Customer Reviews

#1

5 star:		(24)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

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.

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!

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!

If you are thinking about buying this album at all, I suggest you do it now. I'm just saying, this is about as good as it gets. The first 5 songs are excellent, excellent, excellent. Fischerspooner's cover of wire's "the 15th," is beautiful and more fluid than the original. You probably already know how good "emerge" is, so I won't go on (read: it's the BEST!). There are 2 hidden tracks at the end- a hilarious song which I believe is titled "megacolon" and a remix of emerge. Both of these tracks make you jump up and dance. The DVD is super-entertaining as well. If you like synth and electro, #1 is a great buy because the songs are catchy, yet complex and separate enough from each other to stay with you.

I first listened to #1 a few months ago when I found the European release at a local record shop. I was then, and am still amazed by the work that Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer are yeilding. Considering that Fischerspooner was essentially just an experiment between two art students that knew nothing about electronic music, the end product is, to say the least, inspiring. All songs on this album are catchy, and well done without being over produced. Sweetness is a great opening track, and the perfect introduction to the energy of the group. Emerge is a great pop song, and is responsible for most of F.S's commerical success. In my opinion, Megacolon (track 12) summarizes everything about this band, and you either get that, or you don't. The bonus DVD/EP is reason enough to buy this release. With all the videos to date, a documentary, countless bonus features and a full extended play of Emerge remixes (as well as a 15th, and Invisible re-working) theres no reason not to be satisfied. Like Electro-clash, New Wave, Tech Pop? It doesn't matter. Buy this album.

I saw this in the record store and groaned. I've had this album for months - and here it was, finally released in the states.... with a bonus DVD not included on the import. Ugh, yet another re-issue I'm being forced to purchase again.

However, I'm so glad I bought it anyway. The DVD is packed with extras: video clips for "Sweetness," "The 15th," and "Emerge" (in its 2000 and 2002 versions).... a documentary on the origins of the group and their live performances, including interviews with Warren Fischer and Kasey Spooner, friends and associates of the band, as well as fans..... the visuals projected during their live shows.... plus numerous remixes of "The 15th," "Invisible," and LOTS of remixes of "Emerge," most of which are unavailable anywhere (I have several editions of "Emerge" 12" singles and a bunch of these remixes are not out on vinyl).... plus much more.

The music disc is excellent - fantastic electronic pop in the vein of a lot of today's "electroclash" set.... but the DVD alone is worth the money you'll spend. I'm catching these guys live for the first time next month and now I can't wait. This CD/DVD pack is a fantastic buy.

alas. once again i reviewed a disc too quickly. thanks amazon for giving me the edit option. to keep things short and sweet, this cd has gotten under my skin. its grown on me and i now find it rocking! as one reviewer pointed out, even material that at first sounds redundant begins to take on a life of its own and each song becomes very much distinguishable. this is the case here. for me songs 1, 3, 8, 12 are sooo groovy! however virtually all of them kick! this truly is very catchy stuff. and to think they were art students playing and trying stuff out. playing: operative word. doing something fun, out of which something unexpected was born. they do their best to convey what a conventional band might with synth only!!! given the snob i can be, the synth aspect is now much less a turn off to me and more inspiring when you hear what theyve done. YEAH!!!!!!

If you were into bands like Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Caberet Voltaire & DAF to name a few, you should find this cd to be an enjoyable flashback to that sound and genre of music. The Kraftwerk influence is clearly heard on the 2nd song "15th" with its primitive electronic percusion track with hints of the Depeche Mode thru out the cd. FischerSpooner take full advantage of the technalogical advances available to them giving the songs their own unique updated flavor. I give it 3&1/2 Stars because I feel a couple of the songs are filler, but what`s left is killer.

This album's Fun. Beats are bouncy, handclaps & other random blips. It doesn't get too repetitive like a lot of other techno dance electronica albums. It does have the retro feel to it, so I wouldnt recommend it to the novice ears, it's more for the older crowd/college students/etc.
Extra bonus: It'll have you doing the robot - and that's a good thing! This should be the soundtrack for all those new Mitsubishi commercials.

I'd just hurt my back crowdsurfing at a music festival. I really wanted to go back to the car and recouperate but my group had to check out this "fischerspooner." I'd heard them and was interested so I decided to stay for a couple of songs. Best decision I've made all year. They became my favorites and the best reason for going to coachella. I stayed for their whole set and they put on one of the best live shows imaginable, the dvd that comes with the album will give you a small taste of what the band's live show is about. It's got the visuals they use at some of their shows, their video's (brilliance) and a propagandic documentary which I hope helps to launch then into the superstardom they are singlemindedly pursuing. The DVD also has remixes of the songs on the album.
I'm happy when I like 3 songs off an album. I like nearly everything on the album. It's a fresh sound, seeming to take itself kind of serious at times but if you were to see their live show you'd be in on the joke. Listen to megacolon and you'll understand the sense of humour which sets them apart from acts like ladytron and underworld. They are my most beloved artists the kinds of people who aren't scared of terrorist, the kind of people who make their single minded attack on superstardom seem noble, and yes I love them.