Atom Shop

Atom Shop Artist: Bill Nelson
Label: Discipline Us
Category: Music


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


UPC: 633367980625
EAN: 0633367980625
ASIN: B00000C42Z


Release Date: 2007-02-15

Atom Shop


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Tracks:

  1. Wild & Dizzy
  2. Dreamsville
  3. Magic Radio
  4. Pointing at the Moon
  5. Train with Fins
  6. Popsicle Head-Trip
  7. Propellor of Legend
  8. Viva Le Voom-Voom
  9. Billy Infinity
  10. She Gave Me Memory
  11. My World Spins
  12. Rocketship
  13. Girlfriend with Miracles
  14. Spinning Dizzy on the Dial
  15. Atom Shop (Is Closing)

Similar Items:

  1. Practically Wired...Or How I Became Guitarboy
  2. Getting the Holy Ghost Across
  3. Chimera
  4. The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart)

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Atom Shop V Practically Wired.......2002-07-28

I bought Atom Shop a few years ago, so have had plenty of time to sit back and absorb it. It's a fine album from Bill - I'd recommend it.

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5 out of 5 stars This CD Is %100 Y2K Compliant.......1999-09-13

If you get sick of hearing "modern"music that sounds like it's feet are still dragging through the worst excess and dead ends of the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's, buy this cd and settle in for some real listening enjoyment...

4 out of 5 stars This is my damn good review.......1999-01-22

Well, here it is folks, the newest release from guitar-boy himself, Bill Nelson. This release being the last in a trilogy of albums which began with "Practically Wired", & is preceeded by "After the Satellite Sings". Bill states in the album's linear notes that these songs are actually "demos", & were intentionally kept as raw & unpolished as his conscience could allow, his ultimate plan being to hire musicians & studio resources to re-work the original tracks. What of course is so amazing, is that one could not imagine a more cleanly & smoothly produced album than Atom Shop. The songs themselves are an eclectic mix of blues, jazz, break-beats, & Bill's own unique blend of guitar, & electronic programming, being heavily laiden with his trademark style of unique samples, which always manage to delight the intellect & bring a smile to the lips. The album's themes manage to swirl around ideas based in the writings of the Beat generation, & Bill's infactuation with the glittering pop-culture of America during the 50's & 60's. At first listen, it is all somewhat difficult to fully digest, but as time passes, the album really takes hold & one might find themselves not having to remove this CD from their player for days! As nearly all of Bill's recent work, the album's mood is pleasant & up-beat. Take my advice, if you're a Nelson fan, or just in search of fresh new sounds, treat yourself to Atom Shop...

3 out of 5 stars Less melodic, less interesting!.......1998-11-23

Bill Nelson has always been a chameleon in Rock, at once accesible and mysterious. His personal music, especially those albums released in the early nineties, have contained perhaps his most successful merging of mysticsm with melodies. That is until Atom Shop. Said to be the third in a triology of albums dedicated to the influences of the Beat generation, this latest effort drifts even deeper into dense music structures, and a muddled lyricism that confuses rather than engages the listener. As an artist, Nelson has the right to grow and explore new ideas, but nothing on this record comes close to the best music of his past. This is a work of total rythmn and no melody, where songs seem to jerk along without any purpose or goal. And when the songs DO tend to find a groove, (Propeller of Legend, Popsickle Head Trip,) they are ultimatly undermined by half baked lyrical ideas. Bill Nelson is the great unheralded artist of our time. This is the first time since Futurama, that I have actually been dissapointed with one of his albums. This record must have been very personal to him, and it is his right to be very proud of it. It is of course my right to enjoy his great records of the past, Sound on Sound, Blue Moons, Buddhahead, or even the terrific Streamliner, from his last album. Sometimes being true to your influences isn't always a good thing.

5 out of 5 stars

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  6. Early Recordings ~ Joan Osborne
  7. This is El Chicano ~ El Chicano
  8. XL From Coast to Coast ~ Alien Crime Syndicate
  9. The Beauty of 23 ~ Glory Fountain
  10. Calobo ~ Calobo

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