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Fischerspooner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00008BLBL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  DVD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,960 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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46 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The alcoholic as critic., December 12, 2004

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Elvirus (Manchvegas, NH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: #1 (Audio CD)

I am drunk right now. I am listening to this record right now. It is beautiful. Play it loud. Dance like a goon. Wag your head back and forth. Spin around. Wake up naked in your kitchen. Feels good. This is rock and troll for the Nintendo generation. BLAST. Pitch, roll, dive. Judicious use of the pitch quantizer effect. Dammit, where is my Casio? I am inspired! GET THIS RECORD. Pour yourself a martini. Extra olives, please. One-man rave in a dark apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire. Face-plant on the leather couch. Emmmmmm. Emmmmmm.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sounds Good, Looks Good, Feels Good Too!, March 31, 2003

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Brett D. Cullum (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: #1 (Audio CD)

A word on this retro debate,and then on to the album ...

I was there in the 80s listening to Kraftwerk and Visage as they came out (cough cough). Fischerspooner is a throwback in style in much the same way Lenny Kravitz is a throwback to the 60s. There are definite influences here from the 80s, but this is a reinvention of the form! These two art students are doing something very fresh and new. This ain't no rehash, and certainly is no Sigue Sigue Sputnik (as one reviewer mentioned).

It's a damn good dance album, but it also has more than one mode. Often you just get one beat, and one mood for an entire CD when you buy an electronic album. But Fischerspooner varies their songs enough to make you feel like you're in an album and not just in a club. Not since Schiller or Enigma have I experienced the whole album with a dance artist as much as I did this one. But the high point definitely hits with EMERGE. It's a single that stays in your head on a loop for days.

Snap up the limited edition with the DVD. You get all the videos and documentary footage that will make it all worth it! Join the revolution here! :-) Fight the boring dance music, and get into something punky fresh and new. Even if half the world is grooving to this as a VH-1 commercial! But you gotta admit the song is better than anything they play!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars #1. Simply The ONE!, March 3, 2003

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Dogville (Sunny Island) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: #1 (Audio CD)

Casey Spooner said he formed the band with Warren Fisher as he was going through mid-life crisis. What a good crisis that was! 'Cause Fischerspooner "is the best thing that has happended to music since electricity." They absolutely blew minds away!

If you like what they have done for others in the form of remixes, you've heard nothing yet as their own music is nothing but #1. It's a lethal combination of that 80's post-modern punk wave sound pumped up to some delicious synthesizers and punctuated with beats, bleeps and sonic-space effects. It's an awesome tribute to the punk-rock synthesizer tunes of yesteryear without ever losing sight of that 21st century electronic triump.

A very good reason to snap this limited edition is the bonus full-length DVD containing the 2003 version of the EMERGE video. This is a fraking classic video with an eclectic mix of stunning visuals with interceptions of slow-mo, b/w and color. There's also a whole bunch of extras like documentary, remixes and more. This is one hell of a value-for-money package. If you haven't picked this up, you are missing a great deal!