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| | Adult Themes for Voice | | | Music Artist : | | Mike Patton | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Tzadik | | Release Date : | | 1996-04-23 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Wuxiapian
2. I Killed Him Like a Dog... And He Still Laughed
3. Smog
4. Man in the Lower Left Hand Corner of the Photograph
5. Robit Sex (Neon)
6. Screams of the Asteroid
7. Robit Sex (B/W)
8. Porno Holocaust
9. Inconsolable Widows in Search of Distraction
10. Hurry Up and Kill Me... I'm Cold
11. Man Alone in Steambath
12. Guinea Pig 1
13. Guinea Pig 2
14. Guinea Pig 3
15. Guinea Pig 4
16. Woman With the Skin of the Moon
17. Lizad With the Skin of the Moon
18. Catheter
19. Fix It So the Bruises Don't Show
20. Robot Sex (Water Colors)
21. Ceremony of Senses, an Alibi in the Red Light District
22. Butterfly in a Glass Maze
23. Pajama Party Horror
24. Leper With the Face of a Baby Girl
25. One Armed Vs. 9 Killers
26. Pillow Bitter
27. Raped on a Bed of Sand
28. Violence
29. Red Mouth, Black Orgasm
30. Wuxiapian Fantastique
31. Smile, a Slap in the Face, a Fart, a Kiss on the Mouth
32. Private Lessons on Planet Eros
33. Pneumonia With Complications
34. Orgy in Reverb (10 Kilometers of Lust)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Obnoxiously amusing
Submitted on: 2008-11-30 |
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Honestly, I think the only reason this album gets good reviews is because people think that if they like it they must be "deep" or "artsy" or "intellectual." The few redeeming moments on this horrendous CD are all but annihilated, buried beneath heaping mounds of obnoxious junk. I enjoy Mike Patton's work as much as the next person, but this...this is just a waste. This is not a display of talent or creativity, people. Anyone could have recorded this self-indulgent noise and called it art, but because it's Mike Patton that makes it something of value? I am going to have to disagree.
If you must, listen to it once just to say you have. Otherwise, leave it alone. The only use this album could ever have is as a torture device. |
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 Important Patton literature.
Submitted on: 2008-01-10 |
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This record is not brilliant. No it is everything critics claim it is! It is the most self indulgent work in the Patton catalog, and that is precisely what makes it so interesting! But while it is self indulgent, it is not arrogant. It is merely an experiment and one worth the taking for a listen or two. What makes this record important for any Mike Patton fan is not that it is a brilliant epic piece of music, but an exercise in the limitations of Patton's voice. Much of what he does here he continues to do for the remainder of his career. You will hear techniques in this record from everything from Fantomas to Tomahawk to Peeping Tom. This is a complete overlay of Pattons techniques and style. If you are however only a casual fan of his work, and are not concerned with his bigger idea's, ignore this record. Its important not to take this record to seriously. Its just an experiment, and an entertaining one at that. This isn't a casual listen. If anything, its worth buying just to support Tzadik, a wonderful record label worth anyone's support.
Remember, this record is RIAA FREE!!! |
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 This beat could win me a grammy
Submitted on: 2007-11-28 |
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| Um, yeah. So the story behind this interesting release is that while on tour with Faith No More, in-between packing hotel room hair dryers with his own poop, Mike Patton hauled a four track recorder around with him and created this album. Totally solo. Voice only. And I'm not talking extended acapella renditions ala Whitney Houston or what's her name Christina Aguilera. Noise, sounds like someone vomiting, more noise, essentially you will most likely want to turn this off when you first hear it, but leave it on. Its also great "music" to clear a party that's gone on a little too long. Not perfect, but not dull. Some of it sounds like if you added death metal guitars and insanely precise drumming, you could have a Fantomas album. That's a great idea! Someone should "remix" this album by importing it into a sequencer program and then music over it. Man, I'm a genius! |
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The mineral voice from the very core of the earth
Submitted on: 2007-03-29 |
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Some classify this music in noise, and yet I think it is quite something else. It uses some noise, produced by instruments or not, distorts it in order to create a shrill universe that is rhythmically throbbing in multiple directions. But it also uses human voices or maybe just guttural noise, or even animal utterances that it modulates and even in a way transforms into a forest of growth and shoots that becomes like a maze or a net in which your ears are trapped. But at times, like with "the inconsolable widows in search of distraction", we reach the other side of voice, when we can discover the immensity of human feelings, sufferings or expectations that can inhabit these voices without us ever being able to realize it in simple conditions. It takes this formal work performed on them for the semantic draping, clothing and dressing to be unwrapped to reveal this pathetic, sensual, sensory and sensitive content. Voice then becomes what it is all the time and we ignore: the expression of the deepest physiological functioning of our body, flesh, nerves, bones and brain. Try track 17 when a woman is dressing in the skin of a lizard, or vice versa, and you'll see how cool and slick that female voice can be. Amazing how we feel the vast emptiness of space as seen through the eyes of the reptile.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
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This is a pure noise music album.
Submitted on: 2006-10-24 |
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This album displays a specific type of music which just happens to be rather close to Mike's heart: Noise. He's utilized his voice in this manner in past efforts: Some tracks on FNM's Angel Dust and especially Mr. Bungle's first major-label album features Mike making effects very similar in vain to this.
This album starts out with the gripping yet boring "Wuxiapian". The album really takes off with "I Killed Him Like A Dog ...And He Still Laughed", and seems to fluctuate from thrilling to mediocre and back again several times. "The Man In The Lower-Left Hand Corner Of The Photograph" is also great, as is the 10-minute long "Guinea Pig" epic which spans 4 tracks on this CD. "The Lizard With A Skin Of A Woman" has to be heard to be believed. This track alone is worth it.
I agree with one reviewer here: This album can't function as background music. It must be enjoyed as one would curl up and enjoy a book. The Journey is laid out in the cover, detailing the dates and hotels in which this was masterfully composed. As for as noise music goes, it's a good first album to the genre. Between this, his other jazzy solo effort and Maldoror, Mike has proved to be a master at noise. It's not for everyone; just look at the one-star reviews about this. A great solo debut.
Great Job, Mike. |
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