Statues [Enhanced] [Import] [Limited Edition]

Statues [Enhanced] [Import] [Limited Edition]

Track Listings

1. Familiar Feeling

2. Come On

3. Cannot Contain This

4. Statues

5. Forever More

6. Blow X Blow

7. 100%

8. Only Ones

9. I Want You

10. Over and Over

11. Familiar Feeling [Timo Maas Main Mix] [*]

12. Familiar Feeling [Martin Buttrich Remix] [*]

Tracks:

Superficial Love
Property Is Theft
No Way Out
Abolish Government/Silent Majority
World War III
Man And Machine
Weathered Statues
Thooughts Of Yesterday
Word Is

Album Description

Reissue of the legendary Orange County punkers 1981 debut EP, first released on Posh Boy, now on Nitro & digitally remastered with all 9 original tracks, including 'Abolish Government / Silent Majority' and 'Thoughts Of Yesterday'.

Customer Reviews:

Part of history, but I hate this band........2006-08-03

Before the "unhelpful" ratings rain, I will say for the record that the first two TSOL albums are "decent" if anything but landmark punk albums. They have a place in the OC "history" of punk.

I also hate this band.

They are grossly overrated... a band that was in the right place at the right time, knew the right people, did the right things with the right people and got a slot in the "golden age" of Cali punk... all before devolving into a masscara mess of a hairspray band that makes Poison look tough. Was it ever REALLY about the music Jack?

Oh yeah, kids: Jack is a deceptive shell of a person. I've seen him play to small turnouts at clubs that insulted his ego and let's just say he doesn't care as much as you'd want to believe. He says the right thing in the zines and hangs out with the cool punk bands, but this guy is a LOSER. Just an ex-junkie looking for a quote in any publication that will print his name.

Download the "classic" TSOL songs. Avoid "the Joykiller" albums like the plague. Appearances are deceiving.

Buy a D.I. album instead.

Old school classic tunes.......2004-09-14

If you dig old school this is a must have. This was made when punk wasn't cool.

The Gods of Goth Punk's Best!.......2003-06-17

When it comes to True Sounds of Liberty (TSOL), their unbeatable in the scene of Gothic punk. Influencing bands like Offspring, AFI, and Adolescents, they gave a new spin on punk rock that would last a long time. Mixing creepy riffs and lyrics with fast and angry vocals and gutairs, these guys sounded like a late Black Sabbath doing a duet with The Clash.

Nitro has re-released two of their classic EPs: their undeniably excellant self-titled debut, and the incredible Weathered Statues EP, which were originally released on Posh Boy, a label that also included the surf punk band Agent Orange, who were equals in the influental circle with TSOL!

These guys are definatly for any punk taste. Mixing punk with hints of pop, surf, goth, and even at times pychedelica, these guys broke the many punk boundrys that no one dared break before. When people say that Sex Pistols and the early punk bands influenced everyone in punk, look into TSOL. You'll understand how they can be included on a list with Descendents, Minor Threat and even Black Flag, of underrated bands that intensly influenced punk as it is today (washed-up trash). Despite what some call "punk" today, it doesn't compare to the intensity and unforgiven ruthlessness of these two classic EPs. Deffinatly not for fans of Blink 182 or Good Charollote (the washed-up of the washed-up trash) and not for new fans to punk, this definatly one of the greatest punk albums known to man and should be heard by any true punk fan.

TEST YOUR LIMITS!!!

Awesome!.......2001-11-30

It's hard to decide which TSOL album is the best. They all seem to be equally as great, even though they are all very different from each other. This, their debut ep together with the great Weathered Statues ep, showcases their early hardcore efforts together with their softer, more melodic later stage. The first part is among the best hardcore you will ever hear, especially the great tracks Superficial Love and Abolish Government. You may not enjoy the second part quite as much the first time you hear it, but just as the first part tends to get old the more you listen to it, the second part just gets better and better. Eventually you will enjoy the second part much more than the first, especially what is arguably TSOL's best song, Thoughts of Yesterday. It is advisable to listen to their great debut album Dance With Me in between the two eps, just to get a better taste of their musical growth. Then listen to their last studio album Beneath the Shadows to hear their new wave masterpiece. You should purchase this cd, Dance With Me, Beneath the Shadows, the Suburbia soundtrack, which contains two unbeleivably awesome live tracks, one of which, Darker My Love, can't be found anywhere else, and Live '91, a great reunion show, and your great TSOL collection will be complete. Ignore the new album Disappear, it seems even TSOL cannot escape the evil force that makes it impossible for there to be any good punk rock material these days.

