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333

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More direct and focused than Cereal Killer Soundtrack but often equally amusing, 333 finds Green Jelly continuing to parody heavy metal, thrash metal and alternative rock with highly entertaining results. The band is still too self-indulgent for its own good at times, but it's less of a problem than before. Though nothing on this CD is in a class with "Three Little Pigs," tracks like "The Bear Song" (which almost sounds like a sequel to "Pigs"), "Jerk," "Carnage Rules" and "Pinata Hed" showed that the rockers still weren't afraid to have a great deal of fun. Consistently irreverent, Jelly doesn't hesitate to parody everyone from Ministry to Guns N' Roses to the Beastie Boys.

More direct and focused than Cereal Killer Soundtrack but often equally amusing, 333 finds Green Jelly continuing to parody heavy metal, thrash metal and alternative rock with highly entertaining results. The band is still too self-indulgent for its own good at times, but it's less of a problem than before. Though nothing on this CD is in a class with "Three Little Pigs," tracks like "The Bear Song" (which almost sounds like a sequel to "Pigs"), "Jerk," "Carnage Rules" and "Pinata Hed" showed that the rockers still weren't afraid to have a great deal of fun. Consistently irreverent, Jelly doesn't hesitate to parody everyone from Ministry to Guns N' Roses to the Beastie Boys.

I love metal and even I'll admit that metalheads can be a pretty dense lot. We love it loud and fast with minimal intelligence. Green Jelly (still Jello to me) are the masters of lyrics as well as harmonies. The album kicks of with Carnage Rules and doesn't let up at all. This album is heavy, real heavy, it may be too heavy for some (all you Warrant fans). Listen to the song Anthem and you'll know what sex, drugs, and rock n roll are all about. Let 'er rip!

The album is based on a very complicated story. Even more intense than The Elder by KISS. 333 is the half-life of the Beast. It involves carbon dating and complicated symbology. If you begin your trek towards understanding the secrets of 333, beware. There's no looking back once you start. Was Jesus a Martian? Is Wisconsin hell? Does St. Francis of Asissi really hold the secret to tme travel? The answers are yours to discover

It makes me sad to know that a talented rock band like this had to break up. I'm not for sure why but for whatever reason it must of been real bad.
Green Jelly (originaly named Green Jello) got sued by Jello company because they named there band after the snack. So Jello company got pissed and sued. If you want my opinion that's just plain stupid. It didn't hurt anyone.
"Cereal Killer Soundtrack" was good but nothing beats this album. From "Carnage Rules" to "The Bear Song" you can't help yourself but to just get up and dance around. There is a song on this album that makes me sad. "Anthem" talks about sex, drugs and rock n'roll and the song has a nice slow goofy beat to it. It reminds me so much of the 90's.
Nothing can bring back the earlier 90's unlike this CD.

Green Jelly ~ 10 stars out of 10 stars

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I'm not sure what these guys were trying to do here. Their first CD was based on the gimmick that they were the worst band in the world, and for what it was worth, was very humorous ("House me Teenage Rave" still cracks me up and "Obey the Cowgod" had a most excellent hook.) But with this CD, it seems like they were just way too full of themselves. There's just not a whole lot of laughs and quite a few of the songs are incomprehensible or just plain lame. (Super Elastic, Fight, Orange Krunch, Anthem, Jump). The only highlights are "Carnage Rules", "Jerk" and "Fixation". If they were going to do this album better, I'd say get over yourselves and put at least twice as many songs into it, to balance out the crap factor (like a certain grindcore band I might name, but can't because I'd be censored!)

ok i bought this as a gift & well i think i like it better its soo fun i thought i knew most songs but nothing like finding the actually cd to prove u wrong soo happy i found me some green jelly yay!!

I always been a fan of green jelly since there first album.
333 is the best. Just to let you know there's a video album of
333 on vhs and its out of print.Could there be any chance getting
it reissued on DVD? same thing for cereal killer.
That would be great.

Fairly good album. I bought it because when I was younger I played Maximum Carnage and noticed that the music for that game was much better than the ordinary game music. Just one dissapointment. In the game we listen the Black Sabbath song 'The Mob Rules', however this CD doesn't have this song performed by Jelly. All in all, a good comical thrash album.

It's pretty okay. The first song is the best. It's really not as good as their first one. I also find it strange that they don't have a video for this one, since they were supposed to be "an all video band". Oh well, and in response to the person who made the comment about jello/jelly. They were actually sued by the jello company, that's the reason why they had to change their name. Also, in the first video, they had to take out some stuff because kellogs wanted to sue them to.

I have had this cd since the beginning of 1997. I am only 13. Green Jelly is AWESOME! I would really reccommend this cd.