only on disc X of this tour de force. Nothing can prepare you for what occurs on the second disc, disc Y. The experimental tag gets put on way too many things in the rock world (Radiohead rarely experiments--they compose; ditto Sepultura, Deerhoof, and so forth). Disc Y, on the other hand, is like listening to a chemist let loose in a laboratory with every substance known too humankind. And the results are just as scary with Austin seeing what he comes up with. The interminable "Never Answer the Phone" is especially freaky, disconcerting, and fascinating. Just buy this CD, set aside three hours (two-and-a-half to listen and a half hour to recover), and tell me what album you have ever heard of quite this scope and reach.

Music Album:

  1. Hymn of the Master ~ Black Sun Ensemble
  2. In One Ear & Gone Tomorrow ~ The Buckinghams
  3. Twangin' The Country Hits/Twangin' Country Songs ~ Duane Eddy
  4. Let It Rock 1991 ~ Various Artists
  5. Belinda Carlisle - Place on Earth: Greatest Hits ~ Belinda Carlisle
  6. Sun Q ~ IQU
  7. Frances the Mute
  8. Souvenir ~ Souvenir
  9. The System Doesn't Work ~ Project 44
  10. Melton, Levy and the Dey Brothers ~ Levy Melton and the Dey Brothers

Music Album

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Music CD

Heads Up ~ Dave Weckl

Swiss Encounter: Live at the Montreaux Jazz Festival ~ James Morrison, Adam Makowicz

In the Vernacular-Music of John Carter ~ Fran%C3%A7ois Houle & Dave Douglas

Love for Sale ~ Benny Carter

Mule ~ Major Holley

Entre Amigos ~ Sergio Vargas & Fernandito Villalona

Gipsy Swing ~ Various Artists

Rionegro & Solimoes - Arquivo Warner ~ Rionegro & Solimoes

Best Of Today's Black African Folk Music ~ Various Artists

Ensho Hyakuseki V.50 ~ Ensho Sanyutei