Nice to see it re-issued........2000-06-14

This re-issue of both out of print "Black EP", and "Weathered Statues EP", is a real treat! When you listen to the Weathered Statues side, you can really hear how much they strayed away from the "Black EP" sound. The "Black EP" contains five tracks, but the first six tracks of this album you get the pure old school punk sound. Yet the last three tracks ( the Weathered Statues tracks ) are an evolved, darker sound, and that sound is called *Deathrock*. TSOL stepped away from their political, hardcore punk material and started writing much darker music and gloomy poetic lyrics, thus DEATHROCK.

If you find yourself mostly listening to the tracks Weathered Statues, Thoughts of Yesterday, and Word Is, you should really pick up Dance With Me ( Their deathrock debut album ), and Beneath The Shadows ( Really artsy, with the use of synths!).

TSOL remain one of my favorite bands of the Deathrock genre, infact they are one of my favorite bands of all time.

Tracks:

Familiar Feeling
Come On
Cannot Contain This
Statues
Forever More
Blow X Blow
100%
Only Ones
I Want You
Over and Over
Familiar Feeling [Timo Maas Main Mix][*]
Familiar Feeling [Martin Buttrich Remix][*]

Album Description

Asian edition of the British dance-pop duo's 2003 album contains 12 tracks including two bonus tracks, 'Familiar Feeling' (Timo Maas Main Mix & Martin Buttrich Remix). Pony Canyon.

Album Details

Aian Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: 'familiar Feelings (Timo Maas Main Mix)', and 'familiar Feelings (Martin Buttrich Remix)'.

Customer Reviews:

Fourth and foremost.......2007-07-03

It was mostly out of a sense of loyalty and nostalgia that I bought Statues. I'd felt Moloko's third album release, Things To Make And Do, was a shambolic introduction to the band for new listeners lured by dancefloor smashes Sing It Back and The Time Is Now.

Well, what a pleasant surprise, because what turned out to be their swansong may have become my favourite CD ever. The duo didn't just retread the past glories of kook classics Do You Like My Tight Sweater? and I Am Not A Doctor, but overshot them with a maturity which only bolstered their legendary status.

Roisin Murphy's voice is better here than ever. A friend of mine who dropped by when I was playing it said, "Alanis Morissette on weed", and while you can see what he means, the lyrical approach, while no less intelligent, has a charming idiosyncracy that's so far from the North American sensibility as to make comparisons pretty unhelpful.

And Mark Brydon's always inventive arrangements benefit from a more orchestral sweep than previously. When this is fused with electronica, as in the opener, Familiar Feeling (the version here having a two-minute, staccato intro that's pure anxiety) and I Want You, the effect is pure synesthesia - greater than the sum of its parts. Mind you, the strings on this album would make it worth a punt on their own.

Bouncy slices of dance-pop like 100% and Cannot Contain This helped maintain Moloko's undoubted club appeal, but it's the lyrics that'll have you poring over the insert. They've always been leftfield, to say the least, but these "Party Weirdos" can take on subjects such as obsession, lost love and disappointment as well as any torch balladeer - all with Roisin's brittle, delicately-phrased vocals wrapped deliciously around them.

It's one of those rare albums when you'll have a new favourite track every day. Today, that's The Only Ones (track 8).

Even the melodrama of the final track, Over And Over, at nigh-on ten minutes, manages to feel self-indulgent for the listener, rather than the musicians. Indulge yourself - you might not get as much wear out of a CD for quite a while.

Was this review helpful to you?

Excellent, but be warned..........2006-02-10

I hope this review helps someone who has not decided whether to buy this or not. I came upon Moloko very very recently, because their song "Cannot Contain This" was on Desyn Masiello's compilation. I was absolutely blown away by the song. So I bought this (well, actually a friend gave it to me)and at first I have to accept that it was not what I expected, because what I heard on that compilation has nothing to do with the original track. So if you buy this expecting dance music, you will be disappointed (I understand that Moloko's tracks have been on many dj compilations).

This album mixes different music styles from jazz to electronic and of course, Roisin's voice is amazing to say the least...this music creates a mood that will remind you of something, though you may not know what that something is. Definitely for listening and enjoying, kind of introspective. In my opinion best track: "Forever More". Music and lyrics amazing.

