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| | The Cold Vein | | | Music Artist : | | Cannibal Ox | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Definitive Jux | | Release Date : | | 2001-05-15 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Iron Galaxy
2. Ox Out the Cage
3. Atom (with Alaska & Cryptic Of Atoms)
4. A B-Boys Alpha
5. Raspberry Fields
6. Straight Off The D.I.C.
7. Vein
8. The F-Word
9. Stress Rap
10. Battle For Asgard (with L.I.F.E. Long & C-Rayz Walz Of Stronghold)
11. Real Earth
12. Ridiculoid (with el-P)
13. Painkillers
14. Pigeon
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 SOUNDS LIKE THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
Submitted on: 2009-07-20 |
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absolutely landmark.the beats take you far,far out.el-ps' equivalent to
rzas' work on cuban link and liquid swords.but with a blade runner gloss painted over rugged,dusty synth distopia.futuristic and very dense...layers upon of layers of post modernized chaos.the lyricism was on full display from vivid ghetto narrative like essays from vast aire,complete with stellar puns and wordplay to vorduls slanged out dusted out phrases and
multi-syllable structures.amazing creativity.mos def an opus for all three involved...a underground hip hop classic. |
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 awesome
Submitted on: 2009-05-21 |
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| this album was pretty good, it was a sound i'v never heard, they fuse hard rock with hip hop successfully. some of the beats began sounding a bit stale towards the end so i only gave 4 stars, also a couple of those hooks were terrible.all in all a great effort. |
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I DIDNT LIKE THIS ALBUM THA FIRST GO AROUND
Submitted on: 2009-02-22 |
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| THA FIRST TIME I PURCHASED THA COLD VEIN I WANT FRONT I DIDNT LIKE IT. THE BEATS THE LYRICS WERE SO DENSE AND MURKY I FELT THA WORLD WUZ COMING TO A END. SO ONE NIGHT I FOUND OUT THIS DUMB AIR HEAD CHICK I WUZ DEALING WIT WUZ MESSING AROUND ON ME. ROLLED A PHAT BLUNT POPPED THIS IN MY CD PLAYER AND I WUZ BLOWN AWAY. FIRST BEFORE I GET TO THA LYRICS THA PRODUCTION FROM MY MY MAIN MAN ELP OR EL PRODUCTO FROM THA NOW DEFUNCT COMPANY FLOW CAMP HANDLE PRODUCTION ON THIS WHOLE ALBUM. THA BEATS ON THIS ALBUM SOUND LIKE DOOMSDAY AND U REALIZE THAT THERES ALOT OF RAGE IN ELP FROM THA SOUND OF THA PRODUCTION. END TO END BURNER WHICH IRONICALLY WUZ NAME OF ONE OF COMPANY FLOW SONGS FROM BACK IN THA DAY. NOW TO VAST AIRE AND VORDUL WHO HANDLE THE LYRICAL SIDE OF THANGS PRETTY MUCH PROVE WHEN U LIVE IN THA ROTTEN APPLE AS THEY CALL IT U GOT A GANG OF STUFF TO TALK BOUT WHICH AS U CAN TELL AS SOON AS THA ALBUM PLAYS THESE GUYS GOT THA EYE OF A EAGLE AND WHEN U STAY IN A METROPLIS LIKE NYC U BETTA BE A OBSERVER OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS. NYC IS A CONCRETE JUNGLE FOR REAL. I MEMBA THA FIRST TIME I WENT THERE BEING FROM THA SOUTH I REALIZED THAT THIS LITTLE AREA I STAY IN THEY CALL A CITY AINT NO REAL CITY COMPARED TO NYC. ITS FAST LIVING UP THEIR FOLKS AND MOS DEF AINT FOR THA FAINT OF HEART. IF U SOFT U WANT MAKE IT. AND THAT PRETTY MUCH DESCRIBES THIS ALBUM HARD LYRICS NOT CLICHE GANGSTA BULLSHID NEITHER, HARD DIRTY BEATS COURTESY OF ELP AND A ALBUM THAT PRETTY MUCH LET U KNOW THAT THIS GARBAGE THEY PLAY ON RADIOS NOWADAYZ AND 106TH AND PARK IS NOT HIP-HOP FOLKS. BUY THIS ALBUM AND REALIZE HIP HOP RUNS THROUGH THA COLD VEINS OF CANNIBAL OX AND ELP. PEACE |
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Cold and Challenging Masterpiece
Submitted on: 2009-02-18 |
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When I first listened to The Cold Vein, I was puzzled. This is what people are going crazy over? I couldn't process it; it just sounded like a bunch of cluttered, robotic noise. I liked it, but was very much ready to slap the ol' "overrated" tag on the album. But, sure enough, on second listen, I enjoyed the music twice as much. On third listen, I was hooked. Now I've heard The Cold Vein upwards of ten or eleven times in full, and I think it's one of the top 5 hip hop albums ever made.
Here's why: As if El-P's jaw-dropping, bugged-out futuristic soundscapes (and yes, I mean soundscapes, not mere beats) weren't enough, you have Vordul Mega and Vast Aire laying down some of the most clever, incisive rhymes you've ever heard over them. The Cold Vein is endlessly complex, layered and witty, but still maintains a sense of utter "real"-ness, as both MCs rhyme not just about abstract concepts and battle-rap fantasies, but the grittiness of day-to-day life in NYC. This balance between humorous pop culture refrences and the like, and detailed truth-telling about the world we live in is virtually unmatched in hip hop, before or since.
From the Vast Aire's stunning, pun-laced first verse on "Iron Galaxy" to the hopeful metaphor of the closing "Scream Phoenix," The Cold Vein has not a weak track to be found, and boasts the most mindblowing production imaginable on a hip hop album. Put simply, if you enjoy hip hop music besides just the stuff that's played on MTV and the radio, you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. |
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fresh
Submitted on: 2008-06-12 |
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| damn never heard beats like this! also vast aire is an suprising great poet. Vordul completes it as well. A great album anyday, especially after you light up. Definitive juxies for life |
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