Earlyn Trax
发行时间:2004-10-12
发行公司:华纳唱片
简介: Though not as essential to Ministry fans as it's partner disk Side Trax (which gathers together the various EP's of every non-Revolting Cocks or Lard side project of the band), this cd is a good purchase if you liked Twitch's combination of synth pop and industrial noise experimentation. "Every Day Is Halloween", "All Day" (here in a slightly different version than the Twitch one), "Cold Life" and "Nature Of Love", though all also compiled on the (apparently now out of print) 12 Inch Singles CD, are musts for anyone who wants more material in the Twitch style. As a nice bonus it also includes 3 pre-With Sympathy tracks that show how much better that album could have been if the band weren't pressured into a more commercial (and therefor now incredibly dated) synth-pop direction, the best of which is "Overkill", a driving Bauhaus-style piece of paranoid goth-rock that notably features the earliest appearance of distorted guitar on a Ministry song (a full 7 years before The Land Of Rape And Honey no less!). The remixes and alternate versions are a bit redundant; they have their moments, but I wish they had followed the format of the 12 Inch Singles compilation and put all the remixes and alternate versions at the end, so that you wouldn't have to either make liberal use of the skip button or sit through, say, 3 versions of "Nature Of Love" in a row.
Though not as essential to Ministry fans as it's partner disk Side Trax (which gathers together the various EP's of every non-Revolting Cocks or Lard side project of the band), this cd is a good purchase if you liked Twitch's combination of synth pop and industrial noise experimentation. "Every Day Is Halloween", "All Day" (here in a slightly different version than the Twitch one), "Cold Life" and "Nature Of Love", though all also compiled on the (apparently now out of print) 12 Inch Singles CD, are musts for anyone who wants more material in the Twitch style. As a nice bonus it also includes 3 pre-With Sympathy tracks that show how much better that album could have been if the band weren't pressured into a more commercial (and therefor now incredibly dated) synth-pop direction, the best of which is "Overkill", a driving Bauhaus-style piece of paranoid goth-rock that notably features the earliest appearance of distorted guitar on a Ministry song (a full 7 years before The Land Of Rape And Honey no less!). The remixes and alternate versions are a bit redundant; they have their moments, but I wish they had followed the format of the 12 Inch Singles compilation and put all the remixes and alternate versions at the end, so that you wouldn't have to either make liberal use of the skip button or sit through, say, 3 versions of "Nature Of Love" in a row.