Brilliant album.......2005-09-25

I tend to play the tracks over and over.:)I can't help but sing along. Roisin Murphy has come a loooooong way.

In the classic style of..........2005-06-13

...this band. Moloko have branded a quirky style of modern pop-rock which is infectious, melodic, delivered with Roisin Murphy's delicious and endlessly plyable voice and entirely their own genre.
The beautiful irony of the band is that their quirky, indefinable style is definable by it's quirkiness, but at least no one else can quite muster the style with the belivable ellegance of they. This album is characteristicly, beautiful and bonkers and a joyous daliance with funky eccentricity. Bliss.

I cant erase the smile on my face.......2005-02-03

I just get this awesome cd as a gift from one cousin of mine and im so happy , Moloko delivers in "statues" deligthfull soul and acid jazz that they have been offering in past productions but now they use electronic beats, sinthetizers , and a few artificial but delicious rithm sections, also the sound of Moloko is so british and therefore it has a natural charm very enjoyable for just a few eclectic audiences, check out "statues" only import edition is available and for this reason is a expense adquisition but it worths cent by cent , or pound by pound, should i say
HM

Average customer rating:

A lost gem refound

Music: Breathing of Statues
Viola Crayola
Manufacturer: Radioactive
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Get It Off!
Gooluntionites & the Real People
AWOL
Velvert Turner Group
Day of Doom

ASIN: B0006V5RFQ
Release Date: 2006-08-01

Album Description

UK reissue of highly sought after 1974 album from Texas prog/psych act. Eight tracks. Radioactive. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

A lost gem refound.......2007-07-22

The Viola Crayola was a vehicle for the writing and guitar playing of Anthony Viola--joining him were his brother Ron on drums and bassist Bill Jolly. This is music of its time (1974) and the two most obvious influences are Frank Zappa and Mahavishnu Orchestra-era John McLaughlin. Unlike most other rock guitarists of that era, however, Tony Viola had the musical knowledge to be able to handle the odd time signatures and harmonic complexities utilized by both those artists, and was able make some excellent music in the same vein. He was laying the foundation for a career that was tragically cut short, as he died in an accident a few months after these recordings were made. Still, we have this, finally released on CD for the first time, and it is worth seeking out for anyone who feels that those days represented a high-water mark for certain kinds of music. In this case, that would be sophisticated chord changes and complex rhythms played with loud distorted electric guitars. Not that there aren't quieter moments: "2+1" in particular shows the band in what might be called a mellow mood, if you think that Cecil Taylor when he's playing quietly is mellow.
If it isn't clear yet, this is music made by musicians who were not garden-variety garage-band psychedelizoids (like me), but were skilled, passionate, and full of a youthful desire to be as proficient as possible while not forgetting to just plain rip it up.
One caveat: the mastering could be better, as the bass frequencies seem weak--crank up the lows and listen to it loud.
And does anybody know if this is the same Bill Jolly who played bass on the first [...] Surfers records? It would have been the right time and place (San Antonio circa 1975-85).

Average customer rating:

Amazing. I feel refresh about music again...

Statues
The Open
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

The Silent Hours
Angela Test
Inside In/Inside Out
Uninvited, Like the Clouds
Wilderness Is Paradise Now

ASIN: B000CR8RAQ
Release Date: 2006-02-13

Tracks:

Forever
We Can Never Say Goodbye
Moment In Time
Lovers In The Rain
Statues
My House
She's Mystery
Seasons Of The Change
Fallen Tree
Alone

Album Description

The Open return with 'Statues' the follow up to their massively acclaimed debut album 'The Silent Hours'. Recorded in the south of France and produced by Rob Kerwin (U2, The Magic Numbers) 'Statues' is a huge leap forward for The Open and evokes the likes of Doves, Radiohead and even Miles Davis. The single 'We Can Never Say Goodbye' is included. Universal. 2006

Album Details

The Open Return in 2006 with "Statues", the Follow Up to their Widely Acclaimed Debut Album "The Silent Hours". Recorded in the South of France and Produced by Rob Kerwin (U2, the Magic Numbers), "Statues" is a Huge Leap Forward for the Open and is Reminiscent of Artists as Diverse as Doves, Radiohead and Miles Davis. The Beautiful Album Art for this Epic was Designed by Vaughn Oliver, Whose Covers for the 4ad Label Product (Dead Can Dance, Pixies) Are Legendary.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing. I feel refresh about music again..........2007-05-31

I still cannot believe these guys are the open... they are even dreamier, jazzier, structurally complicated, different everytime, I mean... it came from being a dreamy good band to a completely different view of their music. They scream, they moan, they say easy things, they say hard-to-say words... great great stuff, believe me.

