Music Pickup # 4: Fat of the Land,First And Last And Always, Headhunter 2000, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, Wishfire

In my previous blog I talked about getting a few CD's on vacation, and here they are.

 Fat of the Land - The Prodigy

I went to FYE when I was on vacation (I don't have one close to where I live) and ended up finding a few CD's that I wanted, this was one of them. Fat of the Land came out in 1997 and was the CD that really got the Prodigy into the mainstream (everyone I know has heard at least one of their songs and the songs they have heard are on this CD, either Firestarter, Breathe, or Smack My Bitch Up), and the CD has gone double platinum in the US. This band has been around since 1990 and are considered to be one of the pioneers of the music genre Big Beat  which is music typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in common with established forms of electronic dance music such as techno and acid house. (yep got that whole thing from wikipedia).

Anyway, you can see it's a promotional copy that's not supposed to be sold, I guess FYE didn't care so I ended up paying 4 bucks for this CD. It's basically the original CD but with a special sticker, branded case, and gold lettering. It's actually my 2nd promotional CD I have but it's definitely the best.

First And Last And Always - The Sisters of Mercy

This is a CD I got from a different used CD store that was pretty cool, it was really small but packed full of CD's and records. Anyway this was the first album by The Sisters of Mercy, however it was not their first recording, it was actually around the 4th record that they made (the first 3 all being EP's with amazing artwork). First And Last And Always was released in 1985 and was pretty successful in Europe but sadly not the United States. This CD has also helped shape the Gothic Rock music genre even though the lead singer of The Sisters of Mercy refuses to acknowledged that their music is Gothic. Also, talking about The Sisters of Mercy, they started way back in 1979 and are still around today (with different members other than the lead singer).

Anyway i found this CD to be a lot better than I originally thought (I heard a few tracks but I only really liked Marian and Black Planet at first). Which is great for me but not for this blog since it's going to be hard to pick my favorite songs on this CD lol.

 Headhunter 2000 - Front 242 (original song, but it's mostly made by many different bands that remixed Front 242's Headhunter song)

This CD is a pretty long CD (1 hour and 45ish minutes) and it's just remixes of their song Front 242 so there's not much to talk about except that Headhunter 2000 was released in 1999. Front 242 started in 1981 and are still together today . This band also influenced many electro-industrial and electronic artists.

I found this CD to be OK, it's a good remix CD but I wish it had more than 1 song that was remixed 17 times.

 Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse - Skinny Puppy

Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse was the second album that Skinny Puppy released in 1986. This CD was very influential in industrial music which influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails. An interesting fact about the cover, it was actually a picture of a scene in a porno movie and it seems to be one of the main reasons that there are parental advisory stickers on CD's today. Thanks to Tripper Gore (I wonder what would happen if she saw the Voodoo U album cover art?). Anyway Skinny Puppy started in 1982 and are still around today. They is considered to be the founders of electro-industrial music which is pretty cool since I love this type of music.

I find that it takes a little while to get used to Skinny Puppy since the vocals sound so weird, however when I did get used to the music I found it to be pretty good.

 Wishfire - The Crüxshadows

Finally, the last CD I got on vacation. Wishfire was released in 2002 and it has quite a few goods songs. The Crüxshadows were founded in 1992 and are still around today. They are a dark electro band.

I found this CD to be pretty great, I found out about this band from the first blog I ever followed The Ultimate Goth Guide which I find interesting to read most of the time. The funny thing is that the girl who writes the blogs, Amy, just wrote a blog about this band recently.

I'm finally done, so let's get to the music links.

Fat of the Land

Narayan

Mindfields

Funky Shit

First and Last And Always

Every track.... OK fine I'll pick 3.

Marian (Version)

No Time To Cry

Nine While Nine (it has some of the exact same lyrics as Driven Like Snow but it's still great)

Headhunter 2000


Headhunter (Remixed by Front Line Assembly)

Headhunter (Remixed by Apoptygma Berzerk)

Headhunter (Remixed by Talla 2xlc)

Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse 


It's hard to choose because it has quite a few really good songs but I went with these three.

Stairs and Flowers

Dig It

Chainsaw 

Wishfire


Another one that was hard to pick what 3 songs I was going to put up, so I decided to have 4 different ones because one of the songs is very short (1:51)


Return (I'm Coming Home)

Spectators 

Carnival 

Resist/R

Those are the newest CD's I have right now (I'll probably pick some more up on the weekend since I'm going to be visiting a 4 year college at that time so I'll hopefully be walking around town too).