Average customer rating:

Statues
Moloko
Manufacturer: Liberation Music Oz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0002TKWE8
Release Date: 2003-02-18

Tracks:

Familiar Feeling
Come On
Cannot Contain This
Statues
Forever More
Blow X Blow
100%
Only Ones
I Want You
Over and Over
Familiar Feeling [Timo Maas Main Mix][*]
Familiar Feeling [Martin Buttrich Remix][*]

Average customer rating:

Aux
Statues
Manufacturer: Pelado
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0007KTB3K
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Tracks:

Fine Tuned
Caught
Barstool
Division
Roger, Copy That
Picket
Still, There Are The Ones
Step Up
Collateral
Wishful Thinking
Signals
Urbania
There Are Things I Think You Should Know
Telecommunication
Vintage

Average customer rating:

Statues
Moloko
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

All Back to the Mine
11000 Clicks
Do You Like My Tight Sweater?
Things to Make and Do
Ruby Blue

ASIN: B0000Y37OC
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Album Description

Super Audio CD version of the UK dance act's fourth album features 10 tracks including the singles, 'Familiar Felling' and 'Forever More'. Plays on all SACD & CD players. Echo. 2003.

Now and Then: The New York Bassoon Quartet

Average customer rating:

Now and Then: The New York Bassoon Quartet

Manufacturer: Leonarda Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004WJL3
Release Date: 2002-05-20

Tracks:

Suite of Early American Tunes, arr. by Christopher Weait: General Wayne's March
Hymn Tune "Work for the Night is Coming" (Weait)
Waltz and Dexter's Air (Weait)
Lady Bruce's Reel, Minor Hornpipe, Durang's Hornpipe (Weait)
Cobbs' Superior (Weait)
Capt. Mulligan (Weait)
How Like Pellucid Statues, Daddy (Or like a...an engine) by John Corigliano
Humerous Scherzo, Op. 12 bis by Sergei Prokofiev
Quartettino by William Schuman: Ostinato
Quartettino by William Schuman: Ostinato
Valse (Schuman)
Fughetta (Schuman)
Canzonetta by John Harbison
Last Tango in Bayreuth by Peter Schickele
Sinfonia by Katherine Hoover: Introduction and Funeral March
Sinfonia: Allegro Vivace (Hoover)
Colloquy and Chorale by Alvin Brehm: Colloquy
Chorale (Brehm)
Concert Etudes for Four Bassoons by Vaclav Nelhybel: Allegro Vivo
Concert Etudes: Allegretto (Nelhybel)
Concert Etudes: Canon: Andante Moderato (Nelhybel)
Concert Etudes: Allegro (Nelhybel)
Contrasts for Four Bassoons by Rudolph Palmer: Moderato
Contrasts for Four Bassoons: Allegretto (Palmer)

Album Description

Recorded Works from 1979 and 1999. 1999 recording: (Weait, Corigliano, Prokofiev, Schuman, Harbison): Marnie Hall, producer and microphones; David Smith, console. Recorded in New York City at Town Hall. Post production: Marnie Hall. DDD. 1979 recording: (Schickele, Hoover, Brehm, Nelhybel, Palmer): Joanna Nickrenz, producer; Marc Aubort, engineer. Recorded in New York City at Rutgers Church. Post production for LP: Nickrenz/Aubort. ADD. CD mastering and graphic design: Marnie Hall. Artistic coordinator: Bernadette Zirkuli.

Tracks:

I Corinthians 13
The Discovery
Fantasy For Two Pianos
Voices: Emily Dickenson
Voices: Ezra Pound
Voices: Adrienne Rich
Suite For Flute & Piano: Allegro giocoso
Suite For Flute & Piano: Andante cantabile
Suite For Flute & Piano: Vivace
Sikelianos
Statues: Partial symmetries
Statues: Eros
Statues: Unstuck sound
Statues: Visigoth
Statues: Bard
String Quartet No. 1
Disruption For Orchestra
The Prayer Of Saint Francis
I Corinthians 13

Customer Reviews:

In search of an individual voice.......2007-03-27

I encountered the music of Dallas-born Chris Theofanidis through his compact (11:40) violin concerto "On the Edge of the Infinite", included in a collection of contemporary works played by the Bowling Green Philharmonia, the students' orchestra from Bowling Green State University in Ohio (see my review of New Music From Bowling Green). With its fanfare-like opening orchestral outburst, which reminded me of the beginning of Lutoslawski's 3rd Symphony, and its fascinating semi-tone string slides from the orchestra and elaborately florid violin melismas bringing to mind the music of Korean composer Isang Yun, I found it original and interesting enough to make me want to investigate more of this young (1967) composer. This Albany CD seemed a good place to start.

I find much of it disappointingly lacking in originality, though.

Thoefanidis' setting of I Corinthians 13 for chorus, percussion, organ and brass is full of the bombastic fanfares one associates with Bloch and Honegger at their most tritely bombastic. Why two different recordings are offered is not explained. "The Discovery" for Chamber Orchestra goes one step backwards, to Virgil Thomson, Barber and Vaughan Williams at their most pastoral and "prairie-style". It was originally written as music for a documentary on a camp for "handicapped and non-handicapped teenagers in an environment of self-worth and interdependence", which only shows that this particular "Gebrauchmusik" (music conceived for a specific use) fails to transcend its original use and doesn't stand on its own. The reflective "Prayer of Saint Francis" sounds like some apprentice Duruflé (and the un-ingratiating chorus sounds like the congregation singing rather than like a trained ensemble).

The Fantasy for Two Pianos has snap and wit, its only but not small limitation being that it could have been written by George Antheil at his most conservative, by Satie, by Milhaud or by the young and brash Shostakovich, and the Suite for Flute & Piano is likewise very much in the stylistic wake of French music from the twenties to forties (Roussel, Poulenc...). As for the String Quartet, with its strong rhythmic contour (the composition is based on the repetition of a same melodic cell submitted to continuous changes in meter), it is stylistically reminiscent of similar pieces by Krenek, Hindemith and the kind of "mildly modernist" style of composition prevalent in the 30s to 50s.

Voices for soprano and orchestra sets to music three poems by respectively Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound and Adrienne Rich. Its musical language is more up to date, dramatic and orchestrally colorful, though not very innovative but rather neo-Romantic in a post-Britten / post-Barber sort of way. Only in the short Ezra Pound fragment can one here the glissandos and mysterious melismas that made the Violin Concerto so striking.

Its fine for a young composer to chose to ignore those innovations and advances in compositional writing introduced in the last 40 to 50 years by Ligeti, Crumb, Xenakis and the likes, provided that he discards them in favor of something of individuality. I don't hear that in the aforementioned works of Theofanidis.

Some pieces on this disc however I thought displayed the kind of originality and individuality that I had heard in the Violin Concerto. The short (3:50) "Disruption for Orchestra" is not particularly innovative in its language - it is one of those dazzling and dramatic orchestral showpieces that can open a symphonic program to good effect - but interesting and fun nonetheless in its willingness to pull no punches and produce the greatest possible racket. It must be even more impressive heard live. "Sikelianos" (title unexplained in the liner notes. Is it the Greek to Siciliana ?) is an Octet adding to Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" instrumentation (flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano) two congas and percussion. It is inspired by "Indian musical tradition" and brings to the fore those fascinating glissando melismas over abrupt punctuations by piano and congas, all organized in a 5 and ½ -minute crescendo build-up to a dramatic climax and abrupt end. It is very effective and quite fascinating. "Statues", a composition in five movements for solo piano, is also quite original in its willingness to explore the resonances produced by small melodic cells and its alternation of such mysteriously resonating chords and dramatic outbursts of awesome virtuosity. These are the two pieces that give you the impression that you are not hearing music that could have been written by so many other composers so many years before.

Sikelianos and Statues both date from 1992 and the Violin Concerto from 1997. The other pieces on this disc are earlier compositions, ranging from 1988 (Fantasy) to 1992 (Voices and The Discovery). So maybe it is that Theofanidis found his own personal voice only from 1992 onwards.

Chris Theofanidis is Brilliant!.......2004-08-14

I have followed Chris for many years and he is a truly brilliant composer. If you have not heard this recording and are a fan of contemporary classical music, buy this CD! His work on Rainbow is wonderful as well.

Perfect........2001-04-13

Theofanidis's music is perfect in its form, harmony and melody. However, the music is a little too cliched and predictable at times. I can't wait to hear more from him.